Evangelical leaders, from Pastor Robert Jeffress to Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr., seem less concerned with finding an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan than in asserting Jewish control of the region as a necessary precondition for their vision of the second coming of Jesus.
And they have no problem leaving a distorted impression that the only Americans supporting Israel are Trump Republicans.
On Friday, Trump put it succinctly: “The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They’ve become an anti-Jewish party, and that’s too bad.”
But as Paul Waldman, who is Jewish, wrote in the Washington Post last week: “In the U.S. today a ‘supporter of Israel’ is much more likely to be an evangelical Christian Republican than a Jew.”
That sounds crazy but Waldman is exactly right.
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