The GOP Goes Hard-Core Globalist and Zionist...................
More on the Neocon take-over of the GOP.
The most amazing phenomenon of the Bush administration has been the rapid transformation of conservatism into an arch-globalist and arch-Zionist ideology, a transformation that has taken place with almost no discussion or dissent.
The GOP has for some time been an unquestioning supporter of Jewish concept of economic globalism, as represented by the Big Business interests which mostly finance it, but what is new is the unquestioning support of both social liberalism and Zionism.
Although the Democrat Party has always been in Israel's pocket, with half or more of its funding coming from Jews, it is the Republican Party, traditionally regarded with suspicion by many Jews, that has set new heights in philo-Semitism in its support for Israel.
In fact, what little dissension exists among conservatives today centers on criticism that the Bush administration is insufficiently pro-Israel, despite the president's nod-and-a-wink support of the barbaric policies of Ariel Sharon. House Republican leaders Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, sounding eerily like the late Jewish racist Meier Kahane, have publicly urged Israel to expel the Palestinians from both the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian bantustans that Israel has occupied since 1967. Their open support for ethnic cleansing would undoubtedly be supported by majorities in both houses of Congress.
And both houses of Congress, while not going quite so far as Kahane-followers Armey and DeLay, did pass cringingly pro-Israel resolutions by near unanimous margins.
Virtually every conservative commentator is in lockstep agreement with the hard-core Zionism held by the GOP leadership. Rush Limbaugh, who used to avoid talk about the Middle East whenever possible, has become a rabid Zionist of late, railing against the Arabs in viciously negative terms in what pro-Semites would call "anti-Semitic hate language" were it applied to Jews. Limbaugh's new quarter-billion dollar contract obviously has nothing to do with his conversion, and certainly financial considerations play no part in forming the sentiments of the other very well-compensated conservative Christian-Zionist philo-Semites.
The more pragmatic among the conservatives and Republicans hope to parlay their support for Israel into more support at the ballot box from Jews, just as they are convinced that Mexicans and other hispanics are now ready to support the GOP in large numbers. The pro-Republican weekly Human Events happily reported on a recent Jewish/Christian joint event:
"Because of their political liberalism, many American Jews are uneasy with conservative Christians ? the bulk of the ?religious right.' But they are being advised to reconsider, given Christians' support of Israel, particularly in the current flare-up of the eternal Mideast tension. ?I was deeply moved by Monday's rally for Israel in Washington, where Jews like Binyamin Netanyahu and Elie Weisel stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Christians like Rep. Dick Armey and activist Janet Parshall,' said Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition last week. ?It is striking how, on the question of Israel's right to defend herself from terror, Christian America stands apart from lapsed-Christian Europe and the rest of the non-Christian world.' . ."
Another prominent Christian leader who has become a zealous Israel Firster is Gary Bauer. The 2000 Republican Party presidential candidate is featured prominently in a New York Times article by Alison Mitchell (4/21/02) along with neo-conservative Jewish activist William Kristol:
" have fought together on issues like promoting family values and the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas. But the cause that now rivets them both is Israel, and their joint, consuming devotion to it illustrates the deep pro-Israel sentiment in the conservative movement.
"The support comes from a broad band of people, from the national security-minded hawks who view Israel as the only democratic and dependable United States ally in the Middle East to religious conservatives who believe Israel is the covenant land promised to Jews by God. . .
"The strongly pro-Israel sentiment marks a profound and telling shift inside the Republican Party. . . Republicans attribute the conservative support for Israel to many factors, including the influence of largely Jewish neoconservatives and the rise of the Christian right, with its belief that the Bible mandates support for Israel. The Likud Party in Israel also built ties to conservatives. . .
"The pro-Israel constituency in Congress is now so broad that it transcends both party and ideology. . . ?You have one of the most interesting political marriages of all times between the largely Jewish neoconservatives and the religious right in firm support for Israel, embodied by Bill Kristol and Gary Bauer,' [conservative activist Marshall] Wittmann said."
The neoconservatives are not only strong Zionists, but strongly liberal and globalist on economic and social issues. Their predominant position in the Republican Party is what has convinced the "Judeo-Christians" to convert to globalism as well. Of course, the "Christian Right" has never been more than a mostly unwanted junior partner in the GOP coalition, which is where it will remain even if Armey, DeLay, Bauer, Limbaugh & Co. volunteer to join the Israeli army and commence the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians --- and maybe all other Arabs as well --- themselves.
The Republican Party is now just as openly globalist, Zionist and interventionist as the Democrat Party, perhaps more so. The GOP will no more be "taken over" by nationalists, patriots, constitutionalists, populists, etc., than will the Democrats. Building alternative political choices is the only option left. And with the rapid way events are moving, if the economy continues to drag, or if the war on Iraq or the more general "war on terrorism" becomes a perceived negative or worse, even the political system of the United States can change very quickly. |
