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Love Thy Neighbor

What's behind evangelical support for Israel?
By Jeremy Gillick | 9:57 AM Dec 30, 2008

In the middle of the 17th century, long before Theodore Herzl was born, a movement that saw Palestine as the property of the Jews flourished in England. The Restorationists challenged the mainstream Protestant notion that Christians had replaced Jews as God’s chosen people and declared that, in the end, the Jews would be restored to ...