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...repeated e-mails to the HIPJ open list, Joachim C.S. Martillo ’78, who is not a member of HIPJ, called the Zionist movement racist...
...that admonished the religious right for its intolerance and bigotry. But now the ADL welcomes the very same religious right with open arms into the pro-Israel alliance. The partnership seems rooted in a common concern for stability and democracy in the Middle East. But the reason most Christian Zionist organizations support the Jewish state has nothing to do with the cause of peace and security...
...Middle East policy, as a result, has become considerably hard-line, negatively affecting the prospects for peace in the region. In The Right Man, Bush speechwriter David Frum’s account of the Bush presidency, the president seems only too willing to toe the Christian Zionist line: “If Bush had a political worry, it was his own political base: conservatives, both religious and secular” writes Frum. “‘What do you think our folks think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?’ Bush asked Rove one spring day. Rove...
...Christian Zionist approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is echoed by other administration officials and conservative Republicans. Last year Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld not only played down the idea of settlements being an obstacle to peace, but also questioned the very legitimacy of the land-for-peace doctrine that has been the framework for negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians since the Oslo Accords...
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...