I guess they figure since they fired Fischer all is forgiven. I can't say what I really want to happen on their plane trip. If only.

about this tonight. Don't know where I've been, but had no clue. And yes, they're still going, but she said there's still time to back out.

Great report worth watching; much more detail.

And I'll have to watch it tonight at 9:00 my time. I just can't believe they still intend on going. I hope they do. Just one more link in the chain.

because she goes way beyond what I posted. As she does. She keeps me informed when I get to watch her, and so darn smart. She doesn't usually waste time on fluff, which I really appreciate!

political science.

I ALWAYS learn something from watching her. On pretty much a daily basis.

as long as it is a one-way ticket. The less hatemongers and bigots in the US, the better.

Though it may come to them as a surprise that Israel is not exactly a Christian nation, and very much a Jewish one. Fischer's anti-Semitic crap won't fly there.

A one way ticket, and hopefully they get themselves arrested for paling around with a terrorist hate group.

even be welcomed. That would be delicious!

Is Rachel the only one talking about it?

Not on FB either. It will be now.

Any reader of random DU OPs re. Israel should know that Israel is quite progressive w.r.t. LGBT issues. That's a good thing and it's just one issue. This alliance makes little sense to me -- except that politics is politics and plenty of politicians are idiots.

...are extreme right-wing white Protestant Christians.

To put it bluntly: people who fit that demographic profile were the backbone of the KKK (which, as you likely know, was extremely anti-Semitic and ant-Catholic besides being racist and xenophobic-not that those were mutually exclusive positions to hold, of course) in the 1920s-which had five million members and elected officials from both major parties throughout the country (not just in the South).

I guess issues of race, ethnicity, and class, along with the question of when your ancestors immigrated vs. who the immigrants are today (and what their racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic identities are perceived to be by the established dominant white American culture) shift the ideological priorities of the Right-to say nothing of how these issues complicate what it means to be an "American!", which is whole 'nother can of worms.

Undoubtedly it has something to do with right-wing evangelical Christianity's view of the "End Times", but to reduce it to a simple religious explanation without taking into considerations the *related* factors of race, ethnicity, immigration status, and class-and how they relate to changes in American foreign policy, particularly since 9/11-may obscure more than that illuminates.