“…Lynn Gottlieb, a Rabbi in the Jewish renewal movement, also pointed out that, in her assessment, many of these eschatological beliefs have an anti-semitic core to them, which sees Jews as a tool for the realization of end times prophecy.
“What is scary now to me — and I think to many Jewish people — is the fact that the State of Israel is in partnership with people who hold these beliefs. And when you’re in partnership with people who hold such profoundly anti-semitic ideas, that Jews serve no other purpose than to be an instrument of the Apocalypse and the reestablishment of the Christian kingdom in the Holy Land, there is no intrinsic value that is placed on the Jewish tradition or people as worthy of its own expression,” Gottlieb said. “Israel is exploiting this theology for its own purposes and the partnership between Christian Zionism and Jewish Zionism has resulted in the genocide of the Palestinian people and the killing of people as part of the project of conquest that’s being exported to Lebanon and Iran in this moment.”
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“There is no doubt in my mind that if Iran continues to resist U.S. imperialism, Israel or the United States will go nuclear,” Gottlieb said. “This has to be said because this isn’t just a conversation about ideas. This is a conversation about when ideas like this impact the policy of people who hold the most deadly weapons and have no limit. We could be looking at the reintroduction of nuclear weapons as part of this war. People should be very frightened, because apocalyptic thinking has no problem using nuclear weapons.”…”