However, we often forget that indeed Judaism as we know it, rabbinical Judaism, is a post-Christian innovation. The real relationship between our Jews and the ancient Israelites is not particularly clear, let alone if they are their heirs. Perhaps rabbinical Jews are merely a small, unrepresentative, and perhaps elite offshoot of the old Israelite nations, while the rest got assimilated into the surrounding cultures.
Indeed, many [Judeo-]Christian "conservatives" and Roman Catholics forget this. And this could be elaborated much further, as to their religious party identifcation. Is Durocher ignorant of this or is he content merely to allude to it?
How many Jews at this point are unaware of what Christians believe about Christ and their identification of him with the Messiah promised to Israel? While there may be emotional and spiritual obstacles to their conversion which leave them not culpable of rejecting Christ, does it ever nag them that they may be wrong, and that the absence of the Temple is a rebuke to them?
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