New Evangelical Group Could Buck Promised West Bank Pullouts
A newly created Evangelical pro-Israel lobby group could clash head-on with an Israeli government determined to pull out from 90 percent of the West Bank by 2010 and with the Jewish groups that will line up to support it.
Leaders of Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, predict their group will be a major force in American politics like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying giant that has activists in virtually every congressional district. And they insist their support for the Jewish state won’t come with any strings, political or theological.
But some Jewish leaders are skeptical.
“It raises questions,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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