re: #186 Aunty Entity Dragon

Same thing when you read something at Yahoo news where a cop shoots an African American for whatever reason. Some people love to see violence, justified or not…against people they do not see as being…well…real people. As long as tanks are blowing up Palestinian women and children with the occasional Hamas militant (again, justified or not), they are happy to experience it vicariously.

I should mention that this is something I speak of from personal experience, having been one of the far right wing evangelical types who saw nothing wrong with confiscating Arab lands from Suez to Jordan and driving the original occupants into the sea. (Yes, I supported Israel owning eveything from the Suez Canal to the Jordanian border)

I my own defense, I can only say that I was:

1. A kid
2. Raised as a dispensationalist fundamentalist to believe the Rapture and the End Times depended on the presence of Great Israel and the destruction of the Dome of the Rock mosque in order to rebuild the Temple of Solomon.

It actually never occurred to me that Jews across the world had their own history and wishes… which had nothing to do with my millenialist religious mythology, and that nobody had ever asked Jewish people if it was okay with them if we made them part of our bizarre future Revelation fantasy.

I also didn’t think of all the Arabic people who likely had no wish to be part of this grand Christian plan (people which at the time were still left wing Soviet bogeymen to me, since these were the days of the pan Arabic movement and Wahabbist terror groups were limited to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt).