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Title: Evangelical faith drives Palin's pro-Israel view
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Washington Times
URL Source: http://washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... -faith-drives-pro-israel-view/
Published: Sep 4, 2008
Author: Ralph Z. Hallow
Post Date: 2008-09-04 20:29:47 by buckeye
Keywords: aog, pentecostal
Views: 1282
Comments: 121
Thursday, September 4, 2008 ST. PAUL, Minn. | Sarah Palin displays an Israeli flag in her governor's office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative. Her faith makes her a favorite with the staunchly pro-Israel neoconservative elements in the Republican Party. But other Republicans may be concerned that a John McCain-Sarah Palin administration will disregard the caution of former President George H.W. Bush and some of his top advisers and continue the tilt toward Israel. Most Republicans and conservatives outside Alaska know little about Mrs. Palin's foreign policy views - on Israel or anything else. But Tucker Eskew, who holds the title of counselor to Mrs. Palin in the McCain-Palin campaign, left no doubt where she stands. "She would describe herself as a strong supporter of Israel's, with an understanding of Israel's fear of an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons," Mr. Eskew told The Washington Times. In June, Mrs. Palin told ministry students at her former church that in going to war with Iraq, the United States is "on a task that is from God," the Associated Press reported. Mrs. Palin's brand of evangelical Protestantism is especially well-disposed to the preservation of Israel for biblical reasons, said Merrill Matthews, an evangelical Christian and a Dallas-based health-policy specialist. Mrs. Palin was baptized as a teenager at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church. She frequently attends the Juneau Christian Center, which is also part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God. Her home church is the Church of the Rock, an independent congregation. "Historically, the Assemblies of God have been dispensationalists, which means they believe in 'the rapture' of Christians that takes them out of the world," said Mr. Matthews. "Central to that position is a very strong support for Israel. It's integral to their view of both prophecy and politics. Denying Israel is almost like denying the faith." Meanwhile, she is getting rave reviews from Jewish Republicans. "I think it is very telling that she has a flag of the state of Israel in her office," said Matthews Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "That was not inspired by domestic politics, since there is a very small Jewish population in Alaska. "The fact that she keeps the flag of Israel in her office means she has Israel in her heart," Mr. Brooks said. "I am confident the Jewish community will be impressed with the strong pro-Israel views of Governor Palin as she begins to travel the country and ... discuss the critical issues in this campaign." On the Democratic side, presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., while not identifying with neoconservatism, have put themselves solidly in the friends of Israel camp. "The essence of neoconservatism is the protection of Israel - a shared priority with evangelical Christians," said Paul Erickson, the Republican strategist who managed Pat Buchanan's presidential bid in 1992. Chief among the McCain campaign's foreign policy advisers known for their neoconservative worldview is Randy Scheunemann, a former aide to Trent Lott and Bob Dole in the Senate. Other neoconservative foreign policy analysts who have Mr. McCain's ear are former Clinton White House CIA Director R. James Woolsey Jr., who predicted that Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims would flock to support the U.S. in the event of war, and Robert Kagan, a co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century. The Republican presidential hopefuls who competed with Mr. McCain earlier this year tended to share the same interventionist approach in foreign policy that is integral to the neoconservative worldview. "There is an overwhelming presence of neoconservatives and absence of traditional conservatives that I don't know what to make of," said Richard V. Allen, former Reagan White House national security adviser. In June, Mr. Obama pledged his support before a powerful pro-Israel lobby, though not couched in biblical or religious terms. "I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington. "Let there be no doubt: I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel." Not to be outdone, Mr. Biden appealed in person to elderly Jewish Floridians on Wednesday. "I am chairman of the [Senate] Foreign Relations Committee," he said. "I give you my word as a Biden I would not have given up that job to be Barack Obama's vice president if I didn't in my gut and in my heart and in my head know that Barack Obama is exactly where I am on Israel. And he is." On Monday, Mr. McCain told an AIPAC audience that a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would lead to "anti-Semitic rants and a worldwide audience for a man who denies the Holocaust."
Evangelical faith drives Palin's pro-Israel view
Ralph Z. Hallow
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#80. To: buckeye, ALL THE WHINERS AND MOANERS (#0)
All this bitching about a friggin flag, as though she was flying something over the capital dome..... Here is a pic from your source showing the flag in question. LOL..........its about the size of one of them damned 'oriental umbrellas' they serve up in exotic drinks in bars! LOL! Its so obvious this is a memento of some event.......perhaps when she signed that resolution/proclamation/whatever it was about Alaska airplanes helping transport jews or whatever the hell it was. Geeze..........much ado about NOTHING.
Don't let your infatuation with Palin blind you to the reality of whose agenda is top priority in this national government of our country.
Infatuation? Me? Hell, it is you guys having the shorts in a twist moment who appear fascinated........an then frustrated. ROTF..........I have said I have NO desire, intention, plan, or otherwise to vote for her--she is NOT the top of the ticket. Y'all are the ones running around desperately finding this article or that article, or a blog or something about..............ta dah............SARAH PALIN.
Funny, you pop up on every thread quasi-idolizing her. I'm mere pointing out the inconsistencies of her positions for discussion. Maybe if McCain croaks, you'll have all of her you can take.
I'm popping up, as you call it, to try to put some of othe bullshit whine and bitch in perspective, and to bring a bit of the truth out. For instance, all the bullshit about the israeli flag in her office--the way everyone was whining and carrying on, you'd have thought it was overriding the US flag, Alaska's flag.......or hell, as big as the ones flying over the capital dome. Turns out it was memento size......stuck off in some sort of container sitting on a window sill! Its unbelievable all the shorts in a twist over that one. And then to think, my gawd.......she shook hands with HK! End of the world??? How about a touch of common decency, respect your elders, or whatnot. As I have noted all along, I ain't voting for her, no matter how good she is--she isn't at the top of the ticket. And I wouldn't vote it if it was her on top with him below.
she shook hands with HK! End of the world??? Surely you jest ! Respect for Heinz Kissinger ... ridiculous. No one said it was the end of the world. Henry Kissinger is responsible for over throwing democratically elected governments and genocide. I guess I've lost my bullshit resistance. I wouldn't shake hands with that murdering filth-bag for any reason including his 200th birthday.
Doug, not everyone is at the same stage of history, or should I say, the same page that you are--unfortunate, but true. Are those who aren't on the same page as you all condemned to hell without getting to read the whole book? How do we manage to get everyone one the same page at the same time?
That is the $64,000.00 question. I was talking to someone here the other day and it crossed my mind that as the crops of human beings rotate, the oldies getting tired while at the same time the newbies are being re-oriented (dumbed down) and propagandized continually, the chances of enough people with the necessary awareness to make a change for the better deteriorates a little bit every cycle. About the time we catch on to the enormous fraud that's been perpetrated we're too old and too tired to revolt, while the youth are too busy living to be concerned and too dumbed down to even recognize the highly sophisticated form of slavery being imposed upon them. The process has become a pageant of actors and actresses that walk the runway, smiling, laughing and waving like someone gives a shit, when in most instances they are merely pretending to be qualified statesmen/states-women with the American people's interests in mind. The citizenry have become like clapping seals that bark and clap as the media pundits throw them little slices of spin like fishes. In the current atmosphere it seems unlikely to me that an informed consensus is even possible, and the odds decrease as the senior generation passes on and the new one arrives only to be kept confused and less informed. Without a "catalyzing event" of major import such as a direct attack upon the U.S., a nuclear attack somewhere in the world, or a worldwide famine things will degenerate incrementally just like they have for the past 2 centuries. I think it will take an enormous calamity to get Americans and others worldwide on the same page at the same time ... and even then should it occur and people reach a consensus, it will be short lived, lasting until that particular emergency subsides. Folks will gradually regress into their own little world where they are the center of the universe. Circumstances usually drive people into awareness. People that have been attacked by a vicious government often commit themselves to learning why this oppression is happening, or even how it has come about in order to try and rectify it. For instance, when one sees billions of dollars of debt "forgiven" by the government towards a foreign entity while some American that was taxed to give that money away loses his home over an unpaid parking ticket the hypocrisy is beyond acceptance. Worse in my mind is the callousness demonstrated by the average American regarding war. Real people suffering unnecessarily in order for a few rich, sick assholes to profit is acceptable "if it keeps us safe, or reduces our gas costs" ... War has become business as usual. Every generation of American can expect to serve in the war machine and personally witness innocence murdered wholesale with brutal expediency. I can't and I won't take it. While I know many think we need government to resist anarchy, pave the roads etc., I think the opposite especially when the government goes rogue, builds empire and paves those roads over the dead bodies of innocent children. I loathe the U.S. government with every fiber of my being. And I become more anti- social by the minute because the people in the country have become so self- consumed that they see the dead bodies as a common occurrence like a TV series without any consideration for the sanctity of life unless it's theirs. So, forgive me if I excuse myself from this social abomination and refuse to participate in its fraud, theft and murder. I don't care what the costs are personally because I always consider the scripture that admonsishes us to fear not he who can kill the body but he that can destroy the soul. The attention being given and the money spent to promote the farcical comedy of electing people not even qualified to be the prom king and queen, while humanity is ignored suggests a void exists in the soul of mankind. The glaring hypocrisy that goes unanswered by the people when a corporation is given a tax waiver in the millions through some lobbyist and greedy politicians, while a waitress working at a greasy spoon has her little pittance of a paycheck reduced (taxed) to support the politician taking bribes instead of buying her kid a pair of shoes, turns my stomach. The government has become a bully rather than a servant. People fear the government that is directed to protect them. Happy smiling hypocrits waive at the throngs of idiots that they will abuse as soon as they're elected, and the people are too stupid to quit "returning to their own vomit". I have simplified my approach to the current U.S. government to 2 words ... fuck you ! How can we get everyone on the same page at the same time ... when oppression reaches an unbearable level the people will be forced to resist it or die. This oppression is not uncommon, it's just uncommon in our country in our life times.
#112. To: noone222 (#107)
Brilliant - thank you for this reply.
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#92. To: rowdee (#80)
Geeze..........much ado about NOTHING.
#95. To: angle (#92)
#99. To: rowdee (#95)
she is NOT the top of the ticket.
#100. To: angle (#99)
#105. To: rowdee (#100)
How about a touch of common decency, respect your elders, or whatnot.
#106. To: noone222 (#105)
#107. To: rowdee (#106)
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How do we manage to get everyone one the same page at the same time?
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