Politics & Power Quote by Jerry Falwell

Falwell’s line is sermon-as-alarm, built to turn geopolitics into a stark moral melodrama with a clear cast: “monsters” on one side, a feminized “Jewish nation” on the other. The language is doing more than condemning terrorism; it’s manufacturing an existential siege. “Driving her into the Mediterranean” isn’t a policy claim so much as a visceral image of erasure, meant to bypass deliberation and go straight for protective panic. By the time he escalates to “conquering the world,” the threat is no longer regional or even plausible - it’s apocalyptic, the kind of inflation that makes any compromise smell like surrender.

The subtext is coalition politics dressed as prophecy. Falwell was a leading architect of the Religious Right, and this rhetoric helps weld evangelical identity to unwavering support for Israel, not primarily through Israeli history or security detail, but through a cosmic narrative of good versus evil. Naming “Islamic fundamentalists” and “Middle Eastern monsters” as a single undifferentiated enemy collapses distinctions between extremists, governments, and ordinary Muslims. That flattening is the point: a simplified villain makes a simpler moral demand on the listener.

Context matters: post-Iranian Revolution, post-hostage crisis, later reinforced by high-profile attacks and, ultimately, the post-9/11 atmosphere Falwell readily amplified. The sentence is a recruitment tool for certainty - converting fear into moral clarity, and moral clarity into political permission: for hawkish foreign policy, for suspicion at home, and for a religiously charged worldview where conflict is not tragic or contingent, but inevitable and total.