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To: bentway who wrote (190847)	7/4/2006 4:08:22 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How can the Rapture happen if the Zionists are living in New Jersey? The bible-thumpers HERE would never allow it, even if you could get the Israelis to go for it. Yeah sure the Israeli religious fundamentalists would never leave. But I think America will leave them to their own devices a lot quicker than you expect. It's not that hard to make the case to the American public that extremist Jewish fundamentalists that believe they need to live on a particular patch of land in order to fulfill God's prophecies do not deserve US government support. Separation of church and state policies would make that a pretty easy case to sell to the American public. "We've offered this Israeli person $500k to relocate to beautiful New Jersey, where his education and job skills will help the state and the existing population welcomes him (and his new disposable income) with open arms. He has chosen to stay in a warring region surrounded by 50 million Muslims who hate him and want to kill him, because he believes God wants him to live there." Convincing Americans that that nut doesn't deserve our support is not going to be that tough. There may be 5% that are the bible thumpers that agree with the nut, but the majority of Americans are going to see that he has had a nice offer in front of him to join US, he refused it, so he's on his own. After all, there would likely be millions of Israelis that would immigrate and who are receiving our economic assistance to do so, so the support for those that choose not to immigrate would be underwhelming.