Wednesday 2 June 2010

Of Eternal Interests and The Eternal State

Israel has just done something that she has never done before. She has picked a fight with a credible enemy. And which side does she really think that America would take? Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO, hosts American nuclear weapons facing Russia, and has land borders with Iraq and Iran.

Whereas Israel has ... what, exactly? The sentimental allegiance of a noisy minority of Americans - certainly a minority of Evangelical Protestants and probably a minority, if a large one, of the Jewish two per cent of the American population - most of whom hate the Democratic Party at least in anything like its present form, and all of whom hate Barack Obama, none of them more so than those who are registered Democrats.

No contest.

2 comments:

  1. This post suggests that your grasp of American society is somewhat... limited.

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