There are lots of different views as to how best deal with that particular volatile situation which in the worst case could result to a war between Muslims against Jews and Christians and everyone else caught in between.
The promised land is though a slightly overlooked spiritual signigicance to the Christian. It symbolises something special and unique. Something they long and pray for, the same way they look at the Rainbow.
The story as to why it's "Jewish Land" can be taken from the book of Genesis. God appears to this man called Abram.
Gen 12:1 The LORD said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.
Gen 12:2 I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.
The narrative continues following this man and his travails then God makes this statement
Gen 15:16 Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.
When you think about it. The only reason Abram has this land is because God has picked him, not that he is any special or morally superior that other people. God picked him and gave him the land just because. From our own human standards it seems undeserved and I think it intorduces us to what Christians call "Grace".
The story proceeds following his second born son. Normally it should pass on to the first born son, a child born because his barren wife so desired a child that she gave him her slave woman to have a child. God though had other ideas. The land should go to a child that is the product of a miracle the child of a barren, old woman of questionable character in some respects. We come to the grandson. A second born son, who turns out to be quite the trickster. Abraham's (Abram) son wished to pass on the inheritance to Esau his firstborn. A man's man, a great hunter who sold his birthright to his younger twin, a momma's boy who can cook but followed his mum in their plan to rob his brother and lie to his Father. There are other things to note in this story that hopefully we can explore another time; but I think we can agree it is not deserved by our standards the land goes to Jacob, this wily mommas boy who didn't love his first wife but adored his second wife; this man that had quite the propensity for playing favorites. Jacob gets the name Israel as God passes the land to him. They move to Egypt. 4 Centuries pass by and his descendants come back to take this land that was their ancestor's by divine ordinance. They do this by means of conquest. Again I don't think many would feel that them having this land is deserved. This undeserved gift is somehow tied to something that would bless all humanity.
This brings us to why this point of "undeserved gift" reflects something important to Christians. They acknowledge their moral failings, and their insignificance in comparison to God. They don't deserve God's goodness, love, forgiveness or eternal life. This is something that God has chosen to give freely because he can to bless all humanity. The Christains are Abraham, "fanatics" willing to sacrifice their own sons. They are Isaac a man that played favorites with his twin sons. They are Jacob, liars, trickers. They are slaves, stuck in a foreign land worked to death, hearing tales of their ancestors and their great inheritance beyond the sea.
God giving Israel to the Jews is some sort of symbolic gesture; a sort of guarantee of what God has chosen to do. The restoration of the Jewish state despite it's destruction under Rome, and the rule of the Islamic Empires and British colonization, and even the third most Holy Islamic site to them is a sign. God will keep his promise. God will keep his promise despite all these factors that seem to indicate otherwise. God's grace to Israel, shows also God's grace to us. The destruction of the Canaanites shows the holiness and impartiality of God; but through Jesus the demands of justice can be satisfied and they can received this promised land they do not deserve. A land free of their sufferings as slaves in Egypt. A land flowing with milk and honey. More Importantly, a land with God as their king.
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