Max Blumenthal, who blogs over at the Huffington Post, has posted a tremendous 10 minute video about his day at and subsequent expulsion from the Christians United for Israel summit. It is an unpleasant political exercise that sees Israelis and Jews, like Joe Lieberman and Dore Gold, both of whom attended the summit, willingly ally themselves with these fanatical anti-semites who mask their bigotry behind 1) the fact that they hate Muslims even more than Jews; and 2) their twisted ideas about the role of Jews, Israel and the rapture.
I can only assume it was just such bands of rather unsympathetic characters that prompted this group of evangelicals to take out their ad in Sunday’s NY Times supporting a Palestinian state, urging Bush to press ahead with peace efforts and distancing themselves from the above mentioned zealots, who, by comparison, think the anti-christ is “anyone who forces peace on Israel and Palestinians.”
4 responses so far ↓
1 imad mugniah // Jul 30, 2007 at 7:37 pm
“willingly ally themselves with these fanatical anti-semites ” Wait a minute. Allying themseleves with fanatical anti-semities? Wouldnt that be you allying yourself every day with Hamas Charles. Is this your pot calling the kettle black moment.
2 Abe Bird // Aug 2, 2007 at 7:56 am
Calling evangelists Jew haters is a big lie. MOST Evangelists support Israel in its very meaning of existence and wish Israel to live in peace. It doesn’t matter if they wish that all the Jews to adopt Christianity at the end of the days. It’s their very nature of religious believes. I can only say that Christians and Jews can both wait until the Messiah is coming and than to ask him if it is his first coming (then he is Jewish) or his second one (then he is a Christian). I think all can wait and see, if they regard that matter as important.
3 Eli Lake // Aug 2, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Charles is not alligned with Hamas. He is a reporter who has used very plain English to describe at times their ghoulish atrocities. As for the video, I think it’s tendentious, like almost everything from the Blumenthal clan. It was made to support the view that only end timers and zionists think Iran is a threat. There are some in the netleft who use this kind of argument by association to apologize for Iran’s obvious bellicosity. It would be worthwhile for conservatives to “cover” say the yearly kos convention in the same style as young Max. The huffpost would howl about how unfair it all it is.
4 ElamBend // Aug 11, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Charles,
Thought there are anti-semitic feelings among mainline church’s in the U.S. , the evangelicals harbor a strong pro-Israel feeling. Any Jewish stereo-types they may harbor are positive (i.e. Jews are smart). These feelings are at root NOT in the idea of ‘rapture’ but from the belief that God’s original covenant was with the Jews and only later spread to the gentiles.
Also, many evangelicals belong to the Jacksonian tradition in the U.S. which mirrors nicely with Israel’s ‘we can make it work’ attitude toward building Israel from a desert.
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