Why the Left-Right schism on Israel? (Pat Buchannan not withstanding)

[rjschirmer]

So many side topics in your post…

1) The proposed link between the Right's greater support for Israel.

There are several weaknesses in this argument, including the following:

a) A prophetic observation is different from actively causing something to happen. (i.e. Their prophesy states that the state of Israel will be established before the second coming. It doesn't state that in order to cause the second coming you must first establish the state of Israel)

b) The Right's support support for Israel come from more than the evangelical wing of the GOP.

c) The Left has a higher percentage of Jewish voters, who have a more direct religious and cultural reason to support Israel, but yet the Left's support sides with the Palestinians more than the Jewish population.

2. Let's try and stay away from ad hominem arguments (i.e. someone's "mentality"). It has nothing to do with the subject.

3. National Socialism did inincorporate many left-wing element including a state-controlled and regulated mixed economy. You know, the kind of economy that many on the left wish we had more of...