RT Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC)The claim that the modern secular State of Israel is the continuation of Biblical Israel is indefensible. Biblical Israel is a theological reality rooted in covenant, not a twentieth-century nation-state created by international decree.The Holy See does not equate the two and has consistently rejected that conflation. It did not recognize the State of Israel until the signing of the Fundamental Agreement on 30 December 1993.Accordingly, the argument that the curren ...