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Holy Land churches attack Christian Zionism
By Matthew Tostevin | August 31, 2006

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Vatican's envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting "racial exclusivity and perpetual war."

Christian Zionists form a growing part of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, the Jewish state's main ally. They believe the return of Jews to the Holy Land and establishment of Israel are proof of God's promises to biblical patriarchs.

Churches in the Middle East often appear closer to the Palestinians, whose Christian minority makes up a substantial portion of their clergy in the region.

The "Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism" was signed by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, a Palestinian, and by bishops of the Episcopal, Evangelical Lutheran and Syrian Orthodox Churches in Jerusalem.

Many Christian Zionists are evangelical Protestants, and the declaration is a sign of a growing struggle between the groups.

"The Christian Zionist programme provides a world view where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism," said the declaration, accusing Christian Zionists of hurting hopes for Middle East peace.

"We reject the teachings of Christian Zionism that facilitate and support these policies as they advance racial exclusivity and perpetual war," the declaration added.

The three main Christian Zionist groups in Jerusalem said in a statement that they were concerned at the declaration's "inflammatory language" and that it was far from the truth.

Christian Zionists stress Christianity's Jewish roots. Some back the movement to settle the occupied West Bank, the cradle of Jewish civilization, which Palestinians want as part of an independent state.

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"We pray for peace. But we note with sadness that the present Palestinian government is totally dedicated to the destruction of Israel," the Christian Zionist groups said in their statement, referring to the governing Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

The prospect of Middle East peace talks has looked even more unlikely since Hamas's election victory in January. The group is formally dedicated to destroying Israel.

"The problem in the region is not as simple as the Jerusalem Declaration makes out," the Christian Zionists' statement said.

Some Christian Zionists believe that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land will bring about the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Some also believe Jews themselves will have to become Christians or perish.

The Christian Zionist groups in Jerusalem said they had no "thirst for Armageddon" and do not base their theological position on "end time prophecy." They called for dialogue with the clerics behind the declaration that condemned them.

Christian Zionism is strongest in the United States, where support is much higher than in Europe or other parts of the world for Israel in its conflicts with the Palestinians and in its recent war with Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

James Rudin, senior advisor on inter-religious affairs for the American Jewish Committee in New York, said there are "millions and millions of American Christians" who support Israel but who do not consider themselves Zionists.

He said they represent a core of support far larger than those who base their backing of Israel on the Bible.

(Additional reporting by Tom Heneghan in Paris and Mike Conlon in Chicago)

© Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

In America, owned by the Jews, there are only two positions allowed on Israel - support for Israel or unconditional support for Israel.

Stupid zionist xtians. Jesus would be spinning in his grave.

I personaly believe these "Christian Zionists" are going to be gradually weeded out of the Aryan gene pool. The are unworthy of continuing on, nature will take care of them, just like it does in the animal kingdom.

nietzsche was right in his virulently anti-christian THE ANTICHRIST.

"the christian is THREE TIMES JEW!"

"I'm a history teacher, so I love the fact that I can read the future in a history book called the Bible."

Small wonder , American students are the worst educated in the industrialized world .

Thank god I was not raised to worship Christianity, thank god I was not raised to worship Jewsus, thank god..............thank the gods..................

These deluded pro-Zionist 'christians' are frauds. What they represent is 'Scofieldism' - a pseudo-christian theology based on the heretical opinions of jew-financed Cyrus Scofield.

Who was Cyrus Scofield?

As a young con-artist in Kansas after the Civil War, he met up with John J. Ingalls, an aging Jewish lawyer who had been sent to Atchison by the "Secret Six" some thirty years before to work the Abolitionist cause. Pulling strings both in Kansas and with his compatriots back east, Ingalls assisted Scofield in gaining admission to the Bar, and procured his appointment as Federal Attorney for Kansas. Ingalls and Scofield became partners in a railroad scam which led to Cyrus serving time for criminal forgery.

Upon his release from prison, Scofield deserted his first wife, Leonteen Carry Scofield, and his two daughters Abigail and Helen, and he took as his mistress a young girl from the St. Louis Flower Mission. He later abandoned her for Helen van Ward, whom he eventually married. Following his Illuminati connections to New York, he settled in at the Lotus Club, which he listed as his residence for the next twenty years. It was here that he presented his ideas for a new Christian Bible concordance, and was taken under the wing of Samuel Untermeyer, who later became chairman of the American Jewish Committee, president of the American League of Jewish Patriots, and chairman of the Non-sectarian Anti-Nazi League.

Untermeyer introduced Scofield to numerous Zionist and socialist leaders, including Samuel Gompers, Fiorello LaGuardia, Abraham Straus, Bernard Baruch and Jacob Schiff. These were the people who financed Scofield's research trips to Oxford and arranged the publication and distribution of his concordance.

It is impossible to overstate the influence of Cyrus Scofield on twentieth-century Christian beliefs. The Scofield Bible is the standard reference work in virtually all Christian ministries and divinity schools. It is singularly responsible for the Christian belief that the Hebrew Prophecies describe the kingdom of Jesus' Second Coming, and not the Zionist vision of a man-made New World Order.

And it is precisely because Christians persist in this belief that they remain blind to the reality of Zionism.

Scofield served as the agent by which the Zionists paralyzed Christianity, while they prepared America for our final conquest.

You've got to hand it to the Zionists for long range planning.

You know the west already liberated the Arab world once - from the Turks - and blessed them with freedom. So now we are liberating them again, and I guess that means this is WWI again, and then we'll be having WWII again, and by 60s - the 2060s - the complete overthrow any remaining "Christian" way of life.

So the Christians of the Crusades are to be no more? no more warring with muzzies and jewz?

So the Christians of the Crusades are to be no more? no more warring with muzzies and jewz?

It will be Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage, which means the Jews openly run your country and your religion for you, and Christians and Muslims will now be united as "Zombies for Zion".

You've got to hand it to the Zionists for long range planning.

yes, you do.

and i've been advocating LONG-RANGE PLANNING for whites, and got the shit beat out of me on here for it.

what i mean is: we need to start thinking in CENTURIES, even MILLENIA. we need to start thinking beyond our own PERSONAL little lives and start thinking the BIG PICTURE.

we need to get beyond worrying about our little PERSONAL safeties, even our own FAMILY's safety! easier said than done, i know. i can't do it yet.

what i WAS and still AM searching for is GUIDANCE as to HOW to reach this goal i've set, and how others can attain total FEARLESSNESS when looking into the TEETH OF THE JEW.

that's what i want: to be as FEARLESS as SIEGFRIED!

yes, you do.

and i've been advocating LONG-RANGE PLANNING for whites, and got the shit beat out of me on here for it.

what i mean is: we need to start thinking in CENTURIES, even MILLENIA. we need to start thinking beyond our own PERSONAL little lives and start thinking the BIG PICTURE.

we need to get beyond worrying about our little PERSONAL safeties, even our own FAMILY's safety! easier said than done, i know. i can't do it yet.

what i WAS and still AM searching for is GUIDANCE as to HOW to reach this goal i've set, and how others can attain total FEARLESSNESS when looking into the TEETH OF THE JEW.

that's what i want: to be as FEARLESS as SIEGFRIED!

Ever see Apocalypse Now?
"Do you know who the CO is around here?"
"Ain't you?"
Stunned silence... Grumbling "There is no fucking CO here."

Shine yo shoos fo ya mista hershl?!