re: #634 Expand Your Ground

There are Christians who support Israel for this very reason, and this reason alone. They form a quietly scary subset of the conservative Christian Right.

re: #650 NJDhockeyfan

So they support Israel so they can slaughter Jews? Really?

Yes, some do

John Hagee

Despite Hagee’s professed “Christian Zionist” beliefs and public support for the state of Israel, Hagee has made statements that some have interpreted as antisemitic. He has blamed the Holocaust on Jews themselves. He has stated that Hitler’s persecution was a “divine plan” to lead Jews to form the modern state of Israel. He calls liberal Jews “poisoned” and “spiritually blind.” He also admits that that the preemptive nuclear attack on Iran that he favors will lead to the deaths of most Jews in Israel.[44]

In his book Jerusalem Countdown, Hagee claims that Adolf Hitler was born from a lineage of “accursed, genocidally murderous half-breed Jews.“[45] On page 149 in a chapter with the title ‘Who Is a Jew?’, Hagee writes:

“It was Esau’s descendants who produced the half-breed Jews of history who have persecuted and murdered the Jews beyond human comprehension … Adolf Hitler was a distant descendant of Esau.”[45]

Hagee has attributed the persecution of Jews throughout history, implicitly including the Holocaust, to disobedience, thereby attracting accusations of antisemitism:[46]

“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… Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of antisemitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come…. it rises from the judgment of God upon his rebellious chosen people.”[47]