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By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Tue, Aug. 25 2009 05:58 PM EDT
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Mike Huckabee, most widely known as a former Republican presidential candidate, said recently that evangelicals are more supportive of Israel than even American Jews.

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In an interview with CBN News, Huckabee, who was wrapping up a trip to Israel, called evangelicals the "best friends" of Israeli Jews.

While American Jews are divided on the level of support for Israel in terms of its borders, the politician-turned-political commentator said in general he doesn't see that "dichotomy" among the evangelical community. He says that "it's pretty adamant" among evangelicals that "there ought to be one city (Jerusalem). There ought to be a Jewish state and it ought to be secured."

"One of the things I find most interesting is, generally, evangelicals are so much more supportive of Israel than the American Jewish community," Huckabee said.

But while Huckabee and other Christian Zionists claim to speak for the evangelical community, a growing number of the community's leaders are saying that they disagree when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian state debate.

A group of 34 prominent evangelical leaders published a letter in the New York Times voicing support of a two-state solution. In the 2007 letter ad, they stated that both Israel and Palestinians have "legitimate rights" to the land.

They also said they wanted to rectify the "serious misconception" that all American evangelicals are against a two-state solution that creates a new Palestinian state.

"Nothing could be further from the truth," they stated. "We, who sign this letter, represent large numbers of evangelicals throughout the U.S. who support justice for both Israelis and Palestinians."

Signers included Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary; David Neff, editor of Christianity Today; Richard Stearns, president of World Vision; Stephen Hayner, former president InterVarsity Christian Fellowship; and Joel Hunter, senior pastor of Northland Church in Longwood, Fla., and member of the executive committee of the National Association of Evangelicals.

During the interview, Huckabee also criticized the Obama administration's new cooler relations with Israel, especially its recent call for Israel to suspend construction in East Jerusalem. He called it a "reversal of policy" not only from the Bush administration, but also of U.S.-Israeli relations under the Clinton administration.

Huckabee may possibly run again for president in the 2012 election.


Next Story : Stay Away from Madonna Concert, Says Bulgaria ChurchComments E-mail Print More on Topic  Most recent commentsView all amaranth » Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:53 am  : 0  : 0 Flag Wow, Diana626! What "Gospel" are you reading that says it's ok to abandon Israel and her people when they need support? The Jews are God's chosen people and He has repeatedly returned them to the land that He promised them. They have a consistent and historical claim to that land that no other group can even attempt to argue.

It deeply saddens and troubles me to hear people (especially those claiming to be Christians)say that the Jews do not deserve to be able to exist in the historical land of their ancestors.

 darshan » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:51 am  : 0  : 0 Flag Apology: inversed the digits: Zechariah 14:16.

 darshan » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:49 am  : 0  : 0 Flag Diana 26: Your post surpasses historical irony - posted on the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wilberforce,the leading light of his era of the abolition movement; AND a leading Christian Restorationist (Zionist): it would repay visiting the history of this prophetic movement before making such dismissive pronouncements on its 21c, direct successors. The Gospel both was and is central to its focus. Israel's finest hour is yet to come, as the prophets foretold - Zechariah 16:14 -"And it shall come to pass,that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship The King, The L-RD of Hosts, and to keep the Festival of Tabernacles."

 cindy444 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:36 pm  : 1  : 0 Flag What a presumptuous statement by Mr. Huckabee.

 Diana626 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:01 pm  : 1  : 1 Flag He's correct. American Evangelical Christendom is so supportive of Israel that they have compromised and/or forgotten the Gospel.

Their support for Israel is for naught...

 Dreamer » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:18 pm  : 1  : 1 Flag Oh please. Christains in America do not support Israel because of end-times prophecy. Someone else tried to say that too and these Christian 'zionists' are a scattered few.

We support Israel because Jews were the ones given that land by God. They have a historical claim to that land that pre-dates the muslims. As we read our Bibles about the many plights of the Holy Land it reminds us that God commanded His temple be built there and that He gave the land to the Jews.

Many Christians today believe that the 'temple' that shall be defiled is within the body of the church, namely His people.

I think many of us suspect this new turn toward accepting gay sex as ok by God as being an 'abomination of desolation' set up within the Church where man has proclaimed himself God and have therefore 'put an end to sacrafices' as we are not longer required to sacrifice 'self' and 'sin' to be Christian...according to these pro-gay churched.

 Homoousia316 » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:03 pm  : 2  : 3 Flag Maybe it's because American Jews don't like to be thought of as puppets in Tim LaHaye's wet dreams.

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[LatinAmericanview]

how do you think that happens?

[abduLMaria]

how do you think that happens?

for example,
http://www.horizon.org/

they're the largest church in one of the wealthiest communities in San Diego.  it's a Christian Zionist church ... but obviously Talmudic Jews are welcome.

if you click through to the "Prophecy archives", Pastor Bob repeats the "spiritual advice" - if you want to go to Heaven - and "be right" with Jesus - you HAVE TO support Israel.  not negotiable.

it used to be, you had to accept JC as your Savior, then you go to Heaven, that was the doctrine.

i'm surprised at the political comment of some of the sermons.  i went once about 5 years ago & got on their mailing list.

another example - i belong to a community garden that is hosted by a Lutheran church.  the church manager is a Jewish woman (local DJ, voice actress - and she & her husband just happen to manage the church !)  she helped start the church.  how does THIS happen ?

well, they started in a shopping center & then bought a piece of land.

their position on Israel is they don't think about horrible things like Israeli treatment of the Palestinians.