Zionism Interpretation
Zionists see the return of the Jews to Palestine as a do-over to do things right, before god, where they failed before. Thus, the call for Abraham to go to Canaan they figuratively interpret as a call to go to the land of Canaan. Thus, the crime of the Arab and Palestinian people is that they exist. That they were placed by god in the land as an obstacle to be overcome. The Abrahamic Covenant boundaries are from the Nile to the Euphrates. Islamic nations such as Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia are thus treated differently because of their ethnicity and where they live. If you see the flag of the Jewish state, you will see a line on
the top representing the Euphrates River and a blue line on the bottom referencing the Nile River. The Star of David in the middle represents the Abrahamic Covenant of which they claim. Thus like the other European colonists they stepped foot on the land and claimed it for themselves as if there were no other inhabitants there or that they were civilized against a savage and barbaric race created to be conquered. The Zionists had never had any intention of going in peace, as Abraham, rather they mimicked Joshua and went with the sword. The Star of David is used as the Kingdom of David is when Biblical Israel reached its peak but subjugating the conquered territories around it with the end game of ethnically cleansing the land through genocide.[1] Thus by definition it is and has always been an apartheid state with ancient colonial aspirations who are attempting to earn the Abrahamic Covenant through war, subjugation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. In such cases history has shown that even if they achieve their objectives, it is never good enough. Because dominance is based on bloodline, soon they would turn to purifying their own population. All this was prophesied in advance: Those who scoff hear the word of the Lord. You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death, with hades we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and deception our hiding place.[2]”
Gaza itself is made up of Arab refugees from the land the Jews took by force and itself represents an eternal prison. Of course, Zionism also claims this land as their own. Thus, they made life as miserable on the Palestinians as they could hoping they would voluntarily leave or revolt. On October 7th, 2023, when they finally revolted the Zionists began to bomb them in the north pushing them south until finally, they would force them out into Egypt, or they would die by the sword. All the while auctioning off the land in Gaza to Jewish settlers and instituting an extensive propaganda campaign to an all too eager American Media establishment. As Jacob prophesied of the Jewish tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours his prey, in the evening he divides the plunder. It was Rachel who called him Son of my Sorrow.
They also will point out that the promise was not given to Ishmael, which eases their conscience for the atrocities committed against the Arab People. By aligning the Arabs as Canaanites (Palestine/Philistine) their conscience is further abated as they believe their ultimate divine call is to put to the sword every, man, woman, and child as the Israelites were divinely ordered to do to the Amalekites.[3] As part of this Jewish Zionists will align their diaspora figuratively with Israel’s wandering in the desert, because they failed god the first time, now they have been given a second chance. Such interpretation of scripture dominates the Evangelical world to such an extent that their belief system is nearly indistinguishable from their Jewish Zionists counterparts. Thus, Christianity has come full circle. From a religion that began as one that claimed Gentiles also could lay claim to the promises of God, to a religion that says that the covenant belongs to the Jews and the Jews alone and all other races must therefore be cast out through ethnic cleansing or the sword. Thus, the grace they claim themselves they deny to all non-Jews regardless of religion or ethnicity if they are on Abrahamic Lands. In their zeal millions of Christian Zionists flock to the Jewish state to see the atrocities in action as a divine fulfillment of the return of Israel as declared by the prophets. Because it is viewed as a divine fulfillment of scripture, every atrocity and violent act committed against the Palestinian and Arab People, be they Christian or Muslim, is in some way applauded. And any retaliation by the Arab people on behalf of their humanity is used by the Evangelicals and Jewish Zionists to only further justify their colonists claim that the Arabs are uncivilized savages and need to be put down as Canaanites and god’s divine enemies. In addition to these things, Evangelicals will tie the present atrocities to the return of the Messiah believing that once Christ returns, he will finish what the Jewish Zionists started through a complete genocide of the Arab peoples in a final battle. Then Christians believe Jews will finally accept Jesus as the Christ.[4] As the Jewish Zionists are equating themselves as the chosen people by race and religion they believe that after Arabia is ethnically cleansed, they will inherit the land, and their god will make them into kings, and a civilization like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore and the Evangelicals will come and live with them as one.[5] Not so dissimilar to the expansion plan Hitler had for the Nazis that precipitated WWII. As their vision of god is through acts of destruction and violence, their image of god becomes molded through religious intolerance, bigotry, and outright racism. A day will come when a messiah of sorts will promise all these things, and these same Zionists will be His all too willing accomplices, just as was prophesied of the last days.
Many Zionists believe Israel lost the promise of God through their works, often comparing the Kings of Israel with the Jewish Kings of Judah and citing that the Jewish kings were more righteous as deduced by the Jewish authors of the Deuteronomic History of the Bible. Thus, Evangelicals and Jewish Zionists conclude Israel did not earn the promise given to them through Abraham. Yet such theology seems to me to be a throwback to works over grace, a denial that God loves Israel or at the very least an underestimation of God’s love for sinners. One cannot earn love or grace; if they could, it would not be love or grace, by definition. Let’s look at two definitions of Palestine to see which one has a greater love for its people and hope for its future:
Zionist Evangelical Definition of Palestine: n The land of the Philistines, of the family of the Canaanites of whom God cursed to be slaves. This land God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel) to claim by the sword and thus be theirs alone forever as part of his blessing to them.
My Definition of Palestine: n A province in the Roman Empire originally named Idumea (Edom), Judah, and Samaria, after the capital of the ancient kingdom of Israel as it was and remains the home for the ancient kingdom and people of Israel, who briefly knew freedom in ancient times. They again knew freedom after the rise of Islam, which conquered both Roman and Persian occupation. The province was then renamed to Shem as part of the Islamic Empire. Since those days it passed between occupying powers so that the nation only exists in modern times as a yearning or hope within the heart of its people. The name was reintroduced by its present occupiers to align the people with nations that received divine condemnation within the Bible thus inciting global animosity and religious condemnation against its people while appeasing their own conscience.
[1] 1 Kings 4:20-21
[2] Isaiah 28:13-15.
[3] 1 Samuel 15:3.
[4] Zechariah 12:10-11.
[5] Genesis 9:27.