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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI understand why the GOP doesn't trust Iran, but why do they trust Israel?
Israel has violated every pledge they ever made to stop building illegal settlements on Palestinian land. So why do we still trust them?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Or, demands for sanctions or bombing if Israel won't comply with inspections.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)$econd, becau$e Adel$on & hi$ ilk
and third, because the apotheosis of Israel has something to do with the Second Coming or something like that, which the fundies are actively working for.
djean111
(14,255 posts)And the GOP and Israel never miss a chance to disagree with or try to circumvent Obama. Brothers in arms. Well, someone else' arms, not their own arms, of course.
The GOP could care less about illegal settlements. Unless to defend them. IMO and all that.
And, of course, the MIC is probably champing at the bit, thinking about the Ukraine and Iran.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,291 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Orrex
(63,232 posts)Highlighting the abject foolishness of basing foreign policy on the scribblings of bronze age storytellers.
cali
(114,904 posts)Millenialism has been a part of eschatology for far longer. Dispensationalism is Darby's twist on it.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)They don't want a Palestinian state.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,291 posts)And believe that Israel needs to build the third temple in order to bring on the end times. This perversion of Christianity is little more than a death cult.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)they need Israel converted before the rapture. I wonder what Bibi thinks of this? Because these are very likely his supporters.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)If you read all the interesting stuff in Revelations, when the end times are upon us it will all end in Israel just like how it all started in Israel. So for these fundie Christians, whose ultimate goal is Armageddon which includes the Rapture, if they can somehow maybe speed things along with those end-times such as well, nuclear blow-out between Israel and a few neighboring countries, then perhaps the Rapture will come sooner than later.
We've had wars in the Middle East and bombings in Israel but so far we haven't really wiped Israel out of existence. So I think for these fundies the key is total annihilation for things to kick off the end times.
Sick shit isn't it!
Here's the exact quote:
So this part is coming from Jesus. But the hardcore stuff is in Revelations and not really sure how that factors into what Jesus said since obviously Jesus didn't have anything to do with what was written in Revelations.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Empire. Only fundies see it as a reference to the future. These people are picking and choosing their verses as usual.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)But yeah, there is that
jwirr
(39,215 posts)malaise
(269,212 posts)Follow Sheldon Adelson's money
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)That's it.
Runningdawg
(4,526 posts)lie, cheat, steal and kill much as you want. Jesus forgives those sins. But apparently he doesn't forgive even one negative comment about Israel.