As President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues proceed to undermine the U.S.’ longtime strategic alliance with Israel, a latest occasion noticed prime religion leaders, Republican lawmakers, and conservatives collect to underscore a unified stance in opposition to the failed two-state answer, whereas selling the thought of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as integral to Israel, grounded in a non secular and political opposition to Palestinian statehood.
A Tuesday occasion of the Keep God’s Land group in Washington, DC, introduced collectively 150 prime Christian, Jewish, and conservative leaders to “make their voices heard in opposition to the Biden administration’s push for a unilateral decision of a two-state solution.”
The Leadership Reception, hosted by the Heritage Foundation, featured an array of particular visitors, together with Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Republican Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, Heritage Foundation President and Army veteran James Carafano, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Israel365 founder Rabbi Tuly Weisz, Knesset Member Ohad Tal, and Trump’s religion adviser Pastor Paula White.
David Friedman, ambassador to Israel beneath president Donald Trump who serves on the management of Keeps God’s Land, rejected the proposed two-state answer, citing widespread Palestinian support for latest assaults on Israel, and arguing for peaceable coexistence for these keen to settle for Israel’s sovereignty.
New Palestinian public opinion ballot printed by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research:
🔴 72% of Palestinians say that #Hamas‘ #October7 bloodbath was the “correct” choice.
🔴If presidential elections have been held as we speak for Palestinian management & there have been solely… pic.twitter.com/bl0hkNtA2D
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) December 13, 2023
“There is no pathway to statehood for people who feel that way,” he mentioned. “God gave this land to the Jewish people, and the Jewish people can’t give it away.”
“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,” he added.
Describing the deep impression of the October 7 bloodbath, he highlighted the widespread support and solidarity for Israel from Jews and Christians globally.
In an unique assertion to Breitbart News on the occasion, Executive Director of Israel365 Action Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who serves as a part of the Keep God’s Land management, described the group as a “new movement of Christians and Jews, united together for a greater Israel,” and, particularly, to “push back” in opposition to the failed two-state answer, and support “sovereignty throughout Judea and Samaria.”
In addition, he defined:
Although the occasion was deliberate earlier than Iran attacked Israel, clearly it took on extra urgency as we speak than ever earlier than; everyone feels it, needs to be concerned, and understands that Israel goes to be okay, as a result of God promised an everlasting promise of the land. But individuals are anxious about America, and America is making the incorrect selections. And because the Knesset member Ohad Tal, spoke about, America appears to be cursing Israel greater than it’s blessing Israel, in violation of [Genesis] 12:3. America was at all times in achievement Genesis 12:3, however there’s a second clause: “I will curse those who curse you,” and for so lots of the religion leaders which might be right here; we’re involved not solely for Israel, however for America’s future as properly. Because we’re stronger once we’re collectively, Israel wants America – however America wants Israel additionally.
Israel Heritage Foundation Executive Director Rabbi Katz, a taking part group, advised Breitbart News that such gatherings are “crucial,” as a result of Israelis have been “living for decades under constant attack,” with rockets being fired at Jewish communities since its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Stip:
Never in historical past have individuals had to rise up from their Sabbath meal, seize their youngsters and search shelter — and nobody condemns it; the world is silent. Has anybody right here had to run and take shelter in the midst of a household gathering? Or within the UK or Europe, in Muslim nations or wherever on this planet had to stay their lives like that? The drawback didn’t begin on October 7 or when Iran attacked Israel with a barrage of tons of of missiles. The drawback is the world didn’t emphatically condemn or act in opposition to this many years prior. When the primary missile was fired into and landed in Israel from Gaza by Hamas, Iran’s terror proxy, many years in the past and after Israel uprooted each Jewish particular person, together with these buried within the floor from there, it ought to have been instantly stopped and established that such actions would by no means occur once more.
Katz additionally expressed his hope that conferences of those sorts proceed to “bring awareness to the world of what Israelis are going through.”
Israeli lawmaker Ohad Tal, who additionally participated within the occasion, vowed that Israel will act to defend its residents and fight the Islamic Republic of Iran no matter U.S. support, whereas lamenting that Israel has change into “too dependent” on America.
Israel is “fighting for America too” and Iran’s declarations of its ambitions to destroy the U.S. needs to be taken severely, he advised Breitbart News.
Citing scripture, he requested whether or not the US is “blessing Israel or cursing Israel when we are fighting for our lives,” whereas slamming President Biden for imposing “personal sanctions against Israeli citizens, just like myself, who live in Judea and Samaria, as if we are that problem that threatens world peace.”
“Friends, this is not just our war,” Tal continued. “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.”
Judea and Samaria are the unique biblical names of the territory at the moment referred to because the West Bank (of the Jordan River), a time period that grew to become widespread after Jordan’s unlawful occupation of the realm in 1950, highlighting its geographic place moderately than its historic names. After Arab terrorist teams attacked Israel for many years, Israel took management of Judea and Samaria in a defensive conflict in 1967.
While Jewish kingdoms dominated the areas for centuries, a steady Jewish presence in Israel has endured for over 3,000 years. In reality, “Palestine” itself is a Roman time period aimed to erase Jewish ties to the land, with the time period “Palestinian” traditionally referring to Jews.
The matter comes as the largely failed two-state answer for fixing the Israeli-Palestinian battle — vehemently rejected by each side — continues to be being pushed by President Biden, who insists that it’s the “only way” to guarantee long-term safety for each Israelis and Palestinians in a brand new post-Hamas Gaza.
A two-state answer is the one approach to assure the long-term safety of each the Israeli and the Palestinian individuals.
To ensure that Israelis and Palestinians alike can stay in equal measures of freedom and dignity.
We won’t surrender on working towards this purpose.
— President Biden (@POTUS) November 26, 2023
Biden’s insistence stands regardless of the latest October 7 bloodbath, which noticed the Hamas terrorist group perpetrate the deadliest assault in opposition to Jewish individuals for the reason that Nazi Holocaust. The bloodbath noticed the torture, rape, execution, immolation, and abduction of tons of of Israeli civilians, in addition to widespread Palestinian support for it.
A Palestinian public opinion ballot by Arab World for Research and Development, in Ramallah, exhibits:
➡️83% of West Bank Palestinians ‘extraordinarily support’ or ‘support considerably’ Hamas’s antisemitic bloodbath on Oct. 7.
➡️Only 7% oppose it.
Think about that. pic.twitter.com/pls6jI3HpG
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) November 18, 2023
The large-scale slaughter, which drew parallels to scenes from the Holocaust, resulted in roughly 1,200 useless contained in the Jewish state, over 5,300 wounded, and a minimum of 241 hostages of all ages taken — of which practically 140 stay in Gaza.
The overwhelming majority of the victims are civilians and embody dozens of American residents.
As Jewish households put together to collect for a faith-filled and joyous celebration of Passover, the households of Hamas’ hostages might be lacking their family members, together with Americans.
We should not relent in our name for the secure return of each hostage kidnapped on October seventh. pic.twitter.com/wUwVdKOa3F
— Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) April 19, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has even reportedly asked the State Department to evaluation choices for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state on the finish of the conflict between Hamas and Israel — in what could be a serious break from previous U.S. coverage, and from Israel.
The so-called two-state answer — which calls for the creation of a Palestinian state, ostensibly within the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and a few jap sections of Jerusalem, in change for the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority ending its battle with Israel and dwelling at peace with the Jewish state — has lengthy proved to be an abject failure.
“Israel has consistently made genuine efforts toward peace, only to be met with rejection, treachery, and blood-curdling violence by the Palestinian side. This pattern of refusal has been the real obstacle to peace.”
Read my newest in @Newsweek: https://t.co/ZqGbjeH8lx— Bassem Eid (@realbassemeid) January 28, 2024
Despite the quite a few proposals, each Israeli try to provide land concessions for a Palestinian state has been met with terror waves. After years of failed negotiations and Israel’s disastrous evacuation of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in Hamas’s takeover of that territory and repeated rocket assaults from there, a rising share of Israelis have grown extra skeptical of a two-state answer, largely rejecting any withdrawal from the West Bank, in accordance to a Pew Research Center survey which happened prior to October 7, 2023.
Since the October 7 bloodbath, Israelis — much more so — overwhelmingly not desire a two-state answer. Additionally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that he won’t enable a Palestinian state so long as he stays in workplace.
We have to make conflict to show that we’re stronger than the Jews,
says a bit of Palestinian schoolgirl in a Gaza college. pic.twitter.com/5XAVpZqKMJ
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 12, 2023
In distinction with the Biden administration’s insurance policies, President Trump did not unequivocally endorse the two-state answer, saying he was additionally open to a one-state answer — presumably that means Israeli annexation of the West Bank — and that he would settle for no matter answer Israelis and Palestinians themselves selected. In addition, the Trump administration reduce assist to the Palestinians over its boycott of the U.S., in addition to its so-called pay-for-slay scheme, and closed the Palestinian mission in Washington, expelling the Palestinian Ambassador to the U.S., Hussam Zomlot.
In November, Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders caused an uproar after declaring that the nation of Jordan needs to be thought of the true nationwide homeland for the Palestinian individuals, on condition that it has a majority Palestinian inhabitants and integrating Palestinians into Jordan may lead to a extra secure regional scenario, because the Hashemite Kingdom has efficiently built-in Palestinian refugees.
Jordan is Palestine!
Arab states condemn Wilders for push to relocate Palestinians to Jordan https://t.co/U6JjdOk0IK
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 25, 2023
Previously, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson suggested the creation of a Palestinian state in Egypt so as to distance Israel from threats posed by it.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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