"THE CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE ... [the] Bible also has text supportive of the Jews being given the Land of Israel by God."

All the Christians who really care about this are fanatical extremists. Their interpretation of scripture (an extremist whacko one... ) involves the Jewish reclamation of Israel as a prerequisite for the "Second Kingdom," their apocalyptic vision that any day now God will literally appear in the sky. I suppose they picture a ten-mile-long old man lounging on a cloud, stroking his flowing beard... As soon as He does this, they'll all literally physically float straight into heaven. This is God clearing the way so He can smite all the non-believers by destroying the planet -- yee-har! -- and this 'end of the world' is a GOOD THING so let's all get behind this ball and send it barreling along. Their support for zionism is thus unconditional and essentially amoral.

"Jews back to Israel, Ay-men! Jews caint do no wrong, just so long as thur a-helpin with God's Big Plan, yassir! Splatter them thur Ay-rab babies under them tanks -- it's God's will! Praise be!!"

Yeah, SURE this vicious bigot trash is going to heaven (rolling eyes)

Back in the early '50s, they claimed the zionists had fully satisfied this precondition by taking back part of Israel. God was going to 'rapture' them any day. But then He didn't, so they had to switch their story. God needs the Jews to take back ALL of Israel, yeah, that be it. This brand of bug-eyed Christian whacko has been switching stories continuously for the past 1500 years.

These people are deeply dangerously nuts, as nuts in their way as any bomb-wielding jihadist. Or ziomaniac ultranationalist, for that matter. The United States holds far and away the largest concentration of these people. They've even co-opted the government now. This is an extremely dangerous development, far more ominous than anything Islamic extremists have ever achieved. For one thing, the Islamists don't have nukes. Even the worst case scenario waved around constantly by Straussian pieces of shit like Wolfowitz is that they'll get maybe ONE, which they'll use immediately, thereby getting nuked back to the stone age themselves. The Christian lunatics of the West, on the other hand (and their zionist dupes), have tens of thousands of them, and unstoppable delivery systems, and also several other means of waging absolute worldwide terror. No one could stop them. Minus the part where they're levitated into heaven, they have the means to fulfill their insane prophecies without God's intervention...

Becky, your mention of their viewpoint as if it strengthens your case merely underlines your own extremism.