内容摘要：. In a poll commissioned by the Israeli station Channel 12 News those questioned were roughly split between supporters and opponents of the ceasefire.

. In a poll commissioned by the Israeli station Channel 12 News those questioned were roughly split between supporters and opponents of the ceasefire.

The selection of Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel is already a hint that faith might shape some foreign policy. US evangelicals including Huckabee are among the country’s most fervent supporters of Israel.Many of them believe that Jews should populate the whole of the area of biblical Israel, including what is now the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in order to precipitate events leading to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

In the past Donald Trump had talked about having had a Presbyterian upbringing. But despite his strong support from Christians in last week’s election, he never tried hard to convince them in his most recent campaign that he was one of them.“I think he realised it was going to be a bit of a stretch to argue that he himself is a religious man, but instead he adopted a quid pro quo approach,” says Robert Jones, founder and president of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), which has long tracked religious trends in the US.That approach centred on changes in demographics and dwindling numbers of churchgoers.

In the early 1990s, about 90% of US adults identified as Christians - a figure that had fallen to 64% earlier this decade, with a large increase in the number of those unaffiliated to any faith, according to data from Pew Research Center.This, says Dr Jones, was something Trump was able to draw upon.

“Trump’s message was: ‘I know you're in decline, I know your numbers are waning. I know your children and grandchildren aren't affiliated with your Churches anymore, but if you elect me, I'm going to restore power to the Christian Churches”,’ he says.

Not all Christians in the US were won over, however. For some, their faith has guided them to precisely the opposite impression of Trump.Equipment was found showing they had been making fake legal letters - which were not allowed to be opened by prison staff - to smuggle the Spice into jail.

Between February 2019 and March 2020, at least 40 fake letters were recovered from 11 prisons in England, each package having between 25 and 50 sheets of infused paper.The court heard that after the pair was released under investigation, they carried on drug dealing.

Thames Valley Police arrested them when they were seen dropping off two teenagers at an address belonging to a vulnerable man.MacArthur used aliases to move around and avoid capture, but was arrested in Belfast in June 2024.