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And while there's no chance he's one of the first two, there's more than a good chance that he'll be the third. Though he's not go- ing that far, yet. "Am I serious about running in 1988? Absolutely. I've been ap- proached by thousands of people around the United States urging me to get involved. I just might." Robertson said he won't make a final decision until the fall of 1987. For now, he's touring the country, looking to upcoming primaries and listening. Especial- ly to Jews, who play a large part in supporting campaigns.. What he's been hearing, he said, "is that many of my Jewish friends would like me to go for it, would like to see a good friend of Israel involved. They want me to run because they know my views." And, in fact, it's hard to imag- ine any candidate, or anyone for that•matter, with views more pro- Israel than Robertson, who as an Evangelical minister, discusses them loudly, clearly and often on his nationally-broadcast TV pro- gram, 'The 700 Club.' Robertson's strong pro-Israel stance began, he said, back on Christmas night, 1974, when he was in Jerusalem. "I was standing looking down at the city and thought that it had been a year since the oil embargo was put in- to place and a year that Israel had been standing alone in the world because people were putting expe- diency over principle. "And so I said before the Lord, I swore an oath that whatever happened, however difficult it might be, however unpopular it might be, personally and organiza- tionally, I was going to stand by Israel and the Jewish people no matter what." And so he has, travelling to Israel 15 times since, setting up a broadcast operation in the nor- thern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona to "act as a messenger of peace and love in a troubled part of the world" by bringing un- biased news to Arab viewers, and speaking strongly and publicly in support of Israel. Robertson never wavered in his support of Israel's involvement in the War in Lebanon and isn't wavering in his support of the need for Israel never to give back any of its land to the Arabs. "You fly over Israel and'you see this incredible little strip of land and you realize there is no way • Israel is ever going to give back the West Bank to anybody. It can't afford to. You get up to the Golan Heights and realize that Syria rained down death and destruction over the Galilee and you know it can never give that back. Israel would have to be in- sane. And you see that the only natural border of Israel is the Jor- dan River. There's no way you can set up an independent Palestinian entity in Israel's heartland. And it's certainly never going to be possible for Jerusalem to be di- vided again. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It was the capital under King David, under King Solomon, it has been historically and will be forever the capital of Israel. It's time the U.S. govern- ment recognized that and moved our embassy there." That's a show of American sup- port that Israel deserves, he said. He says his love of Israel should make his political effort appealing to American Jews. Selling arms to the Arabs, how- ever, is not a show of support they deserve. "There is no way we can sell high-performance aircraft to Jordan or Saudi Arabia. To do so would be to imperil the security of Israel. All it would do is escalate the arms race, hurt our friend and destabilize the area." That's something we learned once, the hard way, Robertson said. "We thought the Shah was a close friend of ours and so we armed him to the teeth. Now his weapons are being used by a mad- man. We gave arms to a govern- ment we thought was stable and it was overthrown. The Shah was infinitely more stable than the House of Saud. There is a real possibility that those arms would be taken over by agents of the Shah. Any sophisticated weapons we sell them could end up being used against Israel." Not what we want, said Robert- son, because "the only thing that keeps stability in the Middle East • is the clear superiority of the Israel Armed Forces. Israel is the only stable government in the area. She is' ur ally and we must stand with her." Just as Evangelical Christians must stand with Jews. "We have a deep-seated understanding that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is also the God of Jesus, Paul and Peter. A woman once said to me that she didn't under-. stand why I employed her son as my corporate attorney. 'We're Jewish, you know,' she said. I told her, 'My boss is Jewish.' "Jesus was a Jewish rabbi and whether you believe he was the son of God or a great teacher, he's' Jewish. All the key figures of Christianity were Jews. It's not a question of the separation of Christians and Jews but a con- tinuation of Judaism. We feel a tremendous drawing together of us and our Jewish friends."