Exodus 4:22
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
So in reality, since the NT was made up by the same spirit of Babylon, YOUR empire trampled the Israelites..
WHOA Charlie, Britain
helped to set up the state of Israel in 1948!
As for ancient Israel, God needed somewhere to send his son and plumped for the jews because they were a bit more spiritually advanced than other heathens and were the best of a bad bunch, at least Jesus had a 3-year run before they killed him.
I mean, if God had sent him to Africa they'd have had him in the cookpot within 5 minutes, and if to the redskins, they'd have scalped him on the spot, and if to the aborigines they'd have slung him off Ayers rock!
Today jews are still totally unrepentant and continue to reject and badmouth Jesus, so if God is going to cut them some slack on judgement day I'm Mary Poppins..
They might like to think they'll be able to gatecrash the pearlies, but they might as well be whistling dixie-