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Israeli law will be applied in our communities in Judea and Samaria once the mapping process is completed • A Palestinian state that supports terror will not be established; instead, it will be a demilitarized democratic entity • The Mideast peace plan will enhance our security and our future.
![At the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod in Cleveland in 2017, Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian and pastor of the evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, called the UCC's resolution to divest from Israel "a strong signal that [Palestinians] are not alone, and that there are churches who still dare to speak truth to power and stand with the oppressed.” Credit: United Church of Christ/Flickr.](https://static.jns.org/dims4/default/78a9429/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x281+0+26/resize/500x281!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2Fdownload-10-3.jpg)
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself.
Comparing the thuggish online “Bernie Bros” to “brownshirts” is wrong. But so are the same kinds of comparisons regarding Trump supporters.
The fact the overwhelming majority of the companies are Israeli indicates that there is a more sinister aim at work here.
Despite the pro-Israel lobby’s missteps, their dilemma is that the bipartisan coalition they’ve worked to build may no longer be viable.
Nothing new here. It’s the same old story of Palestinian violence against Israelis, and the news mediate salivating over headlines.
Hearts that bleed for the enemies of Western democracy who subjugate their own people and terrorize everybody else are attached to heads in need of psychiatric examination.
One suggestion is to place the offensive carving in a museum. Yet that doesn’t mean the scheme behind it becomes a relic.
While opponents of Trump’s peace plan have accused Israel’s premier of making a diplomatic blunder with the U.S. and failing to deliver on annexation, the two administrations have never been closer and delaying annexation until after Israel’s elections may actually play to Netanyahu’s advantage.
If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria communities before the election, not only will he almost certainly lose the elections, his defeat will bury Trump’s peace plan and harm Trump’s re-election chances.
The “Columbia Journalism Review” attack on “The Forward” marks a new low in the way intellectual elites are legitimizing anti-Semitism.
In no other conflict have aggressors been invited by their victims to remain citizens of the country they’ve been trying to wipe off the map.