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It would be interesting to know how much of a role ethnic solidarity played in Elena Kagan's woeful affirmative action record: only one non-white appointed to a tenure or tenure-track position at Harvard Law School during her deanship (and that an Asian woman who happened to be married to another member of the Harvard faculty).
Patton's Third Army occupied Thuringia and Saxony in April of 1945. I believe this included Dresden. The Americans did not evacuate these two provinces until some 100 days later, after the Potsdam Conference, in accordance with previous agreements with the Soviets.
The Israelis could still have something better than a Bernadotte deal, a one-state solution that guarantees rights to them, if only they would start negotiating in good faith.
They seem to have no intention of doing so.
It certainly is possible to have a certain sympathy for Irgun, the Communists, and their sympathizers of yore. What is not possible is not to have the same sympathy for Hamas and its sympathizers, unless one is operating purely on the basis of prejudice.
Looks like those dollars are still at work, at least according to the Iranian Red Crescent: AFP: Iran says Egypt barring Gaza aid ship from canal. The Suez Canal Authority denies that it or Egypt is what is preventing the ship from going through.
There is an excellent history of the last years of the DNVP, Hermann Beck's The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light. Unfortunately, the book is quite expensive.
Duesterberg's DNVP (German Nationalist) supporters no doubt felt more comfortable voting for Hitler than for either of his remaining opponents, even Hindenburg. The DNVP ended up as Hitler's coalition partners when Hitler's coalition government came to power in January 1933. The leader of the DNVP, Hugenberg, got a major ministry in that coalition government. (Only Hugenberg and a lot of other non-Nazis soon lost all power, and the DNVP itself was dissolved within months of the coalition coming to power.)
I doubt if Duesterberg himself, the co-head of the Stahlhelm conservative veterans association, approved of the Nazis coming to power. As someone with Jewish ancestry, he was not only denied any role in the coalition government, but he was quickly forced to resign his leadership position in the Stahlhelm. Although arrested during the Night of the Long Knives (aka R&oeml;hm Purge), Duesterberg did manage to survive the Third Reich, dying in 1950.
Another major figure in the DNVP, Ernst Oberfohren, the leader of the DNVP fraction in the Reichstag, was not so lucky. He was known to be uneasy about his party's alliance with the Nazis, and eventually became critical of party leader Hugenberg's support of this alliance. A couple of days after the Reichstag voted to approve Hitler's Enabling Act in late March 1933, Oberfohren was forced to resign his leadership position and his Reichstag seat altogether, because Göring's eavesdropping agency, the Forschungsamt, was already eavesdropping on prominent people, and so became aware that Oberfohren was criticizing Hugenberg to other members of the DNVP, which resulted in police raids on Oberfohren's offices that led to his resignation. By the beginning of June, for whatever reason, Oberfohren was found dead, in a rather suspicious case of alleged suicide.
The DNVP is important for any allegations that Hitler ever got a majority, because in the last semi-free elections in Germany, in March 1933, the coalition only got a majority if one includes the DNVP junior partners in the coalition. The Nazis got 43.9% of the vote, the DNVP got 8.0%.
Once the Nazi dictatorship was fully installed, further elections and referenda did not even have the semblance of being free. In the Reichstag election of Nov. 1933, the sole slate allowed, the Nazi one, got 92.2% of the vote. In the simultaneous referendum on Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations, 93.4% voted Yes. Further referenda had even more lopsided results. Odd in a way, because by that point a clear majority of the German people undoubtedly had come to support the Nazi government.
Amy Teibel was the AP reporter responsible for that story.
New AP story on Gilad Shalit's family setting out on march to Jerusalem to pressure Israeli government to make deal that results in release of Shalit, Captured soldier's family marching to Jerusalem, continues lie that blockade of Gaza was a result of Shalit's capture:
Jeffrey Goldberg alleges that Israelis' unwillingness to be made suckers again explains Netanyahu's policies: Netanyahu's Dilemma:
If they really believe this, and are not just saying that they do, they are victims of their own propaganda.
Talk about being a sucker.
Ynet News reports that the UN General Assebly will take up the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla while Netanyahu is visiting the U.S. in July. UN General Assembly to discuss Gaza flotilla raid:
Der Spiegel reports that Netanyahu's government rejected a German-arranged prisoner exchange that would have resulted in the release of Gilad Shalit: Israels Fehler: Streit um Niebels Gaza-Reise [Israel's Mistake: Niebel's Disputed Visit to Gaza]:
If this is true, it makes it pretty clear that Israel is not blockading Gaza in order to get Shalit released. Rather, it is making sure he is not released so that it can continue to use his being held as an excuse to continue the blockade.
The Ethiopians I have known here in the U.S. (and there are a lot of them in the D.C. area) have struck me as perfectly intelligent, certainly with IQ's way above 70-80.
Where did the Asians fit in? Did they put them in one of the other categories (Coloureds, presumably)?
Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, is a Semitic language. As is Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia. As is Arabic.
Hanging Judge Jeffreys was the villain in Captain Blood. He sentenced Dr. Peter Blood to transportation and penal servitude in the West Indies for rendering medical assistance to the rebels in Monmouth's Rebellion.
This Supreme Court would approve of what Judge Jeffreys did.
Ynet News is reporting that the UN General Assembly will take up the issue of the attack on the Freedom Flotilla while Netanyahu is in the U.S. in early July: UN General Assembly to discuss Gaza flotilla raid:
Recent Der Spiegel article blames Netanyahu for nixing the prisoner exchange: Israels Fehler: Streit um Niebels Gaza-Reise [Israel's Mistake: Niebel's Disputed Visit to Gaza]:
Etzioni seems to assume that it is necessary for the U.S. to remain in the Middle East as a superpower. Why is that necessary?
The reactor at Dimona went critical on Dec. 26, 1963. Israel and the Bomb.
Interesting date.
No harm in saying more than once something that happens to be true.
I remember how the classical archaeologist Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum expressed to me the opinion that there was a lot about what Israel was doing that was like what the Nazis had done. Since she had survived the Third Reich, she probably knew what she was talking about.
She told me this while I was working at the Instituted for Advanced Study in Princeton. So it was at some time during the 1980's.
Funny, then, how it's the Ulster Protestants who have been demonstrative in their support of Israel, whereas Irish Catholics have supported the Palestinian cause. Ireland, Ulster and the Flotilla Inquiry:
Maybe the two sides in Ireland know more than you do?
I don't think blacks in this country object to comparisons between Jim Crow and the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis. I know that I, as an Irish-American, have absolutely no objection to comparisons between that treatment and how my people, the Irish, were the victims of colonial settler policies. As a matter of fact, I believe most Irish Catholics, far from having any objections to such comparisons, sympathize with the Palestinians precisely because they see parallels.
I am currently reading the just-released third volume of Hart's Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews. The first chapters deal precisely with the '67 war and the attack on the USS Liberty.
Absolute equality and brutal apartheid aren't necessarily the only possible one-state solutions. You could have constitutional guarantees for both nationalities in a binational state (if necessary, guaranteed by international guarantors as part of the settlement).
For example, I continue to think of John C. Calhoun's idea of a concurrent majority. You could have a legislative house for each of the two nationalities, with approval by both houses necessary for any legislation. You could have two executives, a la the two consuls in Rome, each of whom could veto any action by the other.
De Klerk tried to negotiate for constitutional guarantees for the whites in South Africa in the last years of white rule. He eventually had to settle just for straight equality, it is said because Mandela was enraged when he found out that de Klerk's government was secretly behind the Third Force violence in the last years of white rule. But who knows what could have been achieved if the negotiations had happened a few years earlier?
One of the threads of thought running through the new third volume of Alan Hart's Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews is how already, in the 1980's and 1990's, such settlements as the Israelis already had then in the Occupied Territories made it extremely difficult for Israeli leaders to make peace with the Palestinians, because of the threat of an Israeli civil war. By now, the threat of civil war is far worse.
A two-state solution is by now almost certainly absolutely impossible politically for Israeli leaders.
Maybe a de Gaulle could do it, but where is a de Gaulle?
Shlomo Sand committed that sin in his book
And his book was praised in reviews by the likes of Tony Judt and Max Hastings, and won a big prize in France.
Interesting blog commentary on the CSIS charge: Charlie Smith: CBC helps CSIS change the lead story from the Air India bombing to foreign espionage:
Toronto Sun: PM never warned about CSIS allegations:
Jews are only 1.1% of the population of Canada. What does this reflect, the power of the Bronfmans?
The Supreme Court's decision earlier this week approved classifying the PKK Kurdish rebels in Turkey as a terrorist group and of crimininalizing merely associating with them. If -- as seems likely -- Israel is now coordinating attacks with the PKK, what are the legal implications for Israel?
A friend of mine who visited Politics & Prose a couple of weeks ago (shortly before the announcement that the store was up for sale) told me that the store had prominently displayed many copies of Sasha Polakow-Suransky's The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa .
Israel threatens world peace like no other country (with the possible exception of the United States). Seems to me that's sufficient reason to focus on it.
Der Spiegel reports that Netanyahu’s government rejected a German-arranged prisoner exchange that would have resulted in the release of Gilad Shalit: Israels Fehler: Streit um Niebels Gaza-Reise [Israel's Mistake: Niebel's Disputed Visit to Gaza]:
If this is true, it makes it pretty clear that Israel is not blockading Gaza in order to get Shalit released. Rather, it is making sure he is not released so that it can continue to use his being held as an excuse to continue the blockade.
Cohen wrote a biography of Bukharin 30 years ago, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938. I wonder why The New Republic assigned the review to Berman.
How can I comment on the report you cite, when I have no idea what the Americans in that convoy were doing, and I also have no idea who attacked them? I do notice in that report the allegation that the CIA was in the convoy.
And I am reminded that the U.S. State Dept.'s largest security contractor is Blackwater, or whatever that firm is currently called:
When whatever happened in Gaza in Oct. 2003 happened, Blackwater was already providing security to our diplomats in Iraq. Looks, from the Wikipedia entry on Blackwater Security Consulting, like it was also already providing security for our diplomats in Israel:
The Wikileaks entry on Furkan Doğan continues this morning to have the notice we heard about yesterday that the article may be deleted:
The article also says that Doğan "had dual American and Turkish citizenship", citing to a New York Times article. Haven't we learned (from an interview with Doğan's father that was posted on Daily Kos) that Doğan only had U.S. citizenship?
It was the Phoenicians who were the sailors, not the Hebrews.
Of course, both peoples spoke what were essentially different dialects of the same language, and used basically the same alphabet.
But the Phoenicians were definitely not monotheists.
Lévy studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and then at the École Normale Supérieure, from which he graduated with a degree in philosophy. Surely he knows better.
The Greeks might have something to say about this.
Was there even a word for anything like "democracy" in Biblical Hebrew?
Let's hope future flotillas take care not to coordinate what they're doing with Hamas, since today's Supreme Court decision makes it clear that independent action not coordinated with the terrorist group in question is not prohibited by the statute.
On the other hand, the PKK Kurdish rebels are one of the two allegedly terrorist organizations directly involved in today's case (the other being the Tamil Tigers.) I wonder what implications that will have for current Israeli (and U.S. military/intel?) coordination of activities with the PKK.
The plutocrats in this country avoid any change inimical to their interest by controlling both parties that have any chance of being elected. The "left" party, the Democrats, are just there to provide the illusion of choice.
Maybe J Street was set up for similar reasons?
Meanwhile, Congress goes the other way. Pro-Israel letter unites Senate Democrats, Republicans:
It would be interesting to know who the 15 were who did not sign.
Westerwelle is openly gay. He may have a natural sympathy for the underdog, the way Jews used to have (and some of them still do).
What look like very important developments on the German front:
The report I read said "Israeli-occupied", rather than "Israeli-controlled," and I was very puzzled indeed how anyone would consider the port of Gaza Israeli-occupied. But is it even Israeli-controlled?
Thomas was a Marshall Scholar, and got an M.Phil. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford. At least in his youth, he was no dummy.
A reading of Paul McGeough's Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas leaves one with the strong suspicion that Israel launched the failed attempt to assassinate Khalid Mishal in 1997 in order to leave a different leader that Israel preferred in control of Hamas.
Sounds like Friedman is one of those trying to bring about a military coup in Turkey to remove Erdogan's government.
Pity for these schemers that Israel's joining forces with the PKK has made any such venture even less possible than it was before.
And Friedman has the nerve to suggest that, whereas Erdogan and his government are not democratic, a coup government would be democratic.
So Friedman would have us believe that it was just a coincidence that, two hours before the Israelis attacked the Freedom Flotilla, the PKK attacked the Turkish naval base at Iskenderun near the Syrian border, which just happened to be the base from which any Turkish naval assistance to the flotilla would have come? What's more, he would have us believe it was so clearly just a coincidence that to believe anything else is insane?
A lot of people were excited by the events leading to World War One in July-August 1914 as well.
The Lebanese aid ship for Gaza "Miriam" is due to set sail from Tripoli in Lebanon next week, with 50 Christian and Muslim Lebanese women on board with medical supplies. The Israeli media are doing their best to tie the ship in with Hizbullah, like they tried to tie the Freedom Flotilla in with Hamas.
Without Bose's Indian National Army, which fought with the Japanese against the British, and without the mutinies in the Indian navy and army that were precipitated by the attempt to try the veterans of the Indian National Army for treason right after the end of World War Two, I doubt if the British would have quit India quite as soon as they did.
Nonviolence was accompanied by violence, and the stark threat of further violence if nonviolence was not allowed to win.
I couldn't connect to the Maan article on the Lebanese relief ship "Miriam" due to leave for Gaza next week that Google says is there.
New report in Forward: link to forward.com">Push To Sanction Backers of Gaza Flotilla Gains Steam in U.S.: Jewish Leaders, Lawmakers Seek ‘Terrorist’ Status for Turkish Group:
"Those who support terrorist activities" could be interpreted to cover a lot of people.
Was the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, from the McCarthy era, ever struck down?
Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book The Unspoken Alliance says that Israeli strategists thought in the mid-1980's that apartheid still had about 20 years to go in South Africa.
Let me try to code that again:
The Wikipedia entry on the Hamidian massacres of the Armenians in the 1890’s estimates the number of victims in the six figures:
I’d say that qualifies them as “massacres”.
The Wikipedia entry on the of the Armenians in the 1890's estimates the number of victims in the six figures:
I'd say that qualifies them as "massacres".
Sultan Abdul Hamid's massacres of the Armenians in the 1890's may not have been full-fledged enough to count as genocide, but later history certainly shows that they were a precursor of such. And "maltreatment" is a serious understatement of what they constituted.
The same sultan's massacres of the Bulgarians some two decades earlier were serious enough to swing a British election and bring Gladstone back to power.
Bibi having trouble getting his cabinet to approve this decision?
Unfortunately, it's those who are left to vote who get to decide who controls the nukes.
This Gaza Flotilla Anthem was written by Tommy Sands in conversation with Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan-Maguire before the Gaza bound boat the
Rachel Corrie left for Gaza. The words show the peaceful intent of the Mission. An mp3 of the track is available on request.
Peace on the Shores of Gaza
We are sailing away with hope in our soul
We are sailing to say You are not alone
Sailing today Salaam Shalom (Two neighbours wishing for the same Salaam and Shalom)
For Peace on the shores of Gaza
We bear no weaponry of war, no gun nor mortar
We bear no hatred in our hearts for any living creature
But when this human family pains no matter where the nation
Can we not give some comfort then and keep communication
Memories of bitter days gone by, pain too sad to mention (Holocaust)
And as the wire rises higher the more good neighbours question (both neighbours)
Who is gaining from this war in dark deliberation (Yes who on all sides?)
And watch poor people live in fear (Israelis) or die in desperation (Palestinians)
We come with nothing much to give but words of caring
We come knowing when we leave it's we who are learning
From a spirit that survives the tides of cruel devastation
Can rise again and sow the seeds of peace and celebration (both sides)
For further information, mp3 of ‘Shores of Gaza’ or to speak with Tommy, contact Pat Tynan
pattynan@btinternet.com
With the rapid decline of the power of the U.S., the room is open for regional alliances that do not involve outside powers.
The kind of attacks on infrastructure you suggest is what the ANC concentrated on in its later years. Combined with its international attacks on the legitimacy of apartheid South Africa, and Mandela's convincing white South African leaders that he did not represent an existential threat to them, that sort of attacks led to ultimate victory.
Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Congress Party, and the founder of the Indian National Army that fought on the Japanese side against Britain in World War Two, showed where India might go if the British did not quit India. Because Indian popular opinion was so sympathetic to the captured soldiers of the Indian Army, and because there were mutinies of the ratings in the Royal Indian Navy and of the other ranks in the British Indian Army, Britain was forced, after the war, to abandon the idea of executing or deporting those captured soldiers. They were released.
If Britian had not quit India, there was every prospect of violence.
I do not consider a "footnote" that resulted in millions of deaths (and may yet result in many millions more) to be a mere "tiny footnote".
A statement yesterday by the Israeli government indicates it regards Lebanon as an "enemy state."
If the same forces that killed JFK are still in power in the U.S. and are the forces that continue to drive us into wars, then the way he died should matter to you.
I have two recent works to recommend on the JFK assassination that in my opinion prove he was killed by the U.S. national security state: James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, and Douglas Horne's five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK. However, the fact that the U.S. national security state was primarily responsible for the assassination does not exclude the possibility of there having been accomplices.
Or he may be afraid to allow thoughts to wander towards what he suspects the truth is about that assassination.
A month before the attack on the flotilla (which just happened to occur at about the same time as the PKK Kurdish rebel attack on the Turkish naval base at Iskenderun,) there were reports in the press that the Turks had moved into the Iskenderun area antiaircraft batteries that were intended to prevent Israeli air attacks on Syria and Iran.
I suspect that those batteries will present a great obstacle to future Israeli aggression to the north. What the Israelis have managed to accomplish in recent military escapades, they were able to do because of air supremacy.
Air travel has gotten to be such a torment, they really ought to bring back the ocean liners.
The third volume of Richard Evans's history of the Third Reich, The Third Reich at War engages in some very convoluted and implausible reasoning to reach the conclusion that what the Third Reich did to the Gypsies was somehow not true genocide. (If memory serves, his reasoning is that, because the Nazis killed even half-Gypsies, whereas they allowed half-Jews to live, that somehow meant that what they did to the Gypsies was not genocide. It didn't make any sense to me at all.)
Lemkin's definition as codified in the convention is very broad indeed. When will Israel's treatment of the Palestinians cross over into the territory covered by that definition of "genocide"? Or has it done so already?
And once it does become genocide, or if it is already genocide, what does that mean other states are obliged under that convention to do with respect to Israel?
One of the flotilla's ships (the Gazze) was carrying the Turkish flag, one was carrying the U.S. flag, two were carrying the Greek flag.
Plenty of NATO involvement.
It was a unanimous decision by the court. (Opinion of the Court written by retiring Justice Stevens.)
It's already been 43 years since the attack on the USS Liberty.
Does the U.S. State Department consider East Jerusalem part of the West Bank? If it does not, that security advisory would not apply to it.
For much the same reasons the white South Africans did?
That Ha'aretz article seems to indicate Israel now considers Lebanon an "enemy state":
I wonder when the U.S. will follow this step by Israel: Israel adds Turkish organizers of Gaza flotilla to terror watch list.
Also W.E.B. DuBois, until the whole practice of denying passports to political dissidents was struck down by the Warren Court in Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958) ("Kent" being Rockwell Kent.)
Why is Israel so supremely important to the corporatists? Are they able to do things there and through that country that otherwise they cannot do?
Turns out Furkan Dogan was only 18 years old (Turkish states ages as one greater than we do: Dogan was in his 19th year, hence 19.)
Speaking of the 1950's, the list of terrorist organizations increasingly looks like the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations back in the McCarthyite time. Totally political.
Robert McCartney, who reported on Emily Henochowicz for the Washington Post, U.S. student pays devastating physical price to protest Israel's actions, has a good deal of editorial independence for his column, which appears in the Metro section.
"Transparency" has become a favorite word of the Obama administration, and of Hillary Clinton in particular. Where did that word come from? I don't recall hearing it at all when I was growing up.
I was able to get an Irish passport because I could show the Irish embassy the baptismal certificate of one of my parents. Actually, to get an Irish passport, it's enough to document that one of your parents or gransparents was born on Ireland (for this purpose, including Northern Ireland). Actually, both my parents and all four of my grandparents were born on the island of Ireland (although, at the time they were born, it was part of the territory of the then-existing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,) but one parent was enough.
At an interdepartmental meeting during the Bush I administration, Attorney General Barr said at one point, "F*** international law!", as I was told by someone who was at the meeting.
So the attitude has been there for quite some time. But at that time they had not yet gone public with it.
The Germans justified their barbaric behavior in their war on the Eastern Front against Soviet Russia by saying it was a new kind of war, a Weltanschauungskrieg.
The EU's offer, which Israel has already rejected, to inspect shipments in Cyprus before letting them through ought to be a sufficent answer to any problems about weapons.
Sounds like Arnaiz-Villena has been exonerated. From his Wikipedia entry:
Let us remember that in 2002 Arnaz's right-wing government was in power in Spain.
The Newsweek article says the DNA does not support the Khazar descent theory, but that's only a peripheral part of Sand's case. The basis of his case is that current Jews have a lot of blood in them that is not from the ancient Hebrews, and the study discussed in the article says the DNA does support Sand's view that an awful lot of non-Jewish people in the Greco-Roman world were converted to Judaism, so that European Jews significantly diverge in DNA from Middle Eastern Jews.
There's also this:
So the DNA of Palestinians is apparently very much like that of Middle Eastern Jews.
Ulster Unionists have a natural affinity for Zionist colonialism, as the National Party supporters of apartheid in South Africa did, as documented in the recent book The Unspoken Alliance.
The PA did initially oppose the UN taking up the Goldstone Report (allegedly, according to some reports, because the Israelis coerced him by threatening to reveal how he had supported Operation Cast Lead). The PA was quickly forced by Palestinian popular opinion to reverse its position on the Goldstone Report.
The National in Dubai is reporting that Ha'aretz is reporting that unnamed European officials have told the paper that they were briefed by White House officials that Abbas, on his recent visit to Washington, asked Obama to keep the blockade of Gaza in place, but the PA denounces the report as Israeli propaganda: Did Abbas ask for siege of Gaza to be kept in place?:
How's that for convoluted reporting? Circles within circles.
Meanwhile, here's what I find in Ha'aretz: Hamas rejects Abbas insistence on supervising Gaza aid: Abbas calls PA 'legitimate government' of Gaza, while Hamas says: Abbas doesn't exist here.:
Not quite the same thing as asking Washington to keep the blockade in place. But close.
Ah, but to what extent is it Hamas that is firing those rockets?
"In harm's way" is no neologism, unless you consider John Paul Jones recent:
And this retired lieutenant commander can testify that that saying is a favorite one in the U.S. Navy.
A very informative book about Hamas is Paul McGeough's Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas.
McGeough was on the Freedom Flotilla, on assignment as a journalist.
It's an oversimplification to say that, all through the history of Nazi Germany, the law was simply what Adolf Hitler said. In late 1933, most of the defendants in the Reichstag Fire trial were acquitted by the Reichsgericht. Reichstag Fire Trial. As a matter of fact, it was Hitler's fury at this result that led to his establishing the Volksgerichtshof, the People's Court that condemned the White Rose protesters.
But, even though gradually the German legal system was more and more Nazified over time, Hitler continued to be dissatisfied by German courts' decisions. The last time the Reichstag met, on April 26, 1942, it was to pass a law that gave Hitler total power to overrule court decisions.
I've read allegations that Lyndon Johnson was raised as a Christian Zionist. I'd have to be convinced, however, that there was anything he wasn't a total cynic about.