Just to put this mishegas in perspective, while CAMERA works overtime to make the world safe for watching Law & Order again, a man who really does want to see Jews wiped off the face of the earth has earned the love of AIPAC and yes, even the approval of Abe Foxman.

Yesterday, AIPAC’s policy conference, which “annually draws half of the Senate and a third of the House,” greeted pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel with multiple standing ovations for his “fiery pro-Israel” speech.

Talk2Action states that Pastor Hagee, one of the most powerful leaders of the Christian Zionist movement:

…blames the Holocaust on Jews themselves and states that Nazi persecution of Jews was God’s way of driving Jews to Israel, seems to blame Jews for the death of Jesus Christ, holds that Jews cannot get into heaven, calls liberal Jews “poisoned” and “spiritually blind”, believes that the preemptive nuclear attack on Iran that he advocates will lead to a Mideast conflict that will kill most Jews in Israel and perhaps also lead to the Nuclear destruction of the East and West coasts of the United States of America, and meets frequently with top leaders of the GOP and with contenders for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

They also have this video in which Hagee talks about the New World Order and the Illuminati (also controlled by liberal Jews no doubt).

Jews on First has this very important piece Pushback on Armageddon, which further describes the Faustian bargain being made between many Jewish organizations and the Christian right. Abe Foxman has played an interesting role.

The major Jewish organizations do not welcome Jewish criticism of their embrace of Christian Zionists. These Christians are seen as crucial to Israel’s tourism industry and its domestic popularity.

One exception is Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In 2005 he urged the big Jewish organizations to take a stand against the Christian right, which, he warned, wants to establish a theocracy in the United States. Foxman’s colleagues publicly rejected his call and he largely stopped his public criticism.

Recently Foxman broke his silence with an op-ed in Time, in which he expressed gratitude for the Christian right’s support of Israel and continuing disagreement with the religious right’s domestic agenda. Foxman also made it clear that the Christian right sees its support for Israel as a quid pro quo for Jewish silence on its domestic agenda.

But does appreciating Christian right so-called support for Israel also require Jews to shut up about the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism? Apparently so. Jewish Week reports:

But Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a strong critic of many Christian right groups, said he is not alarmed about Hagee’s role in the policy conference.

“I think there is a role for him,” Foxman aid. “He has earned a certain recognition with the community because of his support for Israel.”

With friends like Hagee, who needs enemies?

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