Gregory Levey in Salon:
“The sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awoken!” Hagee proclaimed, taking the microphone at the opening dinner reception on Sunday. The electrified crowd — most of it Jewish — roared in support, pounding on the tables. Hagee went on to declare the United Nations a “political brothel” and asserted that Israel must never give up land. He agreed with Israeli writer Dore Gold that granting part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians would be “tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban.” And, after rebuking Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he led the crowd in a chant of “Israel lives!” urging them to “shout it from the mountaintops!”…
AIPAC, whose own literature notes that it has been described by the New York Times as “the most important organization affecting America’s relationship with Israel,” has been highly successful in building strong relationships with both U.S. political parties. This year’s conference was attended by everyone from Vice President Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and other 2008 presidential contenders), as well as former CIA director James Woolsey. Leaders from Congress were there, as were numerous officials from the State Department and White House…
In addition to the many panels at the conference, which often felt akin to pep rallies, delegates also attended “lobbying labs,” where AIPAC staff schooled them on how to effectively persuade their congressional representatives to follow AIPAC policies. These sessions were not open to the media, nor even mentioned on the schedule of events distributed to members of the press. But AIPAC leaders repeatedly urged delegates to attend them. And on Tuesday, the organization deployed its army of lobbyists to push for new sanctions against Iran, which are contained in a new bill called the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, introduced by Democrat Tom Lantos and Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Hagee puts blame for the Holocaust on the Jews and the Catholics, too. With friends like this, who needs friends. No thanks.
He is an entertaining preacher to watch on TV.
Thanks for the info. We shall have a closer look at Rev. Hagee.
Hagee is a complete charlatan and hate-monger of the first order.
I looked a little last night, but couldn’t find info supporting his holocaust views.
Doesn’t take much digging to see Hagee is yet another religious lunatic on par with Osama bin-Laden:
- Thinks “Harry Potter” books lead children into witchcraft.
- Believes in the “end times”.
- Is a Biblical literalist.
- He gets big bucks voted to him by his board of directors, which consist of Hagee, his wife, his son, and a church member.
- Believes New Orleans was punished for its “sins”.
As to the holocaust:
“It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God’s chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day…”
–Pastor John Hagee, “Jerusalem Countdown,” pp. 92-93
Here’s a nice round up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/aipac-cheers-an-antisemi_b_43377.html
I also find it amusing that he likes to preach to Jewish crowds that people who oppose the Jews will be punished like Pharaoh was punished for refusing to free the Israelites. It was this particular passage of the Bible that convinced me that the “God” these people worshiped was a complete psycho, and not someone I wished to associate myself with.
If you actually READ the story, (Exodus 10:16-20) Pharaoh is willing to let the Israelites go, but “God” plays mind games with him.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
What a sick puppy.
Looks like we were writing the same post. Thanks.