Israel is not a race or a religion

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29. As a congresswoman, Omar has no excuse for her shocking ignorance.

Before she opened her mouth on this subject, she should have studied it. She would quickly have learned about the very deep Christian basis for America's support for the return of Jews to the holy lands. This return was promised in the Bible and had been embedded in Christian beliefs for many centuries before the establishment of a Jewish state. Our founding fathers also studied and drew from Hebrew history as they mused over what forms our new governments should take.

My husband's Jewish, and he and I both believe, seemingly like Omar, that America should be calling out and at least refusing to support evil actions wherever they are. Omar at 37 is worrisomely old, though, to not recognize the signature harms that hard-core right wingers always inflict on targets of their enmity when they get power, in Israel as well as everywhere else they have. Including right here right now.

So while Omar foolishly blamed Jews in the U.S. and Israel, and hopefully gotten a lesson that's taken, we target blame at evildoers and their enablers -- especially nonvoters wherever they are who refuse to stand against great evils. It couldn't happen without them.