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OneNewsNow.com
November 5, 2007

 
The group Christians United for Israel is calling on President Bush to refrain from pressuring Israel into territorial concessions at an upcoming Mideast Summit in Annapolis, Maryland.
 
 

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is moving ahead with plans to hold the Israeli-Palestinian summit later this month or early December. Rice and other Bush administration officials are reportedly pressing Israel to agree to a set of territorial concessions in advance of the summit, including giving up part of the city of Jerusalem.

Dr. Jim Hutchens, the Washington area director of Christians United for Israel, says the president has a noble goal of fostering Mideast peace, but is receiving poor "religious" advice.

"I must believe that there is advice that's being given to him, probably by clergymen, perhaps even theologians. But the advice would be based upon replacement theology -- and that is that the church is the new Israel, and that the Israel of the Old Testament has been superseded. Thus the term 'super-sessionism'; it's been superseded by the church," says Hutchens.

Hutchens says President Bush clearly is seeking a "peace legacy" before he leaves office, but is foolish to think he can achieve that by trying to broker a deal with Islamic jihadists bent on annihilating the state of Israel. He notes that Rice has been in conference with former Secretary of State James Baker and former President Jimmy Carter. According to Hutchens, Baker and Carter are both "pro-Arab people you should not talk to about peace in the Middle East."