For centuries, large parts of Christian theology taught that the Jewish people had been rejected, cursed and condemned to wander among the nations. Jewish exile was presented not merely as history, but as divine punishment.
The Church was said to have replaced Israel. The Jews, according to this theology, had lost their covenant, their homeland and their national future.
Then the Jewish people returned home.
The rebirth of Israel was not only a political revolution. It was a direct challenge to a theology that had treated Jewish homelessness as permanent. A sovereign Jewish state, speaking Hebrew and rooted once again in the land of the Bible, exposed the cruelty and falsehood of the idea that Jews were destined to remain powerless forever.
