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Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coalmining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropic organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’ return. This film traces this unusual relationship, from the moving of the American embassy to Jerusalem and the annexation plan of the West Bank. With unparalleled access, the film exposes a stunning back story of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations, where financial, political and messianic motivations intersect with the apocalyptic world view that is insistently reshaping American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East.
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“[…] What emerges from the film is not only a disturbing picture of how extremist political and religious agendas are connected, but also a sense of the contradictions involved, including – as Friedman points out – the dubious question for Jews of getting into bed with the far right. There is also the fact that fundamentalist Christianity can only tenuously be considered pro-Jewish – as Yael Eckstein admits, the insistence on Jesus is a problem. Indeed, it emerges that believers in the Rapture predict that, come Doomsday, two thirds of Jews will die and the other third convert to Christianity; the film also ends with Bingham senior addressing Zinstein in a half-jokingly aggressive way that fails to conceal some clear anti-semitic sentiments.” ~ Jonathan Romney,