Israhell-worshipping Christians(?) pick grapes for jews

[yankeedoodle]

Stupid fucking Americans(?) paid airfare to fly to Israhell and pick grapes for fucking jews, and, the jews are probably charging them for their food and shelter, if they aren't sleeping in the fields and living on rotten grapes that they jews won't use or can't sell.

Christian evangelicals harvest land in settlements Israel hopes to annex
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SHILO, West Bank (Reuters) - It's harvest time in vineyards atop the hills of Shilo settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But it's not Jewish settlers picking the grapes, it's evangelical Christians.

They are volunteers for the devout U.S. evangelical group HaYovel which brings Christians to help Jewish farmers in settlements that Israel has built on land that Palestinians seek for a state.

Evangelicals have been a core support base for U.S. President Donald Trump since the 2016 election. Many are also staunch supporters of Israel, feeling a religious connection with the Jewish people and the Holy Land.

The West Bank holds special importance to evangelicals who see a divine hand in the modern-day return of Jews to a Biblical homeland - and who call the territory by its Hebrew Old Testament name, Judea and Samaria.

The founder of HaYovel, Tommy Waller, is fond of quoting a passage from the book of Jeremiah, which reads: "Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel...Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria."

But that land is also at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It is the heartland of what the Palestinians see as a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

For the Tennessee-born Waller, helping the Jewish settlers cultivate the land means taking part in the fulfillment of a prophecy. "As a Christian, as a person who believes in the Bible, it was an amazing thing to get to a place where my faith was touchable," Waller said.

"We share a commonality between Christianity and Judaism and that's our Bible, our scripture," said Waller at a vineyard on the outskirts of Har Bracha, another settlement whose farmers his volunteers assist.

ANNEXATION
Most of the international community regards the Israeli settlements as illegal, a view that Israel disputes.

Israeli hawks, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claim the West Bank is vital to Israel's security. Relinquishing it to the Palestinians could put large swaths of Israel under threat of militant attacks, they say. Palestinians say there can be no viable Palestinian state without it.

In the run-up to Israel's election next Tuesday, Netanyahu has renewed his pledge to annex parts of the West Bank if he wins.

It's a position that the politically powerful U.S. evangelicals have embraced.

"Evangelicals believe Judea and Samaria is Bible land, because it is," said Mike Evans, the Texas-based founder of 'Friends of Zion Museum' which sits in Jerusalem. "Do we think giving up Judea and Samaria is going to bring peace? No way," said Evans, who is a member of Trump's Faith Initiative.

The prospect of annexation has alarmed the Palestinians, who fear that Netanyahu is likely to have Trump's backing.

"We are worried about losing our lands," said Izzat Qadous, a retired school teacher from the Palestinian village Irak Burin, across the way from Har Bracha.

"The same way they have annexed Jerusalem, they want to annex the West Bank and soon we will hear of Trump acknowledging the annexation of the West Bank."

About 2.9 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, according to official Palestinian figures and more than 400,000 Israeli settlers live there, according to the Israeli statistics bureau.