WASHINGTON (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week were not with US Jewish leaders, but with the good news.
Conservative Christians met Netanyahu at the Blair House on Monday, near the White House. The gathering came before the Israeli leader met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, making Trump dramatic. Tips on the future of Gaza.
The pastor said, “The fact is that we have met with President Trump and US -elected officials before his meetings, which indicate the power of historical friendship between Christians in Israel and the United States.” Gentzin FranklinWho leads Georgia Megachch and served as Trump’s spiritual adviser.
The participants included former Arkansas Government Mike Hakabi, a baptist pastor and Trump’s choice of US ambassador to Israel, and Tony Perkins, president of the Conservative Family Research Council, socially.
Who are the Christian Zionists?
Many of them were Christian Zionists, including Pastor John Hagi, a founder of Christians for Israel, an organization of Good News, claiming 10 million members.
“The Prime Minister is here-when his country begins to end its longest war, Hagi told the Associate Press-US Israel after four years of best, abusive support for the Jewish state. To effectively reset the relationship, “Hegie told the Associate Press. By email.
Christian Zionism is a theory among Christians of some Good news, especially in the United States, which translates to the Bible to promise Israel’s land with Jews forever, and say that God bless Israeli supporters. Will give Some supporters also predict the change in Christianity by many Jews.
The meeting was a reminder that the Christian Zionists of Angeli Good News are among the strongest supporters of Israel in the United States – and when Trump has begun his second term, he has great influence. They have also supported Republicans and Trump’s controversial sentiment this week on Gaza and the West Bank areas.
Trump has suggested that the United States can occupy Gaza
Trump, during a shocking News Conference On Tuesday, with Netanyahu, suggested that Palestinians belonging to the Gaza Strip could be resettled elsewhere, the United States has taken over the war -torn region.
The president echoed his real estate developer in the past, saying he considered a Gaza that could be a “Middle East’s Royer”.
“This can be something that can be so valuable. It can be so wonderful,” Trump added that those who live there will be able to live comfortably.
During his first term, Trump’s son -in -law and the White House chief adviser, Gerard Kushner, also praised the “very valuable” ability of Gaza’s “Water Front Property”.
“I will do my best to move people out and then clean it.” Cushioner said A year ago
Muslim and Jewish leaders react
The so -called OD, the National Executive Director of the Council on US Islamic Relations, attacked Trump’s proposal.
“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and President Trump have demanded the Palestinians temporarily or permanently displaced,” Oud said.
“If President Trump wants to make history with any kind of great peace agreement, he has to start accepting that the way to establish a permanent peace is to end the oppression of Israeli occupation and the Palestinian people.”
We had mixed views among Jewish leaders.
The president of a umbrella group representing relatively progressive parties, Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union of Judaism, was Shakib.
“Although this moment really needs a bold thinking to protect and protect Israel and the Palestinians, it will not make this future what we have heard tomorrow. It will harm it,” Jacobs said. Said
“Through a negotiation agreement between the two sides, a safe Jewish state will have to reach a peaceful Palestinian state along with Israel,” he added. “Forcibly removing any population will only maintain the dispute.”
Rabbi Moshe Hoor, the Orthodox Union, executive vice president of a more conservative group, said Trump’s announcements about Gaza were “of a trauma” and may be considered crazy in some circles.
Yet he described Gaza’s policies for the past two decades as “sheer madness,” which has control of Hamas and then invaded Israel in 2023.
“This new proposal can happen to digest and think about it,” he said. “We have entered a very non -productive place, a madness that is repeated,” he said. Let’s take a step back, and think, ‘What will happen if it really works, and for everyone’s future.’
Sam Markstein, director of the Republican Jewish Alliance Communications, praised Trump’s suggestions.
“President Trump is an interruption, and after decades of failed policies, we are encouraged that the president is pursuing a new vision for the region. … Israel of American history Israel As the most president, we trust President Trump’s ability to bring security, peace and prosperity in this disturbing region.
Is this the West Bank? Or Judah and Samaria?
A long -standing goal of Christian Zionists and their allies was promoted last week when San Tom Cotton (Arkansas) re -legislated, in which all US official documents and content “Judah and Samaria” instead of “Judah and Samaria and Samaria “The term will need to be used. “West edge.” The law was introduced in the House by Reprint Claudia Tiny (R New York).
“The legal and historical rights of the Jewish people of the Jewish people are thousands of years behind,” Cotton said. “The United States should stop the use of a politically charged term to refer to the hearts of Israel’s Bible.”
The Israeli government is referred to from the West Bank through its Bible, Judah and Samaria, and considers it the center of the historical heart of the Jewish people. The Palestinian and US government refer to the occupied territory to the West Bank.
Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967 with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem – Palestinians sought for the future state. The United States, with most international community, has traditionally supported the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines.
American Christian Zionists often use Juda and Samaria as an indicator of their support for Israel and associate the West Bank for Israel. In the speakers Annual Conference For Israel, the language of the Bible of the united Christians is often called as a line line.
Hokkabi repeats that the West Bank belongs to Israel, and Recently said “God gave Abraham and his heirs the title.”
Ironically, Juda and Samaria were once part of the scenario of the two ancient two states. For at least two hundred years in Israel’s royal history, Juda and Samaria represented separate states: Judaism continued the family of King Suleiman, while Samaria was the capital of the northern state, called Israel.
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