Trump admits moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was ‘for the evangelicals’

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"Evangelical support for Israel has always been about fulfilling a prophecy from the Book of Revelation. Supposedly, once all the Jews are gathered in the Holy Land, Jesus will return — and take his followers to Heaven while the rest go to Hell.

Jews, not surprisingly, aren’t terribly fond of this theology. Nor are they wild about being used as pawns for an agenda. But white evangelicals have so carefully crafted their narrative that many of them believe criticizing Israel — as many Jews do, because they don’t all view it as a perfect, holy Utopia — is tantamount to heresy, if not some form of treason. They believe that God will bless America if and only if they prioritize a relationship with Israel (regardless of other political considerations or human rights issues). That’s why many of them get away with calling themselves “pro-Israel” and “pro-Jewish” when, really, they just want to bring about their own apocalypse."
 
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Remember when that was going to set off World War III? Now Israel is making peace with it’s Arab neighbours.
 
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Trump is a CNP operative.

The CNP runs the evangelical movement and they are full of apocalyptic "Christian" fundamentalist psychopaths who want to start WW3.

So of course this was for them, and their Zionist counterparts.
 
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shankara said:
www.independent.co.uk

Trump admits moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was ‘for the evangelicals’

President said in 2017 he made decision with ‘peace’ in mind
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Thought-provoking perspective from Professor Awad:

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Should Evangelicals Terminate Their Affair with the State of Israel? - Word&Way

Alex Awad, pastor at East Jerusalem Baptist Church and a professor at Bethlehem Bible College, argues that U.S. evangelicals should oppose an expected move by Israel to annex part of the occupied Palestinian territories.
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And all this time I thought he did it because he wanted to show US support for the Jewish state of Israel by moving to their city of Jerusalem.
 
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Funny how the same people who says Trump lies about everything suddenly take this as gospel truth. When will they understand that, sometimes, Trump just says things?
 
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Thunderian said:
Funny how the same people who says Trump lies about everything suddenly take this as gospel truth. When will they understand that, sometimes, Trump just says things?
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He's like a child, he did something naughty and now he can't resist boasting about it even though it's going to get him into trouble. One would have to ask why he would lie about such a thing, it can only get him in trouble by exposing his self-interested motives.

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Who are they "making peace with" ?

You mean the same Arab kingdoms who have secretly been collaborating with Israel for decades ? Those Arab collaborators who want to take down Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah ?
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Yeah the Sunnis hate the Shi'a a lot more than they dislike Israel. It's the old "narcissism of small difference". Or the usual hatred of the exoteric religionists for esoteric doctrines.
 
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