Bibi Netanyahu Squashes Embarrassing Anti-Christian Bill

OUR GREATEST ALLY is back in the news and has been creating embarrassing headlines for Christian Zionist evangelicals and the Israel Lobby in the United States.

ABC News:

“JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he would prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing coalition to punish Christian proselytizing with jail time.

The proposal had raised an uproar with evangelical Christians — one of Israel’s strongest and most influential supporters in the United States.

The bill was introduced in January by a pair of ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmakers, including Moshe Gafni, who heads the parliament’s Finance Committee. It says soliciting someone to convert their faith should be punishable by one year in prison and solicitation to convert a minor would be punishable with a two-year sentence.

“Recently, the attempts of missionary groups, mainly Christians, to solicit conversion of religion have increased,” it said. …”

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This anti-missionary legislation has been proposed for over twenty years, but has never gone anywhere in the Knesset because Israel has never had such an ultra-Zionist government. Bibi had to block this for obvious reasons. There is too much at stake for Israel to allow this to move forward.