Lieberman Appearance at Hagee Conference Sparks Objections

[LTR]

A close adviser and advocate of Sen. John McCain is set to make an appearance tonight in Washington, D.C., with Texas megapreacher Pastor John Hagee -- a man McCain disavowed in the wake of controversy over inflammatory comments Hagee had made about Jews and Catholics.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, is scheduled to speak at the annual conference of Christians United for Israel, a group Hagee founded to gather evangelical Christian economic and political support for Israel.

American Jewish skepticism for Hagee and other Christian Zionists has long been high, but now a new Jewish peace lobbying group is trying to draw a brighter line. Yesterday, a campaign called "Don't Go Joe" organized by the group J Street delivered more than 42,000 signatures to Lieberman's office, asking him to cut ties with Hagee.

J Street and its allies note that the vast majority of American Jews support a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, something Hagee believes God opposes. Hagee believes an end-time narrative that requires Jews to relocate to Israel before Jesus returns and they convert to Christianity. A new J Street poll of 800 American Jews found that 78 percent oppose forming alliances with Christian Zionists whose support for Israel is based on an end-times scenario that involves converting Jews.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/22/lieberman_appearance_at_hagee.html?hpid=topnews

[Hippo_Tron]

1. I had an opportunity to go to this, but I didn't think I could manage to sit through it

Even for free food...

[ccharles000]

2. Hagee and Joe belong with each other.

[yellowcanine]

3. Loserman has no shame. Hagee is a pimp for Christian Zionism.

How can a Jew break bread with someone who thinks all Jews have to convert to Christianity and by the way, Israel gets destroyed as well.

[cliffordu]

4. Is just me or is Lieberman a fucking WHORE??

(No offense to sex workers...)