My mission since leaving my former faith has been to get other zionist Jews to understand the existential threat of letting the Christian Right define America’s relationship to Israel and the parameters of Jews’ relationship to Israel. I’m sad to be proven correct.
Make no mistake: he is laying claim to *Jewish liberation* itself and telling YOU, ME, AND OUR RABBIS which Jewish are “klal” and who is “chutz l’machane” based on Christian goals for eretz Israel. That’s what’s happening: stare it in the face.
From his appointment as ambassador Dermer nurtured and grew evangelical lobbying and gave them more access to Israeli officials. Israel cannot subordinate Jewish needs for the whims of Christian tourists, but that seems to have been the goal.
It come for us all:
My daughter has spent the last 4 days in the PICU because she has RSV & pneumonia. There are 3 other families here whose children have the same combo of symptoms. We got here because we have a great pediatrician but let’s go over other people:
“______ use the emergency room as their GP, it’s the poors...”
The family next to us took their son to the urgent care nearest them and after a 5 minute session were sent home TWICE despite having a child who’d been born prematurely and a family history of asthma...
You hear from anti-universal healthcare that socialized med will create a two tiered system: We ALREADY have two tiers of healthcare! Now, because they went to an overworked PA: kid is intubated (increases complication risk) and his parents will leave with crippling debt