Muslim Sleepers? I call bovine excrement on that one. That group of people represents Christians, many of whom have been *WIPED OUT* by ISIL/ISIS in many areas. Down to the last child. And all most of you have seen or read is what has been reported in various partisan pieces.

Here’s the reality for you. Israel (a state which I admire and respect, which while it has flaws, is the best, brightest democratic state in that region) is not going to *lift a hand* to help out those people against ISIL. Because it isn’t in their interests to do so, nor should it be. So, if Israel is not going to stand with them, why should they stand with Israel? They have stood with Assad. Why? Because Assad protected them as did his father before him. Yes, Assad is an evil man. But on scales of evil, he was much better than ISIL/ISIS.

It should also be noted that the WFB article couldn’t even keep it’s facts straight. Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X (Yazigi) was not at the conference. I don’t know about the other attendees.

While some at the conference had ill motives, and the conference itself was ill advised, to call all these people evil offends me, and it should offend all who believe in not bearing false witness. This was not leadership that Senator Cruz showed, it was opportunism, pure and simple.

While I am generally an ardent of my home state Senator, and support him in just about every way, I cannot support him in this.

Contra Ms Glick, he didn’t unite people, he divided them. And you see it in perfect display in the comments section here.

Those Arab Christians have combined the most ancient theological anti-Judaism with a thoroughly delusional view of Islam.

Really? Have you been reading the news the past several months? Gaza? Rocket attacks? Terror Tunnels? Hamas?

What is your definition of “Secure”?

Israel has reached out to “all” people in distress in the region – taking in sick arab children from Gaza and treating them in their high-tech cardiac hospital units. How many Christians are in Saudi hospitals?

The same people who are killing Christians are the same people who are killing Jews in the Middle East – it is not “irrelevant” to point this truth out, nor is it “insensitive” to tell the this Christian group that their closest ally against their common enemy is Israel.

If this group of Christians hates the Jews so much that they will refuse their help, and prefer to die rather than being helped by Israel, well, that’s their choice. Good luck to them.

It’s exciting being a witness to the vetting of a Great American.

He can and does talk without using talking points and can actually “think” outside the box. I find it amazing that with attacks coming from both left and right that he continues to stand. Perhaps it is because the people like him. Imagine that.

That some of those on the right cheer the fact that a bunch of anti-semites booed him tells us a lot about them. If only Cruz were of an ethnic minority – oh wait, doesn’t being Cuban count?

What has Israel done for the Christians of the Middle East? What have they done for the Assyrians? What have they done for the Copts? How many Christian refugees have settled in Israel? Should anyone even expect Israel to make the welfare of Christians a priority? Israel makes opportunistic alliances with Christian groups when it serves Israel’s interests.

Now if the Christians were the dominant communities in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, there would be peace and prosperity in the Middle East today. An accommodation with the state of Israel would have been reached that is just not possible with Muslim nations. In the post-Ottoman period Christians have self-identified as Arabs and loyal citizens of whatever Arab country they reside in. The conflict with Israel was an Arab-Israeli conflict and not a Muslim-Jewish conflict. So Israel was the enemy, an alien nation created in their midst that also disrupted the delicate balance of intercommunal relations between religious communities in their region.

Jews are relatively secure in Israel, Christians in the Middle East are not. They must co-exist with their Muslim neighbors in nations that are unfriendly or hostile to Israel. For them to take the lead in making peace with Israel would be suicide.

I haven’t read Cruz’s remarks but I suspect that they were profoundly insensitive to the difficult reality Christians in the Middle East face and irrelevant to the issue at hand.

Wake up America.