In a way then, all the messianic promise of "Kony 2012" is eerily prescient.
The war of 1973, in which Israel narrowly escaped a military defeat, intensified the messianic sense of possession.
The messianic fervour of the settler movement and of sections of the Hasidic community seems to be intensifying.
Forty-two years old, with cropped light-brown hair, tenth-grader looks, and a fluttering, finchlike energy, he is an odd mixture of the nerdy and the messianic.
The anti-Zionist groups make the same arguments as the Messianic Jews.
The messianic figure's show of physical power is absurd but real.
But today, American Jews find themselves helpless when a marginal group of anti-Zionist Jews demands - like the Messianic Jews of their day - communal funding and space for their anti-Israel activities.
But to me, the vendors and the technology is not as important as the realization, the messianic vision if you will, that the culmination of social business is not a separate environment but the synthesis just described.
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Around the same time, Pakistan was sucked into a shadowy proxy war for influence between two rival strains of radical Islam: the messianic Shia variety propagated by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, and Wahhabism, an austere back-to-basics form of Sunni Islam championed by Saudi Arabia.
There is barely a Palestinian who does not view Islamic Jihad's ambush as an entirely just response to a situation where 120, 000 Palestinians are held hostage to the messianic ambitions of a few hundred armed settlers and their 1, 500 or so army protectors.
Stewart -- like Theron -- carries off a serviceable English accent and mostly refrains from those irritating Bella-isms, but it's not so easy to take her seriously as the messianic resistance leader that Sanders seems to have in mind (you get the feeling the director thinks he's auditioning for the next "Narnia" movie, or even Middle Earth).
Yet while communal leaders did not hesitate to call the so-called Messianic Jews' bluff, they cannot find the way to expunge anti-Israel groups from their umbrella organizations.
In his maiden visit to the Sunni Islamist capital, the genocidal, messianic Shi'ite Ahmadinejad was kissed, and hugged, and held hands with King Abdullah.
Jonas Kaufmann made Parsifal complicated and vivid, from the adolescent shrug with which he conveyed his initial lack of understanding to the pure, messianic authority of his final transformation.
Unlike the settlers on the West Bank, whose neo-messianic nationalism arouses deep controversy, the Golan people enjoy widespread sympathy.
Large units of Israeli police, equipped with riot gear, had entered the Muslim shrine after some Palestinians, roused by the attempt of a tiny messianic Jewish cult to lay a cornerstone for a third Jewish temple, had stoned the Western Wall plaza, the adjacent Jewish holy site.
Its stated aim is to destroy the global order, annihilate Israel and the US and usher in a Shiite messianic era in which Iran will rule the world in the name of Islam.
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But for all that, from the beginning, Mr Gilder's messianic intensity and relentless optimism exert a grip on the reader that never lets go.
As the Yediot headline indicated, the media portrayed him as an unstable messianic, or they castigated him as an extremist and marginal force in the US. Haaretz and Globes both ran articles attacking Beck as an anti-Semite.
But unlike WikiLeaks' would-be messianic founder, the 32-year-old hacker shrinks from the spotlight.
But Mr Bouchard has once again demonstrated his messianic connection with the voters.
But he and his followers at the yeshiva were not the only ones who saw the victory in miraculous and messianic terms.
Lou Kerner, 49, speaks in hyperbolic, almost messianic terms about the power of what he calls the "second Internet" and the trillions of dollars of wealth he expects it will create.
Despite his self-styled affinity with Tony Blair, Mr Cameron has none of the former prime minister's messianic zeal.
Some also say that the show is preachy, even messianic, and that its research is not always up to scratch.
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