Prejudism towards Israel amongst Arab Christians?

I do not like to make any assumptions in general. Some things are black and white while others are not. The last two Saturday's we went to a Bible College for a two day seminary about "Islam and the Impact on American Culture." Those of you who are learned about Islam it may not come as a surprise. A lot of what I heard just confirmed what I already knew. Islam is truely satanic. Where sex in paradise triumphs and lying and cheating is not only common in dealings with the infidels but also within their own religion. Otherwise why can you call Ramadan a month of fast when feasts go on during the night as well as many sudden revelations of Muhammad just so he could excuse his appetite for women.

The person teaching it is an Arab Christian from a Christian family. He pastors a few churches in the larger region. When he tells of the testimonies of those who left Islam, it's really quite something. It's like the light got turned on to dispell the darkness. One of them, not one of his own flock, is considered the "Paul of the 21st Century." He broadcasts from the U.S. and his broadcasts reaches Europe and the Middle East where thousands embrace Christianity, though many secretly. Needless to say, there are 15 million dollars put on his head for any Muslim who would kill him. What is not a widely told fact is that whenever the statistics seem to show that many Americans and elsewhere convert to Islam, many, many more Muslims become Christians. Throughout the last few decades it become a great threat to the monopoly and the power Islamic clerics sway over their people. All you have to do is watch MEMRITV where a number of videos pertain to that fact.

This being said, I had quite a surprise even so afterwards I came to realize that it is not that uncommon amongst Arab Christians. At one point the pastor said that it is wrong to hang onto the politics concerning Israel and the Middle East, that we have to hold on to Jesus and Jesus alone and forget about the material (land for peace politics), I countered that the rise of Anti-Semitism in this world as well as Islam which is part and parcel of it, represents Satan making war against Israel as G-d's chosen people, representing G-d (and don't forget the saying goes the Saturday people, Jews, first and then the Sunday people, Christians). No other nation has this uniqueness, regardless how many times Israel chose to sqander it by turning to idols. And even putting G-d's son, the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross even so they were only part of it. If G-d would not have chosen for his son to die for man's sin, Christ could have called a legion of angels and finish this world once and for all. It was Christ's obedience to his Father to fulfill the prophecy given 600 years ago by the prophet Isaiah in chapter 53. Therefore it was not the Jews, nor the Romans but Christ himself who allowed himself to be put on that horrible tree. The former just represented the world's sin.

After my response the pastor said, and this I hold true in part only, that the promises made to Abraham were meant for the Christians, Jews and Gentiles alike, that whoever blesses the Christians will be blessed, but whoever curses the Christians will be cursed. But first and foremost the blessings were concerning Israel. The seed of which G-d spoke of were the Jews and in this regard maybe even the Christians who would become the spiritual seed of Abraham just as Jesus himself said so when he claimed that his Jewish audience were the father of the devil because they did not believe in him (John 8:39, 44-47). Now, I'm saying this, we the church (Jews and Gentiles) are the spiritual seed of Abraham. But there are many scripture passages where G-d even will punish the nations he called to punish the unbelieving Jews for the harshness the nations executed against Israel. If G-d is that serious about the apple of his eye and his promises are true even when the fulness of the Gentiles is reached and then he deals with Israel concerning the promises he made hundreds of years ago, shouldn't the same still be true concerning as said in Gen. 12:3 when it comes to his chosen people?

But the pastor went on to say that nowadays most Jews are unbelievers (true) and that the land is cursed. Who cares about the land which is only material. Of course he went on to say that he has Christian friends that are Jewish believers in Yeshua (Jesus) as well as Muslim friends that embraced Jesus into their lives and left Islam. And he continued saying that Palestinians as well as Jews go to heaven or hell depending on their salvation.

For the rest of the seminar which lasted another two hours, I felt somewhat deflated. First I was really exited to hear about Islam from a Christian who actually grew up in a Muslim culture. It's always better to here it from the horse's mouth so to speak. But after that occurence it left a hint of bitter taste in my mouth.

After my father in-law and I talked about it it came to me that maybe this is how Arab Christians, growing up in a Muslim culture, perceive Israel. Unless they live in Israel proper. I remember Brigitte Gabriel, founder of "American Congress for Truth," http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/ saying that as Christians in Lebanon, they grew up believing that Israel is "the little Satan and America is "the great Satan."
So maybe this is just the way Arab Christians perceive Israel without any fault of their own. Brigitte Gabriel changed her attitude towards Israel after she had to take her mom who received a leg wound to an Israeli hospital during the "civil war" (which was really a Muslim war on Christians) and Israel did this all for free. During her stay at that hospital she encountered love, compassion, honesty and integrity regardless whether you were Jew or Arab, friend or foe that after her mom died in Lebanon she exhumed her mother's remains and had her reburied in Jerusalem that her children never ever would have a reason to visit Lebanon just to go to one of their grandparents' graves.

In my ten years of focusing on Israel and the Middle East, in part to confront my country's own evil deeds comitted during the Holocaust and also to seek personal redemption, I found out that a number of former Muslims who hated the Jews so much that they would foam out of their mouths as the saying goes, once they had an encounter with Christ in their own life and turned away from Islam, they would share an almost equal love for Israel. But these Arabs were all Muslims. None of them came from a Christian back ground. And maybe it is that that makes it so radical. To see the darkness of their own religion and culture that they can't do any other but embrace all the good things Western civilization stands for. I just know that many who believed all the myths about Israel and made a 180 once they found out what the true root cause of the conflict in the Middle East truly was, that it wasn't the occupying Israelis but the Jew hating Muslims which has its root in the very Q'uran they are following, so the Muslim Arab, once born again comes to see all the lies and fallacies that Satan through a medium called Islam is spewing out.