These are your true friends, Israel
These are your true friends, Israel
Once again, I am back to an old theme: on whom can Israel rely when the US administration pushes it to the wall?
With Sharon's visit to Crawford just a week away, it is appropriate that we remember who stood up for Israel in the past.
On October 6, 2002, 60 Minutes ran a piece on the Christian support for Israel. Interestingly, the transcript of the original 60 Minutes programme is still on the web and I am reproducing a selected passage below - it is well worth reading in full at the link given.
US pressure on Israel has not changed since the programme aired in October, 2002; nor has the commitment of Christian Zionists to Israel's security. What has changed, unfortunately, is the attitude of Israel's leadership, and, particularly, Israel's new determination to commit suicide.
As in the past, the Crawford rally against the deportation of Jews from Gaza and Samaria is being strongly supported by Christian Zionists. I hope the rally succeeds in getting the message across to the US President.
Excerpt from "60 Minutes" about Jerry Falwell
American Christian Zionists say they are now a more important source of support for Israel than American Jews or the traditional Jewish lobby.
“It is my belief that the Bible Belt in America is Israel’s only safety belt right now,” says Rev. Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the Christian Right. That’s the bulk of Evangelical Christians; Falwell claims to speak for all of them.
“There are 70 million of us,” he says. “And if there’s one thing that brings us together quickly it’s whenever we begin to detect our government becoming a little anti-Israel.”
Falwell began to detect just that last April when President Bush called on Israel to withdraw its tanks from Palestinian towns on the West Bank. So Falwell shot off a letter of protest to the White House, which was followed by a hundred thousand e-mails from Christian conservatives. Israel did not move its tanks. Bush did not ask again.
“There’s nothing that would bring the wrath of the Christian public in this country down on this government like abandoning or opposing Israel in a critical matter,” Falwell says. The “Christian public” is, he says, Bush’s core constituency.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at April 4, 2005 08:01 AM
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felix quigley
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Joseph
Like you I find this very interesting indeed: Every issue has to be approached in a certain way. The neo-Left approaches this with dogma. Using their method they end up being anti-American in the way they did in Iraq, siding with out and out fascists (the Islamist forces there). I think we have to do more work on this, there is a historical phenomenon here. It may be linked in with the American Constitution and the basic rights contained there.
I feel there is another constituency which will support the Homeland. That is those people like me who are secular, but have come to our support on purely political and historical grounds, seeing Judaism as a phenomenon which held a nation together through tens of centuries. Hence the need for what I think of as a cadre in each country of the world which will not compromise.
Posted by: felix quigley on April 4, 2005 05:00 AM
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BobW
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Very true; America's Christian Zionists are a more important source of support for Israel than American Jews or the "Jewish Lobby" (Here's additional """""""").
Plus, they're a pleasure to work with.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on April 4, 2005 07:02 AM
These are your true friends, Israel
Once again, I am back to an old theme: on whom can Israel rely when the US administration pushes it to the wall?
With Sharon's visit to Crawford just a week away, it is appropriate that we remember who stood up for Israel in the past.
On October 6, 2002, 60 Minutes ran a piece on the Christian support for Israel. Interestingly, the transcript of the original 60 Minutes programme is still on the web and I am reproducing a selected passage below - it is well worth reading in full at the link given.
US pressure on Israel has not changed since the programme aired in October, 2002; nor has the commitment of Christian Zionists to Israel's security. What has changed, unfortunately, is the attitude of Israel's leadership, and, particularly, Israel's new determination to commit suicide.
As in the past, the Crawford rally against the deportation of Jews from Gaza and Samaria is being strongly supported by Christian Zionists. I hope the rally succeeds in getting the message across to the US President.
Excerpt from "60 Minutes" about Jerry Falwell
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at April 4, 2005 08:01 AM