Analysis: The president likes to talk about Jews becoming Republicans, but the heart of his Israel agenda is keyed to a more critical, reliably conservative constituency.
The most visible moves by Trump on Israel policy have been crowd-pleasers with evangelical voters who form the strongest core of his base heading into the 2020 election.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — In a few weeks, the Rev.
Times change and white evangelical Christians are proving a more reliable partner both for Republican President Donald Trump and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than American Jews, who largely vote Democratic and who are deeply fractured over Israel's policies. That's the foundation for the strange-bedfellows relationship between pro-Israel American Jews and white evangelical Christians: Many Jews have accepted the support of Christians for Israel because they don't believe in the New Testament prophesy, and many Christian Zionists are happy to find common cause with Jews for now in order to help bring about Armageddon.
Hagee, who apologized for the Hitler comments in 2008, delivered a benediction prayer at the dedication ceremony. While critics of Israel and its policies — including Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who has elicited condemnation from Trump and many Democrats for her commentary — tend to focus on the perceived power of American Jews, Christian Zionists like Hagee and his followers exercise tremendous influence in Washington.
"We put 35,000 emails in his office ... he yanked that bill down," Hagee said."We are doing that over and over and over."
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