The Arab_Israeli Conflict
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Revelation 98
Rhodes, Ben 82
Road Map (2003) 21, 112
Robertson, Pat 96, 97, 89, 101, 102, 105, 107, 112
Rockefeller, John D. 13
Romney, Mitt 43, 46, 181, 183
Roosevelt, Eleanor 13, 14, 15
Roosevelt, Teddy 13
Rosenberg, M. J. 176
Ross, Dennis 63, 64, 80, 82, 83, 216n11, 229n207
Rubenstein, Richard 130
Rudman, Mara 82
Ruether, Rosemary 129
Rumsfeld, Donald 40, 55, 56, 112
Rwandan genocide 70, 87
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center 126, 128–129, 130, 131
Sabra and Shatilla massacre 142, 186
Sadat, Anwar 3, 186
Safire, William 47, 49, 50, 209n110
Said, Edward 68, 72
Salomon, Gershon 103
Salon 70, 73, 75, 76
Santorum, Rich 45
Saperstein, David 260n138
Saramago, José 26
Sartre, Jean-Paul 26, 202n140
Sasson, Theodore 146(Figure), 152(Figure), 153(Figure), 154, 177
“Satan's plan,” 107
Saudi Arabia 175
Schindler's List 15
Scofield Bible 98
Scopes “Monkey Trial,” 96, 98–99
Scowcroft 35, 36, 37
SCUD missiles 162
Second Coming 12, 44, 96, 98, 99, 101, 103, 108
Second intifada (2000–2005) 20, 24, 26, 50, 53, 54, 78, 86, 110, 111, 149, 151, 157, 163.
see also First intifada
Second Lebanon War (2006) 20, 21, 22, 23, 51, 53, 54, 56, 74, 75, 76, 78(Table), 79, 79(Table), 88, 125, 132, 149, 151, 171, 183.
see also First Lebanon War
Security barrier (fence) 50, 51, 74, 108, 125, 126, 132
Seigman, Henry 176
Settlements 7, 20, 21, 28, 45, 46, 47, 48(Table), 50, 51, 52, 54, 65, 71(Table), 72, 74, 75, 79, 80, 82, 84, 87, 88, 89, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 126, 127, 135, 160–161, 161(Table), 162, 163, 164, 165(Table), 157, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 178, 179, 181, 183, 187, 188.
see also West Bank
Seven Jewish Children (play) 177
Shah of Iran 16
Shamir, Yitzhak 142, 168, 173
Shapiro, Dan 82
Sharon, Ariel 108, 111, 112, 171, 172, 173
Sher, Neil 172
Siniora, Fouad 56
Six Day War 19, 33, 39, 43, 44, 45, 56, 61, 69, 99, 101, 124, 141, 142, 149, 162
Smith, Anthony 10
Smith, Chris 104
Sobran, Joseph 49
Sojourners' Call to Renewal conference 97
South Lebanon 76
Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission 108
Southern Baptists 113
Southern Baptist Convention 101
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 238n91
Specter-Shelby Amendment 168, 174
St. Augustine 97, 121
Stalin, Josef 52
Stand for Israel 100
Stand with Us 152
Stiles, Ezra 11
Stone, Ronald 125, 126
Strategic asset (Israel from the U.S. perspective) 2, 3, 16, 23, 28, 33, 39, 40, 43, 53, 57, 64, 182, 186
Strategic liability (Israel from the U.S. perspective) 16, 33, 36, 37, 44, 67
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 68
Sudan 17, 87
Suicide bombings 20, 21, 22, 24, 55, 72, 73, 75, 76, 124, 127, 132, 151, 171, 172.
see also Terrorism
Sullivan, Andrew 34
Sympathy gap 89
Synagogue membership 143, 144(Table)
Syrian Protestant College 121, 122
Taft, Robert 35
Taliban 66
Temple Institute 103
Temple Mount 81, 103, 108, 127
Temple Mount Faithful 103
Terrorism 7, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 31, 42, 43, 49, 50, 67, 72, 76, 84, 124, 125, 182, 186
American response to 50, 53, 56
Hamas 49, 132, 172
Islamic 41, 42, 43, 63, 74, 186
Israeli response to 43, 44, 50, 53, 74, 113
jihadist 66
Palestinian 27, 37, 51, 55, 56, 64, 69, 73, 75, 108, 109, 127, 162, 202n40
suicide 22, 73.
see also Suicide bombing
Thatcher, Margaret 25
Theodorakis, Mikis 26, 201n133
Third International Christian Zionist Congress 106
Third World 18, 19, 26, 27, 69, 70, 118
Thomas, Norman 36
Thompson, Dorothy 122
A Thousand and One Arabian Nights (book) 17
Tikkun 166, 171, 176
Times 27, 201n137
Toronto International Film Festival 177
Trade Union Congress (TUC) 26
Trotskyites 40, 41, 62
Truman, Harry S. 11, 12, 14, 15, 62, 68
UN Resolutions 242 and 338 127
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (OU) 172
Union of Reform Judaism 172
Union Theological Seminary 122
UNISON 26
United Church of Christ (UCC) 117, 128
General Synod 132
United Jewish Appeal (UJA) 139, 142, 149
United Jewish Communities (UJC) 143(Table), 144(Table), 146(Table), 147(Table)
General Assembly 152
United Methodist Church 126, 129
United States Congress, AIPAC and 167, 174, 185
Democratic support for Israel in 84–85
Democrats in 59, 65
elections to 157
evangelicals in 96, 110
J Street and 170, 178
Jerusalem Embassy Act (1995) 109
pro-Israel resolutions 111
Reform movement and 172
Republican support for Israel 55, 110
Spector-Shelby Amendment 168, 174
United States Holocaust Memorial Council 131
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 15
Van Dusen, Henry 122, 124
Verba, Sidney 5
Vietnam 16, 33, 67
Vietnam War 34, 38, 40, 48(Table), 58, 61, 62, 63, 66, 68, 118, 131
Voices United for Israel 113
Wall, James 124
Wall Street Journal 27
Wallace, Henry 68
Wallis, Jim 97
Walt, Stephen M. 3, 19, 35, 37, 52, 159
Walzer, Michael 176
Washington Institute for Near East Policy 64, 217n28
Washington Post 13, 27, 47, 70, 73, 209n110
“Watchmen on the Wall,” 102
“We Are One,” 139, 149
Weekly Standard 46, 47, 49, 209n110
Weigal, George 44
Weimar Republic 41
Weinberger, Casper 34
Weinberger Doctrine 34
West Bank 21, 27, 45, 46, 50, 51, 74, 75, 81, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 127, 132, 160, 161(Table), 163, 165, 170, 186.
see also Settlements
Wexler, Robert 84
White House 11, 55, 81, 111, 174
Who Are We? (book) 185
“Who is a Jew,” 142, 157, 169
Whose Land? Whose Promise? (book) 108
Wiener, Martin 171
Wildman, David 129
Will, George 31, 47, 49, 50, 209n110
Wilson, James Q. 44
Wilson, Woodrow 13, 60, 122, 141
Wilsonianism 10, 34
WMD (Weapons of mass destruction) 63, 66
Wolfowitz, Paul 40, 41, 46, 112
World Alliance of YMCA 131
World Values Survey (WVS) 183
World War I 24, 96, 140
World War II 24, 42, 62, 69, 123, 130, 131, 140, 141
Wye Agreement (1998) 81, 163
Wye II Agreement 174
Yassin, Sheik Ahmen 52
Yglesias, Matthew 86, 88
Yoffie, Eric 1
14, 153, 172, 173, 177
Yom Kippur War 39, 149
Young liberal bloggers 86, 87
Zionism, American conservative movement support for 145
American Jewish and anti- 176–177
American Jewish support for 145, 149, 153, 156, 166
American support for 2, 9, 13, 140–141
anti- 25–26, 27, 44, 120–122, 124, 133, 166, 182
British support for 24
Christian 95, 97, 101, 102–103, 107, 109–110, 115, 126
Evangelical support for 99
Gentile American support for 10–11, 18
Liberal support for 86
mainline anti- 120, 121, 132, 133, 134
mainline pro- 122–123, 127
Obama and 82
post- 166, 170
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) 107, 140