News that ScoMoses’ latest brain bubble is to move the Australian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been greeted as something wholly connected to the Wentworth byelection. For lo, ScoMoses went up to the top of Bellevue Hill, and he returned with two tablets, and lo they were Panadol, for the headache this byelection hath become.
But is that just it? Or is Wentworth acting as a cover for yet another initiative on the happy-clappy agenda? Israel has assumed great importance in the evangelical Christian agenda in recent decades, as part of a wider notion of prophecy, largely fueled by the Book of Revelation, John’s gonzo acid-trip Bible finale. In this conception, to oversimplify somewhat, the return of the Jews to Israel signals the approach of the apocalypse, leading to the Day of Judgement.
There are different types of evangelicals, some more apocalyptic than others, but Israel and the Zionist lobby has been happy to make strong links with them over past decades. That’s despite the inconvenient fact that the prophecy says that half the Jews shall be converted, and the other half flung into hell as the children of Satan. But hey, can’t agree on everything.
Central to that prophecy is that Jerusalem shall be the sole and undivided capital of Israel, of course. Has ScoMoses taken the opportunity to use the Wentworth byelection to do something we want to do anyway? Have we now got the happy-clappy version of the obsessive mediaevalism that Mr Tony foisted on us?
Is the Liberal Party now just a holdall of nutjobs and weirdos, using their brief moments in power to try to smuggle in their obsessive agenda? Meanwhile, why not move the Israeli embassy in Australia to Bellevue Hill? Doubtless, Dave Sharma, if elected, will be a fine and upstanding member, but with the impending departure of Michael Danby, there’s an opening…
And lo they were panadol….gold Guy..!!
Scomoses is probably having nightmares about the existence of hell…..
In hindsight Panadol Forte would be more apt.
Bring on the dancing frogs and The Lice and Locust Orchestra, and pass the bloody water.
…. Is “Susan Boils” on Scomoses’ bill, if they don’t vote for Dave ….?
Ok, Grundle, “ScoMoses” was worth the price of a Crikey subscription just by itself. I’d like to give you credit for every-time I use it from now on, but I probably won’t…
Incidentally, according to the happyclappies, the Jews inheriting Jerusalem is an important and essential part of Biblical prophesy, however not for the sake of the Jews themselves. They will burn in hellfire at the close of the world. The Jewish people are but players in the Book of Revelation – they do their bit and then exit stage left.
The wacko Christian right is throwing all their support towards Israel just so the Jews can do their song and dance number and then quietly go to hell.
And people sometimes ponder on why I remain an atheist?
Damnit, you already said that. I scanned way too quickly. Soz Guy.
Darn, I didn’t realise Danby was retiring to his sinecure, which scuppers my bipartisan proposal. That both Danby and Sharma be obliged to register as lobbyists, if not agents of influence, for a foreign government.
Whatever Mr Shouty’s motives, let’s see what an electorate of the richest – ergo, in their own terms, the best & brightest – do on Saturday.
If integrity, decency & principled behaviour are not to vanish from the earth or at least our public sphere, it could deliver this shower a swift, corrective kick where it’ll do most good – elect either Phelps or wossisname – then, sooner rather than later at the much anticipated general election, revert to type and return a tory.
If only. Just. This. Once.
“Tomaytow : tomarto”?
Deliberately (or just plain stupid) provocative as it is, Phelps a “once upon a time” Liberal – on The Dum yesterday – said she was open to persuasion on moving “our” embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Yet there was an intelligent candidate who was both Green and indigenous too. Some say Phelps is another blue rinse Tory type but others say she is married to a woman. Whatever, she is intelligent too, which is not to be taken for granted. But either way I am sad that a real alternative was not elected.