So glad to find this wonderful blog and comments. Please know, whether you are secular or not, we true Christians are praying for you and standing with you against any enemies of Israel. Those who do not, have never read or disregard what the Bible teaches.
Please do not be fooled by political persuasion, but decide by what is good for this country, so that we never, ever have a dictator, or a police state, telling us what we can and cannot believe or speak; A road we seem to already be heading down. It is very frightening.

I say this again and again to liberals: they always want to talk about “the issues”, not about right and wrong.

There are simply more important things in the world than my damned pocketbook (fair and honest economy). I think the survival of 6,000,000 Jews in Israel, and the survival of the Jewish race in general, is more important than the average increase in middle-class income. But, that’s just me.

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I have been horrified the past couple of years to sense the growing anti-Semitism here in the U.S. and abroad. A cyberfriend of mine in Israel is constantly receiving hatemail of a sort this young boomer never thought she would ever see in her lifetime. I’m a conservative Christian, and know many other conservative Christians, both Catholics and evangelicals, etc. While talk radio via wonderful people such as Dennis Praeger and Michael Medved has managed to put me in touch with conservative voting Jews, I’m amazed that there are not more of them.

Speaking for myself and all of the Christians I personally know—we consider the Jews to be our cousins, our family. The New Testament says that we believers in Jesus are grafted in to you, God’s family. So, whether you believe in Jesus, or even if you don’t believe in God, I hope you will understand that in our eyes, you are our elders and our family. If anyone ever tells you otherwise or mistreats you, they are not speaking as Christians.

Bible study promotes the feeling of deep kinship with the Jewish nation. Since the common person could not have access to any scriptures until after the development of the printing press and the Reformation, Biblical literacy has been a slow growth process. I just can’t see any serious Christian person being able to harbor anti-Semitism–it’s counter to everything that we study and know. Furthermore, many Christians spend thousands of dollars on trips to Israel to see where God made covenants with his people. Michael Medved organizes trips every other year here in Seattle for Jews and Christians to visit Israel together. If I had the money I would do this in a heartbeat. (Sadly, I’m one of those “white, poor, female Republicans).

Indeed, to suggest, as Roger L. Simon does, that the brouhaha over the anti-Ahmadinejad rally should be the watershed moment over which I should forever change my vote, is at best sentimental, and at worst self-destructive. What happened there had little to do with protesting the Iranian’s official anti-Semitism and much, much more with total mismanagement on the part of the organizers. I stop shy of actually accusing them of a power grab, because I give them the benefit of the doubt. So let’s assume they’re f u c k u p s and not sinister Republican operatives, scheming to embarrass the Obama campaign. They certainly did not have the best interests of Israel in mind.

As the McCain campaign is going down in flames (Obama-Biden are at last opening 2-digit gaps in the polls), the Republicans have little left but game-tweaking tricks to support what is perceived by the majority of voters as the third term of a failed administration. To suggest the Jews should somehow align themselves with the loser because he wears his aggressive militarism on his sleeve is something one would expect of a Hollywood screen writer. I don’t happen to think that the war in Iraq was good for the Jews, just as I don’t believe bombing Iran is good for the Jews, either. And, for the record, I don’t believe Ahmadinejad is a modern-day Hitler. And anyone who uses that worn out metaphor loses a lot of credit in my view.

Mr. Levavi, another definition of feckless is careless and irresponsible. When Jews stray from their faith, that’s how they seem to me. In short order, the wandering away leads to dire consequences for their race. Jews absolutely have to remain on guard. It sucks, but it’s true. There are many things that I admire about the Jewish culture and faith, but I tend to meet only the strays. When I think about it, without their faith, they do seem to meet the other definition.

For clarification, I have no use for those who would threaten Israel, but then, I’m a Repub.

“Patriotic Jews, loyal to their Jewish traditions and the American nation who wish to clearly distinguish themselves from such degenerates and their liberal Democrat fellow travelers have an easy solution.

Register Republican.”

Done :^)

Javelin – I know there is still a fair amount of Buchananite right out there. But I really think things have changed over the last few decades. The Holocaust was a sobering wake-up call to many Christians who may have previously held casually antisemitic beliefs and the reaction manifested itself, for example, in the effort I cited above by William F. Buckley to eliminate this bigotry on the right. He didn’t completely succeed but he went a long way towards his goal. I used to have the same suspicious of evangelical or “extreme” Christians that many Jews have but my views have changed from personal engagement with some of them who are very fine, upstanding people and who do not have any traces of antisemitism, especially the younger ones.

As for the left, they keep trotting out this mantra that “you can’t call us antisemitic just because we criticize Israel” but there is just too much overlap between anti-Israelism and antisemitism. After seeing pious creeps like Jimmy Carter sarcastically and derisively referring to Jews as the “Chosen People”, or Pete McCloskey addressing a convention of Holocaust deniers, I have very little inclination to give any benefit of the doubt.