Israel: Whose Land Is It Anyway? by Jennifer Miles and The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry (2019)

Are you at all shocked by the recent rise in global Antisemitism? I am at times, but I really shouldn’t be.

As war in the Middle East continues—and as Trump and Netanyahu enjoy a very tenuous relationship because of it—Jews are enduring yet another round of hatred at home and across the world. Obviously, the key threat these days is radical Islam, but the Communists and Trans-activists and “Progressives” of all stripes are joining in on the hatred as well. It floors me to hear even “Republican” and “Conservative” and “Christian” pundits decrying Israel’s right to exist, though I really shouldn’t be surprised.

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A Little Backstory to Israel: Whose Land Is It Anyways?

Israel has always had its enemies, and this because one main enemy has hated God’s people for millennia—ever since God first called Abraham from the land of Ur. Satan has despised God’s people from the very beginning—so much so that he’s spent thousands of years raising up empire after empire to destroy them. From the Philistines to the Babylonians to the Assyrians to Romans to the Muslims, Nazis, Soviets, and Progressives, Satan has always prepared empires and their minions to end the line of God’s chosen people once and for all.

And century after century, he’s failed.

This little book from The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry helps clarify one issue that serves as ammunition against the Jews—the lie that they have stolen land from the Palestinians and have no right to exist as a nation. With great patience, skill, and research into both sides of the issue, Jennifer Miles argues the simple case that Israel has the Biblical, historical, and legal right to exist in the land they currently occupy as a nation. Beyond this, she also clarifies how many ridiculous concessions Israel has made and offered to “the Palestinians” and their hateful neighbors over the years and how much in reparations they’ve paid but really never owed. Take this as an example:

Abbas rejected [Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s 2008] offer, again demonstrating the truth that the lack of peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict is not due to Israel’s failure to make concessions for peace. It is due to the Arab’s failure to make concessions for peace or accept the fact of Israe’s statehood… Israel has consistently demonstrated its desire for peace with its Arab neighbors. It has repeatedly shown its willingness to make land concessions in exchange for peace. But the Arabs, time after time, have displayed their refusal to make peace with Israel because of their underlying hatred for the Jewish people and unwillingness to accept Israel’s right to exist. (45)

The Most Useful Educational Point: “Palestine”

What I gained most from this book was a better understanding of the Palestinian issue, how the “nation” and its “people” have never actually existed. According to quotations from Arab leaders themselves, they had long rejected both the concept and the term (a word that hearkens back to Israel’s old, now extant enemy, the “Philistines”)—that is, until the PLO came along in the late ’60s and found how politically advantageous this fraud would be to their cause. Take these two passages for example:

Contrary to what they are selling the masses, the Palestinians have never existed as a people group or possessed a sovereign nation called “Palestine.” And—until the 1960s—the Arabs never even sought an independent state in the land. Instead, Islamic culture historically eschewed nationalism in favor of the greater Islamic community. (37)

Palestinian nationalism as we know it today begam in the mid-1970s, when the PLO realized it would be more politically advantageous to disguise its efforts to destroy Israel in nationalist expressions as a struggle against Israeli “occupation.” So after years of denying the existence of a Palestine and a Palestinian people, the Arabs tactfully morphed into an oppressed, indigenous people group called the Palestinians who have lived in the historical nation of Palestine for thousands of years. (38)

And what is the PLO’s cause? Nothing short of the total annihilation of the Jewish race, as they have stated (and many Muslim extremists continue to state) with open hatred. Such a hopeful genocide is the very ethnic cleansing for which the “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea” protests exist.

Islam is on the march globally, and it’s conquest has thus far achieved a planet of useful idiots wearing their keffiyehs and chanting countless versions of “Death to Israel” as they hope (for no reason beyond Satanic influence) for yet another holocaust.

Israel: A Threat to World Peace?

I had to ask myself this question as I read (and honestly, as I daily read the news from all corners of the globe): Is Israel a threat to world peace? Well, in one sense yes (and hear me out!). Were Israel’s Muslim enemies (particularly Hamas, Iran, and the Jihadists) able to succeed in what Hamas began on October 7, then yes, they would be left with fewer enemies to hate. At that point—with Israel out of the picture—”peace in the Middle East” would ostensibly be realized. For a time.

But there is no “peace” in Islam, particularly the sects just mentioned. Jihad would continue its rampage against the West and against America in particular. It would escalate its war against global Christianity. With “peace in the Middle East” achieved, soon no corner of the planet would be safe for anyone but the strictest of Muslims.

It’s not unlike the spread of Asian Carp in the tributaries of the Great Lakes. We could blame their spread on the food they eat, but food is not the culprit when it comes to an invasive species! Even if they were to consume all the food natural to the area, they’d adjust their tastes and continue their propagation. What the Lakes need is constant vigilance against these invasive fish so that they don’t invade the Lakes themselves; and these fish require another natural predator to keep their populations from overwhelming the local ecology. Without such gatekeepers, the carp—a safe enough fish in its natural environment—could destroy the entire American ecosystem in just a few short years.

Conclusion

I’ve written more than I should have already, so let me stop myself before I get too angry. This book illuminates both sides of the issue and clearly illustrates through historical documentation that Israel truly has the biblical, historical, and legal right to exist.

Israel is not committing genocide or stealing land. It has paid far more than what’s fair to its enemies. It has every right to exist and to defend itself when attacked—and the only reason these common-sense realities are controversial is that Satan owns the airwaves. And don’t let any Jew-hating “Christian” tell you otherwise.

I am glad I read this book. It’s short, and so I feel like I’d need to dig deeper to argue the facts better in person, but the real issue at hand is as obvious as the nose on my face. Satan hates God’s people, and we Christians have a biblical responsibility to pray for her peace and to support her existence with everything we have (Genesis 12:1-3).

©2026 E.T.

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