07-16-2020, 12:54 PM
(07-16-2020, 11:48 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Very much complicated by the Christians in this country being so devoted to supporting Israel.
US gives Israel over $10 million dollars PER DAY ($3.8 billion in 2019) in foreign aid, and some politicians still claim we are "abandoning them".
I read a piece a while back that talked about the whole reason evangelicals wanted to support Israel with military aid and pushing them to expand settlements is that they are trying to trigger the end times. They see the eruption of conflict in the region being a sign of the second coming. I'm oversimplifying the whole thing, but that was the big take away. They want the Jews in Israel and they want war there so Jesus will come again, it has nothing to do with their opinion of the Jewish people.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
