Omar, Israel and Palestinians

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

I would agree, Representative Omar's remarks are not anti-semitic, just because she is critical of American support for Israel. US support for Israel is like most of its foreign aid and support, it is really a way to extend American military and economic power over a region. There are some conservative politicians who are influenced by evangelical premillenial dispensationalism as well.

What Israel has done to Gaza is unconscionable. We've gone to war in the past over that kind of oppressive treatment of countries and people groups. Supporting that is anti-Christian.

[Haruo]

Agreed.

[Sandy]

I saw Trump's claim that the Democrats are now the party that hates Jews. Given that 71% of the Jewish voters supported Hillary in 2016, and 79% voted Democratic in 2018, that's just more bombast from the liar in chief. Most American Jews aren't deeply committed Zionists, so moving the embassy to Jerusalem wasn't all that big of a deal. American Jews have chosen to live here, few leave here to go to Israel, and I can't say I've ever met an American Jew, and I know a pretty fair number of them, who was more than superficially interested in Israeli politics. Two of my Jewish acquaintances in Pennsylvania are involved in a ministry which provides relief for Palestinians in Gaza.

What is happening in Gaza is a sanctity of human life issue.

[Haruo]