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US evangelist gives $6 million
to Israel
BETH MARLOWE
AP
News
Monday, April 7, 2008
American evangelist John Hagee announced donations
of $6 million to Israeli causes on Sunday and said that Israel
must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.
Hagee, a Christian Zionist who has been in the spotlight lately
for endorsing presidential candidate John McCain and criticizing
the Catholic Church, brought hundreds of backers on a solidarity
trip to Israel.
Hagee and his group, Christians United for Israel, joined keynote
speaker Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's hard-line opposition
Likud Party, at a rally in support of Jerusalem remaining united
and under Jewish control.
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"Turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians
would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban," Hagee
told an audience filled with Americans who waved Israeli flags
and cheered.
Palestinians claim the eastern part of the city, captured by
Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of their future
state.
Hagee said his group was giving $6 million to 16 Israeli causes.
Recipients include the Magen David Adom rescue service and a conference
center in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel.
The fate of Jewish settlements like Ariel is at the heart of
the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The support of evangelicals
for Israel's continued control of the West Bank endears them to
Israeli hard-liners but troubles more dovish activists.
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