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I think Mumbles should have stressed that you need to go to 6:46 in the video to see what he was actually talking about.
I'm going to not label this a Mumbles-fuck post. No. I always forget about 'End Times' as a distinct thing. And somehow Mumbles has successfully reminded me that 1/2 of the 26% of Americans who are Evangelical Christians share this extreme belief that the prophecy will become reality.
Well done, Mumbles.
Druff is wholly ignorant, or willfully so, of how much of the GOP are evangelicals who believe in the end times prophecies (about 2/3rds of them, or about 30% of the active voting public). And he also is not understanding the implication of American policy being unquestionably supportive of Israel’s right-wing government given the influence those evangelicals have on US policy.
Namely, as Israel’s rightwing government enables more of the West Bank to be “settled”, pushing more Palestinians of their land until the possibility of a viable Palestinian state there becomes moot, the greater the risk that Israel’s enemies will be willing to sacrifice whichever Palestinians are left there in a devastating attack on Israel. It may not happen within the next 10-20 years, but if the right-wingers are successful in pushing most of the Palestinians out of the West Bank in an effort to recreate a “Greater Israel” — which is their long-term goal — the greater the risk than some terrorists, or aligned nuclear power, will attack Israel with a nuclear weapon. And evangelical Christians may well see that as a pre-cursor to the Biblical end times and not object to thoroughly polarizing situation of a Palestinian-less West Bank.