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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/7/why-americas-christians-support-israel/
It's Not Jews Who Are Waging Jihad around the World
(Washington Times) Robert Knight - Israel's Arab neighbors number 22 countries with a combined population of nearly half a billion people on more than 5 million square miles of land. This doesn't include 27 other Muslim-majority nations like Pakistan and Indonesia, or even India, which has more than 170 million Muslims. Islam, the world's fastest-growing religion, comprises more than 1.7 billion people. By contrast, Israel has 9.3 million people on 8,000 square miles and is about the size of New Jersey. Yet much of the world is insisting that it is Israel that has to give up "land for peace." Likewise, it isn't militant Jews who are waging jihad around the world on Christians, Hindus and anyone else who won't bow to Mecca. The militants have a slogan: "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." The pro-Palestinian side argues that while Arabs have occupied what is now Israel for 3,000 years, Jews are interlopers who were not really in the picture until recently. This contradicts archaeological evidence, such as a slab in Egypt from the 13th century BCE that mentions Israel, a ninth-century Canaanite slab citing King David, and the accounts of Josephus, the Roman Jewish historian. Jews lived in the land for 2,600 years before Muhammad founded Islam around 600 CE. The term "Palestine" was coined by Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 CE from the term "Philistines," the Jews' ancient enemy.