Israel as a people and a Nation

My beliefs about the people and nation of Israel are informed by what I understand the Bible has to say about them.  That understanding is according to a futurist perspective, being God will restore them as a people and nation in the land promised to Abraham after the second coming of Christ.  Apart from that perspective, I would hope that I would want the same degree of justice and what's right for them as a people and geographical nation as any other.  

Understanding a uniqueness about the Jewish people from a biblical perspective, I still know and believe that when it comes to what the Bible says about eternal life, they are saved in the same manner as we who are not by nature Jews ("...we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they." Acts 15:11).  

Their situation as a nation and people in the land since the first century is due to the rejection of Jesus as the Christ.  Jesus revealed this:  "For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,  and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation." Luke 19:43-44.  Their restoration as a people and nation in the land in peace and safety will come in the future, when Christ comes again, and a large number of Jews will see and believe in him:   "And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: 'The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.'" Romans 11:26-27 

At present, there will be conflict between Jews and mostly Muslims-led people over the land and their right to exist there.  It's part of the consequences of Israel's rejection of Jesus as the Christ.  Their presence in the land seems necessary for certain prophecy to be fulfilled.  Even the conflict may play a role in the fulfillment of prophecy. 

Some anti-Zionist Jews believe the present State of Israel is illegitimate, because the coming of the Christ will establish them in the land.  Actually, that is true, but even they don't yet believe Jesus is the Christ.  If they did, they would be joined to other Christians as part of the Church.  However, even though Israel as a nation is presently illegitimate from a prophetic understanding, it doesn't mean they shouldn't have a presence in the land as a nation.  But how can that be accomplished in light of the surrounding opposition, and knowing there will always be a conflict until Christ returns?  That's the complicated part.  

Can the Christian take the view that Israel should have the right to exist as a nation in the land they were driven from, ultimately because they rejected Jesus as the Christ?  Can the Christian agree with some kind of 2 State solution that recognizes both a Jewish State and a Palestinian State?  Could it be the 2 State solution in which there would be a Palestinian State consisting of Gaza and the West Bank?  Could the Christian agree and support this, knowing it is only a temporary solution, in light of prophecy, and not be guilty of the accusation of Joel 3:2, "And I will enter into judgment with them [the nations] there on account of My people, my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land."  

As a biblicist and futurist, I know whatever agreement that can be reached is only temporary.  I don't want to be guilty of Joel 3:2 in going along with dividing up the land, but I can go along with Israel having a nation in the land, and if that requires a 2 State solution, then so be it. It's only temporary, and it may be the means of fulfilling prophecy that leads up to the time of the end.  Israel does exist as a nation now.  

There was no established nation in that land prior to 1948, and even though there were more non-Jews in the land in the centuries prior to Israel's Statehood, the Jewish people took that step and have established a nation. Though many don't want them there, they are there, and a 2 State solution may be the best solution until the time of the end when all things will be fulfilled, prophetically, concerning them as a people and nation.

I believe God still has a plan and purpose for them as a people:

"I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
Romans 11:25-29

The theologian Charles Hodge wrote concerning the "all Israel" being "saved": "Israel here must mean the Jewish people, and 'all Israel' the whole nation. The Jews, as a people, are now rejected; as a people they are to be restored. As their rejection, although national, did not include the rejection of every individual, so their restoration though national, need not include the salvation of every Jew. All Israel does not mean all the true people of God, as Augustin, Calvin, and others explain it; nor all the elect Jews -- i.e., all that part of the nation which constitute "the remnant according to the election of grace" --but the whole nation, as a nation. (Charles Hodge on Romans 11:26, Romans Commentary)