WHY OUR SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL MATTERS

A recent survey showed a majority of young people in America—54% in one survey—favor abolishing Israel and giving all the land to Hamas.

Only nine countries voted with Israel at the United Nations against the resolution to move forward with Palestinian statehood.  Imagine much of the Holy City, including the most sacred sites of both Christianity and Judaism, under control of radical Islamists.  The Palestinians demand Jerusalem as their capital, and that is what most of the world just voted to support.

The International Criminal Court prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants against Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders on the false charge of genocide and war crimes. He is equating Israel’s defense of itself and its people with the Hamas terrorists who attacked them.

The charges are completely false.  Israel is not starving the people in Gaza.  They have put in over half a million tons of food and medicine.  Food prices in Gaza have actually declined!  That’s not what happens when people are starving.

The sad truth is that 80% of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank) support the October 7 attack.  If they are given a state, it will reward the evil of terrorism and ensure further attacks on innocent Jewish people.  Rewarding terrorism will never bring peace—only more war and bloodshed in the future.

The Jewish people are more alone than they have been at any time since the Holocaust.  The United States is foolishly turning its back on Israel.  The Biden Administration even held up arms shipments vital to Israel’s struggle to survive.

While I was in Israel on my most recent trip, family members of the hostages wept in my arms. They were saying, “We love America.  Why is America turning her back on us and siding with our enemies?”

What America is doing right now is sending a message —not just to Hamas but to terrorists around the world— that we will not stand firm against them.  Our weakness is encouraging them to strike—not just at Israel, but here in our own country.  Just 19 radical Islamist terrorists shook our country on 9/11, and we must stop this evil before it happens again.

This turn away from Israel will bring a Genesis 12:3 curse on America like nothing we have experienced before.  I don’t want to see that happen. I don’t want the country where my children and grandchildren live to fall under God’s curse.

And I’m writing to you today because America’s support of Israel is crumbling as never before. As the war has gone on and the liberal media lies spread—blaming Israel for the murder of innocent Jewish people—more and more people are speaking out publicly against America standing with Israel.

When David walked into the Valley of Elah to face Goliath he asked, “Is there not a cause?”  Today God has given us the great cause of defending and blessing His Chosen People.  Your generous gift for the Jerusalem Prayer Team is your declaration that you have heard God’s voice and are responding. Please let me hear from you right away so that this vital outreach can continue.  God bless you.