Thursday, November 19, 2009

Palin's Reasons to Continue Settlements

Sarah Palin's interview with Barbara Walters revealed her belief system about Israeli's continued settlements into occupied territory:


"I disagree with the Obama administration on that. 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."


So she thinks that Jewish people will be "flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead"? From where does she get this information? Personally, I have no plans to settle in Israel at any time in my life.


Jeffrey Goldberg asks:


Who, exactly? Is this her analysis of Jewish demography? Is there a sudden upsurge in Zionist sentiment among American Jews, the only sizable Jewish community left outside of Israel? Or is this an indication that Palin buys into creepy End-Times thinking, in which the ingathering of the Jews, and their mass death, presage the return of Christ?

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