The Right Loves the Jew

For generations politicos have taken as read that the right has a Jewish Problem. Maybe at one time it did. I dunno. Pat Buchanan doesn't like Jews, which is not to say he's filled with Juden Haas. It just means he doesn't like Jews.*

We all have prejudices.

The right no longer has a Jewish Problem. The Times of Israel tells us:

Brazil’s incoming president Jair Bolsonaro pushed back against critics and feted burgeoning ties with Israel Thursday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his way to Brasilia for the new leader’s swearing in.

Populists leaders, be they Bolsinaro, Le Penn, Farage, Salvini, etc, etc, are nationalists. Israel has certainly become a nationalist state, so of course other nationalists admire her.

She has a heck of a wall too! 

Bush the Younger supported Israel throughout the 2nd Intifada, walked out of the 2001 Nazi UN conference on racism, marginalized Arafat, and OK's Israel's attack on the Syrian nuclear complex.

Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, a decision overwhelmingly supported of the GOPs.

Since at least the 1980s the right in America has been moving toward Israel, especially the religious right. We encountered this first hand during our late 90's sojourn in Washington. Young Republicans from Texas, Tennessee and the like were fascinated by our Judaism and by Israel. Today conservative Christians see it as their religious duty to support the people of the book.

*That's d'accord, we here at William Stroock dot blogspot dot com don't like Maritime Canadians, South Jersey, and anyone from the town of Verplank, NY-freaking' pointers.