Re: Christians Attacked in Israel - By Jews

On 5/20/26 00:22, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2026 03:12:55 -0400, Smithwicks
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The issue with labeling it simple "extremism" is that it ignores a lived
>> reality. Christians, Jews, and Muslims had at least an understanding in
>> Ottoman & Mandate Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel. The
>> arrival of whole groups of new people without that cultural background
>> led to a marked increase in tension between historic Christian groups
>> which had been in the area for thousands of years and newly-arriving
>> Jewish settlers. When you couple that with the dispensationalist (re:
>> zionist) theology of American Evangelicals, who themselves are only
>> decades older than the establishment of the modern state of Israel, you
>> have two very vocal and very new groups entering into a land where the
>> dust had previously somewhat settled.
>>
>> I would argue that it is not that either of these groups is "extreme"

   Argue away, but they ARE "Extreme".

   0'th century thinking.