Reply #19: I try to respond in kind. [View All]

Indeed, Xtian support of Zionism is not new. The current political
form of it in the USA, however, is a bit different from past versions,
and the popular conception of who the parties are in the region and
what the dispute is about and so on have changed over time, too.

Evangelical Xtian fundamentalism in the present form originated in the
USA in the late nineteenth century, if I what I have read is right,
so it antedates the origins of Zionist thought.

WRT your thread on how to fix it, I don't think it's fixable
at present, so I don't have much to say there, although your
list covers fairly the current public positions, with exceptions
pointed out by others.

It appears to me that, to at least some in the Palestinian ranks,
it is not so much that they want to come and live in Israel, it is
that they want their rights recognized and negotiated in a fair
process, fair in this case meaning where power is somewhat equally
distributed. They don't want to be dictated to.

I suspect that if the GOI chose to work to give them the warm-puppy
feeling about their rights and full status as human beings, a large
number of them would become quite reasonable about the whole business.
They might even get with the program about stopping the "terrorists"
if they felt they had something to lose. I consider this to be
unlikely at present.