Christians United for Israel: New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAC
Democracy Now! | Christians United for Israel: New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAC:
"In March of this year, a study on the role of the Israel lobby in US foreign policy caused an uproar in the academic community and in the media. The paper's authors, Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard University and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, argued the pro-Israel lobby has unduly influenced the United States to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of Israel. The study emphasized the activities of the pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
Well, there's another side of the pro-Israel lobby that's drawing increasing attention -- and some say its far more influential. A new group was recently established called Christians United for Israel - CUFI. They're an evangelical organization that believes supporting expansionist policies of the Israeli government is: 'a biblical imperative.' In a new article for The Nation, journalist Max Blumenthal reports group members have held several meetings with White House officials to talk about US policy in the Middle East. They've apparently lobbied the administration to adopt a confrontational posture toward Iran, refuse aid to the Palestinians and give Israel a free hand in its attack on Lebanon"
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Would you like to read a stimulating and revealing web article I recently found? It has the title "Rapture Rage" and exposes the new pro-Israel CUFI. Here it is:
RAPTURE RAGE
Dave MacPherson's "The Rapture Plot" uniquely documents the long hidden "seeds" of Armageddon Theology which lately has moved from the abstract to advocating political and even military action to bring about the End. The "seeds" were in a British journal known as "The Morning Watch" which, it its September 1830 issue, had the first public teaching of the "pretribulation rapture" (the most popular feature of "dispensationalism"). In that issue one writer stated that the raptured Christians would then collectively become "the victorious ministerer of the great tribulation" upon those left behind! MacPherson adds that an 1832 issue taught that the "vials" of wrath in the book of Revelation "shall be poured out by the risen [raptured] saints," and that a few months later another issue went even further and declared that the collective group of raptured ones will "wield the thunders of its power against the dragon and his angels, and cast them down from heaven"! But where in the Bible did those British find support for such "Rapture Rage," and where are the followers of Jesus commanded to bear swords against non-believers - or even support sword-bearers? (Anyone wanting to obtain MacPherson's "The Rapture Plot" - the most detailed and documented history of the "pretrib rapture" view merchandised by Hagee, LaHaye, Falwell etc. - and wanting the fastest delivery can call 800.643.4645. The author of the 300-page "Plot" book, BTW, states that all of his royalties have always gone to a nonprofit group and not to himself.)
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