Sharon Thanks Christians for Supporting Israel

Israel's weariness and isolation from the three-year battle against Palestinian terrorists makes the support from Christians more important than ever.

CBN.com – JERUSALEM -- This week, Jews around the world are celebrating the feast of tabernacles. Thousands of Christian pilgrims are in Jerusalem for a celebration of the feast, and they heard from some of Israel's highest leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addressed more than 3,000 Christians at the opening celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles.

Sharon said, "You're here because your hearts and souls brought you here to the land of the Bible."

To some, the gathering, which marks one of the feasts commanded in the Bible, represents the tip of the iceberg of worldwide Christian support for Israel.

Malcolm Hedding is the executive director of the Christian Embassy, Jerusalem. He said, "When you take the proportions of the groups present here tonight, then they represent millions of Christians around the world who stand with Israel and are prepared to come here and express their love and support for this people at this time."

The address by Ariel Sharon comes at a difficult time for the nation of Israel, with the continued threat of terror attacks, increased tension on the northern border with Syria and the apparent failure of the road map peace plan.

Israel's weariness and isolation from the three-year battle against Palestinian terrorists makes the support from Christians more important than ever.

Michael Utterback is the international director of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem. He said, 'The Israelis have never been in the situation they are in since the founding of the country; where they just feel hopeless, where they feel everyone has turned against them. And yet, it's been stated over and over against in the last three years where the evangelical Christians of the world are our best friends."

Rannan Gissan, spokesman for the prime minister, said, "We don't have many friends around us in the world. It gets quite lonely there. And when you're at the head of the column, you always want the soldiers to tap you on the helmet to know someone is behind you. Your coming here is tapping on the helmets of all the Israelis who are standing in the front lines for freedom, for prosperity, for western society."

A sentiment Sharon echoed to the crowd. He said, "Thank you so much for coming here and showing solidarity. Your presence sends a strong message to the world and your friendship is important to us. Very important."

This evening I saw a clip on CNN of a leader from a muslim country, unfortunately I only caught a snippet of this clip and can't tell you who the speaker was at this muslim conference gathering of prominent muslim leaders from across the globe, anyway he was saying that "he can't understand why 1.6 billion muslim can't eliminate handful of jews." Of course he retracted his words and all was well with CNN..bastards! In other words, Israels TRUE friend and defender are still the christians!! The muslim community is hell bend on destroying the nation of Israel!!

Israel is just the beginning. The mohammedians are in need of a thermonuclear spanking or they will continue to be a threat until the end of time.

It would be interesting to check out a transcript of what you saw on CNN's website.

I've seen them intentionally edit out comments by a Muslim guest that were actually critical of the silent response of American Muslims to the WOT, islamic extremism etc. Daryn Cagan cut the interview off immediately after those comments and the transcript omited them.

Prairie

5 posted on 10/16/2003 8:56:31 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Brought to you by The American Democratic Party, also known as Al Qaeda, Western Division.)

6 posted on 10/16/2003 8:57:51 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Brought to you by The American Democratic Party, also known as Al Qaeda, Western Division.)

Sorry if this is a double ping. Can't remember if this was posted somewhere else.

Important because the State Department is urging travel restrictions for Americans to Israel. *snicker* Yeah, right.

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7 posted on 10/20/2003 6:12:12 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)

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