Love alone compels us - if nothing else does - to desire that modern ethnic Jews should have a homeland of their own no less than we condone it for other ethnic nationalities around the world - especially after so many Jews were displaced from Europe during and after the Second World War. And what better place - with what better boundaries - than the Jews' once-held, once-promised territory?
Love compels us also to sympathize with any Arabs living peaceably within that territory who never knew any other homeland. Equal citizenship with the Jews within Israel, with private property rights, and equal privileges, was therefore their just allotment also.
Even so - even if modern ethnic Israel thus had the fulness of its once-held or once-promised territory restored to her - Arabs and Arab nations outside that territory, living in lands always held exclusively by Arabs and never at anytime in history by the Jews, would still have far more territory in terms of land-area than would Israel. Far more.
So this does seem kind of balanced, and fair. This is just a thought about how best to express the law of love. (And it needn't detract from the truth of divine election; nor from the truth of the single identity of "the seed" to whom the promises were made; nor from the the truth of the meaning of true Jewishness. It's about fulfilling "the royal law of love", with respect to both Jew and Arab, for "God has called us unto peace".)
No comments:
Post a Comment