After Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position as Speaker of the House, Republican Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana was selected as the newest Speaker, after multiple rounds of voting and weeks of vacancy at the position. McCarthy’s removal was the first ever in the history of the United States.

Johnson, who is a supporter of former President Donald Trump and contended that he had won the 2020 election against Joe Biden, touts himself as a strong Evangelical Christian and staunch supporting of Israel.

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Johnson told the host that if people want to know how Johnson views things, he said to “go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it — that’s my worldview.”

During his first speech as Speaker, Johnson pledged more support for Israel.

Our nation’s greatest ally in the Middle East is under attack—the first bill that I am going to bring to this floor, will be in support of our dear friend Israel. And we’re overdue in getting that done.

We’re going to show, not only Israel but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas that we have seen play out on our television screens is wretched and wrong and we are going to stand for the good in that conflict.

He said

NBC reported on October 30th that ‘ House Republicans released Monday includes $14.3 billion in emergency funding for Israel while rescinding the same amount of IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.’

I understand their priority is to bulk up the IRS, but I think if you put this to the American people and they weigh the two needs, I think they’re going to say standing with Israel and protecting the innocent over there is in our national interest and is a more immediate need than IRS agents.

Johnson told Fox News

For more on Johnson’s dealings and prior associations, Jewish paper Haaretz did a piece on him last week titled, “New House Speaker Mike Johnson, an Evangelical Christian, Holds Ties to Israel’s Far Right.”

Ben Samuels for the Jewish outlet wrote this confirmation “is also the most significant victory to date for evangelical Christians’ pro-Israel movement.” The article went on to explain:

Louisiana Rep. Johnson traveled to Israel in February 2020 with an under-the-radar group called the 12Tribe Films Foundation. The organization’s CEO is a social media activist named Avi Abelow, who emigrated from New York more than 30 years ago at age 18 and lives in the West Bank settlement of Efrat.

Abelow switched his vote from right-wing Likud to far-right Religious Zionism in last November’s general election, helping elevate Bezalel Smotrich to a position where he could demand a key role in Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. He told Haaretz following the election that his decision was motivated by his deep distrust of the Arabs serving in the Israeli parliament and genuine fears for his own safety living in the occupied territories.

Johnson’s first stop on his Abelow-organized visit was to the Kohelet Policy Forum – the conservative think tank that has been an essential partner to the government’s efforts to weaken the judiciary.

The fourth-term congressman also visited the Temple Mount compound alongside Yehudah Glick, a former Likud lawmaker who has led the fight to change the status quo and permit Jewish prayer at the flash point Jerusalem holy site – in opposition to both official Israeli government policy as well as that of the international community, particularly the Biden administration and Jordan.

Johnson later described his visit as “the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy,” while blaming the Temple Mount status quo on “the radical left” on college campuses and the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

Johnson is expected to bring rhetoric emerging from leading evangelicals in the weeks since the Hamas attack to the highest levels of Republican leadership.

Ninety evangelical leaders – later joined by nearly 2,000 others – signed a statement stating: “In keeping with Christian Just War tradition, we also affirm the legitimacy of Israel’s right to respond against those who have initiated these attacks as Romans 13 grants governments the power to bear the sword against those who commit such evil acts against innocent life.”

Top evangelical preachers such as John Hagee – whose Christians United For Israel has evolved into perhaps the most important pro-Israel organization among the GOP – and Greg Laurie have both invoked end times and Armageddon when discussing the Hamas attack and the resulting war.

Separately, Samuels wrote in a message on X: “House Speaker Mike Johnson holds ties to Israel’s far-right—traveling on a private visit organized by a top settler, meeting with the group behind Israel’s judicial overhaul and touring the Temple Mount with an activist against maintaining the status quo.”

For context, since 2021 Israel was beginning to grow restless concerning a number of pressing issues, but a big one being that civil war was starting to brew, that saw lynch mobs committed by Arabs and Jews, and reports mass robbery and anarchy.

Then by late-2022 and into early-2023, massive protests and demonstrations began breaking out across Israel as many protested against a set of judicial reforms Netanyahu was trying to get passed. Prior to the war launching this past month, Netanyahu was on trial for corruption charges that could land him in jail for a long time if convicted. Essentially, Netanyahu and his coalition were trying to get rid of Israel’s judicial system and checks and balances, so Netanyahu would not have to stand trial and could effectively pass whatever laws he wanted without any oversight.

You can read up on the details in these reports published earlier this year:

• Israel Sees Large-Scale Protests Breakout After Netanyahu Touts “Reform” Plans
• Israel On The Brink Of Civil War Over Netanyahu’s Policies To Erase Country’s System Of Checks And Balances
• Israeli President Herzog Says That Israel Is On The Verge Of Civil War, As Netanyahu Continues To Remove Judicial System

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Oh, your “worldview,” huh? You mean like this:

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Proverbs 18:16; Amos 5:12

Johnson is just another corrupt, lying neocon, that is buddie-buddie with his crooked partner Netanyahu and crew; that wants to bankroll other countries and wars, to enrich the lives of the military industrial complex, but does not want provide any real help to people here at home.

SEE: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Admits They Partnered With Pfizer To Create Genetic Database From Medical Records

Like always, so many people get suckered in when politicians wave around or simply speak of a Bible, and then everyone gets all jelly for these people. I mean, if you have no more discernment and perception than that then I really don’t know what to say. I am certainly no fan of this guy, but once again comedian George Carlin said it best: “Politicians have traditionally hidden by three things: the flag, the Bible, and children.”

Seriously, did you think that the war party in D.C. that has long since been co-opted by evil, slimy, corrupt warmongers, would hand select someone that would stymie their operations? Think people, think!

The corruption and egregious duplicity on display is not surprising really; but do you not find both comical and yet disgusting, that we, apparently, have to keep raising the debt ceiling and “borrowing” trillions into the now, and keep averting government shutdowns by continuously funding the Treasury just to keep the lights on; and while everything is insanely inflated, everything costs so much as our dollars keep buying less; and homelessness continues to mount, small business and the middle class becomes a fable, and so on – Republicans and Democrats do not hesitate to fund and start every war imaginable without second guessing?

Expect more of the same with Johnson, nothing will change.

As for the prosperity and Evangelical ministers of Satan listed in his article, Hagee and Laurie – Laurie is just an effeminate fruitcake who routinely changes the scripture whenever he feels like it.

And Hagee is a prosperity gospel sleaze, teaching some ridiculously heretical things about the Jews, saying they can be saved without going through Jesus Christ, and even implies that there are many Jews were who forcibly elected to salvation through “irresistible grace” and “unconditional election;” two heretical doctrines derived from Calvinism’s TULIP.

I believe that every Jewish person who lives in the light of the Torah, which is the word of God, has a relationship with God and will come to redemption.

I’m not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith.

In fact, trying to convert Jews is a ‘waste of time.’ The Jewish person who has his roots in Judaism is not going to convert to Christianity. There is no form of Christian evangelism that has failed so miserably as evangelizing the Jewish people. They (already) have a faith structure.’ Everyone else, whether Buddhist or Baha’i, needs to believe in Jesus, he says. But not Jews. Jews already have a covenant with God that has never been replaced by Christianity.

Hagee once said, just one of many blasphemies has said (San Antonio fundamentalist battles anti-Semitism,” Houston Chronicle, April 30, 1988, sec. 6, pg. 1.)

[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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