Christian leanings at the Jerusalem Post

[Englander]

Chris McGreal
Thursday October 20, 2005
The Guardian

The strange and uneasy embrace between the Jewish state and America's evangelical right is being tightened. At the beginning of next year Israel's oldest English-language paper, the Jerusalem Post, is to launch a Christian edition. The Post, a widely respected paper until it fell into former owner Conrad Black's clutches, is seeking to bolster its North American circulation by building on the blossoming relationship between the Israeli right and Christian fundamentalists.

The relationship is not an easy one. Bush-backing evangelists are among Ariel Sharon's best friends in a hostile world. The politics mesh easily but underpinning them is a belief among the fundamentalists that the revival of the Israeli state is a precursor to the Second Coming. And with that goes a desire to get Jews to recognise the First Coming and save themselves from eternal damnation. Israel passed laws against that kind of evangelising decades ago, but these days the Jerusalem Post, like the government, is less concerned with the hereafter than the here and now.

The paper is getting together with the International Christian Embassy (ICE) in Jerusalem - an organisation that says it exists to "comfort Zion" and "declare the purpose of God to the Jewish people" - to publish a monthly Christian edition from January principally aimed at American fundamentalists.

"The content is going to be jointly put together by the Jerusalem Post and the International Christian Embassy," says the Post's editor, British-born David Horowitz. "It'll be things like archaeology and tourism and ideological arguments and dilemmas and so on. Obviously, when your predominant mindset is a Jewish audience there are different stresses that go into providing content, whereas if you're doing it for a Christian audience there are going to be very different emphases and different focuses."

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. wonder what the Israeli government will do

when the fundies take this step as a green light to come over and "convert" everyone? Will the Christian edition of the Post be advocating this, or have anti-Semetic articles?

[xchrom]

2. imagine that -- christians declaring the purpose of god

to the people who brought god to them. so to speak.

i am a christian -- but sometimes i wish the lions had done a better job.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Nick Cohen was right

Nick Cohen was right. See .

These Evangelicals only see Israel as a step in their "End of Days"- "Second Coming" scenario.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. What's the end game? Pat Robertson and Jerry F. co-opting Israel

as a Christian fundamentalist state, replete with nuclear arms?

[Coastie for Truth]

5. That's the fundie vision

along with banning choice, executing gays/lesbians/transexuals/bisexuals, banning teaching of evolution, compulsory Bible Reading and Ten Commandments, etc. and getting Harriet confirmed.