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The Northampton Seminar

2017-06-26T07:29:22-04:00

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5 Reasons Why Israel Should Matter to Christians

Last updated on: June 26, 2017 at 7:29 am   By Gerald McDermott

Israel should matter to Christians because Israel mattered to Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John. Read more

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2017-06-01T08:20:35-04:00

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How far back do Palestinians go?

Last updated on: June 1, 2017 at 8:20 am   By Gerald McDermott

As Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi writes, it is “a relatively recent tradition which argues that Palestinian nationalism has deep historical roots. . . . [This] anachronistically read[s] back in to the history of Palestine over the past few centuries and even millennia, a nationalist consciousness and identity that are in fact relatively modern.” Read more

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Palestine

2017-05-31T07:06:47-04:00

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Were Jews absent from the land before the late 19th century?

Last updated on: May 31, 2017 at 7:06 am   By Gerald McDermott

Zionism is merely the latest--and the most successful--of the long list of Jewish efforts to return to their homeland over the last 2000 years. Read more

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Zionism

2017-05-27T07:17:26-04:00

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Fact-checking Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Last updated on: May 27, 2017 at 7:17 am   By Gerald McDermott

Abbas manipulated the facts. "The Arab states did not invade Israel to help the Palestinian refugees. It was the Arab invasion that produced the Palestinian refugees" (Brog, 11). If the Arabs had accepted the UN Partition Plan, they would have had a Palestinian state back in 1948, and there would not have been one Palestinian refugee. Read more

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2017-05-26T06:10:14-04:00

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Is there a Palestinian refugee crisis?

Last updated on: May 26, 2017 at 6:10 am   By Gerald McDermott

If you use the UN method of counting for all other countries, the number comes to approximately 30,000 refugees. Sad for those number, but minuscule compared to the number of refugees today from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Read more

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2017-05-25T05:33:19-04:00

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Palestinians: a nation without a state

Last updated on: May 25, 2017 at 5:33 am   By Gerald McDermott

David Brog begins his Reclaiming Israel’s History with a quotation from Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist: “Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile.  But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction–out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East–is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.” Then Brog is disarming. (more…) Read more

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2017-05-24T12:29:29-04:00

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A history of Israel – Part 1

Last updated on: May 24, 2017 at 12:29 pm   By Gerald McDermott

This is the first post in a series on the history of Israel. Read more

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2017-05-24T08:27:28-04:00

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Protestants and Natural Law

Last updated on: May 24, 2017 at 8:27 am   By Gerald McDermott

Today many Protestants are starting to see that natural law is more biblical than they had imagined. Read more

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2017-05-19T08:30:02-04:00

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What dogs teach us about God – Part 4 (and final)

Last updated on: May 19, 2017 at 8:30 am   By Gerald McDermott

Dogs can help us forgive by showing how they forgive us. Or, to put it another way, by being types of forgiveness to us. Read more

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2017-05-15T08:59:16-04:00

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What dogs teach us about God – Part 3

Last updated on: May 15, 2017 at 8:59 am   By Gerald McDermott

Dogs have no fear of death, so they live in the moment. Read more

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