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{weblog_name} - Hagee’s Rare Blunder
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Back in the summer of 2005, I was ushered into a swank hotel suite in Washington, D.C. to meet with Rev. John Hagee – founder of the now huge Christians United For Israel (CUFI) operation – on the first day of his organization’s first national conference. I was wearing a kippah (a habit at all Christian events so that people know that I’m a proud Jew who is willing to engage them). Moments earlier, I had been hugged and blessed in the lobby by a woman from Alabama who was thrilled to meet a real Jew. Two days earlier, Israel had been attacked by waves of Hezbollah rockets. That sounded the alarm for this new pro-Israel Christian group, quickly lifting an expected 1,000 participants in the conference to around 3,000. Clearly, something important was happening in the pro-Israel lobby,… read more