this is history, not prophecy

Submitted by Anne Julienne (Australia), May 7, 2016 at 19:07

Michael, you wrote: "First of all, I have no doubt in my mind, that not only will the American people choose a demagogue for a leader, but they will obey him in persecuting not only the Jews but all who believe in or represent the Bible. That leader will go on to lead the world in an attack on Israel."

This is history, not prophecy. This is what we've been seeing in the last seven years.

Obama's attack on Israel has not taken the form of outright aggression, of actual bombing of Jews, or carting them off to gas chambers. But he has exerted a continuing passive aggression, a relentless campaign of denigrating Israel's elected leader and denouncing the will of the Israeli people as expressed through Netanyahu. Obama is a serial enabler of Palestinian violence against Israelis, he has opened the path for Iran to threaten Israel with nuclear annihilation. Even with respect to Europe's Jews, he has trivialised their murders. The list goes on and on.

I'm not happy about a Clinton presidency but I don't think that she'd be worse than Obama. She is well known and has much experience. She will be very manageable.

Yes, Trump seems to me to be very committed as regards Israel. I liked his AIPAC speech. However, like Daniel, I can agree with Trump's position on some things while still seeing him as unacceptable.

It really will be like having a bully and a madman in the oval office. I can't see how your wanting such an outcome can possibly square with values derived from Jesus.

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