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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What do you think of John Hagee’s views on Israel?
A: God’s promises to Abraham do not apply to the modern nation-state of Israel because:
First, Abraham’s sons were more than Isaac. For that matter, Semitic people are more than just Abraham’s family, so anti-Semiticism would apply as much to criticism of Arabs as it would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Q:<span> </span>What do you think of John Hagee’s views on </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Israel</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">A:<span> </span>God’s promises to Abraham do not apply to the modern nation-state of </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Israel</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> because:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">First, Abraham’s sons were more than Isaac.<span> </span>For that matter, Semitic people are more than just Abraham’s family, so anti-Semiticism would apply as much to criticism of Arabs as it would to criticism of </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Israel</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Second, </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Israel</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">’s people intermarried with many other people, so they are not pure-bred sons of Abraham, or even of Jacob.<span> </span>Joseph married an Egyptian, Moses a Midianite, Salmon a Canaanite, Boaz a Moabite, and eventually most of the population moved away captive except the poorest, who married the people the Assyrians moved in.<span> </span>Many people of ten tribes were lost, intermarried with local populations.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.25in;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Third, the promises were based on faith—most Jews in </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Israel</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> are atheists.<span> </span>Abraham’s real children are of his faith, so the promises apply to believers in One God, not to mere physical descendants, which in any case are hard to trace over millennia.</span></strong></p>
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