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...right, who declare themselves “paleoconservatives” (paleocons), have similarly attacked the motives of so-called “neoconservatives” (neocons) in the Bush administration. Their chief spokesman is Pat Buchanan. Buchanan maintains that the neocons—whom he alternately describes as Israel??s “Amen Corner” in the U.S.—are intent on conquering some half a dozen Arab states by force. He has written that Bush is “subcontracting [our] Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon?...
...referred to Jews affiliated with Israel??s cause as “Ashkenazis” and in one e-mail compared Harvard Hillel and Harvard Students for Israel to pro-Nazi youth organizations...
...Christian Zionists such as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (a stickler for calling the West Bank “Judea and Samaria”), and evangelist Pat Robertson are only all too happy to support policies like the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and the expansion of Israel??s borders from the “Nile to the Euphrates...
Senator James Inofe of Oklahoma perhaps best encapsulated the Christian Zionist agenda on the floor of Congress on March 4 of last year: “I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel??because God said so…Look it up in the Book of Genesis…This is not a political battle at all. It is a contest over whether or not the word of God is true...
Clearly, the religious right does not have Israel??s best interest in mind. The ADL and other Jewish groups should not and cannot sacrifice their principles for the added political clout and power the Christian Zionists may provide. One half of the alliance wants peace, the other wants the literal destruction of the world...