"Do you not think it important for the US to support democracies abroad"
No, I think it is important for the US to keep out of other nations' affairs, to the extent it can do so.
"dont you also think israel played an important role during the cold war when the soviets not bin laden had the arab's ear"
I don't think Israel played a particularly important role. A nation 90 miles off our shores played a much bigger one. In any event the cold war is over.
"Also, do you dispute that a majority of americans currently support israel, not the the 10% you allude too."
Israel has the misfortune of being holy ground for three religions, including christianity. If you take religion out of the equation, few Americans have any ties to Israel (in relative terms, of course there are millions who do).
And many of those evangelical christians who consider the holy land to be of primary importance are eagerly awaiting the day when Christ will return and cast all jews into hell (at least that's what they believe).
H. L. Wilmington, leader of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Home Bible Institute is one of the few men who laid it all out, including the fact that millions of Jews would perish in this Second Holocaust: "All hell will break loose and many of the Jews will lose their lives. In fact, there are some theologians that feel on the basis of reading Zachariah:14 that two-thirds of the Jews will be slaughtered. Wilmington put the number of Jews who would be slaughtered at 16 million. There aren’t 16 million Jews in Israel, which makes me wonder if he was talking about slaughtering all the Jews in the world!
What is very strange to me is that many loving and kind Christians eagerly look forward to the Second Coming of Jesus, all the while knowing that the Bible says he won’t come until after Armageddon. The current interpretation of Armageddon places Armageddon in Israel! In other words, in order for Jesus to return and fulfill Biblical prophecy, Jews have to die in a mass "slaughter" that could be rightly called - Genocide!
Is it any wonder that Rabbi Balfour Brickner said, “...if the president really believes in some facet of this Armageddon idea, it’s a very scary business.” This "very scary business" translates Armageddon into Genocide for Jews!
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