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**immoceefe** · 10-06-2007, 06:24 AM

Apart from recognizing the state of Israel, the U.S. was not an ally or supporter of Israel until President Johnson rushed to supply it during the war in 1967. Nixon saw Israel as a kind of buffer against Soviet influence in the region. The quasi apocalyptic American protestant view of Israel is a later phenomenon, and a striking one, considering that most American protestants were pretty strongly anti-Jewish up to that point. The extent to which it actually influences our foreign policy, however, is questionable, since such people don't have a whole lot of influence in Washington.

The article by the priest is, all in all, a diatribe. There is plenty of sin to go around and to just list modern Israel's sins suggest a fixation with Jews. He takes a convenient starting point, and does not mention the fact that the grand mufti of Jerusalem was a member of the SS and his goal was to kill every Jew in Palestine. Had the Nazis been successful in taking over Palestine during the war, the half a million plus Jews living there would have all been killed.

Some people just need to get over past humiliations. The Arabs in particular.

10-06-2007, 06:24 AM	#3
immoceefe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	Apart from recognizing the state of Israel, the U.S. was not an ally or supporter of Israel until President Johnson rushed to supply it during the war in 1967. Nixon saw Israel as a kind of buffer against Soviet influence in the region. The quasi apocalyptic American protestant view of Israel is a later phenomenon, and a striking one, considering that most American protestants were pretty strongly anti-Jewish up to that point. The extent to which it actually influences our foreign policy, however, is questionable, since such people don't have a whole lot of influence in Washington. The article by the priest is, all in all, a diatribe. There is plenty of sin to go around and to just list modern Israel's sins suggest a fixation with Jews. He takes a convenient starting point, and does not mention the fact that the grand mufti of Jerusalem was a member of the SS and his goal was to kill every Jew in Palestine. Had the Nazis been successful in taking over Palestine during the war, the half a million plus Jews living there would have all been killed. Some people just need to get over past humiliations. The Arabs in particular.
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