“O Israel, hope in the Lord; For with the Lord there is mercy, And with Him is abundant redemption.” (Psalm 130:7)

A global shift began in 1897 when Theodor Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. He expressed, in his speech to the Congress, his vision of a Jewish return to the land of Israel (re-named Palestine), which had been in the hearts of Jews for 2,000 years. 

It has been said that the first casualty of war is truth. That is why it is important for Christians to sort out the facts from the fiction being reported in the news media concerning the ongoing war between Israel and the so-called Palestinians. The Palestinians seems to have won the media war by using international news broadcasts as a vehicle of propaganda against the nation of Israel. They have turned themselves from the aggressors to the victims in the eyes of the world. The ability to manipulate the news media in this way did not happen overnight, but has been practiced methodically over many long years against Israel. 

Hitler, in his book Mein Kempf said,  “If you tell a lie long enough, loud enough and often enough, the people will believe it.” It is sometimes called “The Big Lie”. Concerning Israel and the Palestinians, there are twelve Big Lies that have been repeated for a long time, loudly and often.

The Big Lie #1 – The Palestinians have held the land known as Palestine since the seventh century.

Arabs all claim to be descended from Ishmael, Abraham’s firstborn son by Sarah’s handmaid, Hagar. According to Jewish tradition, Ishmael was an idol worshiper and very jealous of Sarah’s firstborn, Isaac. It is taught that Ishmael tried to introduce Isaac to evil ways and even tried to kill him, causing Sarah to demand that he and his mother be banished from Abraham’s house. 

As Abraham’s son, Ishmael was the half-brother of Isaac and therefore the Uncle of Jacob and Esau. While Jacob sought after Abraham’s God, Esau married one of Ishmael’s daughters, Mahalath (Genesis 28:9) and followed the ways of Ishmael, eventually being identified as Islam.