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Ex-President Jimmy Carter (file)
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| By Israel Insider staff July 22, 2007 |
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An influential pro-Israel evangelical Christian pastor has demanded that Jimmy Carter come clean on the sources of funding for his "peace center."
In a speech to the Wshington conference of the organization he leads, Christians United For Israel, John Hagee said the former U.S. president is Israel's "enemy in America." and slammed Carter for likening Israel's settlement policy to apartheid and calling the isolation of the Hamas-led Gaza Strip "criminal."
Hagee referred to a report in a conservative journal, National Review, which revealed that a large chunk of the funding for the Carter Center comes from Saudis seeking to influence U.S. Middle East policy, using the ex-President as a foreign mouthpiece. "I call on former President Carter to publicly disclose how much of the Carter Center's funding is coming from anti-Israel sources in the Middle East," Hagee demanded.
CUFI is a grassroots organization provides a national umbrella for pro-Israel Christian groups in America. Hagee created the group in 2006 as a national movement focused based on the support of Israel. Directors from all 50 states were present at Wednesday's event.
"It's 1938 all over again," said Hagee, cribbing a line from Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. "Iran is Germany, Ahmadinejad is Hitler and he is talking about killing the Jews. The only way to prevent a nuclear war is to make certain it never starts." |
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