Top Christian, Jewish, and conservative leaders gathered in an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation to oppose the Biden administration’s push for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.
Notable speakers included Republican lawmakers and Trump’s faith adviser.
They rejected the two-state solution citing Palestinian support for attacks on Israel, and argued Judea and Samaria are integral parts of Israel based on religious and historical grounds.
“There is no pathway to statehood for people who feel that way,” ambassador David Friedman said. “God gave this land to the Jewish people, and the Jewish people can’t give it away.”
The event took on more urgency after Iran’s attacks on Israel.
“And by the way, not only will the Jewish people prosper in the land of Israel, but those who are willing to live in this land who are non-Jewish people, who are Christian people, who are Muslim people, who are Palestinian — if they accept God’s sovereignty over this land, they will prosper as well,” Friedman added.
“Although the event was planned before Iran attacked Israel, obviously it took on more urgency today than ever before; everybody feels it, wants to be involved, and understands that Israel is going to be okay, because God promised an eternal promise of the land. But people are worried about America, and America is making the wrong decisions,” Israel365 Executive Director of Action Rabbi Tuly Weisz said.
“And as the Knesset member Ohad Tal, spoke about, America seems to be cursing Israel more than it is blessing Israel, in violation of [Genesis] 12:3. America was always in fulfillment Genesis 12:3, but there’s a second clause: ‘I will curse those who curse you,’ and for so many of the faith leaders that are here; we are concerned not only for Israel, but for America’s future as well. Because we’re stronger when we’re together, Israel needs America – but America needs Israel also.”
Participants vowed to make their voices heard against unilateral decisions and support Israeli sovereignty throughout Judea and Samaria.
They warned that pressuring Israel threatens America’s future as the countries’ alliance makes both stronger.
“Never in history have people had to get up from their Sabbath meal, grab their children and seek shelter — and no one condemns it; the world is silent. Has anyone here had to run and take shelter in the middle of a family gathering? Or in the UK or Europe, in Muslim nations or anywhere in the world had to live their lives like that? The problem did not start on October 7 or when Iran attacked Israel with a barrage of hundreds of missiles,” Israel Heritage Foundation Executive Director Rabbi Katz stated.
“The problem is the world did not emphatically condemn or act against this decades prior. When the first missile was fired into and landed in Israel from Gaza by Hamas, Iran’s terror proxy, decades ago and after Israel uprooted every Jewish person, including those buried in the ground from there, it should have been immediately stopped and established that such actions would never happen again.”
An Israeli lawmaker in attendance vowed Israel will defend itself regardless of US support and criticized Biden’s policies as cursing rather than blessing Israel.
The gathering aimed to bring awareness to ongoing security threats faced by Israel.
“Friends, this is not just our war,” Israeli lawmaker Ohad Tal said. “We are fighting against a murderous ideology that seeks to harm the entire free world. Iran’s ambition is to become a global superpower and destabilize the entire world.”
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