An interfaith pro-Israel group blasted Saudi Arabia’s claim that evangelical Christians determine U.S. Middle East policy. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, chairman of the Stand for Israel campaign, a project of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, urged the Saudis to repudiate a recent Saudi newspaper attack charging that Christian fundamentalism is “more dangerous” than other religious “extremism, especially if it controls the policy of the United States.”
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