After a decades-long embrace that began when he first served as Israel’s prime minister in the 1990s, Benjamin Netanyahu’s evangelical allies are worried about a future without him.
Jews who value the Christian alliance are worried, too, about a possible erosion of support among a critical pro-Israel sector should Netanyahu be forced from office, which now seems a strong possibility.
“I hope the wisdom that Bibi had when it comes to respecting and honoring that community, I hope that other leaders will have that wisdom,” said David Brog, the founding director of Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, who now heads a pro-Israel campus group, Maccabee Task Force. “I would not expect to see real diminished support, but it would be a failure not to maximize the support and inspire it to its full extent.”
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Jun. 9, 2021 5:21 PM
Mike Evans calls himself “the largest evangelical leader in the world.” That might explain why folks listen when he opens his mouth. And boy, has it been wide open lately.
First, there was the public letter he issued accusing Naftali Bennett of being “so obsessed with destroying [Benjamin] Netanyahu that you’re willing to damage the State of Israel for your worthless cause,” and calling him a “disgusting disappointment” and a “pathetic, bitter little man.”
Then came a blog post last week on the Times of Israel website, where Evans compared members of the proposed “coalition of change” to “rabid dogs” who wish to “crucify” Israel’s longest standing prime minister.