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We're going to go back in time, five years, to a message I brought at an anti-Zionist conference right near Bethlehem.

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Hey friends, this is Michael Brown, and I've been praying about content to bring on these thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcasts.

And I thought that it would be important to take you back to a conference where I spoke in what would be called Palestine.

To many, others would call it West Bank, occupied territory, others would call it Judea and Samaria.

When I said of Bethlehem, the annual, or excuse me, bi-annual Christ at the Checkpoint Conference,

every two years it's been held. I've criticized it strongly in the past, not just as anti-Zionist,

but anti-Zionist to the point of even being anti-Semitic. Every year, though, these Palestinian Christians will invite a pro-Israel speaker,

a Messianic Jew or a Gentile Christian is pro-Israel, to present. And many times other

Jewish believers, other pro-Zionist

Christians are critical of those who go, saying, you're just being used for their purposes.

It's not helping anything. My friends who've gone all felt it was good that they went,

those that did participate and speak. But the conference is widely boycott it, even by

believers in Israel who work together,

Jewish believers who worked together with Arab Christians, they don't like the conference and don't

feel that it's constructive. When I received the invitation, I was asked to come because of our

disagreements. And I prayed and I felt the Lord wanted me to go. I had many people urging me

not to go. They apologized to me afterwards, after I did speak, but I spent every moment I could

listening to their concerns, going to meetings, going to the places they asked me to go,

speaking to the people I asked me to speak to. And I think you'll

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