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In 1986, Barry Goldwater announced his retirement from politics. McCain successfully ran for Goldwater’s vacated senate seat. Since that time, McCain has run for Senate reelection three times, winning on each occasion. In the libertarian west, the maverick senator has proven quite popular. Below are a list of his stances on the issues.

Campaign Finance Reform

McCain crossed the isle to co-sponsor a campaign finance bill with Russ Feingold. The McCain-Feingold Act would change the way political campaigns are financed, curtailing donations by certain interest groups and corporations. This raised the ire of such Republicans as Rush Limbaugh, who suggested that McCain had betrayed his fellow Republicans by taking money out of their campaign war chests.

Others have complained that the act doesn’t go far enough, though McCain remains one of the few candidates to take up this issue. Campaign finance marks John McCain as a true reformer.

Social Issues

John McCain holds to the traditional Republican values on gay marriage and abortion. He has voted for the “right to life” acts. He also supported an amendment which would allow individual states to write laws on gay marriage.

The Environment

John McCain broke with his party on the environment. While most Republicans defend industrial and corporate rights to exploit the environment, McCain has pressed for laws to curtail anti-environmental activities. Once again, many Republicans view this as a betrayal of the conservative platform.

Immigration Reform

Another deviation from the G.O.P. mainstream is McCain’s stance on immigration. Like President Bush, McCain wants amnesty for illegal immigrants. McCain’s home state of Arizona is one of the states most affected by illegal immigration, so McCain has strong views on the issue.

McCain worked with Ted Kennedy on an immigration bill. This is no way to appeal to the Republican base.

Foreign Policy

McCain is hawkish on foreign policy. He has consistently supported U.S. policy towards the state of Israel. He has supported President Bush’s Iraq strategies, which is an increasingly unpopular stance in the Republican Party.

Though he has criticized the conduct of the war, McCain has never wavered in his belief that the war was necessary. McCain was critical of Donald Rumsfeld and his choices on troop strength. With Rumsfeld out at the Pentagon, McCain has put forward a plan to increase troop strength in Iraq. Once again, McCain has supported the Bush Administration’s newest policies.

Stance on Torture

As one would expect, McCain has been outspoken on the use of torture by the U.S. administration and its allies. The senator believes the use of torture on so-called terrorists is both unethical and impractical. His comments have riled some in the administration.

2000 Presidential Bid

McCain’s relationship with President George W. Bush has been complicated, to say the least. Their relationship soured during the 2000 Republican nomination process, when Bush’s people questioned McCain’s support of Vietnam veterans. McCain became visibly angry at these charges, accusing George Bush of using tactics worthy of Bill Clinton.

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William Manchester’s book,The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Visions of Glory, is quite remarkable considering its principles pertain to Israel’s situation today. Churchill was considered an “enemy of peace” by those who failed to recognize the German threat. He was basically abandoned in a political wilderness until the time came for him to come out in the spirit of the judges of Israel and deliver Great Britain from the Nazi menace.

Don’t we realize that whenever we warn about the Beast Power rising in Europe that we’ll be falsely accused of hating Germans, Europeans, and Catholics? Years ago certain ones on AOL accused my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise & Fall, of hating Catholics and German-bashing. I replied that it’s actually because I LOVE THE GERMANS, the Europeans and the Catholics that I want to help warn them to not blindly follow their leaders! It’s not only because I love our British-Israelite and Jewish brethren that the warning message must go out! Both Israelites and Europeans must be warned!

I’m of German descent, in part, from the Palatinate in West Germany. I certainly don’t hate Germans, but I do hate what the Nazis did and what Bible prophecy clearly says a German-led Europe will do again on an even greater scale! This time their Satan inspired hatred and murder won’t just be against our Jewish brethren but against Joseph: the Anglo-Saxons!

Consider this excellent quote from The Last Lion: Speaking of the type of leader necessary to stand up to Hitler: “England looked for another Alfred, a figure cast in a mold which, by the time of the Dunkirk deliverance, seemed to have been forever lost. England’s new leader, were he to prevail, would have to be everything England’s decent, civilized Establishment had rejected (sound familiar? those impotent ones who worry about reputation and remaining polite and respectable aren’t effective in facing the Challenge)… Their successor would have to be a passionate Manichaen who saw the world as a medieval struggle to the death between the powers of good and the powers of evil, who held that individuals are responsible for their actions and that the German dictator was therefore wicked…Like Adolf Hitler he would have to be a leader of intuitive genius, a born demagogue in the original sense of the word, a believer in the supremacy of his race and his national destiny (not one who has forgotten or miserably doubts his Identity), an artist who knew how to gather the blazing light of history into his prism… Such a man, if he existed, would be England’s last chance. In London there was such a man.”

The question begs to be answered whether or not there’s such a man in Jerusalem today; whether Israel will finally have a leader who will boldly reclaim Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount, and will refuse to tolerate Amalekites claiming Jerusalem as their capital! A leader who knows and understands that the Holy Land was promised to Israel and not to Ishmael. If not, and Zion and Jerusalem fall to Catholic Europe because we’ve failed to heed Churchillian warnings, and shamefully despised those Christian-Zionists and Jews who delivered them, then the Messiah will surely save us out of the dreadful “Time of Jacob’s Trouble” - but we’ll have first suffered the greatest tribulation to strike planet earth.

About the Author

David Ben-Ariel, an American author who has travelled widely and who has lived throughout Israel, shares a special focus on the Middle East and great interest in Jerusalem, reflected in hard-hitting articles that help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out www.benariel.com