"a movement, largely among Gentile Christians, supporting the right of the Jewish people to return to the Promised Land which has, of course, happened right before our eyes during this century"

Arab Press: Christian Zionists Aren't Real Christians

07 March 2001

Iran's IRNA news agency reports that "a prominent Christian leader in Palestine has warned of the dangers to Christianity posed by those 'who bear Christian names and have Zionist hearts,' a reference to Jewish-financed Christian Zionist groups." Fr. Atallah Hanna, official spokesman of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, described Christian Zionist groups as being "not really Christian" and "only serving the Zionist regime that is illegally occupying Arab land." Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Hanna asserted that the Orthodox Church "doesn't recognize these groups which are foreign bodies to Church of Christ and which have an office in al-Qods known as the Zionist Christian embassy."

He claimed that "these suspicion-arousing groups have nothing to do with the Orthodox Church, the Catholic and Anglican churches...Hanna warned that world Zionism was making strenuous efforts to penetrate Christianity in order to corrode true Christianity 'which rejects the Zionist theology and Zionism's crooked interpretation of the Bible.'"