Don't Diss Israel

In 1917, the British government issued a statement called the Balfour Declaration, announcing its public support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in the Middle East. Following World War I, the defeated Ottoman Empire ceded control of the areas known as Palestine and Transjordan to the newly established League of Nations. In 1919, the League voted to create Mandatory Palestine in which a Jewish state would be administered by Great Britain and a Palestinian state would be administered by Abdullah bin Hussein under British auspices.

The British Mandate remained in effect until 1948 when, after World War II, the United Nations saw the need for a true and independent Jewish homeland in the wake of the Holocaust. The U.N. proposed a two-state solution (sound familiar?) known as Resolution 181 with the Jews taking ownership of modern-day Israel and the Palestinians being given Transjordan. Jerusalem would be partitioned and administered by the U.N.

On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence… and 11 minutes later, President Harry S. Truman became the first world leader to formally recognize its existence.

Unfortunately, the Palestinians were not content to merely control Transjordan with a Jewish state right next door and so, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Transjordan attacked Israel… and lost. The result was that Israel’s land mass increased by an additional 50%.

Since then, Arab nations have attacked Israel twice more – in 1967 and in 1973 – and lost both times. Once again, Israel acquired new territory including the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula under the time-honored rules of war: “To the victor goes the spoils.”

Seeking peace with its Arab neighbors, Israel has since returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt (1982) and the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (2005). However, if history has taught us a singular lesson, it is this: trading land for peace never works. Just ask Neville Chamberlain, the spineless British prime minister who looked the other way while Adolf Hitler helped himself to the Sudetenland in 1938… only to be attacked by the Third Reich and its Luftwaffe less than a year later.

Today, another American president with a history of supporting Israel sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Unfortunately, President Biden is being pressured by the Progressive wing of his party to throw Israel under the proverbial bus as it seeks to eradicate Hamas in response to the October 7th Massacre… and unlike Harry “The Buck Stops Here” Truman, he is showing increasing signs of weakening his pro-Israel stance.

Don’t do it, Joe! Not only has Israel been our most reliable – and sometimes only – ally in the Middle East, but reneging on our support of God’s chosen people will almost certainly incur His wrath.

In Genesis 12:3, God made the following promise to Abraham, the Father of the Jewish people: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” I firmly believe that one of the main reasons – perhaps the sole reason – why God hasn’t yet fully judged America for its wickedness is because we have stood by Israel through thick and thin. Now, with President Biden beginning to cave into the pro-Hamas element of the Democrat Party, America’s protective shield is being removed and all bets are off.

Once blessed by God, we now stand on the precipice of being cursed by Him instead.