Binyamin Netanyahu Declares Israel Has "No Better Friends in the World" Than Christians Who Support Israel

Teresa Neumann : Apr 7, 2008
Etgar Lefkovits - Jerusalem Post/AP

Rabbi calls the increasingly close relationship between Christians and Jews "one of the miracles of the 20th century."

(Jerusalem)—Likud opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu has publicly declared that Israel "has no better friends in the world" than Christians who love and support Israel. "This is a friendship of the heart, a friendship of common roots, and a friendship of common civilization," he told a conference of American Evangelicals in Jerusalem, organized by Christians United for Israel.

His remarks were prompted by the recent visit of Pastor John Hagee, a longtime, "stalwart supporter of Israel."

The Jerusalem Post report quoted the head of the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus, MK Benny Elon, as calling Hagee a "visionary man of courage" and an "outstanding spiritual leader."

"You are the right man in the right place in the right time," Elon reportedly told Hagee.

Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin called the increasingly close relationship between Christians and Jews "one of the miracles of the 20th century."