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Evangelical Christians back eviction By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News Correspondent WASHINGTON, 23 October — Throughout the world, criticism is growing against Israel’s hard-line tactics against Palestinians, but support for Zionism remains firm among America’s millions of evangelical Christians. Last week, thousands of evangelical Christians cheered as a member from Israel’s Knesset called for the "relocation of Palestinians" from the West Bank to Jordan. Benny Elon, a member of the Moledet party, called for the "transfer of Palestinians" to Arab countries, saying the Bible calls for a "resettlement" of the Palestinians. His remarks were applauded at the annual convention of the Christian Coalition, and many of the neo- conservatives waved Israeli flags. The audience also cheered House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, who told them to back pro-Israel candidates. "Most evangelicals are certain that God always takes the side of Israel" in any conflict, Randall Balmer and Lauren F. Winner say in "Protestantism in America" (Columbia University Press). National Review says evangelicals hold a "divine right" viewpoint and support Israel with an "uncritical fervor that exceed that of even some American Jews." Such an example is Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, the main speaker at the Christian Coalition convention held in Washington. He attacked Yasser Arafat, saying he had "killed or deported the vast percentage of Christian population in Bethlehem." Robertson also accused the Palestinian Authority of being "a group of Mafia-like thugs, who have been imported from Tunisia, and really, Palestine has been occupied by Yasser Arafat and his thugs. We cannot turn that nation over to them." Robertson rejected any legitimacy of the Palestinians’ claim to their land, saying, "the Palestinians are really Arabs who moved there a few decades ago. Their claim to that land really does not go back very far such as it is." He added that the Jewish claim goes back thousands of years. If anyone questioned Robertson’s claim, they only needed to double check the facts with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Tourism Ministry and Israeli Embassy booths set up at the convention. If anyone was feeling confused, Elon reassured them: "I know, we always have to be politically correct, but it is very, very complicated to be politically correct when you have to correct so many political mistakes." Elon, an Orthodox rabbi, told the audience that to correct such mistakes meant they must turn to their Bible, "which says very clearly...we have to resettle them, to relocate them, and to have a Jewish state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean." Although the Sharon government did not send an official representative, it allowed Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, a senior member of the Likud party but not a member of the Cabinet, to represent it. Olmert further stirred up the audience when he said he came "from the city of God, the place which God made the capital of the Jewish people more than 3,000 years ago." He promised them that an undivided Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel. Experts commenting on the conference say fundamentalist Christian, pro-Israel beliefs are fueled less by evangelical graduate-level theologians than by media-savvy television preachers, such as Robertson. In addition, pro-Israel rallies are also held each year during the US Gospel broadcasters’ convention. "Literalist" evangelicals often obfuscate historical facts in the Middle East. One example is Richard Land, a social-issues spokesman for the southern Baptist Convention, who told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year that the welfare of the United States depends on friendship with Israel because of God’s biblical covenant with Abraham’s descendants. 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