Are they victims of Jewish oppression or pawns in an Arab conspiracy?
A good friend of mine who is a missionary recently wrote to me to express his concern over my strong support of Israel in its struggle with the Arabs. He expressed compassion for the Palestinians, and stated that he felt like I was being unfair toward them. I responded as follows: In your letter you stated that you were afraid I had developed a “spiritual blind spot” regarding Israel and the Palestinians. You based that conclusion on cartoons I have run in the Lamplighter and on articles I have written about the Middle East. I can certainly understand your feeling, and I respect it, but I strongly differ with it. I feel the ‘blind spot’ rests with the Church and the World. Both have hated the Jewish people and have done everything possible to persecute them for the past 2,000 years. Now that God has sovereignly regathered the Jewish people from the four corners of the earth and has re-established them as a nation, both the Church and the World are enraged and are determined to aid and
