#the reason the region is arab is roman deportation of judeans after the jewish revolt and the bar kokhba revolt

[apilgrimpassingby]

Yes, the "Jesus was Palestinian" stuff is dumb and people should stop saying it. I'll grant you that much.

What I do not grant is that the Jews are eternally or unconditionally God's people. Christ told their leaders that "your house is left to you desolate" (Matthew 23:38) and that "the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits" (Matthew 21:43). In the Old Testament, God told Israel that "you are not My people, and I am not your God" (Hosea 1:9) and that "I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My heritage" (Jeremiah 12:7). Lamentations seriously countenances that God "ha[s] utterly rejected us, and ... remain[s] exceedingly angry with us" (Lamentations 5:22). Deuteronomy 28:15-68 is a very long, very graphic passage describing curses upon Israel if they disobey God, including being given over to foreign gods (v.36) and returned to Egypt (v.68). St. Paul tells us that neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but keeping the commandments of God (1 Corinthians 7:18-19) and that Jews and Gentiles are unified in Christ (Ephesians 2:12-16).

Jesus was a Judean Jew, and that matters theologically. You can’t ignore how important that is for your own salvation just because it fills you with satisfaction to say he was a Palestinian Christian when He factually wasn’t.