That the Zionist claim to Israel is ludicrous goes without saying.
--- Christopher_Rhoades_Dÿkema <crdbronx at erols.com>
wrote: > This kind of thing is absurd, of course, and,
does,
> obviously, smack of
> Christian anti-Semitism --
>
> [snip]
> "
> The first is the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Riah
> Abu El-Assal, a Palestinian who is intemperate in
> his
> attacks on Israel. ‘We interviewed Bishop Riah after
> some terrorist outrage in Israel,’ says Colin
> Blakely,
> ‘and his line was that it was all the fault of the
> Jews. I was astounded.’
>
> The bishop also has an astounding interpretation of
> the Old Testament. Last December, he claimed of
> Palestinian Christians, ‘We are the true Israel
> ...no
> one can deny me the right to inherit the promises,
> and
> after all the promises were first given to Abraham
> and
> Abraham is never spoken of in the Bible as a Jew....
> He is the father of the faithful.’ "
> [snip]
>
> Obviously one must oppose this. However, the problem
> is that this modern
> Palestinian tendency to claim ancient Hebrew
> ancestry is just as much an
> absurdity as the Zionist claim that modern Jews
> ought to have a claim to the
> territory on the basis of the Hebrew Bible as title
> deed.
>
> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
>
>
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