And like their Jewish and Muslim counterparts in Israel and Palestine, they are actively engaged in working against the peace process, which, they argue, is “an international plot to steal Jerusalem from the Jews”—a plot that, in the words of the evangelical writer Mike Evans, is being controlled by “a master collaborator [Satan] who is directing the play.” As the megachurch pastor John Hagee, the high priest of Christian Zionism, has proudly declared, “God doesn’t care what the United Nations thinks. He gave Jerusalem to the nation of Israel, and it is theirs.”
