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...seventh place, same as last year. The Americans polled seem to have short-term memory loss. Or else they abide by the maxim: It's not who you are, but who you used to play. They like Mel, and a few anti-Jewish lunacies haven't eradicated their affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Wayne: Still Tops | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Jewish leaders also fret about a two-part Armageddon scenario. The first part is that, according to Evangelical prophecy, all the Jews are either forcibly converted or killed in the last reel. The second part is that Evangelicals are trying to bring on Armageddon as a necessary condition for the Second Coming of Christ. Yet both parts are red herrings. First of all, we Jews don't believe in the Second Coming. Either we are right about this, or we are wrong, in which case we'll have some 'splainin' to do to Jesus. Either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Jews and Evangelicals Get Along? | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...love is a lot better than its opposite. Especially in wartime. While American Jewish leaders worry about the mythological Armageddon, the Iranians are building a bomb to drop on the actual, physical Armageddon, a locale an hour and a half from Tel Aviv. The Palestinians have elected a government committed to Israel's destruction. Al-Qaeda has dubbed its jihad a, "holy war against Crusaders and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Jews and Evangelicals Get Along? | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...face of such animus, the unconditional love and approval of American Christians is a great gift. The Democratic party, with its many Jewish activists, has traditionally supported Israel. But the Republicans have no such ethnic affinity. It is the Evangelicals, major stakeholders in the G.O.P., who have made it a bastion of pro-Israel and pro-Jewish sentiment. They make being on Israel's side as American as apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Jews and Evangelicals Get Along? | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...Israelis appreciate this. Every Israeli prime minister has cultivated their goodwill. Evangelical leaders, in turn, have been content to accept Israeli decisions. If Christian Zionists really were the crazed fanatics of liberal Jewish imaginings, they wouldn't have been so sanguine about Israeli withdrawals from "promised land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Jews and Evangelicals Get Along? | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

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