Time is not on the Jews' side. I am not sure why conservatives should be, either. These Christian 'conservative' types who go around saying Bush is too pro-Palestinian (about 1% of the rest of the world might agree) are the most ridiculous, because about 10% of the oppressed Arab Palestinian population is Christian (as compared with a negligible number of a few thousand Messianic Jews). Even worse, most Israelis, especially the political leadership, are not theistic and don't really relate to these Bible stories (so how can they be prophesized as THE chosen nation). The conflict is not Jewish-Muslim, it is racial: Jewish-Arab. Of course it is complicated because Jews today have different ethnic lines but a common identity, yet the racial nature can be seen in the second-class treatment of Sephardic Jews. The faithful, religious Jews for their part are mostly not super-Zionist. So, why should conservatives support Israel, a country that is basically atheist-liberal and oppressing Christians?

Of course they shouldn't, but we must remember some of these theocons are total obscurantists and not conservatives. They listen to happy-clappy 'I love JEEEZUS He is AWEEESOMME' music in huge mega-churches which focus on obscure Old Testament prophecies and not on our Christian spiritual struggles or the Message of Christ. Ironically, their religious practice most resembles ISLAM in its fundamentalism and literalist interpretation of its sacred text.