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Two peoples, Jews and Palestinian Arabs, lay claim to the same piece of land. But who does it really belong to? Scripture, history, and contemporary politics add to the volatile conflict in the Middle East. Whose Promised Land?, now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, provides an evenhanded approach to this complex dilemma. The book begins with the history of the territory, explaining the development of the conflict and the complexity of the issues. The second section surveys biblical teaching on the theme of the land, both from the Old Testament point of view and the perspective of Jesus and his followers. Building on the analysis of history and the biblical studies, the final part examines the major contemporary forces affecting the conflict today. Unlike many evangelical Christian books on the topic, Whose Promised Land? does not automatically assume a pro-Israel stance, but seeks to present an honest appraisal of modern Israel while clearly delineating the interrelated issues surrounding the crisis in the Middle East.
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First published June 1, 1983
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August 18, 2025
I have conflicting thoughts on this book, which is why I have chosen to leave a review.
This book contains one of the greatest analysis of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the ideologies surrounding it I have encountered.
Firstly, it recounts the "facts and figures" of the land, which are relatively holistic. It then recounts the history from the 1800's to roughly the present day in a series of historical quotes, interspersed with brief commentary. This is where the book shines. It has Jewish and Arab quotations from the time of these events, both commentary from the time and thoughts on the future, and the selection of quotes is magnificent. I could not recommend, at the very least, this section more strongly, and it is the reason for my five stars.
The latter portion in which the author discusses Christian perspectives on the conflict I found slightly less relevant to every reader, but someone more concerned with these viewpoints would find it interesting. His ultimate conclusion disagrees with ”Christian Zionism”, and though I didn't read it particularly intensely, it is a radically different take than other Christian writings, though mentions of the conflict perhaps “turning Jews towards Christ” are painful to read.
Overall, I highly recommend the first half primarily due to the timeline of events and magnificent selection of quotes, as well as the majority of the author’s conclusions, and if Christianity isn't your jam dodge the sections and sentences mentioning it in the latter half, but do read the epilogue.
This book contains one of the greatest analysis of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the ideologies surrounding it I have encountered.
Firstly, it recounts the "facts and figures" of the land, which are relatively holistic. It then recounts the history from the 1800's to roughly the present day in a series of historical quotes, interspersed with brief commentary. This is where the book shines. It has Jewish and Arab quotations from the time of these events, both commentary from the time and thoughts on the future, and the selection of quotes is magnificent. I could not recommend, at the very least, this section more strongly, and it is the reason for my five stars.
The latter portion in which the author discusses Christian perspectives on the conflict I found slightly less relevant to every reader, but someone more concerned with these viewpoints would find it interesting. His ultimate conclusion disagrees with ”Christian Zionism”, and though I didn't read it particularly intensely, it is a radically different take than other Christian writings, though mentions of the conflict perhaps “turning Jews towards Christ” are painful to read.
Overall, I highly recommend the first half primarily due to the timeline of events and magnificent selection of quotes, as well as the majority of the author’s conclusions, and if Christianity isn't your jam dodge the sections and sentences mentioning it in the latter half, but do read the epilogue.
October 6, 2007
Colin Chapman's book is sprinkled with quotes from both 'sides', warns of the danger of older forms of anti-Semitism and focuses on some of the hardships Jews have suffered. It urges caution in forming judgement and maintains an appearance of objectivity and balance, including an interesting, if ironic, quote from Edward Said on the need for intellectual honesty.
However the foundation of his section examining the justice of the dispute is a favourable citation of Naeem Ateek, who himself part justifies suicide terrorism. In the quote Ateek claims biblical Naboth's murder and the theft of his property by the vile Ahab, 'has been re-enacted thousands of times since the creation of the State of Israel'. This fabricated accusation lies at the heart of the book's case.
Chapman almost completely ignores the defensive character of the 1948 and 1967 wars (almost as though the Poles and Czechs were responsible for Dresden or Hitler's 'murder' in 1945), the repeated calls for Israel's annihilation by Arab leaders and their media, the sharp difference in Arab and Jewish murder rates before 1948, and extremely oppressive British policies in handling refugees from the Holocaust. Not surprisingly he also neglects to mention the Palestinian Grand Mufti's close association with the Nazis, meeting with Hitler and shared genocidal intentions.
His quotes are highly selective and I suspect many are sourced from the partisan Middle East Council of Churches, as well as some rather one-sided historians (Gentile and Jewish).
Let the reader beware of a carefully concealed but highly virulent bias against Israel!
However the foundation of his section examining the justice of the dispute is a favourable citation of Naeem Ateek, who himself part justifies suicide terrorism. In the quote Ateek claims biblical Naboth's murder and the theft of his property by the vile Ahab, 'has been re-enacted thousands of times since the creation of the State of Israel'. This fabricated accusation lies at the heart of the book's case.
Chapman almost completely ignores the defensive character of the 1948 and 1967 wars (almost as though the Poles and Czechs were responsible for Dresden or Hitler's 'murder' in 1945), the repeated calls for Israel's annihilation by Arab leaders and their media, the sharp difference in Arab and Jewish murder rates before 1948, and extremely oppressive British policies in handling refugees from the Holocaust. Not surprisingly he also neglects to mention the Palestinian Grand Mufti's close association with the Nazis, meeting with Hitler and shared genocidal intentions.
His quotes are highly selective and I suspect many are sourced from the partisan Middle East Council of Churches, as well as some rather one-sided historians (Gentile and Jewish).
Let the reader beware of a carefully concealed but highly virulent bias against Israel!
April 14, 2023
A CHRISTIAN AUTHOR LOOKS AT THE ISSUES OF ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS
Author Colin Chapman wrote in the Preface to this 1983 book, “This revised edition has been prepared during the summer and autumn of 2001, in the weeks immediately before and after the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September. These tragic events have, among other things, focused the attention of the world once again on the continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians… This further revision covers the relevant history up to January 2002, explaining in particular the background to the Al-Aqsa Intifada which began in October 2000. The historical sections have made use of newer material from the recent writings of Israeli historians like Benny Morris…”
He adds in the Introduction, “Two peoples---Jews and Palestinian Arabs---lay claim to the same piece of land. But who does it really belong to? Does it belong to the Jews because Abraham and his descendants lived in it for many centuries before Christ and believed that God had promised it to them ‘for ever’? … Does it belong to the Palestinian Arabs because they and their ancestors have been living continuously in the land for many centuries[?]… What do we do when claims of this kind are based BOTH on rights derived from previous occupation AND on divinely given scripture?... If the heart of the problem … is that two peoples are claiming the same piece of land… how do we begin to answer the question ‘Whose Promised Land?’… we need to resist the temptation to reduce everything to a single dimension … If we can do this, we are then free to recognize the wide variety of major ingredients … which contribute to the conflict.” (Pg. 10) He adds, “These different issues are explored in the book in the following way: We begin with HISTORY rather than with the BIBLE, since it is important to have at least a basic understanding of history before we turn to the Bible to attempt to find meaning in historical events.” (Pg. 13)
He outlines, “Some of the differences between Jewish and Arab interpretations of the past and more recent history … [are] as follows: *The Jews say that their ancestors first settled in Palestine some time between the twentieth and eighteenth centuries BC… the Palestinian Arabs say they have been living in Palestine since at least the seventh century AD… The Arabs … add that for 1,300 years there was hardly any friction between these small Jewish communities and their Arab neighbors… The Arabs point out that the number of Jews living in the whole of Palestine was 24,000---which amounted to approximately five percent of the total population… The Jews argue that when they started returning to Palestine from the 1880s onwards, they came in peacefully and acquired land by legal purchase… The Arabs bitterly regret that land was often sold to Jews … by absentee landlords living outside the land… The Jews say that in settling in Palestine that had the approval of the Turkish government up to 1918, then the League of Nations, and finally the British government, which was responsible for Palestine under the Mandate from 1920 to 1948…
“The Arabs… [argue that].. the British government was… secretly promising to help the Arabs to establish their own independent states… After … the killing of six million Jews under the Nazis… European Jews HAD to fine a refuge… Israel took the opportunity provided by the 1947 UN Partition Plan to create the State of Israel. The Palestinians could have created a Palestinian state at the same time, but failed to do so… The Arabs living in Palestine have always been aware that they were not the same as Arabs in other areas. But they admit that it was nationalism in Europe and Zionism which stimulated … their Palestinian nationalism… It is impossible to make peace with the Palestinians because of the many extremist Islamic groups which are not interested in making peace… With such opposing views, is it ever going to be possible to find out the truth about what has happened in history?” (Pg. 38-40)
He notes, “Britain’s promises to the Jews were contained in the … Declaration on 2 November 1917 by Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a prominent English Jew. Since Palestine at that time was still part of the Ottoman empire, the British government had no authority to decide the future of the country, but hope to be able to after the defeat of Turkey in the First World War.” (Pg. 66)
He summarizes, “Of the eight million Palestinians in the world today, one million live in Israel, where they form twenty percent of the total population, three million live on the West Bank and Gaza… while four million live outside Israel/Palestine, with 3.5 million of the officially registered as refugees … Hamas … and Islamic Jihad … are critical of both Israel and the PLO, totally rejecting the so-called ‘Peace Process’ since 1991… In the crisis of 2000 and 2001 the Palestinian position was weakened by the divisions between … these different approaches.” (Pg. 118)
He suggests, “Those who appeal to the Old Testament to support Jewish claims to the land ought at the very least to be willing to take seriously what the prophets had to say about the practice of justice in the land… many [Jews] have not only appealed to the Old Testament … but have been willing for Israel to be judged by a biblical understanding of justice.” (Pg.. 213)
He observes, “One of the ironies… is that having escaped from anti-Semitism in Europe … Jews have imposed themselves on people who have a DIFFERENT set of reasons for antipathy towards them… groups of this kind [Hamas] are regarded by many Arabs and fellow Muslims as extremist, it is hard to ignore the hard feelings towards the Jews which seem to go back to Muhammad’s time in Mecca and the difficulties he faced with Jewish tribes…” (Pg. 267)
He points out, “Some Dispensationalists in the past have made confident assertions concerning events in the future which have not taken place… During the Cold War it might not have seemed totally impossible that Russia might one day join forces with the Arabs to invade Israel… at the site of Armageddon. But at the beginning of 2002, because of all the new alliances that are being formed, such a scenario seems much less likely than it did in the 1970s… if the whole scenario as conceived by Christian Zionists and Dispensationalists turns out to be seriously wrong… what will this do to the faith or ordinary Christians?... we would be faced with a whole generation of Christians who would feel that they had been badly let down by their ‘prophets.’” (Pg. 287-288)
He summarizes, “From the standpoint developed in this book, Christian Zionism appears to be a well-meant but misguided attempt to interpret the recent history of the Middle East and to show sympathy for the Jewish people in … the modern world. Basing itself upon a profoundly flawed method of interpreting the Bible, it seems to read the New Testament through the eye of the Old Testament… It fails to grasp how the coming of the Messiah was meant to transform first-century Jewish ideas about the Toray, the land, the temple, the Chosen People and how new wineskins were needed to contain the new wine of the gospel of Jesus. It represents a regression to the mentality of the Jewish disciples of Jesus BEFORE they finally got the point and began to understand the significance of who Jesus was and what he had accomplished.” (Pg. 306)
He concludes, “When seen in the context of the whole Bible… both Old and New Testaments, the promise of the land to Abraham and his descendants does not give ANYONE a divine right to possess to live in the land for all time, because the coming of the kingdom of God through Jesus the Messiah has transformed and reinterpreted all the promises and prophecies in the Old Testament…. It ought to be possible for the rest of the world to support Jews and Palestinian Arabs in finding ways to recognize each other’s existence and aspirations, and to make their home IN THE LAND as they live there side by side.” (Pg. 310)
This book contains HUGE amounts of quotations from all viewpoints; it will be of great interest to anyone studying these issues.
Author Colin Chapman wrote in the Preface to this 1983 book, “This revised edition has been prepared during the summer and autumn of 2001, in the weeks immediately before and after the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September. These tragic events have, among other things, focused the attention of the world once again on the continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians… This further revision covers the relevant history up to January 2002, explaining in particular the background to the Al-Aqsa Intifada which began in October 2000. The historical sections have made use of newer material from the recent writings of Israeli historians like Benny Morris…”
He adds in the Introduction, “Two peoples---Jews and Palestinian Arabs---lay claim to the same piece of land. But who does it really belong to? Does it belong to the Jews because Abraham and his descendants lived in it for many centuries before Christ and believed that God had promised it to them ‘for ever’? … Does it belong to the Palestinian Arabs because they and their ancestors have been living continuously in the land for many centuries[?]… What do we do when claims of this kind are based BOTH on rights derived from previous occupation AND on divinely given scripture?... If the heart of the problem … is that two peoples are claiming the same piece of land… how do we begin to answer the question ‘Whose Promised Land?’… we need to resist the temptation to reduce everything to a single dimension … If we can do this, we are then free to recognize the wide variety of major ingredients … which contribute to the conflict.” (Pg. 10) He adds, “These different issues are explored in the book in the following way: We begin with HISTORY rather than with the BIBLE, since it is important to have at least a basic understanding of history before we turn to the Bible to attempt to find meaning in historical events.” (Pg. 13)
He outlines, “Some of the differences between Jewish and Arab interpretations of the past and more recent history … [are] as follows: *The Jews say that their ancestors first settled in Palestine some time between the twentieth and eighteenth centuries BC… the Palestinian Arabs say they have been living in Palestine since at least the seventh century AD… The Arabs … add that for 1,300 years there was hardly any friction between these small Jewish communities and their Arab neighbors… The Arabs point out that the number of Jews living in the whole of Palestine was 24,000---which amounted to approximately five percent of the total population… The Jews argue that when they started returning to Palestine from the 1880s onwards, they came in peacefully and acquired land by legal purchase… The Arabs bitterly regret that land was often sold to Jews … by absentee landlords living outside the land… The Jews say that in settling in Palestine that had the approval of the Turkish government up to 1918, then the League of Nations, and finally the British government, which was responsible for Palestine under the Mandate from 1920 to 1948…
“The Arabs… [argue that].. the British government was… secretly promising to help the Arabs to establish their own independent states… After … the killing of six million Jews under the Nazis… European Jews HAD to fine a refuge… Israel took the opportunity provided by the 1947 UN Partition Plan to create the State of Israel. The Palestinians could have created a Palestinian state at the same time, but failed to do so… The Arabs living in Palestine have always been aware that they were not the same as Arabs in other areas. But they admit that it was nationalism in Europe and Zionism which stimulated … their Palestinian nationalism… It is impossible to make peace with the Palestinians because of the many extremist Islamic groups which are not interested in making peace… With such opposing views, is it ever going to be possible to find out the truth about what has happened in history?” (Pg. 38-40)
He notes, “Britain’s promises to the Jews were contained in the … Declaration on 2 November 1917 by Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a prominent English Jew. Since Palestine at that time was still part of the Ottoman empire, the British government had no authority to decide the future of the country, but hope to be able to after the defeat of Turkey in the First World War.” (Pg. 66)
He summarizes, “Of the eight million Palestinians in the world today, one million live in Israel, where they form twenty percent of the total population, three million live on the West Bank and Gaza… while four million live outside Israel/Palestine, with 3.5 million of the officially registered as refugees … Hamas … and Islamic Jihad … are critical of both Israel and the PLO, totally rejecting the so-called ‘Peace Process’ since 1991… In the crisis of 2000 and 2001 the Palestinian position was weakened by the divisions between … these different approaches.” (Pg. 118)
He suggests, “Those who appeal to the Old Testament to support Jewish claims to the land ought at the very least to be willing to take seriously what the prophets had to say about the practice of justice in the land… many [Jews] have not only appealed to the Old Testament … but have been willing for Israel to be judged by a biblical understanding of justice.” (Pg.. 213)
He observes, “One of the ironies… is that having escaped from anti-Semitism in Europe … Jews have imposed themselves on people who have a DIFFERENT set of reasons for antipathy towards them… groups of this kind [Hamas] are regarded by many Arabs and fellow Muslims as extremist, it is hard to ignore the hard feelings towards the Jews which seem to go back to Muhammad’s time in Mecca and the difficulties he faced with Jewish tribes…” (Pg. 267)
He points out, “Some Dispensationalists in the past have made confident assertions concerning events in the future which have not taken place… During the Cold War it might not have seemed totally impossible that Russia might one day join forces with the Arabs to invade Israel… at the site of Armageddon. But at the beginning of 2002, because of all the new alliances that are being formed, such a scenario seems much less likely than it did in the 1970s… if the whole scenario as conceived by Christian Zionists and Dispensationalists turns out to be seriously wrong… what will this do to the faith or ordinary Christians?... we would be faced with a whole generation of Christians who would feel that they had been badly let down by their ‘prophets.’” (Pg. 287-288)
He summarizes, “From the standpoint developed in this book, Christian Zionism appears to be a well-meant but misguided attempt to interpret the recent history of the Middle East and to show sympathy for the Jewish people in … the modern world. Basing itself upon a profoundly flawed method of interpreting the Bible, it seems to read the New Testament through the eye of the Old Testament… It fails to grasp how the coming of the Messiah was meant to transform first-century Jewish ideas about the Toray, the land, the temple, the Chosen People and how new wineskins were needed to contain the new wine of the gospel of Jesus. It represents a regression to the mentality of the Jewish disciples of Jesus BEFORE they finally got the point and began to understand the significance of who Jesus was and what he had accomplished.” (Pg. 306)
He concludes, “When seen in the context of the whole Bible… both Old and New Testaments, the promise of the land to Abraham and his descendants does not give ANYONE a divine right to possess to live in the land for all time, because the coming of the kingdom of God through Jesus the Messiah has transformed and reinterpreted all the promises and prophecies in the Old Testament…. It ought to be possible for the rest of the world to support Jews and Palestinian Arabs in finding ways to recognize each other’s existence and aspirations, and to make their home IN THE LAND as they live there side by side.” (Pg. 310)
This book contains HUGE amounts of quotations from all viewpoints; it will be of great interest to anyone studying these issues.
August 20, 2014
Collin Chapman's Whose Promised Land delves into Israel Palestine, and shows its complexity. Note this book is written by a Christian and probably is written directly to other Christians. So two sections of this Book deal with the theology and scripture behind Zionism and what scripture has to say towards the conflict in Palestine. There is plenty in this book for everyone, but Chapman writes/thinks as a follower of Jesus in this book.
The 2nd edition of the book is broken into 5 main sections. The first deals with facts of the land of Palestine, primarily looking at a timeline of events. The second draws quotes from primary sources to answer some basic questions about Israel, Jews, Zionism, Palestinians, and the land of Palestine. The Third section is a study of “the theme of land throughout the Old and New Testaments.” The fourth section looks at other themes of the Old and New Testament that might be important for the topic of the land of Palestine. Finally the last chapter Chapman shares his own thoughts and conclusions for the complexity of Israel and Palestine.
The book surprised me in the depth it went, lots of primary sources, and the genuineness it had with the complexity of Israel Palestine. There are a lot of different voices heard in this book and Chapman appears, for I am not expert, to do a great job of making sure you can hear those voices on their own terms and then asking good questions of them all.
I highly recommend for anyone looking to learn more about the complexity of the land of Palestine Israel. I end with a quote from the Quaker Report Search for Peace in the Middle East from 1970:
We wish to make clear to all, particularly to our countrymen of Jewish and Arab backgrounds, that our position is one of concern for both peoples and is based on the conviction that the rights and interests of both must be recognized and reconciled on some just and peaceful basis. We believe that to ignore or to deny the essential rights on one group will lead to the ultimate destruction of the rights of the other. Peace and decent living conditions, if not available to both, will be unavailable to either. We firmly believe that it is possible to be both Pro-Jewish and Pro-Arab. And for both the essential need is peace.
The 2nd edition of the book is broken into 5 main sections. The first deals with facts of the land of Palestine, primarily looking at a timeline of events. The second draws quotes from primary sources to answer some basic questions about Israel, Jews, Zionism, Palestinians, and the land of Palestine. The Third section is a study of “the theme of land throughout the Old and New Testaments.” The fourth section looks at other themes of the Old and New Testament that might be important for the topic of the land of Palestine. Finally the last chapter Chapman shares his own thoughts and conclusions for the complexity of Israel and Palestine.
The book surprised me in the depth it went, lots of primary sources, and the genuineness it had with the complexity of Israel Palestine. There are a lot of different voices heard in this book and Chapman appears, for I am not expert, to do a great job of making sure you can hear those voices on their own terms and then asking good questions of them all.
I highly recommend for anyone looking to learn more about the complexity of the land of Palestine Israel. I end with a quote from the Quaker Report Search for Peace in the Middle East from 1970:
We wish to make clear to all, particularly to our countrymen of Jewish and Arab backgrounds, that our position is one of concern for both peoples and is based on the conviction that the rights and interests of both must be recognized and reconciled on some just and peaceful basis. We believe that to ignore or to deny the essential rights on one group will lead to the ultimate destruction of the rights of the other. Peace and decent living conditions, if not available to both, will be unavailable to either. We firmly believe that it is possible to be both Pro-Jewish and Pro-Arab. And for both the essential need is peace.
August 21, 2016
These two books were great books because they made me rethink my own biases and to look at scripture and history with fresh eyes. There were so many things that I had not given much thought to. I had just accepted what I had heard other people say. These books must be read from the concept that God is both Just and Righteous. Keeping in mind the character of God then it is evil to accept that it is right for people who have lived in a land for 1500 to 2000 years to have their vineyards, orchards and homes seized by foreign invaders. Arabs were there when the church began (Acts 6). Many of those seeing their property seized are evangel Christian. It is hard to tell you Muslim neighbor about Jesus when people who share the same Holy Book think you should be exterminated so others can have you possessions. One Arab Christian woman ask if western Christian thought that we are Canaanites to be exterminated. In the four gospels there is no account of Jesus talking about a later reclamation of the nation of Israel. Rather the N.T. speaks of a new nation, a spiritual nation of believers from every tribe and nation that would belong to him. All of the text for the recreation of Israel are from the O.T. This recreation did come about during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. The is no prophecy about the recreation of the Temple or the nation of Israel after their destruction by the Romans. Instead Jesus said the new temple where he would reside is in the hearts of his followers.
August 22, 2017
A survey of the issues surrounding the land of Palestine and the Palestinian/Israeli conflicts. I like the fact that he takes a serious look at the Bible and what many evangelical Christians believe, but doesn't jump to conclusions without making an effort to interpret correctly what the Bible says. Chapman does seem to lean toward the Palestinian perspective, though he claims neutrality. One of the points he makes that really strikes me is that if one is going to interpret literally the promises about the land in the OT, then one should be willing for Israel to also be judged by the conditions of the promises (justice to outsiders/Gentiles, their own faithfulness, etc.). He has a good section on what is necessary for reconciliation. There are no easy solutions given and Chapman acknowledges that any solution is going to be very difficult. He believes that it will take the diplomatic intervention of an outside "force" that is viewed as neutral but that also has enough influence to "force" change. At one point, he says that no solution will be possible without US involvement, but he also accuses the US of being almost blindly pro-Israel. Chapman gives no one a pass and says that there have been great wrongs on both sides, a stubborn willingneess from both sides to understand the perspective of the other side, and suffering endured and inflicted by both sides.
March 18, 2016
This book should be required reading along with "Competing Histories" for those interested in the Israeli Palestinian conflict from a Christian perspective. It is very worthwhile, even for those who disagree with the author, to wrestle with his arguments.
March 22, 2017
The first book I read, after Father Elias Chacour's Blood Brothers, to open my eyes to the real story of Israel-Palestine. The well funded, well promoted false Zionist narrative of "a people without a land for a land without a people" is countered by a number of books including this one.
May 9, 2011
fascinating insight into the Israel/Palestine conflict, as well as interesting take on biblical interpretation and "end times" prophesy
March 3, 2011
A compressive history and analysis of the issues around the establishment of Israel and the subsequent Palestinian cause.
March 15, 2025
Book in a nutshell:
"The Bible doesn't say who owns the land, which is why you should back Israel. You don't want to be antisemitic do you?"
Never mentions the sinking of the USS Liberty
Never mentions the attack on the British
Incredibly biased. Highly dispensationalistic. Designed to create more for idiot chest thumpers to go to war with Iran.
Thumb through it to understand the playbook.
"The Bible doesn't say who owns the land, which is why you should back Israel. You don't want to be antisemitic do you?"
Never mentions the sinking of the USS Liberty
Never mentions the attack on the British
Incredibly biased. Highly dispensationalistic. Designed to create more for idiot chest thumpers to go to war with Iran.
Thumb through it to understand the playbook.
March 15, 2022
This is not a reading book, it is a compilation of evidence in favor of a vision that shows the disagreement between the theological principles of some schools and the broken practice of others. It would have been better without so much direct style (long quotes, legal documents, etc.)
July 24, 2019
I read this many years ago and found that it had a pretty reasonable view of what what the Bible had to say about the land of Palestine.
September 17, 2014
Balanced in-depth look at the Biblical and historical issues surrounding the current Israeli/Palestinian issues.
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