# In Defense of Israel, Revised

## Metadata
- Author: [[John Hagee]]
- Full Title: In Defense of Israel, Revised
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- As an avid student of history, I am convinced that we are facing the same situation the world faced in 1938. ([Location 82](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=82))
- Iran is the new Germany, and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the new Hitler. Iran poses a threat to the State of Israel that promises nothing less than a nuclear holocaust. The only way to win a nuclear war is to make certain it never starts. We must stop Iran’s nuclear threat and stand boldly with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. ([Location 83](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=83))
- He said that an appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile in the futile hope it will eat him last. ([Location 91](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=91))
- Once again those who would appease seek to do so at the expense of Israel. They tell us that if we want the Sunnis and the Shiites to stop massacring each other in Iraq, then Israel must give up land. They tell us that if we want the Syrians to stop murdering the leaders in Lebanon, then Israel must give up land. They tell us that if we want the Saudis to permit women to drive and to vote, Israel must give up land. If we want the sun to rise in the east and set in the west, Israel must give up land. ([Location 100](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=100))
- Let me be clear: Israel is not the problem, and making Israel the scapegoat will not solve the problem. The problem is the rejection of Israel’s right to exist. The problem is radical Islam’s bloodthirsty embrace of a theocratic dictatorship that believes they have a mandate from God to kill. The problem is the failure of the moderates in the Arab and Muslim world to stand up and rein in Islamic extremists. ([Location 104](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=104))
- That is anti-Semitism, and anti-Semitism is sin. And as sin, it damns the soul. ([Location 115](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=115))
- Today another Persian—Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran—is plotting to exterminate the Jewish people. His goal is to put together the capability for a nuclear holocaust. And God is saying to Christians, just as Mordecai said to Esther, “If you remain silent at this time, I will see to it that deliverance comes to the Jews from another place. But you and your house will perish.” Mark my words: deliverance will come. ([Location 136](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=136))
- Whenever Christians have seen the relatives of Jesus suffering—for instance, in the Holocaust—and done nothing, it was as if they had ignored the suffering of Christ Himself. ([Location 152](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=152))
- There is a prophecy in Scripture foretelling that a nation will be born in a day. It comes from the Book of Isaiah. Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? —Isaiah 66:8, NIV ([Location 202](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=202))
- In actuality, anti-Semitism has its origin and its complete root structure in Christianity, dating from the early days of the Christian church. Until ([Location 273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=273))
- “The worst evil genius of Germany,” wrote Dean Inge, “is not Hitler, or Bismarck, or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther.”11 ([Location 407](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=407))
- Some of the most vicious, Jew-hating statements ever made are found in his tract entitled “Concerning the Jews and Their Lies.” ([Location 413](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=413))
- His Nazi murder machine showed “a proper appreciation of the continuity of their history when they declared that the first large-scale Nazi pogrom (violent physical persecution of Jews) in November 1938 was a pious operation performed in honor of the anniversary of Luther’s birthday.”13 ([Location 442](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=442))
- In Hitler’s writings, Jesus Christ was, in fact, the first Jew hater. “Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews,” ranted Hitler.23 ([Location 549](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=549))
- My vision for this movement remains singular: to demonstrate Christian support for the State of Israel, and in so doing, to make the necessity of such support apparent to our local, state, and national officials. ([Location 731](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=731))
- If Abraham’s spiritual seed comes through God’s promise and power, the Jewish people are not simply Abraham’s seed but quite literally God’s children. ([Location 781](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=781))
- Some pastors teach that Romans 9–11 refers to the church, that the church has replaced the Jewish people. This is an anti-Semitic theology that refuses to believe that God still has a place in his heart for Israel and the Jewish people. The prophet Zechariah clearly refers to the Jewish people as “the apple” (or pupil) of God’s eye. ([Location 792](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=792))
- After many years of study, I choose to interpret Romans 9–11 as a stand-alone theological document. ([Location 797](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=797))
- Jewish people are commonly divided into two groups: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews. Ashkenaz is Hebrew for Germany, and Sefarad is Hebrew for Spain. Jews whose families come from Europe and speak Yiddish are regarded as Ashkenazim, and those whose families come from Spain or the Arab world are called Sephardim. ([Location 803](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=803))
- I want to clear up some misconceptions about who the Palestinians are and their claim on the land of Israel. The land of Israel has never belonged to Palestinians. Never! It was labeled Palaestina by the Roman emperor Hadrian in A.D. 130, but there has never been a country or nation called Palestine. ([Location 837](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=837))
- Today, you may hear of areas considered “occupied territory” as if Israel was occupying former Palestinian land. This is pure propaganda. There was never a nation existing there in order to occupy. Under that logic, Jordan and Egypt were “occupying Palestinian ([Location 844](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=844))
- land” between 1948 and 1967. No one said a word. But the minute the Jews gained control, the anti-Semitic world call it “occupied.” ([Location 845](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006K4HCWE&location=845))