Christian Zionist leader to 'Post': Tucker Carlson should ask Israel for forgiveness - opinion

Tucker Carlson,

You are in Israel on Ash Wednesday, a very holy day for Christians, a day of repentance. It would be most appropriate for you to ask forgiveness for the harsh and hurtful things you have said about Israel, especially while the nation has endured such profound pain and suffering.

There has never been a president in American history more supportive of Israel. A Christian Zionist is simply someone who believes that the Jewish people have a biblical, historical, and legal right to the land.

Jesus, whom you worship, was also a lover of Zion. His final words on the Mount of Olives were: “You shall be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Mother Teresa once prayed with me and said, “You can’t love Jesus without loving the Jewish people, because Jesus was Jewish.”

You have mentioned that you have read the Bible, a Jewish book, so you must know that it all began with the Jewish people and Israel, and that the journey will continue according to prophecy at the end of the age.

YOU HAVE also said that if Israel wants to fight wars, referring to Iran, it should do so without US backing: no American funding, no arms, and no military involvement.

However, Iran has been at war with America since 1979, when it seized the US Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Since then, Iran and its proxies have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans.

In April 1983, I was with the US Marines in Beirut the night before 241 of them were killed by Iranian-backed forces. It was the deadliest attack against the US Marine Corps since the World War II battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.

Since then, there has been a continued pattern of Iranian aggression against the United States, including the Khobar Towers bombing in June 1996, which killed 19 American airmen and injured nearly 500 others.

During the Iraq War, many American servicemen who were killed by improvised explosive devices were victims of Iranian-supplied IEDs. Additionally, the US Department of Defense has stated that Iran was responsible for at least 608 American troop deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2011.

Iran refers to America as the “Great Satan,” burns American flags, and calls Israel the “Little Satan.” Iran has also attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Israel stands as the only firewall between radical Islamic extremism and America. We have already experienced the devastation of radical Islamic terrorism on September 11, 2001.

I am very familiar with rhetoric like this. I heard similar words as a child from my own father – words filled with bitterness and prejudice. In fact, I heard even worse. He used to say, “The Jews are running the country, and the blacks are ruining it.”

When I was 11 years old, he strangled me for trying to defend my Jewish mother from his abuse.

Bible-believing Christians hold that God is not a promise-breaker and that all the promises He has made in Scripture are true. They believe He made covenants with Abraham that He will not break. This does not mean that God does not judge; it means that His covenant stands.

Israel is mentioned in the Bible more than almost any other nation. If one believes that God would break His promises to Israel and to the Jewish people, then one must also consider whether He would break His promises to Christians.

If that were so, Christianity itself would be undermined.

But we, as Bible-believing Christians, do not believe that God is a promise-breaker.