What Sarah Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel" prediction means

[laststeamtrain]

What Sarah Palin's "Jewish people will be flocking to Israel" prediction means
By Bruce Wilson, AlterNet
Posted on November 21, 2009, Printed on November 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/www.alternet.org/144111/

It's widely accepted that statements such as Sarah Palin's prediction that Jews will soon be "flocking to Israel" may indicate Palin holds apocalyptic beliefs. What's not understood is that she's closely associated with a religious tendency whose leaders promote anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, including one most commonly used by the Third Reich, in the 1930's and 1940's, to whip up anti-Semitic hatreds: the claim that a worldwide cabal of Jewish bankers manipulates the world economy and preys on working classes.

Stumping for her new autobiography, Sarah Palin has made a round of interviews with high profile media figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. In the Walters interview Palin justified her support for expansion of Jewish settler enclaves on Israel's West Bank with a strange prediction. Walters asked, "Now let's talk about some issues - the Middle East. The Obama Administration does not want Israel to build any more settlements on what they consider Palestinian territory. What is your view on this ?" Palin responded, "I disagree with the Obama Administration on that. I believe that, um, the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon because the population of Israel is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead."

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Sarah Palin's least scrutinized but arguably most significant religious influence, is Alaskan evangelist Mary Glazier, whose personal prayer group Palin joined in 1989 according to Glazier (linked Glazier talk from June 13, 2008 conference held near Seattle). Multiple sources including a January 2009 article in what has become the flagship magazine for American charismatic Christians, Charisma, have confirmed the Palin-Glazier relationship continued into 2008. Glazier's prayer warriors began praying for Sarah Palin's political success nearly two decades ago because, as Glazier was quoted in the Charisma article, "We felt then that she was the one God had selected."

As I've described in a recent Talk To Action story, late in September 2008 Mary Glazier sent out, through her personal prayer networks, a "prophetic warning" suggesting that a tragic act of terrorism might soon leave Sarah Palin alone with the American flag, "stepping into an office that she was mantled for." Glazier's warning appeared to suggest that John McCain would win the 2008 election but be killed in a terrorist attack, leaving Sarah Palin to become president.

Mary Glazier is no random evangelist - she is a high level leader and a prophet in the rapidly coalescing religious movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation. Glazier is also an "apostle" in its central leadership group, the International Coalition of Apostles, formed in 2001. In a January 7th, 2009 appearance at the Wasilla Assembly of God, Glazier's fellow ICA apostle Dutch Sheets credited Glazier with bringing the New Apostolic Reformation to Alaska. At least 5 leaders in the movement, including three ICA apostles, have appeared at the Wasilla Assembly of God. In June 2008, Sarah Palin spent Alaska State travel funds to fly from Anchorage to the Mat-Su Valley, to attend two Wasilla Assembly of God related events.

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Rivaling, or perhaps surpassing, Tom Hess is ICA apostle Jim Ammerman, who presides over between six and eight percent of the chaplains in the United States military, claims high level contacts in the Pentagon, and who September 2008 issued a thinly veiled threat against the lives of Democratic senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Dodd.

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. When did "mantle" become a verb?

As in, "stepping into an office that she was mantled for."

--d!

[ellenfl]

8. perhaps when it's the opposite of 'dismantle'? eom

[Tuvok Obama]

11. Sometime around the 13th century C.E.

"Mantle" became a verb transitive during that century, according to Merriam-Webster

[Dogmudgeon]

17. For real?

Well, slap my ass with a copy of Funk and Wagnall's!

--d!
"Look THAT up in your Funk and Wagnall's!"
(Dick Martin, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, circa 1967)

[Tuvok Obama]

20. I didn't know either, until you asked

This hard drive based dictionary of mine includes the dates and sometimes the origins of the words it defines

[SkankWhisperer]

18. Coincidentally, Palin's Zealotry is 13th Century

Why are we even giving her the slightest bit of attention?
If everybody would just ignore her, she would go away.
Mom said it's impolite to stare at the defective or retarded, and Palin is both.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Palin's Christains do not believe it is anti-semitism to advocate that...

all Jews move to Israel where God will toruture to death all those who do not convert to follow a loving and beneficient Christ.

[Joe Bacon]

22. Hagee wants to finish what Hitler started.

Sarah's beloved John Hagee wants all of my people sent back to Israel so we can get nuked at Armageddon. After we're nuked, Hagee says 144,000 male virgins will survive and convert to Christianity.

Bottom Line--Palin wants to finish what Hitler started. And Joe LIEbernam is the pied piper in this cause.

No thanks, Sarah. I'm STAYING RIGHT WHERE I AM!

[floridablue]

3. God chose Sarah Palin ?

That must have been right after he stopped managing the draft for the Los Angeles Clippers.

[laststeamtrain]

6. Which was sometime after managing the '84 draft for Portland.

Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, John Stockton or... ?

How'bout Sam Bowie?

[floridablue]

13. I remember Sam

Didn't he have a chronic problem with fractures of the chin bones. What did they finally get, one year of injury free play from him? Damn, reading about 25 year old basketball news is more interesting than Hatch and Brownback on Cspan2

[polichick]

4. It's astounding that in the year 2009 the U.S. would give someone like Palin...

...the time of day.

[Golden Raisin]

7. Yes it is. But she

has already been a governor and a Vice Presidential candidate. I cannot tell you how disgusted, depressed (and scared) that makes me. I am not one who writes her off as a joke. Hope I'm wrong.

[Barack_America]

5. Wasn't she quoted as believing she would see Jesus return in her lifetime?

Or some such nonsense?

I seem to remember that being dug up soon after she was named McCain's VP candidate. Or was it that she believed dinosaurs and humans cohabitated the Earth?

Does anybody else have a better memory of this?

[ellenfl]

9. i think she said she could see him from her house. eom

[StopTheNeoCons]

10. "MAY INDICATE"?!?!?...hell, she DOES believe in apocalyse in her lifetime!..eom

[louis-t]

12. She said it because she's just plain stupid.

I don't think anyone should over-analyze her statements. It's all crap coming out of her mouth. She doesn't have a clue.

[Bobbieo]

14. She may not have a clue, but how much is she worth now because of her book?

Wish I were that stupid!!!

[louis-t]

15. Her success is 100% from her looks.

She faked her way to the top from there. She has 0 talent, 0 intelligence.

[rgbecker]

16. She'd be owing most of the book earnings to her lawyers, I'd guess.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 22 (UPI) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has likely racked up more than $600,000 in legal bills battling ethics complaints, the trustee for her legal defense fund says.

A national campaign to help her pay off the bills, stoked by a conservative Web site, says it has received more than $100,000 in contributions in the past week.

"My sense is they (the bills) are over $600,000" and continuing to climb, defense fund trustee Kristan Cole told the Anchorage Daily News.

Palin supporters call some of the ethics complaints groundless, and the governor's office noted 14 have been dismissed without finding she violated the state ethics act, the Daily News reported on its Web site Monday.

It remained unclear how much of Palin's legal bills resulted form the state Personnel Board's "Troopergate" investigation last fall into her firing of the state public safety director after he resisted pressure to furlough the governor's former brother-in-law, the Daily News said.

The 45-year-old Republican governor prompted the board's investigation when she sent it an ethics disclosure, contending the Legislature's investigation of the firing was political.

Palin supporters started the legal defense fund, the Alaska Fund Trust, in April. How much it has raised remains unknown, and the trust has no oversight from state or federal agencies, the newspaper reported.

© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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[classysassy]

19. Fairness

Its ok for Sarah's minister to spew her beliefs,but Obama is roasted because of his ministers statements.Where is that fair and balanced bunch of wacko's from fox,where is Rush,and the rest of the biased buffoons?.

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. Sarah Palin like most (but by no means all) hardline fundamentalist Protestants believes that

it would be a good thing - in fact the greatest thing imaginable - to intentionally provoke World War III against the entire Arab and Islamic word that has allied with Russia (Gog and Magog) - such an event would bring about the return of Jesus Christ.

I should say that this wildly dangerous interpretation is definitely not the majority interpretation even among Evangelicals - but it is the majority (but far from unanimous) interpretations among the kind of hardline fundamentalist who now comprise a major power block within the Republican Party.

It is very important to understand that this particular brand of hardline fundamentalist who are now a major power block within the Republican Party don't just oppose better relations with Arab and Islamic world on some kind of tactical grounds or even merely a religious obligation to be supportive of Israel - they sincerely believe that a full fledged, total total War - a World War III that would most likely be against Russia as well - is the greatest and most fantastic thing that could ever, ever happen.