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Eli Lake

Pro-Israel Evangelicals Escape Aipac's Shadow

Christians United for Israel thinks it is uniquely suited to getting the Trump administration behind its causes.
Christians for Bibi.
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Since its founding in 2006, the country's largest evangelical pro-Israel lobby, Christians United for Israel, has been a junior partner to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, when it comes to lobbying Congress.

While there were a few times when the group pushed issues independent of Aipac, for the most part it has followed the more established lobby's lead in Washington. With Donald Trump about to be sworn in as president, this is beginning to change.