[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Israel rejects Pat Robertson funding

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:20:02 +0100

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Israel rejects Pat Robertson funding
By AVI KRAWITZ

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Tourism Minister Avraham Hirchson has shunned US evangelical leader Pat
Robertson shortly before the two were to sign a major funding deal for the
Galilee Christian Heritage Center after Robertson suggested that Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's stroke was a punishment from God for the Gaza Strip withdrawal,
The Jerusalem Post has learned.

"The minister has very strong views on this and cannot accept what was said,"
Tourism Ministry spokesman Ido Hartuv said. "We reconsidered the deal and
realized that we cannot sign with Robertson or anyone who supports his views."

Hartuv stressed that this was an attack on Robertson and his comments rather
than a rejection of the evangelical community as a whole, which has become a
target group for Israeli tourism in 2006.

Robertson lost favor with the ministry when he said on his popular 700 Club TV
show that "God considers the land to be his. For any prime minister of Israel
who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away he says, 'No, this is
mine.'"

The charismatic broadcaster led a group of evangelical Christians who have
agreed to raise more than $50 million to build the Heritage Center on a
14-dunam plot of land on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Hirchson, who has been a close ally of Sharon throughout the disengagement
period and was among the first Likud members to defect with him to form Kadima,
was scheduled to sign the agreement with Robertson committing the government to
provide the land and infrastructure for the project and the evangelicals the
funding.

While Hirchson pulled the plug on Robertson, the project is going ahead as
planned and looking for alternative avenues of finance.

"Many people are enthusiastic about the project," said Uri Dagul, who
voluntarily heads the steering committee overseeing the project. "We initiated
the project before Robertson was on board, and we will continue without him."

Dagul did not dismiss the possibility of working with Robertson if the
evangelist issued an appropriate apology.

A spokesman for Robertson could not be reached in time for this report. A
reaction to the outcry following his comments posted on his Web site Thursday
fell short of issuing an apology, attempting to further explain his stance.

The government presented its plans for the heritage center and biblical garden
in May saying it expected the center to bring an additional 750,000 visitors to
the country annually.

Dagul said that the allocation of land was expected to be complete within the
next six weeks, after which a nonprofit organization needed to be registered
before it got the go ahead.

Dagul predicted that construction would start in 2007 and that it would take
three to four years to complete.

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