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To: justiceseeker93
re: Disagree. Evangelicals don't give a hoot about others who may not help Israel)))

What do hoots have to do with it? Whatever hoots evangelicals continue to give, and they'll continue--it's not enough to stem the tide that has turned against Israel. The Democrats used to be pro-Israel. US Jews (liberal, too) used to be pro-Israel. Europeans used to be ashamed of their antisemite past. All that has changed. The religious right in America is not big enough to turn the ship of state in Israel's direction indefinitely.

54 posted on 07/22/2006 7:19:52 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle
Don't quite agree with you on that one as well.

The fact that Democrats used to be pro-Israel but are no longer - as a broad generalization - has no relevance to US Middle East policy until and unless they are in the White House. Hopefully, that won't happen again in our lifetimes, if ever.

When you claim, "the religious right in America is not big enough to turn the ship of state in Israel's direction indefinitely," that might depend on other factors, assuming the GOP is in control of the executive branch. Those would include: (1) Do Israel's and America's global interests mesh, as they apparently do now - in the common war on terror? (2) Does the religious right retain sufficient political clout within the GOP base to have a strong voice within the future Republican administration? (3) How much influence will other pro-Israel parts of the GOP base - e. g., neocons, the defense establishment, and secular hawks - have on that future administration?

Fortunately, things seemed to be aligned in a direction favorable to Israel right now, and hopefully they can continue that way at least until the war on terror is won.

58 posted on 07/22/2006 9:02:55 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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