David Halbfinger (Photo: New York Times)
The New York Times just ran an article in which an Israeli documentary filmmaker asserts that “Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does.”
This is simply not true. The
Times reporter, David Halbfinger, accepts the assertion from filmmaker Maya Zinshtein even though he served as Jerusalem bureau chief when two very powerful Jewish supporters of the settlements were all over our politics: Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Mideast envoy; and David Friedman, Donald Trump’s personal attorney and then-ambassador to Israel. Kushner’s family foundation backed settlements. Friedman embraced settlements fulsomely. Their “vision” was the Trump “peace plan” that called for Israel to annex large portions of the West Bank.
American evangelicals, Israeli settlers and a skeptical filmmaker
The documentary filmmaker Maya Zinshtein in Tel Aviv on Feb. 23, 2021. Her new film, Til Kingdom Come, illuminates what the director calls an unholy alliance that sharply altered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Trump administration. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times.
by David M. Halbfinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The bear hug between former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their governments was a partnership like no other the two countries had seen. For four years, Israel was Washingtons favorite foreign policy arena and Jerusalem its best friend, and the brash new U.S. approach to the Middle East dominated Israels national security discourse and its politics.
What to watch at the Jewish Film Festival
With more than 50 offerings to take in, thereâs something for everyone at this yearâs Jewish International Film Festival, currently screening in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.
âThe Human Factorâ looks at the peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine and the complex relationships that existed between Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.Â
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No-one could ever accuse the Jewish International Film Festival of taking soft options. Most festivals choose to screen something suitably light-hearted on opening night, but the 2021 JIFF was launched with Yaron Silbermanâs
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ââTil Kingdom Comeâ Review: An Unusual Religious Bond
Maya Zinshteinâs revelatory documentary explores the political and philanthropic alliance of American evangelical Christians and Israeli Jews.
A scene from the documentary ââTil Kingdom Come,â directed by Maya Zinshtein.Credit.Abraham (Abie) Troen/Abramorama
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ââTil Kingdom Come,â the new documentary by Maya Zinshtein, probes the entanglements of politics and prophecy that bind two strange bedfellows: American evangelical Christians and Israeli Jews.
The film follows Yael Eckstein, the president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and the Kentucky pastors William Bingham III and his son Boyd Bingham IV. The hefty donations that the Binghamsâ church makes to Ecksteinâs organization â which is advertised through senti