Why this rabbi defends Christian Zionists to his own community

A rabbi and a Black itinerant pastor sat across from each other in a Dallas Starbucks, and the rabbi finally asked the question he’d been circling for months. “Can we talk about the elephant in the room?”
“For Zion’s Sake”: the Catholic initiative trying to repair the Church’s relationship with Israel

“You want to be a Catholic anti-Zionist, bevakasha, please go ahead, but please do not claim to speak for the entire Catholic Church. This is your private opinion. The Catholic Church does not have an official teaching on Zionism, which means it’s absolutely legitimate to discuss it as a legitimate theological option.”