On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 07:14 pm, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I suspect a major reason that US conservatives back Israel is that a major component of US conservatives is the so-called "Christian Right" who are generally fairly fundamentalist Protestants who take the Bible seriously (if not literally), and so believe that the Jews are God's chosen people and the Holy Land was promised to them, and see the creation of Israel as a fulfillment of prophecy and a sign of the end times.
Good point. And support on that basis is quite different from supporting it for secular political reasons, or 'natural justice' or whatever. But how major a component of the American Right are the Christian Right really? I get the impression they spend a lot of money and energy lobbying and raising a stink but there aren't really that many of them.
So they have a disproportionate amount of influence in American right-wing politics, and many politicians are just paying lip-service to their positions because it is easier than getting on their wrong side.
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