[SJackson]

That's the official liberal line, but it's the American "hell-fire" preachers who have supported Jewish claims to Israel for over three hundred years. And the "deicide" charge has never been big among American Fundamentalist Protestants.

Three hundred years? I'd have dated those crazy Zionist Protestants to the early/mid 1800s. What and who am I missing, in terms of possession of the land, because I acknowledge you know more about this than I do.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Three hundred years? I'd have dated those crazy Zionist Protestants to the early/mid 1800s. What and who am I missing, in terms of possession of the land, because I acknowledge you know more about this than I do.

Nah. You're forgetting Increase Mather and those crazy Puritans. Everyone is familiar with the Jewish/Puritan affinity, but unfortunately many people make the mistake of equating Puritanism with contemporary New England liberalism (the old "Ted Kennedy is merely the ultimate descendant of Jonathan Edwards" thing). The contemporary counterparts of the old New England Puritans are not New England liberals but Southern "Bible-thumpers." Why can't more people see this?

Nineteenth century Jewish liberals liked to say that "Hebraic mortar cemented the bricks of American democracy," but that isn't correct. Actually Hebraic mortar cemented the bricks of New England Puritan theocracy (back when New England was horrified of the Jacobinism of the Southern planters and convinced that Thomas Jefferson was going to confiscate and burn all the Bibles).