Posted by AuntieMel on February 25, 2005, at 10:55:30
In reply to Political prophesy » rayww, posted by gromit on February 24, 2005, at 5:21:35
There is a small faction in the 'right wing evangelistical' group of republicans who have combined their beliefs with their politics.
They believe in the 'rapture' and believe that in order to get to it there must first be an apocalypse. They also believe that this apocalypse will happen in and about Israel.
To help the process along, they are against any Israel Palistinian resolution and until Arafat died they were seeing things properly in motion. Calling them terrorists (to an extreme degree) made the situation more of an 'us or them' than it needed to be - and all Camp David accords were left behind.
There must be a huge war over there before the rapture.
Now, I personally am a zionist and strongly believe in Israel's right to exist. But I don't think that has to be at the expense of the Palistinians and a compromise could be reached.
This government seems to have installed several of this mind into cabinet positions and high office positions. That really worries me.
Maybe this is why the budget isn't such an issue to them?
Disjointed, I know, but a place to start.
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