Haaretz: Netanyahu's Exploitation of the U.S. Christian Right Is Blowing Up in His Face 🧵
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Haaretz: Netanyahu's Exploitation of the U.S. Christian Right Is Blowing Up in His Face 
‘Creating this unholy alliance was a complex, roundabout task, because at its theological foundation lies an unpleasant truth: The evangelicals seek the fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophecy in which Israel and the Jewish infidels burn in hell in the war at Armageddon, while the Jewish right – especially its very religious precincts, willfully turn a blind eye to the second part of the prophecy in order to exploit Christians' enthusiastic support for its first part, in which Jews from all over the world return to Israel to live in peace and security until Gog and Magog come to destroy it.
From the last pennies of America's poorest Christians, thrown in the collection plates of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, to the biggest political donors – who influenced, for example, the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem – the vested-interests glue used by the prime minister and his supporters to hold together these contradicting theological narratives from the two parties was enough to forge a courageous friendship that greatly advanced the Israeli settlement enterprise.
The main victims of these religious politics were the Palestinians – among whom there is, ironically, an actual Christian population. Over the past two years, since the start of the war that some evangelist preachers have called the war of Gog and Magog that they had been yearning for, we have seen the collapse of this alliance of extremists.
‘Creating this unholy alliance was a complex, roundabout task, because at its theological foundation lies an unpleasant truth: The evangelicals seek the fulfillment of the apocalyptic prophecy in which Israel and the Jewish infidels burn in hell in the war at Armageddon, while the Jewish right – especially its very religious precincts, willfully turn a blind eye to the second part of the prophecy in order to exploit Christians' enthusiastic support for its first part, in which Jews from all over the world return to Israel to live in peace and security until Gog and Magog come to destroy it.
From the last pennies of America's poorest Christians, thrown in the collection plates of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, to the biggest political donors – who influenced, for example, the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem – the vested-interests glue used by the prime minister and his supporters to hold together these contradicting theological narratives from the two parties was enough to forge a courageous friendship that greatly advanced the Israeli settlement enterprise.
The main victims of these religious politics were the Palestinians – among whom there is, ironically, an actual Christian population. Over the past two years, since the start of the war that some evangelist preachers have called the war of Gog and Magog that they had been yearning for, we have seen the collapse of this alliance of extremists.
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