Love us or hate us ? (part 11)

Submitted by saltysteve on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 17:14

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It is interesting and significant that, apart from Corrie Ten Boom, all of the above list were British!

It is not a contrived list, borne out of a patriotism. It is a lot easier to compile a list of anti-Semites, believe me, a list that would span both the centuries and the continents. But you have a more limited choice when you wish to list the philo-Semites and two factors do stand out sufficiently to make them statistically probable - adherence to the Christian faith and a British birth.

To make it more interesting it seems that the period of greatest 'philo-Semitism' shown by the British people co-incided with the rise and flourishing of the British Empire. But this attitude seemed to change after the Second World War, something to do with Arab oil, I believe.

Is it a co-incidence that the subsequent lamentable record of the British Government towards Israel has co-incided with the dramatic and swift collapse of the British Empire? Bear in mind the scripture from Genesis, Chapter 12, regarded as God's foreign policy statement regarding the Jews, "I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse those who curse you". Could there be a connection?

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