“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank.” So declared U.S. President Donald Trump in blunt language.
We, the citizens of Israel and the people of Israel in general, wonder whether we have woken up to a country without a leader, a nation without a prime minister.
The people of Israel cannot allow the president of the United States to speak with such disdain toward the Land of Israel.
In these words, Trump exposes his weakness and his surrender to Arab terror, just as Europe’s weakness and surrender to the same Islamic terror that seeks to take over the entire world.
But the president of the United States is the president of the United States. His considerations are the economic and political interests of the United States, and from him, we cannot expect Zionist and resolute statements.
Our expectation is that the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, will know how to respond to these remarks as Israel’s great leaders responded in word and deed.
We call on the prime minister of Israel to stand tall and to declare Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
This is how David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol and Menachem Begin acted in their historic decisions to establish the state and to apply sovereignty in Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, even in the face of opposition from Israel’s friends, including the United States.
Arise, Israel! Arise, Mr. Prime Minister, stand tall, shake yourself off, and may our enemies be scattered!
