The conflicts between Israel and Palestine seem to have no end. I read that Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Pastor John Hagee were onstage together the day before Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Israel to try to get peace talks started—again.
Hagee, “is the right-wing Christian evangelical leader who thought New Orleans got what it had coming to it with Katrina, and is dead-set against any kind of peace settlement that recognizes Palestinian statehood. ‘If America puts pressure on Israel to divide Jerusalem, we are following the blueprint of the Prince of Darkness,” Hagee has said. “Amos 3:2 states that any nation that divides the Land of Israel will come under the severe judgment of God.’”
Netanyahu is also characterized as “right-wing” in Eric Alterman’s post on The Daily Beast. If accurate, that puts two right-wing guys together.
From the sounds of it Netanyahu isn’t really interested in any peace talks with Palestine.
But what is Hagee doing there? He belongs in the pulpit, not involved in foreign affairs. This mixing of religion and politics is counter productive. Besides, who gives Hagee the authority to tell anyone what God will or will not do?
[Source: The Daily Beast]
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