Hagee draws AIPAC cheers

[Scurrilous]

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"A fiery pro-Israel speech by an evangelical preacher drew multiple standing ovations from thousands of AIPAC delegates. Pastor John Hagee, who last year founded Christians United for Israel, spoke Sunday night at the launch of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy forum in Washington.

Hagee outlined his vision of a united evangelical-Jewish front lobbying for Israel. He pledged to "stand up for Israel, to financially support Israel until Israel achieves a just, lasting peace. Israel, you are not alone." He finished his speech by leading the crowd in a chorus of "Israel Lives!"

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/100522.html


Pastor Strangelove

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"On Purim, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the day Queen Esther saved the Jews from annihilation, Trinity Broadcasting Network’s flagship talk show, Praise the Lord, featured an appearance by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. A politically conservative Orthodox rabbi, Lapin is best known for crusading with the Christian right against “anti-religion bigotry” and, more recently, for his close association with the convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. But he was not invited to a nationwide telecast to discuss such topics as the trumped-up war against religion or the better nature of his fallen friend. He had been asked to explain the significance of Purim to Christians, and particularly how the Old Testament’s Book of Esther “serves as a roadmap to reality,” which pinpoints where the next world “hot spot” will be.

That soon-to-be-flaming location is where the Book of Esther was set: namely Persia, or in modern parlance, Iran.

Seated beside Lapin in the ornately gilded Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) studio was Pastor John Hagee, the author of an incendiary new book purporting to show that the Bible predicts a military confrontation with Iran. By then, Hagee’s book, Jerusalem Countdown, had sold nearly 500,000 copies. It had occupied the No. 1 position on the Wal-Mart inspirational best-seller list, showed up on Wal-Mart’s list of top 10 best sellers for seven weeks, and made the USA Today top 50 best-seller list for six weeks.

Hagee, who serves as head pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, hosts his own television program that is seen twice a day on TBN. He argues that the United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West. Shortly after the release of his book last January, he launched Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a lobbying organization intended, he says, to be a Christian version of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee. With CUFI, which Hagee has said will cause a “political earthquake,” the televangelist aims to put the political organizing muscle of the conservative evangelical movement behind his grand plan for a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.

While Washington insiders wonder and worry whether President Bush really is bent on a military strike against Iran, Hagee already has spent months mobilizing the shock troops in support of another war. As diplomats, experts, and pundits debate how many years Iran will need to develop a viable nuclear weapon, Hagee says the mullahs already possess the means to destroy Israel and America. And although Bush insists that diplomatic options are still on the table, Hagee has dismissed pussyfooting diplomacy and primed his followers for a conflagration."

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11541

[Tom Joad]

1. I am hoping we get a full transcript of the rev. H. speech soon.

aipac & Hagee, a natural choice.

(one can only hope that there are some photos somewhere with hagee and Israel's foreign minister to El Salvador... )

[Purveyor]

2. If you are not on dial-up, Hagee address to AIPAC can be watched on YouTube...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x19198

[Maat]

3. What frosts me is that people condoning proposed illegal invasion.

There are three ways to legally go to war: (1) if the invading country is under danger of IMMINENT DEADLY attack; (2) one of their allies is under such and they are assisting that country in defending itself; or (3) with U.N. authorization. I can't go and kill my neighbor when he's sleeping because he MIGHT have an AK-47 that he MAY want to use on me, or because he MAY have one in the FUTURE. Neither should NeoCons get away with illegal invasion because of what IRAN might have in the future. We already illegally invaded Iraq.

Hagee's audience is not only condoning immoral behavior when they applaud proposed attack on Iran, they are condoning CRIMINAL behavior.

Shocking.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. John Hagee RRRRRAWWWWXXXXXX!!!!!!!!

Just in case it's needed,:sarcasm:

[Tom Joad]

5. lol. I was expecting someone else to say that though....

[number6]

6. John Hagees head is full of ........

ROCKS !! ;)