How Can Young Evangelicals Be Convinced Not to Turn Away from Israel?

According to recent surveys, American evangelicals under thirty are far less likely than their elders to have positive attitudes toward the Jewish state. In part, writes Peter Wehner, the trend is due to changing attitudes toward eschatology, which lead younger believers to invest less importance in the role the Jews’ return to their historic homeland plays in the coming of the millennium. A more important factor, however, is that younger evangelicals are absorbing from the media and from activists the impression that Israel is cruel, oppressive, and brutal: