If we continue to hate the Christians, why shouldn’t they hate us back? Love breeds love. Hatred breeds hate. Anti-Christianism breeds anti-Semitism.
By Avi Lipkin
I have been told by some of my Jewish brethren to stop loving the Christians, to desist from furthering relations between Jew and Gentile and return to being a good Jew. Apparently being a good Jew means being an isolationist.
I have spent a good portion of my life building bridges between Jew and Christian, recognizing Christians as the best friends of the Jewish state. Now I am being encouraged by some in the Jewish community to discontinue these endeavors, in particular a joint Judeo-Christian political party in Israel.
The immigration of more than a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia to Israel was just the spring fruit of the fig tree. I wonder what is going to happen when the autumn fruit, which is even more bountiful, arrives in Israel.
When Moslems start the second Hocaust on the streets of America and other western nations, are Jews going to be required to leave their Christian spouses behind in order to immigrate to Israel? Will the children of the intermarriages in the Diaspora be left abroad by their parents?
Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky warned of a Holocaust in 1920. I am warning of the Islamic Holocaust in 2007. I am loyal both to the Torah of God and the Torah of Jabotinsky. How long will Jews continue to disconnect from reality? The next wave of aliyah (immigration to Israel) will include mixed Judeo-Christian families.
We allow Moslem Arabs who hate Israel to serve in parliament. Why not also the Christians, who are intermarried with us, love us, serve in the army and pay taxes? When God in heaven brings his exiles home, some of them will be Christians. We must get over it and deal with it.
Batya Medad, who belonged to the same Zionist youth movement that I did back in New York, wrote on her blog that it would be bad for Israel to have a joint Jewish-Christian political party.
“You can do that in the United States, but Israel is the only Jewish country in the world,” Medad wrote. “I don’t want Christians having political power. Things are dangerous enough as it is when our weak, ‘miss-guided’ politicians run after world praise and approval rather than doing what’s best for us and obeying God.”
I believe God is using the Moslems to heal the breach between the Jews and the Christians who are considered by Islam to be one people: The People of the Book. The only difference in Moslem eyes is that the Jews keep the Sabbath on Saturday and the Christians keep it on Sunday. Therefore the Moslems say: “Kill the Jews on Saturday. And kill the Christians on Sunday.”
If we continue to hate the Christians, why shouldn’t they hate us back? Love breeds love. Hatred breeds hate. Anti- Christianism breeds anti-Semitism.
The Bible says that the fathers’ hearts will turn to the sons and the sons’ hearts to the fathers (Malachi 4:6). This is the purpose of the Bible Bloc Party (Gush Hatanachi) that I am forming. We don’t want these Christians to immigrate to Israel with their Jewish relatives and then turn on us because we pretend they aren’t here. It seems we Jews are unable to stop hating the Christians.
We may think it is justified to hate the Christians because of two millennia of history, but we may be dead wrong.
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