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Title: U.S. Televangelist To Launch Christian Pro-israel Lobby
Source: Haaretz
URL Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/701583.html
Published: Apr 2, 2006
Author: Shlomo Shamir
Post Date: 2006-04-02 19:56:10 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2181
Comments: 104

NEW YORK - Televangelist John Hagee told Jewish community leaders over the weekend that the 40 million evangelical Christians in the United States support Israel and that he plans to utilize this power to help Israel by launching a Christian pro-Israel lobby.

The lobby, called Christians United for Israel, is slated to launch in July, during a Washington conference in which hundreds of American evangelicals are slated to participate, Hagee said at a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which represents 52 national Jewish groups. He also discussed the lobby with Israel's consul general in New York, Aryeh Mekel.

Hagee said his group would be a Christian - and more powerful - version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a large pro-Israel lobby, and would target senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill. A quarter of congressmen are evangelicals, and many American legislators represent regions that include a large evangelical population, he said.

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Hagee - the founder and senior pastor of the evangelical Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, that claims an active membership of more than 18,000 - said the lobby's activities would be a "political earthquake."

In his meeting with Mekel, Hagee said he planned to establish an effective network of key activists across the United States who can be reached within 24 hours if necessary for emergency lobbying efforts. He said he has already appointed 12 regional directors who are to be responsible for lobby activities in their areas and that he plans to appoint representatives in every state and major city.

Hagee also said he would head a delegation of 500 evangelicals slated to visit Israel this summer.

"The evangelical population's support of Israel is very important," said Mekel yesterday.

The Israeli ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, responded in a similar fashion while discussing the new lobby in February.

"We see Christians in the United States as true friends and important supporters on the basis of shared values, and we welcome their efforts to strengthen the ties between Israel and the U.S.," Ayalon said at the time.

Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman was a bit more cautious. He said Hagee's project should be welcomed, but added that Jews and Israelis should be both respectful and wary. Foxman noted that Hagee told the Conference of Presidents that the evangelical support Israel from a biblical perspective, but did not explain exactly what he meant.

Rabbi James Rudin, author of "The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us," said Sunday that Hagee - one of 20 evangelical leaders who met with Ariel Sharon during his last trip to Washington - has been known for many years as an enthusiastic advocate of Israel, and is a typical right-wing Christian supporter of the country.

Some 400 Christian community leaders met in San Antonio in February to establish the lobby. Other than Hagee, its leaders include evangelist George Morrison; fundamentalist Baptist minister Jerry Falwell; and Gary Bauer, president of the American Values organization aimed at protecting marriage, family and faith. All are well-known supporters of Israel, and considered hawkish.

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#2. To: Brian S (#0)

I often wonder why there is so much "need" to support Israel, or other nations. How come no one goes out of their way to support we the people right here in America?

buckeroo  posted on  2006-04-02   20:06:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: buckeroo (#2)

I often wonder why there is so much "need" to support Israel, or other nations.

Ask your pal Goldi - the one whose pocket you keep filled. Ass...

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-11-27   20:43:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Jethro Tull (#8)

Ask your pal Goldi - the one whose pocket you keep filled. Ass...

I have no need. Why do you have a compulsion to direct me?

buckeroo  posted on  2006-12-02   20:20:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: buckeroo (#10)

I have no need. Why do you have a compulsion to direct me?

He is afraid you will do something stupid.

Minerva  posted on  2006-12-02   20:37:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Minerva (#11)

I never advanced SPAM as a meal for Y2K phenomena. Neither have I advanced a failed website called post liberty. I put all my money in the bank and watch JT crawl and twirl as he lives off the government trough.

buckeroo  posted on  2006-12-02   20:43:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: buckeroo (#12)

I never advanced SPAM as a meal for Y2K phenomena. Neither have I advanced a failed website called post liberty. I put all my money in the bank and watch JT crawl and twirl as he lives off the government trough.

jt figured out a way to make you pay for his retirement. that makes him smarter than you. he plays all day while you pay for it.

Morgana le Fay  posted on  2006-12-02   20:48:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Morgana le Fay (#13)

He may think I am paying for his liberty. That's a cool assumption on his part playing around for years doing nothing upon the Internet.

Just so you know, I am one of those new millionaires that you find. Why? I put my money up .. selling an attractive quality about myself and capabilitiies. I am finding that my wealth is reflective of my good attitude and promotional skills about being a fine American.

buckeroo  posted on  2006-12-02   20:54:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: buckeroo (#16)

I put my money up .. selling an attractive quality about myself and capabilitiies.

Like Jeff Gannon?

Minerva  posted on  2006-12-02   20:55:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Minerva (#18)

Sorry, I am not a Republican nor am I a Democrat. Nope. Think of me as a lover of women and individual rights.

buckeroo  posted on  2006-12-02   20:59:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: buckeroo (#19)

How come ponchy won't speak to us?

Minerva  posted on  2006-12-02   21:02:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Minerva (#20)

How come ponchy won't speak to us?

Because you suck donkey dicks. Don't take it personally, though.

buckeroo  posted on  2006-12-02   21:07:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: buckeroo, Minerva, Jethro Tull (#24)

Because you suck donkey dicks. Don't take it personally, though

OH my goodness how some things never change!

Does Ponchy post here now?

Diana  posted on  2006-12-02   21:12:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Diana (#28)

Diana - can I come to Alaska to get out of the COLD?

tom007  posted on  2006-12-02   21:34:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: tom007 (#52)

Diana - can I come to Alaska to get out of the COLD?

Sure! You and your family can stay at my place.

It's only 23 degrees here, except we're not getting much sunlight- or snow.

Diana  posted on  2006-12-02   21:51:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Diana (#57)

Take him Salmon fishing, Diana. I've always wanted to do that.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-12-02   21:53:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: Jethro Tull, diana (#59)

Take him Salmon fishing, Diana. I've always wanted to do that.

We were somewhere around Homer and looked in to the streams there. It, to me was quite strange, seeing all those huge fish there.

I am pretty sure I have been in all fifty states. Some just an interstate ride through. My relaitives ask me what's the best state.

I say I like Utah, but Alaska is off the scale. It is a whole nother question - does not compute.

tom007  posted on  2006-12-02   22:00:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: tom007 (#64)

I'd really, really like to see that.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-12-02   22:01:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#75. To: Jethro Tull, diana (#67)

'd really, really like to see that.

The big fish in the streams thing is , to me, frekking strange. Yes, five pound fish, (I guess I didn't weigh them), sitting, by the dozens in these small streams. They were orange, It was late August.

I think they had sex and were doomed, (you know the feeling?) or some nasty natural thinggy like that.

Seemed to me like you could spear all you could carry. An Alskan told me the fish folks could come into your house and open your freezers to see if you broke the game laws, which, as I know nothing cannot comment on.

Maybe Diana can illuminate?

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