Why do so many Americans condemn Israel? God's conduit through whom "all the families of the earth shall be blessed"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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As the conflict between Israel and Hamas escalates, opposition to Israel is escalating in America. In The Daily Article for May 19, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains the intellectual roots of this opposition, offers logical and biblical counterpoints, and invites us to join Paul in his prayer for the Jewish people today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.2 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.2 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Wednesday, May 19, |
| 0:24.2 | 2021. The title is, why do so many Americans condemn Israel? God's conduit through whom, |
| 0:30.5 | quote, all the families of the earth shall be blessed, end quote. The conflict between Hamas |
| 0:36.6 | and Israel intensified yesterday. |
| 0:38.8 | An airstrike launched from within the Gaza Strip killed two workers in southern Israel while protests in the West Bank turned deadly. |
| 0:46.3 | The fighting is being described as the worst since 2014. |
| 0:50.3 | In response, a group of 20 Republican senators is pushing for a vote this week on a resolution that expresses support for Israel. |
| 0:58.1 | On the other side, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that, quote, |
| 1:02.5 | the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al-Oxca were what precipitated this cycle of violence. |
| 1:09.2 | However, she makes no reference to the fact that Hamas fired the rockets to which Israel responded. She and others have castigated Israel as a so-called oppressive regime, which is responsible, they say, for the cycle of violence. In a similar vein, thousands of protesters have gathered across the U.S. in recent days to support |
| 1:28.5 | Palestinians and call for sanctions against Israel. A Jewish journalist who attended one such rally |
| 1:34.5 | in Seattle was assaulted by a woman who hit him with a Palestinian flag. A Jewish counter-protester |
| 1:41.0 | was attacked as well. His Israeli flag was stolen, stomped on, and burned. |
| 1:46.4 | There was a time when support for Israel was nonpartisan. For example, President Harry Truman, |
| 1:52.0 | a Democrat, was the first world leader to recognize the state of Israel, doing so only 11 minutes |
| 1:57.6 | after it was created in 1948. In the decades since, however, a narrative that condemns |
| 2:03.3 | Israel and American support for the Jewish state has become extremely powerful in our culture. |
| 2:09.3 | This narrative also illustrates our week-long theme on the power of ideas and the urgency |
| 2:15.0 | of biblical truth. Edward Said may be the most important American |
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