President Bush’s top Middle East adviser met with evangelical Christians to defend U.S. support for Israel’s Gaza withdrawal. Bush’s evangelical liaison, Timothy Goeglein, arranged meetings in April between Elliott Abrams and evangelical leaders who were concerned that the pullout from the Gaza Strip undermined biblical prophecies related to Israel, The New York Times reported Monday.
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