Who wants to see the perpetuation of terror, crime and violence in the Middle East? Well, this time it is a member of the Christian Right.
Ralph Reed, the head of Pat Robertson's political arm, the Christian
Coalition, was visiting Israel, and lobbied peripheral members of
Rabin's governing Knesset coalition.
Reed gleefully announced in a telephone interview that Rabin's coalition was about to split. The
Rabin government would fall, and Likud would return to power, disavowing the peace agreement and bringing the peace process to a screeching halt. The implication was that Reed's lobbying was responsible for this suppositious result. (More than a year has passed without the fall of the Rabin government. This was far from the first time that a purported scoop on the "700 Club" turned out to be wrong.) My inference is that the Likud leaders found American Religious Right representatives to be useful pawns, and the former used their influence with American Jewish leaders to obtain their forbearance toward those pawns. The Labor Party, on the other hand, has found the Religious Right to bean impediment, and so is likely to have left American Jewish leaders to do what they thought was right.
http://www.skepticfiles.org/fw/wrong.htmYes, that's the Love and Compassion of the Christian Right for you.
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