Re: Christians Attacked in Israel - By Jews

In article <[email protected]>,
Steve Hayes  <[email protected]> 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", 
>>as their pietistic practices would certainly be identical to groups 
>>there already, but that it is because they have no cultural memory or 
>>experience of the place and its lived history.
>
>Though neither of those groups is "extremist" as a group, there are
>extremists among them. Those Jewish settlers on the West Bank who
>attack Plaestinian Christians, drive them from their homes and
>desecrate their churches seem pretty extreme to me. 
>
>So while the groups as such are not "extremist", there are certainly
>"extremists" among them. 
>
>

Thank you for the facts.

>
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