Hagee Questions Carter Center Funding

[Purveyor]

A leading pro-Israel evangelical Christian pastor called on Jimmy Carter to reveal the sources of funding for his peace center.

The former U.S. president is Israel's "enemy in America," Pastor John Hagee, who heads Christians United For Israel, told CUFI's Washington conference this week.

He slammed Carter for his book last year likening Israel's settlement policy to apartheid and for calling the isolation of the Hamas-led Gaza Strip "criminal."

Hagee cited a report in a conservative journal, National Review, that alleged the Carter Center, which combats poverty, defends human rights and promotes peace, had received funding from Saudis who seek to influence U.S. Middle East policy.

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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103166.html

[LeftyMom]

1. Who funds Hagee?

And shouldn't somebody who runs a tax exempt ministry be shutting the fuck up about political issues unless he wants to start cutting quarterly checks to Uncle Sam?

[Tom Joad]

2. Hagee and CUFI is one of the most dangerous cults in the US.

More about Hagee here:
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/07c/cufi_lobby07.html
and here:
http://www.stopaipac.org/christianright.htm

the latter link offers several perspectives on hagee, also including the alliance with the rightist pro-war lobby aipac, that draws not only people like hagee and Cheney, but also obama and pelosi (although Pelosi was lightly booed at the last aipac conference for her support for ending the Iraq war)

[Bitwit1234]

3. So he questions the Saudi giving to Carter

who combats poverty, and he says nothing about all the money the Saudi's have given to the bush family for special favors for them... Gooolllleeee

[blogslut]

4. Hagee isn't "pro-Israel"

He just wants that temple built so that the Jebus will come. Which of course, means that the Jews will have to convert or be damned. At least in Hagee's twisted dispensationalist philosophy.

[Tom Joad]

5. I agree with you, but it seems like aipac and adl's foxman disagree with us

they have embraced hagee, for their own purposes.

[blogslut]

6. Money changes everything

:(

[Tom Joad]

7. I think the relationship is about gaining political power

it helps aipac to embrace hagee, it helps hagee to support aipac.

It is devastating to the cause of peace and justice in the Middle East.

[blogslut]

8. Power/Money

What's the difference?

[booley]

9. Ahh I recall Hagee

I once happened upon one of his "sermons" on TV where he railed that the early Christians didn't share all of thier property and that helping the poor (espcially through government programs) was anti-christian.

Oh and did you know the peace symbol was a satanic symbol dating back to Emperor Nero?

If you didn't (and got the idea it was a seaphore shortahand for N.D-Nuclear Disarmenant) then you didn't read any of Hagee's books.

All of which leads to the question..How many times can someone make up shit before they don't have any credibility?

Or is it silly of me to expect the right to operate by the same rules the rest of us do?