The state of Israel receives a lot of political support from fundamentalist Christians in the US. Many of them believe (due to a strange reading of Revelations, the wackiest book in the Bible) that Armageddon will only happen when the Jews are in full possession of the Promised Land, including all of Jerusalem. I have a much more reliable suggestion for arranging the second coming. Let's get DNA samples from the shroud of Turin, and clone Jesus. With the right host mother we could even arrange yet another virgin birth. I'd love to check in with Big J what he thinks about the USA's current policy in the Middle East. Did he really say, "Turn that other cheek," or was it, "Bomb those bastards back into the stone age"? Of course, the DNA on the shroud is pretty messed up and there are also some wine stains, so the second coming of the Lord might well look like a giant grape, but that's a risk we have to take.