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Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.

Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.

Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.

Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.

Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.

Here are a couple of extracts from the second part, on evangelicals for Israel, of the two-part series on America and Israel.

Many conservative Christians and their Jewish allies acknowledge a certain tension between the evangelical belief in a Biblical commission to convert non-Christians and their simultaneous desire to help the Jews of Israel.

"Despite all the spiritual shortcomings of the Jewish people," Dr. Dobson said, "according to scripture -- and those criticisms come not from Christians but from the Old Testament. Just look in Deuteronomy, where Jews are referred to as a stiff-necked and stubborn people -- despite all of that, God has chosen to bless them as his people. God chose to bless Abraham and his seed not because they were a perfect people any more than the rest of the human family."

...The Israeli government temporarily cut off ties with the Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson after he suggested that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke might have been God's punishment for withdrawing from territory that belonged to the Biblical Israel. But then Mr. Robertson flew to Israel during the fight with Hezbollah. In a gesture of reconciliation, the Israeli government recently worked with him to film a television commercial to attract Christian tourists.

"Israel -- to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood -- there is no other place like it on earth," Mr. Robertson says in the commercial, according to the Jerusalem Post.

There are a couple of interesting quotes in the article, but as a whole it's kind of disappointing, because it doesn't get into how Israelis feel about the Christian attitude towards them or even exactly what sort of clout these evangelicals have in Washington.