--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- Ronn! :)
There are certainly some conservatives who back Israel for that reason. But it would be hard to argue that, say, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, and (at a much lower level) myself are members of the Christian right. After all, the one thing we all have in common is that we're not Christian. From what I can tell, we all support Israel because Israel's a democracy (and that's important to us) surrounded by dictatorships that want to destroy it and kill all of its citizens dealing with terrorist groups that _also_ want to destroy it and all of its citizens. Given that outline it's fair to ask how, other than pure anti-Semitism (surely a good part of it) so many other people _don't_. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
