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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a concerted effort in the USA and past to “break down” the bond between Christians and Jews.
Talking at an occasion final month in Jerusalem attended by Pastor Paula White-Cain, non secular advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the White Home Workplace of Religion and Anti-Semitism, Netanyahu said, the “partnership that promotes Judeo-Christian values, that protects Israel’s Christians as nowhere else within the Center East. That fact is being reversed,”
“As a part of this marketing campaign,” he continued, Israel is now being portrayed as a menace to Christians.”
Netanyahu mentioned that Israel is house to a thriving Christian community — distinctive in a area the place Christians typically face persecution. He pointed to Nazareth as a spot the place Christian life is seen and open, contrasting it with Bethlehem, the place the Christian inhabitants declined sharply — from 80% to underneath 20% — after Israel withdrew, and the Palestinian Authority assumed management, resulting in diminished protections for the group.
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Pastor Paula White-Cain, non secular advisor to President Donald Trump and head of the White Home Workplace of Religion and Antisemitism (sitting subsequent to Sara Netanyahu) meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spouse Sara at Daystar’s “Collectively As One” occasion in Jerusalem, as a part of a go to organized by Niv Jacobi, President of The That means Channel. (Felipe Volokita, The That means Channel.)
Pastor John Hagee, the influential Founder and Chairman of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), mentioned fringe on-line agitators and politicians are motivated by two distinct impulses of their assaults on Israel.
“The true narcissists, no matter politics, will pursue relevance by antisemitic contrarianism in the event that they understand themselves to be slipping from the world’s stage. Tragically, trafficking in antisemitism is likely one of the shortest paths to infamy,” he instructed Fox Information Digital.
“For the true Jew-haters, Christian Zionism has been appropriately perceived because the bulwark in opposition to the rise of American antisemitism. As Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs [Ron Dermer] has identified, Christian Zionism is the spine of American help for Israel.
“Those that hate Israel and need to see it destroyed perceive that the Jewish-Christian alliance prevents them from reaching their horrible goals; it’s logical then that they’d search to drive a wedge between Jews and Christians. Our relationship is a direct and unequivocal refutation of their evil ideology and goals,” he mentioned.
Hagee additionally warned that anti-Israel narratives are being amplified on-line and thru the mainstream media “to the unique advantage of Palestinian terrorists.”
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Throughout his speech, Netanyahu centered on some within the voices within the media. “So, Israel, the guardian of Christianity within the Center East, is introduced on American tv by bought influencers. It is introduced because the enemy of Christianity. What folly, what lies. What a travesty of fact,” he mentioned.
“We should struggle for our frequent values, we should arise for the reality. And by standing up for the reality, you arise with Israel, and also you stand with the Jewish folks in opposition to this abomination of falsehoods,” he concluded.
Netanyahu’s feedback got here in opposition to the backdrop of latest allegations that extremist settlers had focused a historic church within the West Financial institution, and the IDF had intentionally focused a church in Gaza.
Jesus the King Church in Nazareth, Israel (Picture: Pastor Saleem Shalash.)
In mid-July, the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Church buildings of Jerusalem claimed that “radical Israelis” had deliberately set a hearth close to the Church of Saint George in Taybeh. Nevertheless, Israel Police later confirmed that the traditional church ruins have been undamaged and that the hearth, of unknown origin, was confined to a close-by open space.
Individually, the IDF confirmed {that a} July 17 mortar strike on the Holy Family Church in Gaza was the results of an “unintentional deviation of munitions.” An investigation discovered that the church had been unintentionally hit throughout operational exercise in Gaza Metropolis. The navy mentioned it facilitated humanitarian support deliveries to the church and coordinated a go to by clergy from the Greek and Latin Patriarchates.
Dr. Mike Evans, founding father of the Associates of Zion Heritage Heart in Jerusalem and a former evangelical advisor to President Donald Trump, pointed to the billions of {dollars} invested by anti-Israel actors to affect younger minds on American campuses.
1000’s of evangelical Christian pilgrims pray throughout a prayer gathering on the Useless Sea shore in Ein Gedi on September 20, 2013, within the Judean Desert, throughout their annual go to to Israel to mark the Jewish vacation of Sukkot (Tabernacles) and to precise solidarity with Israel. Some 5 thousand Christian pilgrims from all over the world arrived for a week-long go to to Israel, in an annual present of solidarity with the Jewish state. (Menahem Kahana/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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“The underside line on this narrative is that there’s a perception system that Israel’s existence is illegitimate. They don’t say this about another nation on this planet, irrespective of how bloody its origins. This perception system will get Jews killed. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” he mentioned.
“My message to Bible-believing Christians is to show a biblical worldview that Israel is the Bible land. The church in Germany was evangelical Protestant. They aligned with the Nazi get together, had swastikas on its altars, and believed that God despatched the chancellor.
“This occurred as a result of they rejected a biblical worldview and purchased into what is named ‘substitute theology.’ That’s the explanation why I’ve developed a big curriculum to show the church and its leaders,” Evans famous.
David Parsons, Senior Vice President and Spokesman of the Worldwide Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), instructed Fox Information Digital that Christian support for Israel — rooted in many years, if not centuries, of historical past—has grown to unprecedented ranges, although it’s being closely examined amid the conflict in opposition to Hamas in Gaza.
“It predates Trump and Netanyahu, will probably be there after these leaders are gone,” he mentioned.
College students at Columbia College take part in an anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protest. (Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
“We now have to move the baton to a brand new era, and that is the place the problem is coming, as a variety of the younger Christians aren’t shopping for into the identical rationale as their mother and father to help Israel, which a variety of it was based mostly on sure prophetic eventualities and prophecy charts about Israel’s function,” he continued.
“We see it as God being trustworthy to his covenant guarantees to the patriarch Abraham 4,000 years in the past. If God is trustworthy to what he promised Jewish folks millennia in the past, then he shall be trustworthy to what he’s promised us underneath the brand new covenant,” he mentioned.
Parsons famous that bringing younger Christians to expertise Israel firsthand helps domesticate that connection.
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“A whole lot of the younger evangelical supporters of Israel usually are not in a few of these elite universities the place they’re being poisoned in opposition to Israel, and so now we have hope,” he mentioned.
“Once you see the wonderful issues that Israel has finished — the pager operation [against Hezbollah], how they defeated Iran in 12 days — when you’re a youngster, it’s a must to be impressed with Israel’s creativity and ingenuity,” he continued. “Finally, as soon as we get a decision of the Gaza scenario, there shall be an entire new era of Christians which might be curious sufficient to come back and test it out.”
