Dear Tucker Carlson...

Dear Tucker Carlson,

I listened to your message in which you claimed to propose four ways to “balance” the relationship between America and Israel.

Even though you made serious mistakes and misrepresented facts in every one of your points, I want to respond specifically to your fourth.

You said that Americans need to “get their theology right,” claiming that Christianity is a universal religion with no special people, that the “chosen” are only those who choose Christ, not the Jews, because God doesn’t favor people based on DNA.

First, let’s be honest: you couldn’t care less about theology. Your real aim is to sway evangelicals in America away from supporting Israel.

Now, on the theology itself: Christianity is universal. God doesn’t favor people because of DNA, and in the New Testament the chosen are indeed those who choose Christ.

But Christianity is not just another religion like Islam. Christianity doesn’t hijack Judaism’s faith, scripture, prophets, history, and Savior only to wash its hands of the people of the covenant. God chose Israel not because of superiority in DNA or virtue but because of His grace (Deut. 7:7-8).

And since “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29), Christ’s coming globalized the Jewish covenant without erasing God’s faithfulness to His people. Paul is explicit: “Has God rejected His people? By no means” (Romans 11:1).

Follow your logic, and Christianity becomes indistinguishable from Islam. Islam hijacked Christianity, declared it invalid, and expelled Christians from their own covenant. Replacement-theology Christians hijack Judaism, declare it invalid, and expel the Jews from theirs. Either way, the pattern is the same.

Nevertheless, I’ve always said Christians shouldn’t base support for Israel solely on theology, but on truth, on history and facts.

You kept repeating that Israel wouldn’t exist without American tax money. False. America shut its doors to Jewish immigrants during the Holocaust. America embargoed weapons to Israel in 1948, while Harry Truman struggled against his own State Department to recognize Israel’s independence.

U.S. support came only later, when Israel proved useful against Soviet-backed Arab states.

Today, Israel’s GDP is nearly $600 billion a year. According to your own numbers, U.S. aid totals about $300 billion spread over 50 years, that’s equivalent to half a year of Israel’s current GDP. To claim that Israel’s survival depends on U.S. aid is simply dishonest.

And your assertion that “America doesn’t need Israel” is laughable. In fact, the whole world needs Israel.

Israel is the reason Islamic jihad has not succeeded in restoring its caliphate and turning again to conquer the West. Israel shattered the dream of pan-Islamic imperialism and made the modern nation-state in the Middle East a reality. Without Israel, jihad would already be at Europe’s gates.