NEW YORK TIMES
A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem
by Michelle Goldberg
May 14, 2018

From the second paragraph, you see where this train wreck is headed: The [Jerusalem embassy opening] event was grotesque. It was a consummation of the cynical alliance between hawkish Jews and Zionist evangelicals who believe that the return of Jews to Israel will usher in the apocalypse and the return of Christ, after which Jews who don’t convert will burn forever….This spectacle, geared toward Donald Trump’s Christian American base, coincided with a massacre about 40 miles away…The juxtaposition of images of dead and wounded Palestinians and Ivanka Trump smiling in Jerusalem like a Zionist Marie Antoinette tell us a lot about America’s relationship to Israel right now. READ MORE