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Afection for Israel as Biblical Requirement

Monday, August 29, 2022

Introduction

This could be regarded as one of my periodic forays into the tangled thicket of what

gives with Israel.

You are to imagine it as me putting on a grey coat and blue trousers in order to walk

between the lined up armies on the eve of Gettysburg as my penultimate and earnest plea

for peace.

In order to demonstrate the need for this post and others like it, I'm going to leave

the comments open, at least for a bit.

There will no doubt be some who engage with my arguments, disagreeing like gentlemen,

which is greatly appreciated, but there will also be others who, despite my giving away

the nature of the test here, will be unable to contain the vitriol.

Budgeting for all that, there are still some very thorny and very challenging issues involved

in all of this, from satiriology to geopolitics.

So let's get to it.

What set me off this time?

I just finished reading the Magna Carta of Humanity by Oz Guinness, a writer I've long

appreciated and admired, and I'm currently finishing up Christian Nationalism by Andrew

Torba of Gab fame and Andrew Isker.

In many ways these gents are attacking the same target, that target being the spirit

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