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majohnyboy
07-04-08, 03:47
By Beth Marlowe, associate press writer

JERUSALEM- American evangelist John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to Israeli causes on Sunday and said that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.

Hagee a Christian zionist who has been in the spotlight lately for endorsing presidential canditate John MCCain and criticizing the Catholic church, brought hundreds of backers on a solidarity trip to Israel.

Hagee and his group, Christians united for Israel, joined keynote speaker Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's hard-line opposition Likud Party, at a rally in support of Jerusalem remaining united and under Jewish control.

"Turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tentamount to turning it over to the Taliban." Hagee told an audience filled with Americans who waved Israeli flags and cheered.

Palestinians claim the eastern part of the city, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of their future state.

Hagee said his group was giving $6 million to 16 Israeli causes. Recipients inlude the Magen David Adom rescue service and a conference center in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel.

The faith of Jewish settlements like Ariel is at the heart of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The support of evangelicals for Israel's continued control of the West Bank endears them to Israeli hard- liners but troubles more dovish activists.

McCain, the presumtive Republican nominee for president, distanced himself last month from Hagee following an uproar over the San Antonio megachurch leader's comments on Catholicism.

Hagee has called the Roman Catholic church " The great whore" and a fals cult system". He also has suggested that the Catholic church helped shape Adolf Hitler's anti- Semitism.

Hagee has vehemently denied he is anti- Catholic and said his remarks have been mischaracterized.

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