by- Suzie-Q @ 1:18 PM MST
After attending the College Republican convention, Nation journalist Max Blumenthal took his camera to the Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit in D.C. Founded by right-wing mega-church pastor John Hagee, the group has “added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby,” “forging close ties with the Bush White House and members of Congress.”
That evangelical support for Israel is largely based on “End Times” theology is largely irrelevant to the Israeli politicians who share the goal of expanding settlements into the West Bank and a military strike on Iran, but it is anything but irrelevant to the rank-and-file members and even one former House Majority Leader.
Blumenthal opens the video by interviewing Tom Delay, who when asked how much the “Second Coming” plays into his support for Israel, says, “obviously, it’s what I live for, I hope it comes tomorrow.”
Delay closed by saying, “we have to be connected to Israel to enjoy the second coming.”
Ya gotta love that “old style” (re: “medieval”) religion indeed …
And Hillary is AIPAC’s queen.
Only Lieberman (who isn’t a Democrat) receives a higher rating from AIPAC.
We’re so screwed if Hillary is elected president.
Tom Delay, who when asked how much the “Second Coming” plays into his support for Israel, says, “obviously, it’s what I live for, I hope it comes tomorrow.”
————————-
They seem to have an agenda to taken up in the ‘rapture’, don’t they?
[...] Thanks to Operation Enduring Propaganda, everything is being done in order to fool the public while an empire is slowly and clumsily being established. For most of the neoconservatives out there, the establishment of an American Empire is all about Manifest Destiny. But for some of them, and especially where their fundamentalist Christian right allies are concerned, this is about establishing a Holy American Empire – if not actually about rushing the advent of some sort of Armageddon in an insane, self-fulfilling prophetic desire to see the Second Coming of Christ come about. [...]