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54 THE SIGNS OF THE END

the pressure, openly opposed the election of Netanyahu, and
worked energetically to bring about his later defeat and the elec­
tion of the seemingly more cooperative Barak. In the last months
of Netanyahu's administration, Clinton put great pressure on the
Prime Minister at the Wye Plantation conference. It was an almost
surreal exercise, with Clinton still reeling from the impeachment
trial, and it seemed as though the President would do almost any­
thing to bring about some kind of agreement.

Hillary Clinton has actually publicly endorsed the concept of a
Palestinian State, with all the ramifications involved in that
arrangement. Statehood means sovereignty, an army, naval and air
ports, and international relations. Israelis are greatly concerned
that this would make the Arabs an even more dangerous minority
in the Land than ever before.

While there is still strong support for Israel among evangelical
Christians in America, it has weakened in the face of the continual
propaganda barrage of the media. A remarkable doctrinal shift has
also occurred. Some of the evangelical and dispensational semi­
naries became embarrassed over the conflict between Israel and
the Arabs, and began to question if the modem state of Israel was
indeed a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. They constructed a new
theological system, which they called "progressive dispensational-
ism." This system denies the fulfillment of prophecy in modem
Israel. It claims that Israel will be blessed when the Lord returns,
but must be considered under judgment and punishment until that
time. They think Israel has no more meaning now than Holland or
Indonesia. It is a reversal of the position held by the leaders of the
dispensational movement from before the beginning of this centu­
ry until late in the 1980s. There is no doubt that this change in doc­
trine helped to severely weaken the spine of Christian support of
Israel in America and the West.

WORLDWIDE ANTI-SEMITISM

Anti-Semitism didn't begin with Adolph Hitler, and certainly
didn't end with the fall of the Nazi Reich. It appears that anti-
Semitism will not end until the Antichrist is thrown into the Lake