HOST        Lew Moore

Lew discusses the differences between the early leftwing leaders of Israel, who saw their nation at the center of the world government movement, and the rightwing leaders of more recent history, who desire a significant expansion of the borders of the nation. Israel’s policies toward their immediate neighbors have caused their popularity to plummet among both leftist and conservative Americans, particularly among the youth.

Likkud and Benjamin Netanyahu are clinging to power with a very fragile coalition dependent upon radical right rabbis who demand more territory for settlements and a more hostile stance against both Moslems and Christians in the region, which is exacerbating Israel’s popularity problem in the U.S. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee has vigorously criticized several recent anti-Christian events in the Jewish state egged on by Israel’s radical right.

Netanyahu has acknowledged time may be growing short to prosecute key items of the Likkud agenda before U.S. support collapses which may be behind the aggressive push for war with Iran and the desire to move the Gaza population wholesale out of that region. That aggressive attitude has spilled over to the U.S. where supporters of Israel are pushing for anti-free speech and boycott laws which diminish our freedom in an attempt to protect the Jewish state.