The Jerusalem Post reports today on an interview with Pat Robertson during his three-day trip to Israel's northern border. The interview is worth a read. Notably, Robertson initially dodged questions that could have gotten him considerably more press:

How would you explain what is happening here within a religious framework? 
It is self-defense [by Israel], which is cause for just war. Israel is the spear against what you would call the Islam-o-fascism that is threatening all of the free loving people of the western world. There is no question that Hizbullah is the proxy for the Iranians.

Is there a message from God that is being played out here? Do you put it in those terms?
The Jews are God's chosen people. Israel is a special nation that has a special place in God's heart. He will defend this nation. So Evangelical Christians stand with Israel. That is one of the reasons I am here.

Buried in the third page, however, Robertson notes:

There was a prophet Ezekiel in the time of the Bible who wrote that in the last days there would be an invasion of Israel by a coalition that would include Iran, Russia, Turkey and the Sudan and Libya.

I was curious about this statement, as I know Ezekiel is quite vague on some of these terms. Does anyone know how Robertson makes this interpretation?

Interestingly, Robertson's stance on Iran differs from Hagee's. Said Robertson, when asked whether the U.S. should go to war with Iran, "No. I think the Iranian people favor the US. What ought to happen is some movement to cause a popular uprising against [the rulers of the] country.... If the United States went to war, then that hatred would be turned against us. The vast majority of Iranians are under 30 years old and they think that America is great. So why would we go to war with them?" Hagee, on the other hand, as he recounts in his book Jerusalem Countdown, believes the only way to deal with Iran is with preemptive war.

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