The Politics of Armageddon

Hillary’s “Final Solution”
to the Persian Problem

By ROBERT WEITZEL

“To misunderstand the nature and
threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it . . . An evil unchecked
is the prelude to genocide.”

Dr. Mordechai: The
Ezekiel Option

There
are over 70 million human beings living in Iran, 17.5 million of whom
are under the age of fifteen. Hillary Clinton vowed to attack Iran and
“totally obliterate” the majority of the Persian race in a furnace
of primordial fire should the Iranian government attack Israel with
nuclear weapons, which they do not now possess or are likely to for
some time-if ever. 

Hillary’s “final solution” to the
Persian problem bests Adolf Hitler by a magnitude of ten.

Missing in Clinton’s campaign trail
pandering to America’s pro-Israel lobbies and the mushrooming evangelical
Christian Zionist movement is the “inconvenient truth” that Israel
has the most modern and most deadly army in the Middle East thanks to
an annual  $3.5 billion in American aid-one third of the U.S. aid budget. 

Israel is also a major nuclear power
in the region-though it refuses to admit it-with up to 200 nuclear
warheads and the inter-continental-range ballistic missiles to deliver
them and, according to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment,
also has an undeclared offensive chemical and biological warfare program. 

Israel, along with India and Pakistan
are the only three nations not to have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. Iran is a signatory of the NNPT, by the way. The most inconvenient
truth, however, is that Israel has a 60-year history of attacking-
with American-supplied armaments-any Arab country it perceives as
a threat, nuclear-armed or slingshot-armed alike. Israel’s bombing
of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility in 1981 comes to mind as an example
of the former, its shelling of Gaza the latter. 

Israel can and will ” preemptively
defend” itself against Iran, the country that a February 2008 International Atomic Energy
Agency report concluded has
not diverted nuclear material to non-peaceful purposes. Unfortunately
for the 70 million Persians in Hillary’s bombsight, Iran’s biggest
liability is its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-but then the U.S. is
equally burdened. 

So the real truth behind Clinton’s
“final solution” to the Persian problem or John McCain’s “bomb,
bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran” off-key hyperbole is not simply a “David
and Goliath” struggle for survival, but is instead a cynical exploitation
of the unholy marriage of convenience between fanatical Jewish Zionists
who want a Muslim-free Eretz Israel in order to fulfill Old Testament
prophecy and bring about the first coming of their Messiah and fanatical
Christian Zionists who want the entire Middle East in flames to fulfill
New Testament prophecy and bring about the Second Coming of their Messiah. 

Jewish Zionists need the money and the
political clout of the Christian Zionists. Christian Zionists need the
Semitism and the chutzpah of the Jewish Zionists. Politicians need the
votes that both groups can deliver, which in religion-drenched America
is a hefty consignment. 

According to a 2006 Pew Research Center poll, fully 44 percent of Americans believe that
“God gave the land that is now Israel to the Jewish people” and

36 percent believe the “creation of the state of Israel is a step
toward the Second Coming of Jesus.”

Depending on which poll is the most accurate,
there are between 105-135 million evangelical and born-again Christians
in the United States. Of these Christians, a 2004 International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews poll
found that 31 percent identified U.S. support for Israel as their “primary
consideration” in selecting a presidential candidate, while 64 percent
cited it as an “important factor.” 

Predictably then, when Hillary Clinton
or John McCain threaten to obliterate Iran, or any predominately Muslim
country in the Middle East, with nuclear weapons, the primary audience
for their saber rattling is not the Muslim “evildoers” but is, instead,
the pro-Israel lobby and the Christian Zionist muscle in America who
are willing to see the “ultimate evil” committed to further their
ideological and eschatological agenda.

Nowhere does “ultimate evil” play
a more prominent role than in the End Time machinations of two well-connected
Christian Zionists, Tim LaHaye and John Hagee.

Tim LaHaye is best known as the coauthor
of the blockbuster Left Behind series, which has sold over 60
million copies worldwide. The pulp fiction series takes the Book of
Revelation as its inspiration and chronicles the tribulations that will
occur between the Rapture of born-again Christians and the Second Coming
of Jesus. The blood and viscera of millions of infidels and heretics-unrepentant
Atheists, Jews, Muslims, and Catholics-are spattered on every page. 

Tim LaHaye is least known as the founder
and first president of the secretive Council for National Policy. The
CNP was formed in 1981 as an umbrella organization to advance an ultra-conservative,
right wing Christian agenda. LaHaye’s particular agenda items include
replacing U.S. secular law with Old Testament biblical law and a Middle
East foreign policy that expedites the Second Coming. 

According to the New York Times,
the CNP consists of “a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives
in the country” who meet “behind closed doors at undisclosed locations”to
strategize about how to turn the country to the right.” Though the
membership of the CNP is a guarded secret, a list of those known to
have been associated with it reads like a who’s who of Christian Zionists
and neocon ideologues whose passion is to see the Middle East in flames
and in chains. 

A short list includes: George W. Bush,
Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Attorney Generals John
Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, the
late Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, and
Oliver North-the guy who sold weapons to Iran using Israel as the
middleman.

Do not be blindsided. The CNP is a major
player in domestic and foreign policy decisions and the “evil” that
results. 

John Hagee, televangelist and pastor
of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, is the
founder of Christian United for Israel. Hagee formed CUFI in 2005 following
the publication of his book, The Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to
the World, which sports a mushroom cloud on its cover and argues
for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both
Israel and the West. 

Hagee’s theology-and vision of the
future-focuses on selected apocalyptic passages from the Old Testament.
He believes that a nuclear strike against Iran will cause Arab nations
to unite under Russian leadership, as outlined in the Book of Ezekiel,
leading to an “inferno [that] will explode across the Middle East,
plunging the world toward Armageddon.” Consequently, CUFI exists to
set the fires of the Apocalypse and bring about the Rapture and the
Second Coming, but it needs Jewish Zionists to strike the match. 

Christians United for Israel is the evangelical
equivalent of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful
pro-Israel lobby courted and placated by every American politician who
has national aspirations. John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barak Obama
have each pledged their fealty to AIPAC. 

John Hagee is not without his own short
list of beltway benefactors. The list includes, but is not limited to:
George W. Bush, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, Senator Joe Lieberman-who
called Hagee an “Ish Elokim,” a man of God-and John McCain
who was “very honored by Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement [for president].” 

When Christian Zionists with the stature
of LaHaye and Hagee shill for fanatical Jewish Zionists who are promoting
the ethic cleansing of Eretz Israel for biblical or nationalistic reasons
or the pre-emptive “defensive” nuking of Iran, politicians with
the stature of Hillary Clinton and John McCain, along with a hefty consignment
of the electorate, are their willing dupes. It’s just the politics
of religion as usual in America. 

But Jewish Zionists need to understand
that the difference between Christian Zionists and Muslim suicide bombers
is scale, a nuclear warhead versus a backpack bomb, and a willingness
to let others do the killing-and the dying-for them. Jewish Zionists
should also keep in mind that Christian Zionists have no intention of
being around when the sands of the Middle East are turned to glass in
a furnace of primordial fire. They will have been Raptured and out of
harm’s way in Paradise. Their Bible tells them so. 

Robert Weitzel
is a contributing editor to Media With a Conscience. His essays regularly
appear in The Capital Times in Madison, WI.  He can be contacted at: robertweitzel@mac.com