American Christian supporters of Israel.
In the months running up to December 1999, Israeli police had to deport a few quirky Christian sect members, apparently having received information that these people had plans to hurry things along with regard to certain New Testament prophecies due to fulfill themselves at the turn of the century (and not realizing that the turn of the century was actually due exactly one year later). Much less such groups arrived than anticipated and I suppose most of them just wanted to be on the spot when it happened and didn’t really mean to take part.

Recently we’ve been hearing that we shouldn’t really be putting our trust in Christian supporters of Israel in America, because their motives are suspect. I’ve been reading blogs written by American Christian supporters of Israel for a few months now and they have served to strengthen my conviction that those millenium sect members are not representative and are no more than a fringe phenomenon.

Nikita Demosthenes answers the charge that Christian supporters of Israel are hoping Armageddon is just around the corner and their support of Israel is to further this end. Here’s another post of his on the subject.

It is a “he”, I know this because he e-mailed me. It’s OK. Nikita Khrushchev was also a “he”. I’m digressing again.

Nikita complains that liberal-minded Jews are making these claims, but I think that some religious Jews have been saying this too, mainly because they are worried about Christian missionaries. This is actually quite amusing, considering the extreme and aggressive tactics implemented by some ultra-religious Jews in Israel to persuade secular Jews to become religious.

I don’t think they’d be at all amused by the comparison.