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Thread #89385   Message #1686154
Posted By: robomatic
05-Mar-06 - 11:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: FLAME: True Friends of Israel
Subject: RE: BS: FLAME: True Friends of Israel
Interesting advert, there. I would add that it's such a complicated overall situation, a lot like history, that it is impossible to always see black and white in these situations. Clearly the Nazis were the worst of the worst. Clearly present day evangelicals are 'friendly' enough but their expectations are rather extreme - that the end days are within reach, and the State of Israel is to play a role (in which the Jews are finally converted). Although there have been some noxious putative Christian movements to divest, hallow the name of the Bulldozer Diver Diva, and foster "don't buy from Israel" programs, I feel they are outnumbered by true efforts at understanding and rapprochement among Catholics and Mainline Protestants in American and abroad. I'm less sure about the Orthodox Christian Church (Russian and Hellenic) and various Islamic organizations, although I am hopeful and open to the possibilities.

One thing I don't like seeing Jews do is witness anti-Semitic actions in the United States and immediately harken back to European events such as pogroms and the Holocaust. Americans as a whole have been almost completely unwilling to fuel this kind of hatred, quite the reverse. When truly atrocious events such as the despicable torture of a Jewish youth as a Jew in the vicinity of many auditory witnesses over weeks as happened in a French housing project the past month, a real difference in the hate quotient is apparent between Americans and their overseas ancestors, the Europeans (although I cannot imagine this happening in Great Britain, either).