God's chosen people?

Josten Gaarder is famous in Iran for a book he wrote a couple of years ago to teach philosophy to the teen- Sophie's World. The book was read and re-read, presented as gift on different occassions, discussed and commented many many times here. An amazing work of literature.
I was directed to this through an Iranian group blog and I loved it. This statement pictures exactly what I think and feel about state of Israel. I think many of you feel the same. Here, I bring some parts of it:

"There is no turning back. It is time to learn a new lesson: We do no longer recognize the state of Israel. We could not recognize the South African apartheid regime, nor did we recognize the Afghan Taliban regime. Then there were many who did not recognize Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or the Serbs’ ethnic cleansing. We must now get used to the idea: The state of Israel in its current form is history."
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"We do not recognize the old Kingdom of David as a model for the 21st century map of the Middle East. The Jewish rabbi claimed two thousand years ago that the Kingdom of God is not a martial restoration of the Kingdom of David, but that the Kingdom of God is within us and among us. The Kingdom of God is compassion and forgiveness."
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"We recognize the state of Israel of 1948, but not the one of 1967. It is the state of Israel that fails to recognize, respect, or defer to the internationally lawful Israeli state of 1948. Israel wants more; more water and more villages. To obtain this, there are those who want, with God’s assistance, a final solution to the Palestinian problem. The Palestinians have so many other countries, certain Israeli politicians have argued; we have only one."
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"We do not recognize the state of Israel. Not today, not as of this writing, not in the hour of grief and wrath. "