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JERUSALEM (AP) Prominent Israeli rabbis are for the first time speaking out against Israel's profitable alliance with evangelical Christians in the United States who have funneled tens of millions of dollars to the Jewish state. The rabbis fear the Christians' real intent is to convert Jews, their aides said Monday. Others are concerned about the evangelicals' support for Israel's extreme right-wing, opposing any compromise with the Palestinians. The dispute touches on an increasingly sensitive issue in Israel: the country's dependence, both economically and politically, on conservative American Christians. Besides contributing tidy sums to projects in Israel, some evangelical Christians have...

The Left's new claim-- the the terrorists weren't in Iraq until we ousted Saddam-- is just plain bull. Of course, Ansar AL Islam were in the North before the war started. Also, Uday spent the decade since Gulf War 1 developing the Saddam Fedayheen--who are very similar to Hamas and other terror groups. We all know that Saddam was a major supporter of Arafat and the intifada against Israel-- it seems very likely to me that some of Arafat's people went to Iraq in the 90's to develop an elite corp of killers who would stand and fight for Saddam,...