Why all the enmity over Israel?

Israeli gas mask distribution ends - although Syrian and Iraqi Al Qaeda prepare sarin for region

"Last month, for the first time in its 26 years of life and death as an organization dedicated to jihadist terrorism, al Qaeda through its Iraqi branch, the ISIS, laid out detailed plans for destroying Israel in a 33-page booklet under the title: “Proofs and Documentation in Support of the Proposition that the Destruction of the Jewish State Will Come from Iraq.”
The publication, penned by Abu al Khatab al Maqdasi” (the Jerusalemite), is lavishly illustrated with photos and maps. After overpowering Syria, he says, Al Qaeda’s mission is the destruction of Israel. Throughout history, he argues, Israel was conquered by armies coming from the North."

Also: though not Arab, Persia (now called Iran) also hates Israel.
This is completely consistent with Ezekiel 38

This should give any non-Christian some pause to think. Why is the tiny sliver of land called Israel attracting such hatred from the Arab world? Israel is so incomparably small, why do Arabs and Muslims even pay attention to it as having been stolen from them? The argument that the al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount is the 3rd holiest site in all Islam is just a recent invention, and does not hold water.

This irrational hatred towards tiny Israel is accurately and completely described in the Bible as handed down to us - there is no excuse for unbelief in the God of Israel, who caused 40 authors to write the 66 books in our Bible. In the end there will be no excuse for unbelief, and the God of Israel will judge righteously.

Joel 3:
7 “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people of Arabia, a nation far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

9 Say to the nations far and wide:
    “Get ready for war!
Call out your best warriors.
    Let all your fighting men advance for the attack.
10 Hammer your plowshares into swords
    and your pruning hooks into spears.
    Train even your weaklings to be warriors.
11 Come quickly, all you nations everywhere.
    Gather together in the valley.”
And now, O Lord, call out your warriors!



Psalm 83:
A song. A psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, do not be silent!
    Do not be deaf.
    Do not be quiet, O God.
2 Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?
    Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
3 They devise crafty schemes against your people;
    they conspire against your precious ones.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.
    We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
5 Yes, this was their unanimous decision.
    They signed a treaty as allies against you—
6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites;
    Moabites and Hagrites;
7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;
    and people from Philistia and Tyre.
8 Assyria has joined them, too,
    and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
9 Do to them as you did to the Midianites
    and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 They were destroyed at Endor,
    and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
11 Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.
    Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 for they said, “Let us seize for our own use
    these pasturelands of God!”
13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,
    like chaff before the wind!
14 As a fire burns a forest
    and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
15 chase them with your fierce storm;
    terrify them with your tempest.
16 Utterly disgrace them
    until they submit to your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.
    Let them die in disgrace.
18 Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord,
    that you alone are the Most High,

    supreme over all the earth.