• eletes@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    Yeah Huckabee just said the Bible states they will rule the land so they should just take Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. He’s probably testing the waters for pushing greater Israel

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      23 hours ago

      He also said “they” is an ethnic group who descended from Abraham, but also literally anybody who says they’re a Jew because it’s religious, but you don’t have to be religious because it’s ethnic but Palestinians shouldn’t be DNA tested to prove they’re Jews who converted and are closer genetically than the Jews of Europe, all in the same sitting.

      The mental gymnastics he went through to justify without outright saying it that Israel is for primarily white Europeans…

      • Formfiller@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        So true and I think if I read correctly two of Abraham’s sons started the Muslim religion so aren’t they descendents of Abraham too by that logic? I’m not a fan of religion and government mixing at all