{"id":3389,"date":"2007-01-30T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T04:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2017-11-20T00:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T04:48:58","slug":"splitting-the-evangelicals-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/splitting-the-evangelicals-from-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Splitting the Evangelicals from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ed Lasky<\/p>\n<p>A new strategy seems to be emerging that seeks to weaken American support for Israel.<br \/>\nWhile there has been much attention given to challenges Israel faces on college campuses, in the media, and increasingly in the halls of Congress, the historically solid and vitally important support given by Evangelical Christians towards Israel is now being threatened. How is this happening and who are the actors?<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals support Israel for a variety of reasons, among them a belief that Israel is a fellow democracy with which we share a common Western culture and that we value as a friend. Israel has also been victimized by Islamic terrorism, as have we. Israel is also a strategic ally in the war against Islamic radicalism- a lone Western outpost in a faraway land that gave birth to two major religions: Judaism and Christianity-the foundation of Western civilization.<br \/>\nHowever, the core reason that Evangelicals have an affection for the Jewish people and a strong desire to protect Israel is found, unsurprisingly, in the Bible. <a href=\"http:\/\/bsimmons.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/30\/splitting-the-evangelicals-from-israel\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Click here to read this entire article.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070207121712\/http:\/\/www.fromthelighthouse.com:80\/blog\/index.php?cat=13\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Our other articles on Israel<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Our articles on the Holocaust<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070207121933\/http:\/\/www.fromthelighthouse.com:80\/blog\/index.php?cat=29\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Our articles on Eschatology (end-times)<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ed Lasky A new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signs-of-the-times","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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