Thanks for writing this. You’ve clearly kept your eye on the ball.

I’ll just note that the US is now over 310 million people, and there are not enough identify-with-Israel-at-all-costs Jews in this country to be any sort of threat to US autonomy, governance, or economics, though as you point out the anti-semites lurking about certainly want to portray the evil-Jew as controlling the world and US policy (this, btw, is why I’m leery of the term “bankster” and the rabid criticism of TARP coming from camps like Ron Paul.)

Rather, it is the Dispensationalist evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians (and by now most of them are dispensationalist in some form) in this country to whom Newt Gingrich is playing, and from whom Adelson is expecting to get some sort of payoff for spending millions on Gingrich. This is why Newt, now in a couple of “debates”, claims he will unilaterally move the US embassy to Jerusalem. He is playing on the end-of-the-world fantasies of the dispensationalists. End-of-the-world fantasies that are, I will point out, themselves anti-semitic in a subtly perverse way.

However, I really do think this country will reject the war mongering atavism of Newt and his friends.

I hope.