Israeli Right Woos Japanese Christian Zionists
Richard Bartholomew printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Sun Aug 12, 2007 at 08:04:22 AM EST
From the Jerusalem Post:

A group of Israeli politicians and academics on Monday sought the support of Japan's small but influential Christian community, part of an increasingly global Judeo-Christian alliance against radical Islam.

This was the fourth annual "Jerusalem Summit Asia", an initiative of the Jerusalem Summit, which involves evangelical Christians, neo-Conservatives, and Israeli right-wingers - and which is financed by a controverisal Russian-Israeli billionaire.

According to the Post, the Tokyo summit was held in a Diet-owned building, and it brought together
...Israeli Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, lawmakers from the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus and conservative Israeli academics and thinkers together with Japan's tiny but growing evangelical Christian community...

Among those present were MKs Gideon Sa'ar and Benny Elon, the far-right former tourist minister who supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and who is particularly popular among right-wing American Christians.  The rhetoric was predictable: the Israeli-Palest