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Just nuke Gaza, get it over quick, advises US Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist

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Walberg went on to say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "moral clarity".

"The most impressive experience was being able to be with Bibi Netanyahu," Walberg said. "In his presence, I understand very clearly he knows good from evil, right from wrong, success from failure."

US College and University students protest

In the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Gaza, American college students began protesting the Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza. They carried Palestinian flags and placards reading 'Free Palestine' and 'Stop the War' among other sentiments. The American youth have seen the war on Gaza as a social justice issue that needs to be solved, and the US and other nations have called for a two-state solution, where Palestinians and Jews live in freedom 'from the river to the sea'.

However, AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobbying group that welds enormous power over the Congress and the White House, immediately instituted a campaign to discredit university presidents, professors and students with a label of 'anti-Semitics'.

Walberg authored a letter in October and signed it along with 43 other lawmakers calling on Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to take action on college campuses across the US.

Walberg, and others, identified statements in support of Palestinians as 'anti-Semitism', when the freedom for Palestinians called for by the students is the same as the UN resolution ratified by the US and calling for a two-state solution, which Netanyahu has said will never be allowed in Israel.

Palestinian Christians

Christian churches in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli forces, including a Baptist church. The remaining Christian communities would be among those facing the nukes called for by Walberg, a former Baptist pastor.

"A genocide has been normalized," Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, said during his Easter Vigil sermon on March 30, as he pleaded for an end to the war in Gaza.

"As people of faith, if we truly claim to follow a crucified Savior, we can never be okay with this. We should never accept the normalization of a genocide. We should never be okay with children dying from starvation," Isaac said.

"These are dark, dark days. And in times like this, we Palestinians look at the cross, identify with the cross, and see Jesus identifying with us," he added as he stood next to a cross planted in rubble to represent Gaza. "In Easter, we relive his arrest, torture, and execution at the hands of empire with a complicity of the religious ideology."

Isaac said, speaking to Al Jazeera from Bethlehem in the West Bank at Easter, "I think the restrictions this year have definitely increased. Even for us here in Bethlehem - and Jerusalem is literally 20 minutes away from here - we don't have access."

Zionism

The opinion Walberg voiced publicly was full of hate and racism. He might have gotten away with his bigoted hate speech; however, he is a former Christian leader, and is on the record as depending on his faith as the guiding factor in his life and public service.

How did Walburg profess Christian faith, while suggesting a quick end to the Israeli war on Gaza by using nuclear bombs?

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I am Steven Sahiounie Syrian American two time award winning journalist and political commentator Living in Lattakia Syria.I am the chief editor of MidEastDiscours I have been reporting about Syria and the Middle East for about 8 years

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