Do You Believe G-D's Promises?

Last Sunday, American evangelist John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to a number of Israeli causes and declared that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem. Among the 16 causes Hagee pledged to support, were Magen David Adom and a conference center in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.

Hagee has united evangelical Christian supporters of Israel in the US under one umbrella organization which focuses solely on support for Israel and does not work to convert Jews to Christianity.

Hagee's group, Christians United for Israel, held a colorful rally at Jerusalem's convention center. The mostly American audience waved Israeli flags and cheered as Hagee joined keynote speaker Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's hardline opposition Likud party, to insist Jerusalem remain united and under Jewish control. – “Israel has no better friends in the world than Christian Zionists”, Likud opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday."This is a friendship of the heart, a friendship of common roots, and a friendship of common civilization," Netanyahu told a conference of American Evangelicals in Jerusalem.In March of 2006, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party revealed that it would divide Jerusalem and allow a Palestinian state to be established in parts of Israel's "eternal capital." Hagee said during his speech: “Turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." Rabbi Eric Yoffie confronted extremist Christian Zionists; Reform Jews should not engage in alliances with Hagee’s Christians United for Israel .

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie is the President of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America. The Union represents 1.5 million Reform Jews in more than 900 synagogues across the United States and Canada.

Rabbi Yoffie has been a pioneer in interfaith relations and has launched Movement-wide dialogue programs with both Christians and Muslims. This is the reasoning of Reform Judaism Rabbi Eric Yoffie, purported leader of the largest "branch of Judaism" in the United States. Reform Judaism is liberal, anti-Zionist and historically rejectionist of the re-establishment of the State of Israel. It rejects the idea of a Messiah who will come to a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem. It has an estimated 1.1 million adherents in America.

At a convention of reform rabbis in Cincinnati this week, Yoffie lowered the boom on Hagee and urged Jews to no longer attend Hagee's series of "Nights for Israel", which have helped raise tens of millions of dollars for the Jewish state, and strengthened the connection between Jews and Evangelicals around the country. “Evangelical Christians cannot be good for Israel because they oppose the US-led process aimed at creating Palestine in the historic heartland of the Jewish people.” - Reform Judaism supports creating a Palestinian state, while Hagee sees a biblical mandate for the territory, so End Times prophecy can be fulfilled.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie said Hagee and his group, Christians United For Israel, reject any Israeli land concessions to achieve peace with the Palestinians.

"What [Christian Zionists] mean by 'support of Israel' and what we mean by 'support of Israel' are two very different things," he said according to The Jerusalem Post. "Their vision of Israel rejects a two-state solution, rejects the possibility of a democratic Israel, and supports the permanent occupation of all Arab lands now controlled by Israel.” While Yoffie describes Judea and Samaria as "Arab" territory, Christian Zionists know these to be biblically, historically and prophetically exclusively Jewish lands.

This issue is at its core about support of Israel, he explained. The speech ended on this important note: “And it is important to remember that Israel’s greatest friends and most important defenders are not the fundamentalists and extremists and those who take their orders directly from G-d, but those who work for an end to this terrible conflict, and who pray for peace for all who live in the land that we all call holy,” Rabbi Yoffie said as he finished his speech.

Oh my! How can a rabbi make such a statement? If he truly believed G-D’s word, he would know that this Land was set aside by G-d as the homeland of the Jewish People. There is no connection with any nation other than the Jewish one.

The Jewish People were chosen, by G-d, to return to our ancient homeland and become an example for all of the nations of the world by dedicating our lives to serving their Creator. It is only through the Jewish People that blessing will come to our world. They didn’t come to dispossess anyone. They are coming home to fulfill their destiny as Jews and to obey the Commandments of our G-d. Such things can never be subject to compromise.

The concept of an Arab Palestine was born with the PLO in 1964. It was a brilliant public relations ploy to change the image of an overwhelming Arab united front fighting a tiny Jewish State to appear as if a gigantic Jewish State was oppressing a tiny Arab minority. This ploy was the most successful lie to be perpetuated upon the world in its entire history.

Are we going to believe that lie, or are we going to believe G-D’s promises for Israel?