Foreign policy lies prevail. The same neocons “are at it again”. ” We must bomb Iran”. Preemptive Nukes.
Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists ….. “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 1
Introductory Note
There are indications that Christian Zionism prevails in the corridors of the State Department and the Pentagon. This is no recent phenomenon.
Donald Trump’s defense secretary appointee Pete Hegseth is not only a “war hawk”, he is a “Third Temple cultist” who “wants war with Iran and Russia.”
Hegseth says he is a Christian who believes Jesus will “return” once the “Third Temple” is built where the Dome of the Rock, also called the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, now sits on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. (See Global Research)
Perhaps the most demented of [Trump’s appointees] is also is the individual in the most potentially threatening position, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth is a journalist with FOX news with one observer noting that he has never managed any organization larger than his three wives and five children prior to his upgrade to the $1 trillion budgeted 2.9 million Pentagon employees.
Even by Christian Zionist standards, he might well be considered to be an extremist.”
An excerpt from Hegseth’s book, American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free(2020) states:
“Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization — with America being its greatest manifestation — then you don’t live in history.
“America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel.
“You can love America without loving Israel but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete. …
“If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets.”
Armageddon Theology and the Risk of Global War: The Limits of Religious Tolerance in the Nuclear Age
Would the US Administration really endanger the Entire planet?
Are There Armageddonists
in the Corridors of the U.S State Department.
By Felicity Arbuthnot
Here is a story told to me by Dr. Bernard Lown, one of the co-founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) during the Reagan era. http://www.ippnw.org
Lown worked closely with another eminent fellow cardiac surgeon, the (then) USSR’s Yevgeny Chazov. Since physicians know no borders, they had formed a friendship, then a movement, which bridged the cold war, the Reagan “Evil Empire” (re. the Soviet Union) nonsense and within two years, had doctors and surgeons from eighty two countries spreading the word, that even cardiac arrest paled against nuclear war.
In 1995, IPPNW collectively won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since Lown travelled, lecturing, to the USSR frequently and had built trust over many years at all levels, the US State Department asked if he would engage in some unofficial diplomacy.
Relations between the two countries were far worse than most realised.
After one such visit to Moscow, I met Bernard Lown in Paris. We sat in dappled Spring sun, at a pavement breakfast café – fresh squeezed orange, coffee, croissants:
“I came back two days ago and went to talk (at the State Department) of the concerns in Moscow. Afterwards, a senior official – a household name (which he declined to divulge) walked me to the exit. As we neared the exit, he put his arm round my shoulders:
‘Don’t worry, Professor Lown, if there is a nuclear war, we will be the first ones to rise up and meet Jesus in the sky.’” Lown, used to the vagaries of the unwell, responded: “Tell me, does anyone else in this building feel as you do?”
“Oh yes, many of us do.”
The swathe of “household names”, from the Reagan era, are now in the Bush Administration and the American Enterprise Institute.
The Armageddonists are back
The world should be very afraid – or should the physicians in white coats move in?
Excerpt from:
Iran: The Road to Armageddon? Felicity Arbuthnot
By , 2007
