Going Undercover at Mad Pastor Hagee's Christians United for Israel Summit
By Ali Gharib, AlterNet
Posted on July 26, 2008, Printed on July 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/92860/
For Christians United for Israel and its founder, John Hagee, this year's
Washington-Israel Summit was supposed to serve as a rallying call for
Christians to stand up for Israel. The controversies surrounding Hagee's
teachings that inspire his politics, particularly his End Times theology and
its implications for the Jews he purports to love and protect and his
religious interpretations of the Catholic Church and Hitler, were meant to
take a backseat to the conference's aims of demonstrating political support
for Israel and actions against its enemies.
Hagee did not want the events at this year's summit to be brought to the
wider public. All but one event in the two-day session at the cavernous
Washington Convention Center were closed to the press...