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Veteran US evangelical warns against dividing Jerusalem


By Stan Goodenough
October 17, 2007

Woe betide the United States if the Bush administration pushes Israel into dividing Jerusalem with the Palestinian Arabs.

So warned veteran Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson Monday following a flurry of reports that Israeli officials appear increasingly willing to compromise on the sovereignty of what previous governments always described as the "eternal and indivisible capital" of the Jewish people.

News of the erosion in the official Israeli position on the city "coincided" with a visit to the region this week of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Rice - who is believed to be desperately seeking a breakthrough in the "peace process" before the US enters election year in a few weeks' time - has been pushing Israel hard to make more concessions in the hope the "Palestinians" will be encouraged to "play ball."

While the Bush administration has sought to portray itself as going along with Israeli decisions rather than imposing its will on the Jewish state, the mask has slipped on occasion - usually when the US feels that time is running out.

In this way, while the 2005 uprooting of 10,000 Jews from their Gaza Strip homes was described by US officials as an Israeli decision, it in fact came about as a direct result of unrelenting American pressure on Israel to give in to Arab demands for Jewish lands.

To date, the past three decades of US diplomacy in the Middle East has resulted in the erosion of Israel's security and the strengthening of Israel's enemies.

Many Bible-believers in the United States as well as around the world are persuaded from Scripture that any nation that works towards the dismemberment of the national homeland of the Jewish people will come under divine judgment.

Christians with this outlook (including a number who lost their homes and are known personally by me - Ed.) saw Hurricane Katrina, which displaced one million people and killed almost 1,800 in Louisiana, as God's response to what happened in Gaza.

Robertson, who owns the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and who has remained consistent in his often unpopular stand for Israel's divine right to its entire biblical homeland, warned that "he that touches Jerusalem touches the apple of God's eye.

"And if we decide we're going to wrest east Jerusalem away from the Jews and give it over to the Palestinians (sic), we're risking the wrath of God on this nation, and I think it's very dangerous."

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