The Nagorno-Karabakh region, between Azerbaijan and Armenia, has been the source of repeated, bitter fighting since the Nineties. A few weeks ago, following nine months of Azeri blockade of the majority-Armenian civilian population, Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the region. Some 100,000 Armenian refugees fled for Armenia. It was, in effect, an ethnic cleansing of…
Don’t blame Israel for the sins of America
An excellent piece which brings out an interesting point: the U.S.’s support for Israel didn’t originate in the Evangelical community but in the large Jewish community, many of whom immigrated before the First World War. That was obvious to anyone who has lived in an area with a large Jewish population, as I did in South Florida (Join the Club. Maybe Not! A Strange Tale of Two Worlds in Palm Beach.) For many Evangelicals, especially those who live in the South (and that’s most of them) Jews are an abstraction they read about in the Bible. For much of our Gentile elite class of yore, that certainly wasn’t the case, and they started pushing back with things like choking off admissions to Ivy League schools.
Given the general incompetence of our current elite and our inability to eject them from the seats of power, as the U.S.’s footprint recedes Israel would do well to “spread its bets” on new allies. The Jewish state, inhabited by overachievers, is in a position to do this. If I were them I wouldn’t do anything rash but I wouldn’t waste any time either.
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