Anton writes: “The pathology of PC is so strong that they cannot see an existential threat when it is front of them.”

This is so. For religious believers (in this case PC), faith is meaning. Abandoning faith is existential death, or at least disorientation. I’m not surprised that Obama supporters exhibit faith that all will work out in the end, especially if Israel will just be rational and roll over and surrender, in the name of peace. (This worked well in Vietnam, didn’t it? We departed, reneged on our promises, and everyone in Southeast Asia lived happily ever after?)

Over at First Things, David Goldman (a.k.a. Spengler) has an essay, “Two Paths to Jewish Survival.” One path is for Jews to recognize a Christian interest and theological stake in Judaism, and to some extent the state of Israel, in so far as the state is tied up in complex ways with the Jewish people. The article negotiates some of the deep currents in Christian/Catholic theology.

An opposite tack is evident in a (as usual) politically correct article in the national Lutheran magazine on ‘Christian Zionism.’ The take away: Israel bad, in violation of the eighth commandment; Christians who support Israel, unsophisticated and un-nuanced.

Wrichard asks: “how [is it that] the US and Israel wound up on opposite sides of this process? And is this a good thing or a perverse reversal of history?”

The West, or at least its elites and camp followers, traded in one religion for another, keeping the moral sentiments and aspirations of Christianity but turning them into new commandments. The first of these is: Thou shalt have no God. Unless you have a foreign God and want to deploy that God against the infidels who still believe in a Christian and Jewish exceptionalism.

Poor Israel. Surrounded by recrudescent post-enlightenment Westerners, communists, and Islamists, each eager for the ‘peace’ that temporily descends following the lynching of the scapegoat.