NB: The Bloods & Crips are two of the most notorious & violent street gangs in the U.S., originating in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Their rivalry resulted in tens of thousands of deaths & spread globally. It was driven by territorial control, drug trafficking & historical community tensions.
PS: Loved meeting you at the Mises historical revisionism conference!

The Lord, the Paul-line faith, is interested in everybody, for the church the body of Christ’s sake. “Who will have ALL men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Tim 2:4.

“Myself, I came alive ideologically when I reached the New World, in the
mid-1990s. It was as though a new world of ideas heretofore unknown had
unfurled to quench the soul and the intellect. Alas, it did not come from
Judaism, to which I was born.”

The Lord through Paul on Israel:

Romans 10:2-4 “…they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”

“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.”

“…the duty of the Jewish
individual to help, bit-by-bit, to bring about a better world in
unassuming, day-to-day righteous acts. In his community and beyond.”

The Lord through Paul definitely tells the believer to do good works:

Titus 3:8 “…be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.”

“…bring about a better world…”

At the same time, the believer is to realize and understand this:

Galatians 1:4 “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:”

“As you are likely aware, Judaism is an ancient religion based upon God’s
revelation of Himself to Hebrews at Mt. Sinai.”

God revealed Himself to the “Hebrew” (Gen. 14:13) in Gen. 12. Abraham was made a Hebrew by God. Judaism began in earnest in Exodus 19 when Israel unwisely opted for the Law contract.

“Zionism is a recent [19th
Century] political movement associated with Judaism but is not Judaism.”

That sounds like what people say about “dispensationalism,” that it began in the 19th century with Darby. A man at work asked me the question. “When did this (dispensationalism) begin?” This same “Christian” didn’t know that there are three heavens (2 Cor. 12). The Lord through Paul taught dispensationalism. We have, “time past,” and “but now,” and “ages to come.” That’s dispensationalism. Eph. 2:11, Eph. 2:13, and Eph. 2:7.

“Most Jewish people conflate and blur the distinction.”

Perhaps one should remove the use of the word “Zionism” from the discussion. What does God’s word say about all this? Israel was promised land. Did Judaism come from that promised land? No. BUT Judaism was given to the people who are going to get that land. And all that happened in Gen. 12 and EX. 19. That land and Judaism then, became intimately linked. Can Judaism be practiced outside that land? Yes. But that is an exception. All the Jews/Israel were meant to be in that land practicing Judaism. No, it didn’t happen, but it’s going to. God, on His time, is going to gather all the Jews from all over the world and is going to put them in their land Himself and they are going to practice Judaism, and, they’re going to teach it to the Gentiles. What is Judaism? It’s God’s law(s). It comes from Him. Obviously, it affects the Jews culture and ways.

Is “Zionism” from “the 19th century” to today, wrong? Maybe. If it’s “wrong,” it’s only because God did not Himself put Jews there in that land and make it their nation Himself. If “Zionism” is wrong, that’s why it’s wrong. Secularly, legally, does that land belong to Israel? I assume it does. So then, I don’t see why “Zionism” is wrong, if a Jew wants to live there and they think it belongs to Israel.

“The ‘Chosen People’ concept is misunderstood by most Jews. God ‘chose’
the Jewish people to receive, accept, keep and fulfill His Torah”

No, not exactly. God wanted Israel to believe He was their “I Am.” I Am what? Whatever Israel needed Him to be, He would be that for them. There were three occasions between EX 4 and 19 that God was trying to teach Israel this. They didn’t learn the lessons. It was a mistake Israel made in EX 19 to “accept” the Law. They told God:

Exodus 19:8 “And all the people answered together…All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.”

Big, big error. They signed on and made the claim that they’d please God based on their own “good” acceptable performance. That wasn’t going to happen. When they made their choice, as the late pastor Keith Blades put it, God’s demeanor towards Israel changed dramatically:

Exodus 19:12 “And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:”

Israel, no one on the planet, could “keep” or “fulfill” His Torah. God did it for them, the Redeemer.
“and teach
it to the world, to be a ‘light unto the nations.'”

Yes, that is true. That will be true. It awaits future fulfillment. Why does it wait? Because God Himself has not yet put the Jews in their land, He Himself has not made them the nation Israel, nor has He yet consecrated them to be that “royal priesthood.”

“That is all being
‘chosen’ ought to mean, not a Jewish ego trip.”

“As to Jewish entitlement to the land of Israel: fulfillment of their Godly
duties is required.”

We are in the dispensation of grace. God suspended what He was doing with Israel at the end of Acts 7. But, when He resumes the prophetic calendar, and “the time of Jacob’s trouble” begins, Israel is going to be entitled to that land, and they’re going to be entitled to it by believing the Lord Jesus Christ was their Messiah, the “I Am,” Jehovah. “Thou art the Christ.” He fulfills the essentials, the five mandates spelled out in Psalms: 1- Redeemer (done). The next four remain to be fulfilled: Deliverer, Avenger, King and Blesser. Israel, once they receive their kingdom, will then “fulfill” their “duties” as priests to the world.

“I think Zionists believe otherwise; that military
capture is sufficient.”

If, starting with the Balfour Declaration that Israel was eventually made a nation, “legally,” and yes, through military conquest, then I’m not sure, that since 1948, Israel is not in fact a nation.

“God twice banished Hebrews from the land for their
failures and sins.”

Yes, that is true. But, that is the point. God, since converting Saul in Acts 9, suspended what He was doing with Israel. God was not involved with Balfour, nor was He involved in 1948. But, He obviously didn’t stop what was going on, either. God is not involved with any nation today, and He hasn’t been since Acts 7. And men can’t force Him to do what He is just not doing. And He is not doing anything just because men say He’s doing it.

Again, though, if somehow, someway, some nations helped “Israel” become a nation, “legally,” and militarily, it seems to me, then, secularly speaking, Israel is a nation. Did God do it? No. But, He didn’t stop it. He’s been engaged in doing something else, building the church the body of Christ to govern the heavens.
“Many Orthodox Jews (myself included) believe that Jewish
entitlement to the land of Israel will require the appearance of
/Mashiach/, the Jewish messiah.”

To obtain that blessed kingdom, yes, they must wait for the Messiah, who has already come. There is a need to believe first, but if not, well then, it just has to be realized and understood that in early Acts, in the post resurrection ministry the kingdom could be seen on the horizon. The apostles, the “little flock” were able to see themselves on their land, unmolested by their enemies. They were correctly expecting it. But God unexpectedly paused the working of the fulfillment of that eventuality. It is really not hard to get this, though most of Christendom doesn’t get it. Again, though, believing is needed (would be very helpful). “Believing is seeing.”

“The Bible has suffered more from Christian exponents than from infidel assailants.” Sir Robert Anderson.

“I don’t know much about that. (May, 2026)”

“Although there is a certain degree of comic protest about my next question;
I ask it not to be a Smart Alec:”

“Does what our laudable reader say mean that, come /Mashiach/, real or
imagined, ultra-orthodox Jews could be given religious license to rob
Palestinian homesteaders?”

I suppose I would say, no. It is, though, in my view and understanding, the Israeli governments responsibility.
“That, you see, is unclear. With respect to the
ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewry; although the question of messiah’s
arrival is more than likely immaterial”

Well, the Messiah is not involved. So, it’s on the Israeli government (Romans 13). But, when the Messiah returns, the Jew then just better not think He’s arriving for the first time.

1 John 4:3 “And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”

If a Jew today doesn’t think the Lord Jesus Christ wasn’t the Messiah, they should consider the following:

“The First Gospel does not contain a single word that is inconsistent with its scope and purpose in the Divine scheme of revelation and ministry as Israel’s Messiah; AND IT WILL BE STUDIED BY BELIEVING ISRAELITES IN DAYS TO COME AS IF THE PRESENT CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION NEVER INTERVENED.” (Emphasis mine.)

“Although so plainly stated in Scripture, it is a forgotten truth that the full and final evangelisation of the world awaits the restoration of Israel. And ‘the receiving’ of Israel is necessarily deferred until after the coming of Christ (rapture) to bring the present dispensation to a close.” Sir Robert Anderson, “Forgotten Truths.”