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Oct 11Liked by Thomas M Gregg

And what if God himself is responsible for the survival of the Jewish people over the centuries and for their return to their biblical homeland? Then we would have a spiritual warfare in opposition to the will of God - which does not mean the Israelis now have carte blanche to do whatever they please, or that Israeli Jews as ordinary human beings are exempt from sin problems. It would mean that those who are fighting against Israel and trying to destroy it (as opposed to merely criticizing it) are serving higher spiritual powers of wickedness.

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As a faithful Catholic, I’m open to the claim that the reestablishment of the Jewish state was divinely ordained. I’m not enjoined to believe it, but it makes sense to me.

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I am not sure what the Catholic doctrines are about (1) God's providential regulation of human affairs over all the nations; (2) what purpose God might yet have for the Jews as a nation after the coming first coming, death and resurrection of Christ. It does not seem credible to me that anyone with a belief in the God of the Bible could say that he had nothing at all to do with the survival of the Jews over the centuries, their return to the land, and their establishment there in the fact of repeated attempts to destroy them.

This is not a Catholic vs. Protestant issue I don't think since many Protestants (using the term loosely) deny that God had any further purpose for the Jews as a nation.

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Well, I’m a Catholic but no theologian. I’ll just say that at Mass I’ve heard Abraham described as “our father in faith.” And I know the Church has confessed that its past antisemitism was a grievous sin.

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The head professional, juvenile , maladjusted protester , sponsored by anti-western forces and beloved by the media .

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Oct 6Liked by Thomas M Gregg

Postmodern progressives are regressive ideologically. An insult to progress.

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I’m reading Walter Russell Mead’s Arc of a Covenant. He is talking about how the left supported Israel until 1967. When Israel showed itself to be a military power in its own right, the left ended their support for the empowering idea that is Israel. That is the ideology of the left-if you escape your persecution and make something of yourself, you are the bad guy. That ideology is harmful in and of itself.

I heard a caller on talk radio say that Nigerians aren’t black. Nigerian-Americans make an average salary higher than whites. So now they’re not black. How about, how do we extend that kind of prosperity to include everyone?

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Just so. The Jews offended the comrades by standing up for themselves and saying: Never Again.

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Oct 6Liked by Thomas M Gregg

But antisemitism is a kind of racism. Thus, antiracism = antisemitism = racism, and therefore:

Antiracism = Racism.

Thanks, now I'm on familiar ground.

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Thank you

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And thank you for reading.

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Extremely well written article. Indeed ,next to no Jews in their ancestral Arab lands ( they were kicked out), two million Arabs in Israel and Israel is call an Apartheid state! That makes sense to these viscous Jew haters!

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Oct 6Liked by Thomas M Gregg

It is an excellent article, especially his point at the end about Israelis accepting the history of victimization while not turning that into an identity, instead turning it into a warning that signals the need for self-defense and controlling one's destiny.

In student days, it was impressed upon us, the debate over Jewish identity: Auschwitz or Sinai? Religious Jews of course answer the latter. But liberal and secular Jews equivocated for decades over the issue. Thankfully, I think the ambivalence is past. Auschwitz was an event in Jewish history, but doesn't define it.

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