Monday, July 13, 2015
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
“Get Ready For Pro-Israel NRA”
I’ve got exciting news, my friends!
Christians United for Israel is holding its 10th annual Washington Summit right now in our nation’s capital. Thousands of pro-Israel activists are in Washington, D.C., for this jam-packed event, which includes speeches from the leading presidential contenders, briefings on the Middle East and meetings with congressional representatives.
In addition, Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America with more than two million members, is making a major announcement today regarding the launch of a new Washington, D.C. arm — CUFI Action Fund. Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, asked me to lead CUFI Action Fund and I enthusiastically accepted!
Below is a brief excerpt of a report in yesterday’s Washington Post about CUFI Action Fund entitled, “Get Ready For The Pro-Israel NRA.”
“The largest pro-Israel organization, with a membership of more than 2 million passionate voters, Christians United for Israel, will be forming a lobbying and political entity (a 501(c)(4) group, in IRS parlance), CUFI Action Fund, that aims to do for Israel what the NRA does for Second Amendment rights. It will announce the move to more than 5,000 members who have gathered in Washington for its annual national conference.
“The operation will be headed by evangelical heavyweight and longtime pro-Israel advocate Gary Bauer. ‘Gary Bauer is someone that has the respect and confidence of the evangelical community,’ CUFI founder Pastor John Hagee tells me in an exclusive interview. Bauer says he will have a multimillion-dollar budget and a staff of a dozen to lobby Congress, run independent ads, support pro-Israel candidates and target those who do not put support for the Jewish state at the top of their priority list.
“For Bauer, CUFI Action Fund is needed more than ever. ‘It is needed because the West is under severe attack,’ Bauer tells me. ‘Israel is an outpost of [Western] civilization in one of the most dangerous and hostile parts of the world.’ He continues, ‘Because Israel and the U.S. are attached at the hip and the heart,’ Bauer argues, the fate of Israel and the U.S. and the necessity to defeat Islamic radicalism are essential, lest we ‘sink into another Dark Ages.'”
Read the rest of the column here.
CUFI Action Fund’s immediate priority will be to oppose any deal that enables the Islamic Republic of Iran to become a threshold nuclear power. But it will also focus on combatting religious persecution throughout the Middle East.
As this new project goes forward, I would deeply appreciate your prayers and support in such a time as this.
Thank you, my friends!
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