Einstein said this, and he was an eyewitness "Being a lover of freedom...I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom, but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. Only the church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly." from a letter to an american bishop, Reported in The Evening News, Baltimore, April 13, 1979.
(Einstein was there, saw it first hand, he would know, he was not just reading about it years later and making assumptions.)
Also, WOODY, america needs a presence in the middle east. After we take over Iraq and Iran, we'll see how much support amerikkka (amerikkka, hahah, just kidding) gives the jews.
Either way our politics will be decided by economic matters, just like they ALWAYS have been.