@Nudhul @georgia @sun Pretty much this. Ashkenazis, mizrahis and sephardis have as much right to call themselves "jews" and "Israel" as Greeks and Italians do (that is to say: none).

A common thing about dispensationalists is that they have no real idea what a jew or a "jew" is. I once met a dipensationalist guy who had some book about judaism and he was disappointed to find out that he does not understand 95% of it, "even though" he said he read the protestants' Old Testament several times over. He kept bumping into notions he never heard of, traditions that Israel never practiced. Dispensationalists do not know that judaism's main books are those of the talmud and the kabbalah; while the OT is not taken seriously.