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For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’ – New York Times

When I read this article, I thought, it cannot be true … people can’t be stupid enough to believe in this asshole’s speech … or can they ?

There are few parts that are really funny :
“At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.”
I didn’t know anybody from Christian religion could ask for more innocent to die, a whole country to be destroyed, just because of a group. And on top of that, it’s all question of viewpoint. Some call them terrorists, some call them resistants. The name that remain in history always depends on the winner anyway.

“He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy.” ” I didn’t know God was doing any politics … and I’m quite certain again that he wouldn’t have supported the bombing of the international peace keepers building in Beyrouth, leave thousands of mines and other radioactive presents …

“For one thing, white evangelicals make up about a quarter of the electorate.” Damn, that’s quite a lot of people who can’t read a Bible properly … perhaps they should be told to turn it the other way around, it will be easier to read !

I will also pass on the comparing of Iran’s leader Ahmadinejad with Hitler, that I found outrageous and repetitive. It seems to be a fashion lately to call anybody you don’t like a Hitler. I even read an article lately about that Israel’s government guy saying that Iran should be judged for genocide and crimes against humanity. I guess he forgot how many people his country has killed in both Palestinian territories and Lebanon …

“Mr. Hagee compared the Iranian leader with the biblical pharaoh of Egypt. “Pharaoh threatened Israel and he ended up fish food,” Mr. Hagee said, to great applause.”
This one is a pearl. But if Mr Hagee is true, then we should just leave it to God, he will deal with it by himself, like with Pharaoh … Or will he compare Moses and … Ehoud Olmert ? And it seems to me that Moses was trying to get a land for his people. That is exactly what Palestinians are trying to do.
“Dr. Dobson read a statement on his popular radio program expressing “heartache” at the civilian casualties but comparing Israel’s fight to “the Biblical skirmish between little David and mighty Goliath.” He explained, “There sits little Israel with its five million beleaguered Jews, surrounded by five hundred million Muslims whose leaders are determined to drive it into the sea.” ”
I guess it doesn’t matter if Israel’s army comes all the modern weapons and equipment, Palestinian and Hezbollah ‘terrorists’ have, at max, rocket launchers … and most of the time, it is the local population fighting with stones against the tanks …
“Mr. Eckstein said he had discovered the depth of that support when he ran television commercials on the Fox News Channel seeking donations. The response, mainly from evangelicals, “burned out the call centers,” Mr. Eckstein said. During the five-week war, his group added 30,000 new donors. Thanks to the influx of money, he said his organization has exceeded its income from the first 10 months of last year by 60 percent, putting it on track to pull in $80 million this year. “The war really generated a momentum,” Mr. Eckstein said. ”
So here is where it comes to … curiously, they don’t say how the money is spent. I heard some people got rich in the process.

” “They began by saying they had to take a hard line, by saying they would support Israel and they ended up urging them to compromise and go home,” Dr. Dobson said. “All that is going to do is allow everybody to reload. That didn’t solve anything.” (Mr. Hagee said that he believed the administration gave Israel “ample time” but that Israel erred by not “unleashing the full might of its ground troops” until it was too late.) ”
And what if it was useless to wage war in the first place ? It obviously didn’t solve anything, and I’m quite sure that they knew it before they went.

I’ll pass on the alliance made between those Evangelicals and governments of USA and Israel. After all, it’s not like it could be taken as a crusade, or could it ?

” “Israel — to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood — there is no other place like it on earth,” Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post. ”
Ever realized that Muslims would like to be able to walk where their Prophet walked ?

Tsss, one thing is for sure, they don’t and they won’t make the world a better one …