Hated for just being there!

The Nation of Israel once again finds itself on the wrong side of international opinion and is being condemned for the actions it took earlier this week to defend it’s citizens when IDF teams boarded a flotilla of ships carrying supplies to the Hamas run Gaza strip.

To my way of thinking Israel actions were perfectly reasonable. Hamas has continued to smuggle rockets into Gaza under the banner of humanitarian aid and then fire those same rockets as Israeli citizens. Israel has the right to check these shipments to ensure that they are what they say they are. When boarding the flotilla the IDF team were carrying guns with paint balls and not live ammunition, they were only forced to use their back-up handguns as it got ugly and they came under attack. Do IDF members not have a right to defend themselves? This was a reasonable course of action by Israel and her armed forces.

But poor Israel just cannot win in the court of public opinion. There is a saying ‘you can please most of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.’ In the case of Israel they don’t seem to be able to please anyone any of the time. Why is this?

To understand this question we must understand that the nation of Israel is still God’s covenant people and are under His special protection, how else could they have survived as a nation through the onslaughts of Popery, Hitler and the Arab block. Satan as a hater of God hates God’s people and as Israel is God’s covenant nation he hates them with a passion. He is behind all of the world’s hatred toward the Jews and he is inciting the Arabs to try and wipe Israel out.

I have news for an Israeli hating world they are not going anywhere. God has promised them that land and there is still more of it to be occupied by them in a day yet to come. The world should remember God’s words to Abraham, them that bless thee I will bless and them that curse thee I will curse.

‘In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:’ Genesis 15 v18