Evangelical leaders invite President Trump to acknowledge Israeli sovereignty over the western coast
Tel Aviv, Israel – last week an influential group of American Christians publicly confirmed the right of the Jewish people in Judea and Samaria as the Bible Heart of Israel. The area of Judea and Samaria are better known as the Western coast.
The statement was presented at the annual convention on the national religious emixes in Dallas by American Christian leaders for Israel, and it was expected to sign 3,000 religious leaders before delivering it President Donald Trump.
The impetus for the application of Israeli sovereignty comes to the area after Trump said last month that his administration would announce about the matter in the coming weeks, when asked about annexation.
Oslo Accords, forged under the Clinton administration, divided the west coast into three regions: area A, under full Palestinian competent; Area B, under the Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control; and the area C, under the full of Israeli authorities.
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The Patriarch Cave, also known as the Machpelah cave. The place is the place of the funeral of the patriarch and the Matriarch of the Jewish people, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebeke, Jacob and Leah, and is located in Hebron in Judea and Samaria, which are also more commonly referred to as Western Bank.
Trump’s plan 2020, called Peace to prosperity, Israeli annexation of parts of Judea and Samaria was conceived, but was deposited in favor of Abraham’s agreements, which normalized the connection between Jerusalem with four Arab countries.
“Evangelicals He gave Trump the Presidency. Will support our Bible position and therefore chose Mike Huckabee [as ambassador to Jerusalem]who supports Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, “Dr. Mike Evans, founder of Zion Friends of Zion, who boasts just under 30 million members, told Fox News Digital.
Declaration He reaffirms “the inalienable right of the Jewish people on the biblical heart of Israel and rejects all the efforts – both from the United States and the International Community – to press the Jewish people to give up their ancestors in Judea and Samaria.”
The tomb of Joseph near Shechema (Nablus). Samaria, July 6, 2021. (Roee Oz/TPS)
Evans said that evangelicals support Israel “because they believe in moral clarity, well opposite evil, they are friends of Zion. They see that Jews are killing because they are Jews, not because of Earth.”
Pastor John Hagee, the influential founder and president of the United Christians for Israel, told Fox News Digital that evangelicals “know the god Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will always keep their word to children of Israel. From the beginning to the end, the Bible is a Zionist document that is a mandate for all believers and blesch.
“For almost half a century, I preached the message that Israel does not occupy the country, Israel possesses the land, whose title was recorded on the Bible pages.
Air display of Joshua’s Alter in Judea and Samaria, which is more commonly referred to as the West Coast. (TPS-Il)
Earlier this week, Fox News Digital reported that some Republican MPs, led by Ambassador Claudia Tenney (RN.Y.), invited the President to recognize Judea and Samaria as an Israeli territory. Their letter expressed the support of Jerusalem to the president, which applied sovereignty in the area, for which the legislators said that “the heart of our common Judeo-Christian heritage.”
Israeli President of Parliament Amir Ohan on February 23 called the Government in Jerusalem to expand sovereignty over Judea and SamariaBy saying complete control over the region, it was a “only way” to achieve lasting peace.
The second lawyer of Likuda, Dan Illouz, told Fox News Digital that the Hamas massacre 7. October 2023. “He proved that every withdrawal, any concession, any illusion of coexistence with those who seek our destruction is not only naive – suicide … We withdrew from Gaza.
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President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answering questions during a joint press conference in the eastern room in the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
“The incentive for sovereignty in Judea and Samaria would be near Israel,” said Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli MP and architect Oslo from 1993 to Palestinians, he told Fox News Digital. “If Israel became a minority of Jews that dominate most of the Palestinians, it would be neither Jew nor democratic. I don’t believe it could ever happen, but only by waving this [idea] is bad enough, “he said.
“The right in Israel believes Trump would support everything they demand. But five years ago, he suggested that there could be a solution with two countries. As such, it is not as clear as it seems,” he added.
At the end of last month, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli defense forces (IDF) to carry out a “massive” anti -terrorist operation in Judea and Samaria after Three buses exploded near Tel Aviv, and bombs were found on two others in what is being explored as a coordinated attack.
Israeli soldiers participate in surgery in Jenin because it tries to remove the terrorist groups supporting Iran. 24. February 2025. (Reuters/Raneen Sawaft)
“This brutality and strong displacement of civilians on the west coast … It never related to the self -deception, but to the colonial scheme of expansion and ethnic cleansing campaign,” said Ahmad Fattouh, spokesman for Palestinian authorities, Mahmoud Abbas dominant faction faction, Digital.
“The annexation of the West Coast will bring us back in 1948 and destroy any future stability or outlook for peace. Every rational voice understands too well that there is no way forward, except for the solution with two countries; otherwise it will lead to endless devastation,” he added.
Israel Ganz, head of the Jesha Council, an umbrella group representing Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, works in cooperation with the Government in Jerusalem to do his best for sovereignty.
Pastor John Hagee speaks during “March for Israel” at the National Center on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC
“We started a campaign to advocate it, but we won’t do it without the support of the US,” he told Fox News Digital. “Many in Trump’s administration are very connected, they know the area and believe in our right to this place. They understand that if they want to stabilize the situation, we must have sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.”
“In order for Israel to continue to survive and progress along the Coast Plain, which produces about 80% of GDP land, then must retain control of high grounds in Judea and Samaria,” Lieutenant Jonathan Konricus (ret.), The former main office of IDF, and is now an older colleague from the Democratic Defense Defense Defense Defense establishment in establishing in establishing a democratic defense.
“If any other entity, Palestinian or otherwise, it would be used as a way to threaten Israel’s safety; its basic infrastructure, including Ben-Gurion Airport, and also its population-concentrated in the narrow lane between Haifa [in the north] and ashdod [in the south]-Appoximly 15 kilometers width, “he said.
Palestinian terrorists are occupied during a confrontation with the Israeli army in Jenin on July 3, 2023. The Israeli army announced that it had triggered unmanned attacks in Jenin as part of “extensive effort for anti -terrorism.” (Photo Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images)
The second element, Conricus explained, is that about 500,000 Israelites are currently living in Judea and Samaria, and should be protected.
“Trends of escalation in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem are the highest of October 7th. We see significant terrorist activities in almost all Palestinian cities and constant weakness,” he said.
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Ze’e’s Orenstein, Director of International Affairs in Jerusalem The David City FoundationFox News Digital said that a millennial connection to the Jewish people with the land of Israel gives a peculiar right to Judea and Samaria.
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