Christians United for Israel has been holding its annual conference in DC this week. There’s good coverage of events at JTA’s Capital J blog, including a quote from Las Vegas Rep. Shelley Berkley, who was so pleased with the reception that she declared “If I wasn’t so Jewish, I’d think about converting right now.” Our own Fred Barnes also addressed the crowd as a representative of “the most pro-Israel magazine” in the United States. Prime Minister Netanyahu gave his remarks via video link (you can read the text here) from Jerusalem, which he declared was “the undivided and eternal capital of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.” In case Barack Obama was confused by that statement, it seems likely that the Prime Minister means to do more than make sure Jerusalem is “not going to be divided by barbed wire and checkpoints as it was in 1948-1967.”
