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Christian Zionism

'Evangelicals who oppose 'peace process' are not Israel's friends'


By Stan Goodenough
April 04, 2008

Evangelical Christians cannot be good for Israel because they oppose the US-led process aimed at creating Palestine in the historic heartland of the Jewish people.

This is the reasoning of Reform Judaism Rabbi Eric Yoffie, purported leader of the largest "branch of Judaism" in the United States.

Reform Judaism is liberal, anti-Zionist and historically rejectionist of the re-establishment of the State of Israel. It rejects the idea of a personal Messiah who will come to a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. It has an estimated 1.1 million adherents in America.

Yoffie adamantly declared Wednesday that Jews "cannot cooperate with Christian Zionists."

"What [Christian Zionists] mean by 'support of Israel' and what we mean by 'support of Israel' are two very different things," he said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"Their vision of Israel rejects a two-state solution, rejects the possibility of a democratic Israel, and supports the permanent occupation of all Arab lands now controlled by Israel.

"If implemented, in fact, these views would mean disaster for Israel, and would lead to diplomatic isolation, increased violence, and the loss of Israel's Jewish majority."

Yoffie's starting point is so far removed from the foundational beliefs of Christian Zionists it is impossible to imagine reconciliation between the two.

Where Yoffie describes Judea and Samaria as "Arab" territory, Christian Zionists know these to be biblically, historically and prophetically exclusively Jewish lands.

Christian Zionists also believe firmly that the two-state solution will only lead to another version of Hitler's Final Solution, and it should therefore be categorically spurned by the Jewish state.

[Ed note: True Christian Zionists - like those who views are represented on Jerusalem Newswire - will be neither surprised nor disheartened by Yoffie's rejection. We know, and have the history of the last 200 years to back this up, that the land-for-peace process spells doom for Israel, and we could no more support it than we could have supported any other of the myriad efforts down the ages to annihilate the Jews. As for reformed Jews - or any other Jews - embracing or rejecting us; it makes not one iota of difference. We love all Jews, and stand in defense of Israel, not because Jews have asked us to, but because God commands us to. Our love is genuine, sincere and unconditional.]

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