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:What God is doing now is restoring Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... His word says he's going to restore the land to the Jewish people. It's a God thing.<ref name ="A US Christian">Ilene R. Prusher, 'A US Christian Who's 'Doing Deals for the Lord' in Israel', ''Christian Science Monitor'', 24 April 1998</ref> | :What God is doing now is restoring Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... His word says he's going to restore the land to the Jewish people. It's a God thing.<ref name ="A US Christian">Ilene R. Prusher, 'A US Christian Who's 'Doing Deals for the Lord' in Israel', ''Christian Science Monitor'', 24 April 1998</ref> | ||
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| + | :We believe that Christians share a biblical mandate to support the resettlement of Israel... The liberal Jewish establishment thinks Clinton is the best friend Israel ever had, but we don't agree and we think he's pressuring Israel.<ref name ="Israel's Unlikely Ally">Ilene R. Prusher, 'Israel's Unlikely Ally: American Evangelicals Well-cultivated ties give premier a boost as some US Jews question his hard line', ''Christian Science Monitor'', 24 April 1998</ref> | ||
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Ted Beckett is the founder of Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC), a Christian Zionist organisation which supports settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories. Beckett worked in real estate and managed mobile-home parks.[1] He formerly served in the US marines and reportedly used his vacation time to smuggle Christian literature into communist countries during the cold war.[1] The launching of CFOIC was instigated by the Oslo accords and what Beckett believed to be a threat to the continued existence of the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.[1] Beckett was raised a Catholic but later converted to the evangelical New Life Church.[1]
Views
Regarding Jewish settlement in historic Palestine Beckett has commented that:
- What God is doing now is restoring Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... His word says he's going to restore the land to the Jewish people. It's a God thing.[1]
In 1998 he commented that:
- We believe that Christians share a biblical mandate to support the resettlement of Israel... The liberal Jewish establishment thinks Clinton is the best friend Israel ever had, but we don't agree and we think he's pressuring Israel.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ilene R. Prusher, 'A US Christian Who's 'Doing Deals for the Lord' in Israel', Christian Science Monitor, 24 April 1998
- ↑ Ilene R. Prusher, 'Israel's Unlikely Ally: American Evangelicals Well-cultivated ties give premier a boost as some US Jews question his hard line', Christian Science Monitor, 24 April 1998
