Huckabee on evangelicals, Palestinian state
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee gave an interview to CBN where he talks about a Palestinian state "not necessarily" in the same geographic region as Israel, and says evangelicals are better friends of Israel than American Jews. American Jews are divided over Israel, Huckabee says -- not over support for it per se, but about what is in Israel's best interests, what it ought to do to achieve peace and security.
"I don't find that kind of dichotomy generally within the Evangelical community," Huckabee said.
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The Evangelicals that Huckabee claims support Israel, do so because they want Israel to remain the way it was back in Christ’s day, they don’t want a 2 state solution or see Jerusalem split up. They believe that when the Rapture comes after Armageddon, all the Christians will ascend to heaven. They also believe all the Jews will go to hell, because they don’t accept Christ as their “Savior”, so their support for Israel is for their own self interest and not in the interest of the Jews.
A hearty ditto to what David Ehrens said!
Michael Swerdflow makes a very strong point as well.
The simple fact is that from their own theological point of view folks like Huckabee and his fellow evangelicals do NOT have Jew’s best interests in mind when they “support” Israel. It’s all about their apocalyptic eschatological beliefs coming to fruition - as if God needs their help…
A central reality in their theology is that all practicing Jews will be sent to Hell - either to experience unremitting pain and suffering for all eternity or to be burned to death, depending on the particular evangelical sect’s theology.
I know because I was raised in a sabbatarian evangelical sect prior to my maternal grandmother finally giving up her family secret that her mother was a Jew.
TO: KK
...and do you think that DE (of all people) has the Jewish State of Israel’s best interests in mind? Read some of his past comments on here and be convinced of his true sympathies.
Instead of dissecting the motives of Evangelical, pro-Israel supporters, be grateful that they have the courage to stand up for Israel and against the global army of putrid anti-Semites. Would that more Jews (or JINOs) have that same courage! For if (G-d forbid) we should lose our beloved Eretz Yisroael, we will once again have no place to go...no place to hide.
That’s the thing, blackie. These evangelicals only appear to be standing up for Israel. Their theological reasons for doing it are no better than Hamas’ theological reasons for supporting suicide bombers. Either way the theological point of the exercise is to end up with virtually all Jews either dead (Hamas) or suffering horrific pain for all of eternity (Evangelicals).
If the typical evangelical theology doesn’t amount to “anti-Semitism” then neither does Hamas’ theology.
I’ve got news for you. If folks like Huckabee have their way, we will lose our beloved eretz yisrael, because one state will surely mean the end of Israel as a Jewish nation. Demographics and democracy compel this. And for those of you who want the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank, like Huckabee, the sole of the Jewish nation will be darkened and dead. The only solution is two states for two peoples. Anything else is fantasy, or a recipe for the end of Israel.
Where are all these “contributors” getting their “facts or fictions” from? Alot of it sounds like hearsay to me and not worth the paper it’s printed on. Israel needs all the positive support it can get, and as an American Jew I resent Huckabee’s statement that the Evangelicals care more about Eretz Y’israel then we Jews do. With “friends” like him, who needs enemies. Huckabee misses the point when he claims that American Jews are divided over what is in Israel’s best interest in attaining peace and security. We are not a homogeneous people but very heterogeneous, however most Jews I know of are unwavering in their support for Israel and what is in their best interest is of extreme interest to us.
Should it be a surprise that a mentality that could not accept a certain liberal Rabbi 2000 years ago would not accept his followers today? I really believe that if Abraham were raised from the dead he would look around and call himself not a Jew but a Jehovah worshipper.
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David
08/21/09 02:48 PM
Wow! Those darned American Jews! “Evangelicals are more supportive of Israel than the American Jewish community.” And who knew that an Arab from Nablus could go anywhere he wanted in Israel? Huckabee was woefully misinformed on his “fact-finding” mission to Israel.
The fact that there are still principled Jews who fight human rights abuses-- even by other Jews—is a testament to Judaism’s enduring ethics, which not even the last 120 years of Zionism has managed to eclipse and corrode.
Fringe Christians like Huckabee may have a lot in common with militant Zionists in the US and the ruling Zionists in Israel, but not mainstream Jews here who overwhelmingly see things through an American, democratic, and not Israali, lens.