{"id":8593,"date":"2009-05-30T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2009-05-30T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:43:21","slug":"onward-christian-zionists-torturing-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8593","title":{"rendered":"Onward, Christian Zionists \/ Torturing Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternatefocus.org\/\">ALTERNATE FOCUS FEATURED VIDEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christian Zionists believe that in order to fulfill Biblical prophecy, Israel must conquer most of the Middle East. They are a growing force in American politics with ties to many powerful pro-Israel groups in Washington. Once considered a marginal doctrine among evangelicals, the dispensationalist theology of Christian Zionism includes a belief in the rapture, when the faithful are to be lifted up to Heaven while the rest of humanity\u2014including most of the Jews\u2014will perish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The documentary, Torturing Democracy, a collaboration between the National Security Archive and Washington Media Associates, <a href=\"http:\/\/torturingdemocracy.org\/\">can be viewed in its entirety online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The website features many quotes including this one by Andrew Sullivan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please watch \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/torturingdemocracy.org\/\">Torturing Democracy<\/a>.\u2019  It isn&#8217;t easy to watch; but what so many innocent (and guilty) individuals were subjected to in your name was unimaginably harder.  As readers know, I&#8217;ve been fixated on this since Abu Ghraib. But that documentary made me ill by forcing me again to absorb the enormity of what Bush and Cheney have done &#8211; and the urgent, urgent task of repairing the damage.  If America is to recover, those responsible must be put on trial. Including the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush and Cheney didn&#8217;t usher in an era of U.S. sponsored torture; they attempted to bring it out of the closet.  How are pundits able to claim the U.S. has an innocence to recover or represents it now without losing all credibility?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTERNATE FOCUS FEATURED VIDEO Christian Zionists believe that in order to fulfill Biblical prophecy, Israel must conquer most of the Middle East. They are a growing force in American politics with ties to many powerful pro-Israel groups in Washington. Once &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8593\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}