Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments
What’s to come when a right wing billionaire funnels money to Newt and a columnist jokes about killing the president?
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Romney Credits “Culture,” “Hand of Providence” for Israel’s Economic Superiority over Palestinians
While speaking to wealthy donors at a fundraiser.
Read MoreRomney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS
Theologically and politically, Romney parted ways with LDS views on Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Romney’s Compliment to the Jewish People Closer to a Slur
“Good with money”? Really?
Read MoreOlympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich
Seriously.
Read MorePresbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment
The symbolic decision would only alienate those needed to make change.
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Theology Fail in Christian Statement on Israel, Judaism, Palestine
It its efforts to support the Palestinian cause, the Kairos USA statement cherrypicks from the Bible and winds up in some old and discomfiting territory.
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A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher
After some perfunctory praise of the last three popes, Boteach gets down to his Glenn Beck-ish business: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.”
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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History
In The Mirage, 9/11 is actually 11/9, the day when Christian fundamentalists from Texas slammed airliners into Baghdad skyscrapers, sparking a war on terror that rages across a nearly unrecognizable North America. Will Americans go for a book where the world power is the United Arab States and the lead characters are almost all Arabs and Muslims?
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Peter Beinart’s Controversial The Crisis of Zionism: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment
Not since The Israel Lobby has a Jewish book evoked so much ire and criticism from the American Jewish community.
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