It’s revealing that Netanyahu’s first meeting was not with American Jewish leaders but with American evangelicals.

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".... The situation is deeply worrisome on many levels. It is utterly shocking that these evangelical leaders chose to meet with a man subject to an active International Criminal Court arrest warrant for war crimes instead of raising a prophetic call for peace or engaging with Christians in Israel and Palestine. Even worse, they completely ignored the urgent plea of 21 evangelical pastors and leaders from across the Middle East who issued a collective call to the global church last August, urging the world to listen to our cries and hear our stories.

Even more reprehensible, as Huckabee later admitted in an interview with Joel Rosenberg, the “universal feeling” among these pastors was not concern for peace or justice but anxiety over the disruption of their Holy Land tours. Rather than mourning the thousands of Palestinian children buried beneath the rubble in Gaza or pleading for the starving, wounded and displaced, they sought reassurance that, once the conflict subsided, they could return to treading the sacred ground where Jesus once walked — untainted by the bloodshed and dire suffering of innocent lives.

I write from the perspective of a Palestinian American evangelical who cares deeply about the church. I’m profoundly grateful for the American missionaries who have sacrificed to come to the Middle East and proclaim the gospel. Many faithful churches and dedicated missionaries work tirelessly, partnering with numerous God‑honoring ministries in the region to bring the hope of Jesus to desperate, shattered communities. Yet the credibility of our gospel witness as evangelicals is now at stake. We risk missing the opportunity to show the people of Gaza, a people on the brink of extinction, how deeply God loves and cares for them.

A significant generational shift is underway away from a false gospel of empire toward a faith that upholds justice, mercy and truth. Many young Christians recognize that true faithfulness to Christ cannot be reconciled with the destruction of Palestinian lives, the bombing of churches, hospitals and refugee camps or the systematic starvation of an entire population...."

Displaced Palestinians make their way from central Gaza to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Fares Abraham

February 11, 2025 

Why younger evangelical Christians are losing their faith in Israel

(RNS) — The credibility of our gospel witness as evangelicals is now at stake. 

(RNS) — On Feb. 3, the night before his press conference with President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with 14 prominent American evangelical Christian leaders at Blair House, across the street from the White House. Figures such as Jentezen Franklin, Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, John Hagee, Tony Perkins and several other key pastors gathered in a 90‑minute closed‑door session orchestrated by the newly designated U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.

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