Ted Beckett
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]
