July 2016 Issue [Folio]

My Holy Land Vacation

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Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

by Tom Bissell,

i. stand with israel
I listen to a lot of conservative talk radio. Confident masculine voices telling me the enemy is everywhere and victory is near — I often find it affirming: there’s a reason I don’t think that way. Last spring, many right-wing commentators made much of a Bloomberg poll that asked Americans, “Are you more sympathetic to Netanyahu or Obama?” Republicans picked the Israeli prime minister over their own president, 67 to 16 percent. There was a lot of affected shock that things had come to this. Rush Limbaugh said of Netanyahu that he wished “we…

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Tom Bissellis a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of nine books. His most recent, Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve, was published in March by Pantheon.

My Holy Land Vacation

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