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What does it mean for the possibility of a military strike on Iran that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has consulted Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef whose remarks in the past have caused a great deal of embarrassment for Israel?

What’s to come when a right wing billionaire funnels money to Newt and a columnist jokes about killing the president?

While speaking to wealthy donors at a fundraiser.

Theologically and politically, Romney parted ways with LDS views on Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Good with money”? Really?

Seriously.

The symbolic decision would only alienate those needed to make change.

It its efforts to support the Palestinian cause, the Kairos USA statement cherrypicks from the Bible and winds up in some old and discomfiting territory.

After some perfunctory praise of the last three popes, Boteach gets down to his Glenn Beck-ish business: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.”

In The Mirage, 9/11 is actually 11/9, the day when Christian fundamentalists from Texas slammed airliners into Baghdad skyscrapers, sparking a war on terror that rages across a nearly unrecognizable North America. Will Americans go for a book where the world power is the United Arab States and the lead characters are almost all Arabs and Muslims?