Liberal US Jews (and their UCC fellow-travellers) play up the eye-rolling eschatology (end of the world stuff) to try to blunt, stymie, discredit or otherwise hamstring Israel's only repeat only ally--conservative American Christians.
They're more offended, shocked and "frightened" by a Baptist than Hezbollah.
And, from where I'm sitting, they've succeeded. Evangelicals are starting to rethink their support for Israel not because of theology, but because US Jews are so opposed to and insulted by the help.
YOu don’t have to be nasty with me! I am a supporter of evangelicals! Take your ignation elsewhere.
Not me- but you should stop your hostility.
I don’t think I’m your problem. But that says it all, doesn’t it?
The author appears to be a leftist Jew who is all too willing to split the fundamentalists into those in favor of a one-state and those in favor of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestian conflict. He insinuates that the former is somehow anti-Israel, because the two-state solution is "official Israeli policy" and that the latter views Israel as nothing particularly significant among the world's nations. The thrust of the message to the Jewish readership is that neither group is a true ally of Israel, brought home stronger by the reference to the "apocalyptic endtimes scenario."
The author's true left colors are betrayed by the refernces to and quotations of Jews such as Foxman, Yoffie, and Max (son of Sid Vicious) Blumenthal, all of whom would like nothing better than for the Christian right to disappear as a political force in the US. But it is these leftist Jews who do not have the best interests of Israel in mind. What is not mentioned is that such a weakening of the Christian right would grease the skids for a dramatic shift in US policy away from Israel.