The Road to Nowhere

I can’t add much to the story of the Jewish family intimidated by conservative Christians in Delaware, but I think it’s worth noting that this is additional evidence that the alliance between conservative Jews and conservative Christians that has developed around support for Israel in the last dozen or so years is fatally, hopelessly flawed. The reasons for this seem utterly, painfully obvious to me; the Jews value Israel as an end, and the Christians value Israel as a means. Conservative American Christians have not, shockingly, become more tolerant of the Jewish faith. As long as they’re going in the same direction, the Evangelicals will be willing to put limits on the rhetoric and the intimidation, but that’s not going to last forever.

Sadly, the whole thing reminds me of an Onion article.