Evangelicals and Israel

David Newman wrongly opposes an alliance between Israel and Evangelicals.

The fact that the values of these Evangelical movements do not correspond with those of a liberal, democratic, open society goes without saying. Liberal Jewish America, from where Israel’s most important source of support - political and financial - is derived, does not view this connection in a very positive light, although it remains largely silent given the fact that it is so difficult to enlist the support of new friends these days.

What a crock! The most important source of support for Israel is most certainly not coming from liberal Jews but from the very Evangelicals the writer condemns. If anything, liberal Jews, from JStreet to the NIF, Israel Policy Forum and other like-minded groups have consistently acted to undermine Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies. I would trust Pat Robertson any day over Jeremy Ben Ami, I would trust Pastor Hagee over MJ Rosenberg any day.

My feeling is that the liberal writer of this article, David Newman, is threatened by the potential alliance between Jews and conservative Christians and thus wants to undermine it, lest Jews finally wake-up and realize their best hope is to be politically aligned with conservatives and stop voting for democrats.