Olbermann: Does Palin believe Jews will flock to Israel to set off Apocalypse?

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 -- 10:57 am

palindebateoops Olbermann: Does Palin believe Jews will flock to Israel to set off Apocalypse? Sarah Palin frequently refers to to her religious beliefs as part of her core values, but she has never made it clear just what those beliefs are. Now one casual remark during an interview last week with Barbara Walters may have drawn back the curtain a bit.

In response to a question about Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, Palin told Walters, "I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead."

Palin's expectation of massive Jewish immigration to Israel -- which would have to come primarily from the United States -- has no basis in current fact but does correspond closely to the end-times theology espoused by many evangelical Christians.

After Palin's interview, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg spoke to a representative of Liberty University, who told him, "'What Sarah Palin probably believes is that this is the first regathering,' when the Jews all migrate to Israel. 'This is a condition for the second regathering, the regathering in belief, when the Jewish nation is converted. Then there will be the battle of Armageddon.'"

"In the last two weeks," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann commented on Tuesday, "she has revealed pieces of the puzzle of her religious doctrines that suggest she shares the beliefs of her church, the Assemblies of God, that in the end-times, the Rapture, Jesus lifts true believers up with him as non-believers suffer through the apocalypse. She is also implying now that her interpretation of Biblical prophecy drives core elements of her foreign policy."

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Palin met recently with the elderly evangelist Billy Graham, whose son Franklin told reporters that Palin had "quizzed him on the presidents he's known and wanted his take on what the Bible says about Israel, Iran and Iraq,"

Olbermann appeared to be particularly concerned by whether Palin shares the convert-or-perish attitude towards the Jews expressed in end-times theology. "If Mrs. Palin truly wants to discuss her faith, we invite her to clarify what her faith says about Israel, its role in the Rapture, and the ultimate fate of Israel and the Jews who choose to keep their faith," he concluded.

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Nov. 24, 2009.

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kucinich2012
"All Palin ALL the Time!"
W.T.F.?! Drawing energy, even negative, to this woman just increases her high profile, PLEASE STOP! She is NOT news; she is sensationalism for the purpose of distraction. C'mon, RAW!

Savantster
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the part that makes this news is that we have hard core religious zealots wanting to run America and base our foreign policy on the Bible. The zealots are actively attempting to make a Theocracy here, and that should scare the shit out of everyone.
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lorn
Palin is sparkle-y fluff, irrelevant and powerless, offered up to distract people from real news.

Do you mean the hard core religious zealots like the ones President Obama hired when he maintained the disgusting W Bush 'faith based initiatives' office at the White House and expanded its budget?

When you warn of a theocracy, are you referring to the fact that Obama and the Democrats have specifically de-funded abortion for poor women in the new health care bill?

This would be news if it took a hard look at the inroads being made into the once great Democratic party by right wing religious extremists.
Palin is just another marionette in the dance of deceit that cons the American people into believing there is actually some difference between Dems and Repubs.
Since she is so easy to despise, holding her up as a typical Repub allows all Democrats to feel really great about themselves and their party............that is her value.

Meanwhile Obama is poised to announce yet anther massive troop increase in Afghanistan, is quietly working to renew the Bush Patriot act and of course did a wonderful Bush3 move yesterday by telling the world to GFY by refusing to sign the land mine treaty.

Obama gets away with murder every day, while people fixate on Sarah Palin, and that should scare the shit out of everyone.

Savantster
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virtually nothing you've posted in this post is "new" news, it's stuff that's been put up on Raw before. And nothing in Obama's "war policy" (as shitty as it is) deals with "bringing about end times". One is bad policy, one is pure lunacy.

and if you want to do service to your gripe about Dems being no better than Repukes, start talking about politicians in terms of their stance, not party.. as in, right-wingers with a D behind their name defunded abortions for poor women in the health care bill, largely because the right-wingers with a D behind their name are needed by the rest of the party to get the bill passed. Your real grief is with right-wingers.. your observation is that several have slipped into the Democratic party.

And beyond that, you're starting to sound like a broken record. Not every post has to be "but, Obama LIED, he SUCKS! waaaaa!". Sometimes you can just post on the topic at hand and leave your soap box at the door. We know your position by now, you only need to bring it up now and again.
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lorn
Savanster logic.

He has no problem with 3 or 4 Palin stories here every day, but he takes great exception to my pointing out the news of Obama extending the Patriot act, escalating in Afghanistan AGAIN, and by doing a Bush3 on refusing to sign the international land mine treaty. You can't honestly claim any sort of balance here on Palin stories about crap vs. stories bout those right wing Obama moves?

You claim my concern is that "several right wingers have slipped into the Democratic party"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My concern is that they own the Democratic party lock stock and barrel, just like the Repuglians. But hey, nice attempted strawman maneuver regardless.

You take great offense at a broken record that opposes the Obama war machine, but you are happy about a broken record playing Sarah Palin tunes 24/7.
What an odd set of priorities you have.

As I said above by twisting your line..........
Obama gets away with murder every day, while people fixate on Sarah Palin, and that should scare the shit out of everyone.

terrymo1
Savantster,save me some toilet paper!

My3Cats
We've already seen how wonderful the results of Christian fucktardery work in government by reviewing 8 years of Bush. God told him to invade Iraq. Did God also tell Bush to bust the unions, give 3 major tax cuts to the rich during a time of war, scale back the Army Corps of Engineers' budget in Louisiana thus contributing to levee failures during Katrina, and ultimately, did God tell Bush to sleep through the presidential briefing of August 6, 2001 where he was told "Bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S."?

I can't *wait* to see what that useless bitch from Alaska has in store for us if she also has the main cell phone line to God!

Let's party like it's the 11th Century! I can't wait to get back to a dirty, plague infested dark ages!

buckqjohnson
As I stated before, the news and the democrats want palin to run for the 2012 presidency. News looks at it as entertainment and the democrats look at it as a win for them. The republicans don't want her to run because she is un-electable, the reason they don't go after her hard is because the beast they have counted on to attack the democrats are supporting her. You know the hard right wing crazies who will vote against their best interest because they think they are part of the winning team. What these useful idiots don't know is that the business and moderate republicans consider them not their base, just people to use to keep the status quo for them in business and in govt.. They could care less about the Joe the Plumbers in the US. They are fodder for them to use and once they are done using them, they ignore and walk away.

JonEddie
Journalist/historian David MacPherson has focused for 40+ years on the anti-Jewish, fringe-British-invented-in-the-1830s apocalyptic "rapture" currently monopolized and merchandised by American millionaires like Lindsey and LaHaye. If you want the real skinny on what the rapture is all about - the endtime mania now tied to Sarah Palin - read his book "The Rapture Plot" (Armageddon Books, Amazon etc.) and sample his many Google items including "Famous Rapture Watchers," "Pretrib Rapture Diehards," "The Unoriginal John Darby," "Edward Irving is Unnerving," and (the most shocking of all) "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty." Now you know.

Freedom's Toast
Seems Uncle Ben's gonna be awful busy, what with all the convertin' necessary to bring about these good times. Er....end-o-times.
Jayzis fargin Ka-riced! These people are ...what's the word I'm looking for...

Never mind. There isn't a word that expresses an Avogadro's number of idiocies in a single group. They think armageddon is the beginning of peace and plenty? They must all be KBR and Xe stockholders! Halleluja, amen, and Yeeeee-hawwwwwww!!!!!!

Gawdamighty, we're gonna need us a serious intervention, or free lobotomies for the religious as part of health care reform. Even lobotomized, somehow, I believe that they'd somehow bedevil us, like zombies.

On the strength of this story alone, I'm going to purchase the "Emergency Food Supply
Precooked Dehydrated Pinto Beans, 64 Serviings" [sic] five-gallon bucket from COSTCO-- a welcome addition to any sealed shelter. With my Tom Ridge plastic sheeting and duct tape, and the beans....well, shoot--who do you think is REALLY gonna be rapturous??!!??

Only other thing I can think of to prepare for the day o' judgment is the "Survival kit [,] contents [...] one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff." (Immeasurable thanks to Slim Pickens on that one.)

Freedom's Toast
Apologies for the extra "somehow" and mangled grammar.

johnbis
Holy S**T. Palindrome as Prez. Catholics and other non Bible-Thumpers consigned to the Fiery Pit. Where are H.L, Mencken, Mark Twain and Robert Ingersoll now that we need them. @1st Century Epistle: there is no Santa God and there are no fluffy clouds awaiting the Monday Night Foot Ball crowd. Better drink you Bud in the here and now.

geoman77
Maybe she would forcibly deport all the US Jews to Israel in order to hurry along Jesus coming back and sucking up all his followers with his heavenly crazy straw.

texasaggie
How about a Palin/Lieberman ticket? They've both got experience running presidential campaigns, and they would get along just swimmingly.

joedee1960
Well before all that happens. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy this cute Thanksgiving link:

http://americaspeaksink.com/2009/11/a-socialist...

kucinich2012
joedee1960: You don't have a FUCKING CLUE what Socialism is about, do you? You bought the propaganda from the wealthy, corporate-state media and now you think you're brilliant, eh?
WRONG!
IF YOU AREN'T AFRAID OF TRUTH-- and want to learn what Democratic Socialism is REALLY about, Go here:
http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf

It is PRO-PEOPLE and NOT pro-corporation.

My3Cats
joedee is locked into the same story reworked from the old days of the red scare back in the 50's and 60's. The type keeps pulling the same mud balls out from under the same worn rocks.

The old red scare fables having nothing to do with Democratic Socialism. In point of fact, if joedee or his/her parents or grandparents are enjoying Medicare, joedee has Michael Harrington (a founder of Democratic Socialism) to thank, because Harrington was floating Medicare ideas long before the LBJ ever thought of it.

Credit where credit is due joedee. If it were for the blood of progressives and SD's, you'd have it a whole lot worse under the lash of the shitbag Republicans who find no end to their greed and predation.

Savantster
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it's morons like you that give humans a bad rap.

stop spamming that fucktarded link.
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geoman77
You know I was just sitting around thinking, what's missing from Thanksgiving, so thank you for bringing partisanship to my favorite holiday.