New Christian Pro-Israel Lobby
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~New Christian Pro-Israel Lobby Aims To Be Stronger Than AIPAC~

Courtesy of: Haaretz.com
By Shlomo Shamir
03/04/2006

New York--Televangelist John Hagee told Jewish community leaders over the weekend that the 40 million Evangelical Christians in the United States support Israel and that he plans to utilize this power to help Israel by launching a Christian pro-Israel lobby.

The lobby is slated to launch in July, during a Washington conference in which hundreds of American Evangelicals are slated to participate, Hagee said at a meeting of the Conference of President's of Major American Jewish Organizations, which represents 52 national Jewish groups. He also discussed the lobby with Israel's Consul General in New York, Aryeh Mekel.

Hagee said his group would be a Christian--and more powerful--version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a large pro-Israel lobby, and would target Senators and Congressmen on Capitol Hill.

A quarter of Congressmen are evangelicals, and many American legislators represent regions that include a large evangelical population, he said.

Hagee--the founder and senior pastor of the Evangelical Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, that claims an active membership of more than 18,000--said the lobby's activities would be a "political earthquake."

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