President Joe Biden, along with the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Germany, recently rallied around Israel when Iran attacked it.
Such support constituted an inflection point, given Biden’s harsh criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza.
No one was shocked when leading American Evangelical Christians – long known for
their stalwart defense of Israeli governments, offered overwhelming support for the Jewish
state’s strong military response to the brutal October 7, 2023, Hamas massacres in southern
Israel. Yet, a close look at data on American Evangelicals from recent years reveals that the
community’s ironclad support of Jerusalem’s government seems poised for a decline in the
coming years. This happens as younger generations seem less unquestioning of Israel – an issue
also faced in the American Jewish community – and the number of self-identified Evangelicals
themselves drops as a percentage of the American population.
In a surprising speech, Senate Majority Leader Charles (“Chuck”) Schumer urged new elections in Israel, suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not up to the task of leading his country. President Biden embraced Senator Schumer’s speech.
There are enough reasons why Netanyahu deserves to be removed by his people, particularly the failure of his government to protect Israel’s southern border on October 7.
However, there is something much more severe in Schumer’s speech.
The current war involving Israel as of 7 October is NOT the Gaza war only. Israel is fighting on four fronts: against Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis of Yemen, pro-Iranian militias, and, in fact, full-fledged armies in Lebanon and Syria.
The Oscar nominations are out, and the big winner is the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist/mathematician who, in concert with a number of other scientist/mathematicians, worked on a killing device named ‘the atomic bomb’ that caused the death of 200,000 people, almost entirely civilians, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unlike other stories that have captivated Hollywood about 20th century mathematician/scientists – A Beautiful Mind about John Nash, The Theory of Everything about Stephen Hawking, The Man Who Knew Infinity about Srinivasa Ramanujan, or The Imitation Game about Alan Turing –
