If you can understand the collective and honor-based culture of the Bible, then you can understand the behavior of the modern State of Israel. It’s not a secret if you know how to read it, but if you approach blindly from an American point of view, you will find it incomprehensible.
Modern Judaism still teaches under collective and honor-based assumptions. Zionism is the derived political ideology based on that. And it is inherently racist in the ugliest sense of the word. However, do not judge Zionist Israel on a western philosophical basis. There is plenty of strong condemnation right from the collectivist and honor-based Bible.
Jews severed their personal loyalty to Jehovah and trumped up a false image of Him, very much in line with the sins of Jeroboam and his false idolatry. Jeroboam referred to his false cult as worshiping “Jehovah” but defined their deity by pagan imagery. It was not the God of Israel, just something using His name. Judaism does the same thing. They have constructed a false image and called it “Yahweh”. It is based on the false intellectual assumptions of Aristotelian logic, instead of their own native Hebrew metaphysics.
It’s a bastard religion that does not come from Scripture, but from human imagination. They retain the collectivist national identity and orientation, even while publicly denying it. They still operate on the honor/shame value system, and thus utterly reject any sense of objective moral values so common in the West.
Their actions in the Gaza War are perfectly in line with denying that Palestinians are even human. That’s because they deny that all Gentiles are human; they alone are the only people on earth. It would be shameful in their eyes to treat Gentiles as humans. Their whole rhetoric in English is to placate a more powerful animal country until they can seize control. Instead of doing the hard work of slaughtering us, they prefer to enslave us.
If you approach this question from a western logic, then Israeli military actions seem incomprehensible. The brutality combined with their truculent denial of brutality, the outright lying about how Hamas is so irredeemably evil, is all part of their standard mode of operation. In their own minds, there is no sin at all in the brutality. The only issue is that they realize it provokes the Gentile nations, the western countries are particular. They’ll ignore the “international community” as much as possible, and then cynically propagandize at the same time.
It turns out the westernized commentary of the world condemning Israel is hypocritical to the hilt. Western countries would not welcome the Palestinians; they are too much like Israelis in their incorrigible nature as a collective. Palestinians hate Jews as much as the Jews hate them. In all likelihood, the Palestinians are the true literal genetic descendants of ancient Israel, while the Ashkenazi Jews are pretenders, with almost no Hebrew DNA. Everybody knows this, but refuses to acknowledge it. Instead, the whole thing is pure propaganda rhetoric on all sides.
It’s not that what the Zionists are doing is wrong by some objective standard of right and wrong. The Bible condemns the Zionists because they are wholly invalid in God’s eyes. They are a false construct sponsored by the Devil and his allies on the Elohim Council. The existence of a Zionist identity is an insult to God and His revelation. It is meant to shame Him. The State of Israel cannot do anything right in God’s eyes.
The biblical reference to “God’s Chosen” was based on the proper understanding as explained by Heiser in The Unseen Realm — God parceled out humanity as nations to his Elohim Council, but created from scratch His own nation. The secret hidden from the Elohim Council is that, with the revelation of the Messiah (His Living Word), the designation of “God’s Chosen” would morph into His Elect from every nation. It was not a human nation, but a nation of hearts, rooted in eternal souls that He had chosen secretly before the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. National identity is confined to the flesh, while God’s people bear an eternal identity that makes no reference to flesh at all.
Jesus was the revelation of that hidden plan. He came to call the Elect into His Body.
