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Aerows

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23. Christian Evangelicals

Reply to karynnj (Reply #17)

Sat Dec 7, 2013, 06:25 PM

Dec 2013

are much more aligned with the Likud, but for different reasons. Evangelical Christians are waiting for the Holy War that signals the coming of Christ with bated breath and will do anything to cause it; the Likud just wants more resources to expand their state as far as they possibly can and believe it is their right to do so if they have to throw other folks off of that land as a result of that goal.

That pretty much serves the purposes of both - Holy War, and the opportunity for land grabs.

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