The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington journal Facebook, Palin has a new book out [I’ll take her word that she and not a ghost writer wrote it] and is busy doing the rounds.
A guest on The Oprah, Fox News [naturally], ect..., Palin recently sat down with Barbara Walters. During the interview in which Ms. Walters feigned her belief that Palin is actually serious, Palin was asked on whether she disagreed with President Obama on matters of policy.
One may assume her answers on, say, the economy are predictable conservative talking-points; but it is her views on Israel that are most interesting.
Like most conservatives and Evangelical Christians, Palin is fanatically pro-Israel. A photo released during the campaign showed that she even kept an Israeli flag in her office. Why the obsession? Evangelical Christians have little genuine love for Jews. It is rare that they count any among friends and family, and most right-wing Christians wish to convert [or “perfect” as Ann Coulter put it] Jews to Christianity. They only reason they swear support for Israel is due to their Messianic views. According to these individuals, the Jews must rule over the Holy Land in order for the Second Coming of Christ to happen. Therefore even a two-state solution that would hand over even a fraction of the land to non-Jewish Palestinians is to be abhorred as nothing more than an act against God’s wishes. For such people, the Biblical narrative not any question of justice, affinity or law serve as their exclusive basis of support for Zionism [Christian Zionism]. How does this narrative end? According to these individuals, the Jews are then 2/3 slaughtered and 1/3 converted to Christianity once Jesus returns. Not a nice ending for the Jews. But this has not lead to Israeli and Zionist leaders from not embracing Evangelical support on the grounds that support-is-support; who cares why Evangelical Christians support Israel as long as they do because Israel needs all the friends it can get; and, besides, we Jews do not even believe that their narrative is going to come true. This is hypocrisy because most Evangelical Christians are anti-Semites and while Zionists cynically embrace these anti-Semites solely because they are pro-Zionists, these same Zionist/Israeli leaders are so quick to accuse any critic of Israel - no matter how timid and reasonable - of harboring anti-Jewish prejudice. Which just goes to show how Zionists abuse accusations of anti-Semitism in order to wrongfully silence honest critics and advance the political agenda of Zionism while simultaneously embracing anti-Semitic, pro-Zionist, right-wing American Christians.
And Sarah Palin is no different. The Alaskan “rogue” was beloved by Israel’s supporters for her militant, Israel-can-do-no-wrong views. And Palin demonstrated her anti-Semitic, but pro-Israel views on Walter’s program:
“I disagree with the Obama administration on [Israeli settlements],” Palin told Walters. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.”
Why would Jews emigrate in the days, weeks and months ahead? Does she know something the rest of us don’t? Why is she so eager to she Jews move to Israel? What underlines Palin’s support for Israel and her disregard for the Palestinians is pure anti-Semitism. Palin wants American Jews to leave the U.S. and go in live in Israel so as not to poison Christian culture. If anyone one else eluded to this, they would be shouted down by Jewish groups and with good reason. But Palin gets away with it because said Jewish groups only care about her support for Israeli colonialism.
Hypocrisy.
