Time for the American church to Break up with Israel?

We in the American church have largely written Israel a blank check to do whatever it wants to the Palestinians without any condemnation, but it is time to change. 

The modern state of Israel is not the same as "God's chosen people" discussed in the Bible. Among many difference, the people may be descendants of the Biblical Israelites, but the modern state is not theocratic as in the Bible, and many modern Jews are secular.  Therefore, we can not assume that whatever the modern Jewish state does must be good and Godly simply because they are the chosen people. 

Even if they are God's modern chosen people, God condemned ancient Israel often when it did not follow him. God regularly pointed out sins related to

• Pride
• Taking advantage of the poor, immigrant, and refugee
• Worshipping idols
• Abusing power

I see all these in the state of Israel today. 

Finally, if we care for the Jews, we must be for the Palestinians AND the Jews. Remember too there are Christians among the Palestinians.  The Jews will never have peace until they live peacefully with their neighbors. To do that they must both have land, safety, and agency. 

It's time for the church to love the Jews by keeping them accountable to a Judeo Christian ethic and by loving their neighbors equally. If we can do this we Christians can stop hindering the peace process. 

The Person who Admits they do no Wrong, Burns their only Bridge to Reconciliation.

Prayer

Lord, I have angry friends; we all have angry friends.  I’m trying to learn from them so I keep asking You for insight. I don’t presume to know everything but it seems you have guided me to this one idea of admitting our mistakes and imperfections. 

Musings

I used to imagine that never admitting nor believing you do some wrong makes you feel happier and more powerful. What could be more powerful than a person that never makes a mistake? Even if it was not true, but it was believed, you should be strong and confident, but I believe there is another aspect of this, less obvious and very painful.

If I believe I did nothing to create my problems I must also believe I can do nothing to fix them and hope is lost. 

If I never do anything wrong, every bad thing that happens to me must occur because of some other person's malevolence. This makes me a pure victim, and I have nothing to be contrite about. However, reconciliation always requires both parties to recognize the wrong they each have done and grant forgiveness one to the other. If I am not able to admit any wrongdoing, I can never enter into the reconciliation process and I am completely powerless to bring resolution to my problems. With no ability to improve my situation, I become hopeless, waiting for the "malevolent" person to free me from my prison while the skeleton key is in my pocket. My hopelessness deepens as confirmation bias convinces me of my innocence and the other's malevolence.

Thus the belief that I did nothing wrong, which was to provide me power, virtue, and respect, actually robs me of all hope and puts me in a prison of my own making.