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Stephen Sizer points out in ‘Middle East: Anglican ‘Peacemaker’ Calls for Christians to be Part of the Solution in Ending Israel-Palestine Conflict’³¹, that in the Old Testament Book of Esther, as one example, “many” people of other ethnicities have become Jews after the Persian King Xerxes issues a decree in support of them. “What does that mean? It means that from the time of Esther on – 400 to 500 BC – a Jew [Ancient Israelite eds.] is not necessarily someone who is descended from Abraham.” He also points to Ezekiel where God speaks of the distribution of land among the tribes of Israel:

"²¹ “Divide this land among your tribes; ²² it is to be your permanent possession. The foreigners who are living among you and who have had children born here are also to receive their share of the land when you divide it. They are to be treated like full Israelite citizens and are to draw lots for shares of the land along with the tribes of Israel. ²³ All foreign residents will receive their share with the people of the tribe among whom they are living. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken (Ezekiel 47: 21-23 GNT).”

“You look at those three verses and it says the same thing three times in three verses - share the land with the foreigners,” says Rev Dr Sizer³². He says that he prays for a solution to the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories without further bloodshed, but he believes that such a solution will only come about when Israel either gives up the West Bank and allows “an independent, sovereign Palestinian state” or embraces a one state solution “whereby everyone within Israel and the Occupied Territories has equal rights and the right to vote, the right to education, healthcare and so on.”

Rev Dr Sizer: “It’s either a one state or a two state. What we have at the moment is a no state solution [conundrum eds.] and it’s one that the present Israeli Government is happy to perpetuate,” Sizer says. “It wants the land without the people; it wants to allow the Palestinians to have autonomy but without having independent borders, without having a military, without having any sovereignty over their airspace, their water borders, their land borders. It is turning the Palestinians into the equivalent of a Bantustan in South Africa or Indian reservations in North America and that is not acceptable these days.”³³

Isn’t racism anti-Semitic; anti-Christian?