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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by
Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The country also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Israel's proclaimed capital is in Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic center. Israel is located in a region known to Jews as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine region and the Holy Land. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situated at a continental crossroad, the region experienced demographic changes under the rule of empires from the Romans to the Ottomans. European antisemitism in the late 19th century galvanised Zionism, which sought a Jewish homeland in Palestine and gained British support. After World War I, Britain occupied the region and established. Mandatory Palestine in 1920. Increased Jewish immigration in the leadup to the Holocaust and British colonial policy led to intercommunal conflict between Jews and Arabs, which escalated into a civil war in 1947 after the United Nations (UN) proposed partitioning the land between them. Israel is the only country where Jews constitute more than 2% of the total population, and in which they are the largest demographic. After the failure of the UN's 1947 partition plan and the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948. Neighboring Arab states invaded the area the next day, beginning the First Arab–Israeli War. Subsequent armistice agreements established Israeli control over 77 percent of the former Mandate territory. The majority of Palestinian Arabs were either expelled or fled in what is known as the Nakba, with those remaining becoming the new state's main minority. Over the following decades, Israel's population increased greatly as the country received an influx of Jews who emigrated, fled or were expelled from the Muslim world. Following the 1967 Six-Day War Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Syrian Golan Heights. Israel established and continues to expand settlements across the illegally occupied territories, contrary to international law, and has effectively annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in moves largely unrecognised internationally. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt—returning the Sinai in 1982—and Jordan. In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo Accords which established mutual recognition and limited Palestinian self-governance in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. In the 2020s, it normalised relations with more Arab countries. However, efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict after the interim Oslo Accords have not succeeded, and the country has engaged in several wars and clashes with Palestinian militant groups. Israel's practices in its occupation of the Palestinian territories have drawn sustained international criticism—along with accusations that it has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people—from human rights organisations and United Nations officials
Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The country also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Israel's proclaimed capital is in Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic center. Israel is located in a region known to Jews as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine region and the Holy Land. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situated at a continental crossroad, the region experienced demographic changes under the rule of empires from the Romans to the Ottomans. European antisemitism in the late 19th century galvanised Zionism, which sought a Jewish homeland in Palestine and gained British support. After World War I, Britain occupied the region and established. Mandatory Palestine in 1920. Increased Jewish immigration in the leadup to the Holocaust and British colonial policy led to intercommunal conflict between Jews and Arabs, which escalated into a civil war in 1947 after the United Nations (UN) proposed partitioning the land between them. Israel is the only country where Jews constitute more than 2% of the total population, and in which they are the largest demographic. After the failure of the UN's 1947 partition plan and the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948. Neighboring Arab states invaded the area the next day, beginning the First Arab–Israeli War. Subsequent armistice agreements established Israeli control over 77 percent of the former Mandate territory. The majority of Palestinian Arabs were either expelled or fled in what is known as the Nakba, with those remaining becoming the new state's main minority. Over the following decades, Israel's population increased greatly as the country received an influx of Jews who emigrated, fled or were expelled from the Muslim world. Following the 1967 Six-Day War Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Syrian Golan Heights. Israel established and continues to expand settlements across the illegally occupied territories, contrary to international law, and has effectively annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in moves largely unrecognised internationally. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt—returning the Sinai in 1982—and Jordan. In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo Accords which established mutual recognition and limited Palestinian self-governance in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. In the 2020s, it normalised relations with more Arab countries. However, efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict after the interim Oslo Accords have not succeeded, and the country has engaged in several wars and clashes with Palestinian militant groups. Israel's practices in its occupation of the Palestinian territories have drawn sustained international criticism—along with accusations that it has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people—from human rights organisations and United Nations officials
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Netanyahu said to talk to Rubio about Iran protests, Syria, Gaza Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone Saturday morning with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, The New York Times reports, citing three unnamed sources. They are said to have discussed the major anti-regime protests in Iran, the situation in Syria, and efforts for a peace deal in Gaza. The report also says US President Donald Trump is “seriously considering” authorizing a strike on Iran amid an internet blackout imposed by the Islamic Republic and reports of a brutal, deadly crackdown on demonstrators. .(Times of Israel; 1.11.26) READMORE>>>>> Evangelicals’ support for Israel is dropping. 1,000 pastors want to reverse that. For six days, 1,000 U.S. evangelical pastors traveled through Israel, holding a mass prayer at the Western Wall, meeting with freed hostages at the Oct. 7, 2023, Nova Festival massacre site and attending private high-level security briefings. Billed as “the Friends of Zion Ambassador Summit to Israel,” the early December trip was, experts said, the biggest pilgrimage of evangelical leaders in Israel’s almost 80-year history. Its goal was to address what was long hard to imagine: The fraying of the rock-solid bond between evangelical Christians and Israel. The shift in recent years has multiple triggers, including surging anti-Israel sentiment among influential Christian conservative social media figures, including Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes, whose audiences number in the tens of millions. (Washington Post; 1.3.26) READMORE>>>>> |
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January 1, 2026: JNS reported: For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has branded himself as one of, if not the ultimate authority on terrorism. His reputation as “Mr. Security” propelled him to become the country’s longest-serving prime minister. That résumé makes one conclusion unavoidable: He bears the ultimate responsibility for the catastrophe of Oct. 7. And from the moment the scale of the failure became clear, he has done everything possible to evade accountability. Despite Netanyahu’s relentless efforts to block an independent commission of inquiry, a devastating picture has emerged of warnings ignored and failures dismissed. The latest revelations come from an Israel Hayom investigation based on months of interviews with senior sources who insisted Israel received clear warnings from Egypt in the two weeks before Oct. 7 that Gaza was on the verge of a major explosion. Two Israeli political sources said a senior Egyptian official warned the National Security Council that “something big” was coming. Given standard reporting procedures, sources argue that it is inconceivable that such warnings were not passed on to the prime minister. |
January 11, 2025: Axios reported: President-elect Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Israel on Saturday to push for a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israeli officials said. Why it matters: Witkoff's traveled to Israel from Qatar as part of a last-minute effort by Trump to press all parties involved in the negotiations to conclude the deal before Jan. 20. Trump has threatened there would be "hell to pay in the Middle East" if Hamas didn't release the hostages by the time he is inaugurated.
January 11, 2025: The Intercept reported: Amid the parade of self-congratulations for all the “winning” going on out there, it was easy to miss the head of one the most prominent U.S. pro-Israel groups, the Anti-Defamation League, admitting to Israel’s parliament that it has been failing on one important front: the fight against global antisemitism. “Nobody likes to admit when they’ve fallen short,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, told the Knesset, according to eJewishPhilanthropy. “I don’t like to lose. I personally hate to lose. However, sometimes we need to acknowledge the reality.” The reality was stark: Antisemitism, Greenblatt said, is on the rise, especially online. The admission was a stunning one, since the ADL was founded to fight antisemitism. That is the banner under which all of its vociferous advocacy for Israel occurs. So for the group to fail in this way raises big questions — questions that need big answers.
February 3, 2025: Times of Israel reported: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has wrapped up a meeting with Evangelical American community leaders in Washington. Those in attendance included former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who is US President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next US ambassador to Israel. Jewish Insider reported earlier today that Netanyahu is not currently scheduled to meet with American Jewish leaders, with whom he has had a rockier relationship over the years.
February 4, 2025: Channel 4 reported: Later today President Trump will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, the first foreign leader to visit him in the Oval Office. Maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza will be at the top of their agenda. But Mr Netanyahu has also been meeting with prominent Evangelical Christians. They are a powerful constituency in America and their interpretation of the Bible has made them resolute allies of Israel. They believe that the Jewish people have a God-given right to all the land – including the West Bank – which is internationally recognised as Palestinian territory.
February 11, 2025: Jewish News Syndicate reported: Support for Israel among Hispanic evangelicals in the United States has reached unprecedented heights, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference said on Monday. The remarks come just months after US President Donald Trump achieved a record share of Latino votes in the US elections, and offered a bastion of faith-based support in the predominantly Roman Catholic Latino community. “The vast majority of the Hispanic evangelical community have a strong commitment to both Israel and the Jewish people around the world, and to build a multi-generational firewall against antisemitism,” Samuel Rodriguez told JNS. “Our commitment to Israel is without compromise and is stronger than ever before.”
February 28, 2025: Good Faith Media reported: Ahead of an anticipated announcement in the coming weeks from the Trump Administration regarding the potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank, a coalition of Christian evangelicals is calling on the president to honor what they refer to as “the Jewish people’s inalienable right to the Biblical Heartland of Israel.” American Christian Leaders for Israel (ACLI) held a press conference on Tuesday night at the annual National Christian Broadcasters Convention to announce their “Resolution on Judea and Samaria.” The resolution reflects the Zionist belief that the modern Israeli state is inextricably tied to the ancient, Biblical nation of Israel and, therefore, that God’s promise of the land to the Israeli people in ancient scriptures is still in effect.
April 7, 2025: Baptist News Global reported: For the first time since creation of the modern state of Israel,an overtly evangelical pastor has been confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the small Middle Eastern country. On Wednesday, April 9, the U.S. Senate confirmed Trump nominee Mike Huckabee to the post. He is anticipated to take up residence in Israel as soon as next week. The vote was 53 to 46, with Democrat John Fetterman of Pennsylvania joining all Senate Republicans to confirm the former Southern Baptist pastor.
June 23, 2025: Relevant Magzine reported: “It may have been a reasonable idea to create a new Jewish state of Israel after the Holocaust,” Weatherly said. “It may be a decent idea to support that modern nation diplomatically and militarily. We just shouldn’t confuse those with fulfillment of God’s plan in the Bible.” Weatherly cautions against both extremes—discarding Israel as irrelevant or elevating it beyond its role in redemptive history. “The covenant is permanently binding,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean Israel has a permanent right to the land it was given. That mistakes what the covenant was about. It’s about blessing all through the one true Israelite.” The Gospel calls believers to care for all people—not because of their nationality but because every person is made in the image of God. That includes Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims, Christians and skeptics.
June 28, 2025: Christian Post reported: Does the Bible command Christians to support the State of Israel? This is an important question for our time. Let me answer the question from the outset: No. Christians are not under a biblical command to support Israel. However, they are under a biblical command to not be arrogant towards Israel. Whatever one thinks of Israel, Christians are absolutely under the biblical command to love Jews, just as they commanded to love people of any race. Christians are called to love their neighbor and their enemies (cf. Matt 5:43-48).
July 6, 2025: Israel365 reported: A group of prominent evangelical leaders has penned an urgent open letter to President Donald Trump, calling on him to recognize Israel’s biblical right to its covenant land without restriction and warning against any attempts to divide the Holy Land through diplomatic pressure. The letter, dated July 5, 2025, arrives amid ongoing Middle East tensions and active diplomatic negotiations in the region. The signatories appeal directly to Trump’s previous pro-Israel record while urging him to take an even stronger stance based on biblical principles.
July 18, 2025: Jerusalem Post reported: In a strongly worded letter to Israeli Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee voiced his dissatisfaction with Israel's refusal to grant collective entry visas to numerous Christian organizations, according to a report by N12 on Thursday. Huckabee stated, "It would be unfortunate if we were forced to publicly disclose that Israel is engaging in harassment and displaying a negative stance toward these groups." He concluded with a pointed warning: "Should this continue, I will have no choice but to consider implementing reciprocal measures against Israeli citizens requesting US visas." The letter, one of the most severe ever sent by a US ambassador to an Israeli official, was also forwarded to several high-ranking Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, the N12 report added.
July 19, 2025: MSN reported: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is clashing with the Israeli government over its perceived mistreatment of Christian Zionist groups seeking to visit. Huckabee is pressuring Israeli Interior Minister Moshe Arbel to renormalize visa programs for Christian tourists and accuses Israel of "engaging in harassment and negative treatment" against American faithfuls. "It would be very unfortunate that our Embassy would have to publicly announce throughout the United States that the State of Israel is no longer welcoming Christian organizations and their representatives and is instead engaging in harassment and negative treatment toward organizations with long-standing relationships and positive involvement toward Zionism and friendship to the Jewish people and the State of Israel," the ambassador wrote in letter sent Wednesday.
July 20, 2025: Times of Israel reported: When U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee threatened to label Israel as “unwelcoming to Christians” because the Interior Ministry is not rolling out the red carpet for evangelical missionaries, I was both offended and relieved. I was offended at the obvious audacity, but the relief was far greater. Christian Zionism, despite being framed as “support for Israel” has always come with an air of transaction: “in exchange for our “support”, give us access to your land and people.” That is not Zionism. My relief lies in the mask finally, and so publicly, slipping. Zionism (real Zionism) is about Jewish self-determination in the Jewi`sh ancestral homeland. It’s about sovereignty for the Jewish people, not buying support. Christian Zionism treats the Jewish state as a staging ground for the “end of days” fantasies of evangelicals. Jewish presence in the land is supported only insofar as it is a stepping stone for the “Second Coming”, at which point Jews are to either convert to Christianity or disappear. That’s not solidarity, that’s exploitation.
July 21, 2025: Times of Israel reported: Israel has had an atrocious week with regard to its relations with the Christian world. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, an outspoken and dedicated Christian supporter of the Jewish state, fired off a seething letter to Interior Minister Moshe Arbel last Wednesday, threatening to publicly announce that Israel no longer welcomes Christian groups to Israel. Israel “is instead engaging in harassment and negative treatment toward organizations with long-standing relationships and positive involvement toward Zionism and friendship to the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” the US envoy wrote in a missive that was leaked to Hebrew media, quite possibly by Huckabee’s office, the next day
August 28, 2025: WVNews reported: Evangelical Christians are key supporters of Israel, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu stressed that support and ties between American Christians and Israel is key to the current war in Gaza against Hamas and the future of the Jewish state. “We cherish our Christian friends,” Netanyahu said during an event put on by the Daystar Christian television network. The event was late last month but broadcasted this month on the Texas-based religious network.
August 28, 2025: Religion Unplugged reported: As an evangelical Christian, I was taught God told Abraham in Genesis 12:3 that he would bless those who bless him and curse those who curse him. This was further identified with Israel in Numbers 24:1-9. So, my support for Israel was something I believed I should do as a Christian in order to be blessed personally and nationally. This included people and land. As a new committed believer, I took what I was taught seriously. I hadn’t read the whole Bible. I didn’t know what questions to ask. I also didn’t understand that I should check on the context of the passage and compare Scripture with Scripture.
September 30, 2025: Religion Unplugged reported: .S. evangelicals are as supportive of Israel as they were four years ago, Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter found in their latest poll, although findings portend a possible generational shift. The 49 percent of evangelicals who view Jews as God’s chosen people is statistically unchanged from the 51 percent who said the same in 2021, Ron Sellers, president of Grey Matter Research Consulting, told Baptist Press. “Even with all of the various things and how much this has been in the news and how much people have spoken out against Israel and its actions, and for Israel, and all the anti-Semitic situations that have gone on worldwide,” Sellers said, “evangelical attitudes have been 100 percent constant, which truly was amazing and I think heartening.”
October 10, 2025: Associated Press reported: More than 1,400 evangelical Christians gathered this week in Jerusalem to show their support for Israel on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a joyous festival marking the fall harvest and commemorating the journey of the Jews in the Exodus. They also found themselves celebrating the news of an agreement to pause fighting and free the hostages, just days after the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza. “We’ve been praying for this, and we know God is in control,” said Litiana Trout of Fiji, wearing small Fijian and U.S. flags on her hat.
October 11, 2025: Catholic News Agency reported: Former Israeli government officials, representatives for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and Catholic advocates for Israel in the U.S. spoke with EWTN News this week following the historic peace deal brokered by the Trump administration between Israel and Hamas. News of the peace agreement came as “a joy for the entire population of Gaza, for the families of the hostages, and for our parish, our little parish there in Gaza,” according to Farid Jabran, the public and government affairs adviser for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
In an Oct. 10 interview with “EWTN News Nightly,” Jabran noted there is still an air of “expectation” as the region waits to “see what happens.”
In an Oct. 10 interview with “EWTN News Nightly,” Jabran noted there is still an air of “expectation” as the region waits to “see what happens.”
October 12, 2025: Jerusalem Post reported: When thinking of peacemakers, Donald Trump’s name may not readily come to mind. He is known as an aggressive deal maker, with a no-holds barred style of confronting any issue. He may not have been the first thought as the US President who would be the greatest force for peace in the Middle East. And yet, that is precisely what occurred. Trump brokered the historic Abraham Accords in 2020 that normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations. Those accords created an atmosphere or renewed hope in the region. And now, the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas on October 9th. How does one explain these unexpected outcomes?
October 26, 2025: Times of Israel reported: The Ministerial Committee for Legislation was expected to give its approval Sunday to a pair of bills that would enable lawmakers to halt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial, and make it harder for his leading opponent to run in the next election. Approval by the committee would lend official government support to the bills, both of which are likely to face significant pushback due to concerns over their potential damage to the rule of law and the democratic process. The first piece of legislation, which consists of just one operative sentence, would enable lawmakers to delay the trial of a prime minister or cabinet minister at any time after an indictment and before a final ruling.
October 28, 2025: France 24 reported: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army on Tuesday to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" on Gaza. This comes as Tel Aviv reported that Hamas fired on its forces in the southern part of the enclave, and after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous US-brokered ceasefire. The order from Netanyahu follows heightened tensions, as Israel reported Hamas firing on its forces in southern Gaza, and after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war.
November 1, 2025: Times of Israel reported: When Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump in February, the Israeli prime minister’s first meeting with the president in his second term, he made clear that he hoped the days of “daylight” between the two countries were gone. “When Israel and the United States don’t work together, that creates problems,” Netanyahu said then. “When the other side sees daylight between us — and occasionally, in the last few years, to put it mildly, they saw daylight – then it’s more difficult.” The dig was at US President Joe Biden and the differences the Democrat and Netanyahu had over Israel’s conduct of its war with Hamas in Gaza.
November 2, 2025: The Free Press reported: Why do so many Americans support Israel? In his recent interview with “Groyper” Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson was the latest to ask a question that has vexed politicians, journalists, and scholars. “They’re not Jewish; most of them are self-described Christians,” he marveled. “They’re Christian Zionists. Like, what is that?” This was not the first time Carlson has discussed what he called the “brain virus” of Christian Zionism. In June, Carlson grilled Senator Ted Cruz about the theological sources of his foreign policy positions. When Cruz paraphrased Genesis 12, Carlson was incredulous that God’s promise to bless those who bless Abraham, his descendants, and their land could refer to the modern state of Israel. Last year, Carlson hosted the country singer John Rich. They did not discuss Israel specifically, but Rich echoed a conspiracy theory that evangelist C.I. Scofield’s success was orchestrated by rich Jews in order to promote Zionism among Christians. Carlson is increasing their prominence on the right, but such ideas have been popular on the left for decades. Beginning in the 1980s, a whole genre of books and articles contended that American Christians’ enthusiasm for Israel was based on an “end-times” scenario derived from the Victorian theologian John Nelson Darby, and mainstreamed by Scofield in the early 20th century.
November 8, 2025: NPR reported: Red-state America has been a big fan of Israel, according to Jackson Lahmeyer, an evangelical pastor in Oklahoma and founder of Pastors for Trump. "Evangelical Christians in America for the most part, not always but generally speaking, have usually been very strong supporters of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people," Lahmeyer said in an interview with NPR. That support is deeply rooted in their evangelical faith, he said. But recently, Lahmeyer has noticed the conversation around Israel is changing quite a bit — particularly online.
November 15, 2025: President of Russia reported: Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the State of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. There was a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Middle East, including the recent developments in the Gaza Strip in light of the agreement on ceasefire and exchange of detained persons being implemented, the state of affairs surrounding Iran's nuclear programme, and issues concerning encouragement of further stabilisation in Syria.
November 16, 2025: Politico reported: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the U.N. Security Council planned to vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution on Gaza that leaves the door open to Palestinian independence. Netanyahu has long asserted that creating a Palestinian state would reward Hamas and eventually lead to an even larger Hamas-run state on Israel’s borders. But as the U.S. attempts to push forward with its Gaza ceasefire proposal, he faces heavy international pressure to show flexibility. The Security Council is expected to vote on a U.S. proposal for a U.N. mandate that would establish an international stabilization force in Gaza despite opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries.
November 17, 2025: Associated Press reported: Israeli settlers on Monday rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string of settler attacks in recent weeks. The violence drew a rare condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top leaders. Israel’s military said soldiers and police were sent to al-Jab’a, a small village southwest of Bethlehem, after reports of fires and vandalism. The attack came hours after clashes between Israeli security forces and settlers defending an unauthorized outpost on a nearby hill facing evacuation and demolition on Monday, according to COGAT, the Israeli military body that deals with civilians in the West Bank. Israeli police said earlier that six suspects were arrested in confrontations during the demolitions, where dozens of Israeli settlers were entrenched and hundreds rioted, throwing stones and metal bars and burning tires.
November 22, 2025: American Conservative reported: A new foreign influence deal aims to shape American public opinion to be more pro-Israel by paying influencers hefty sums to post on social media. The American Conservative reveals that some of the first payments from the so-called Esther Project have been to evangelical Christian consultants, one with links to former Donald Trump aide Brad Parscale, who runs a right-wing media company that’s partially owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Lara Trump. Other consultants paid by the firm come from a network of evangelical Christians in Trump’s orbit that have long been cultivated by the Israeli PR professional running the effort as a facet of maintaining support for Israel among American religious conservatives. The Esther Project is an influence campaign run by a company working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the firm’s recent disclosure with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA.) The September filings from Bridges Partners LLC, which mapped out a well-funded campaign, sparked rampant speculation about which pro-Israel American social media influencers might receive thousands of dollars to create pro-Israel content, as American popular support for Israel’s actions in Palestine continues to wane. Two new, similar campaigns from Israel’s Foreign Ministry have also been launched in recent months. One will pay a California company to “geofence” attendees at Christian colleges and churches in Western U.S. states to deliver them pro-Israel ads. Another effort will give Brad Parscale $6 million to use predictive AI to create pro-Israel media for Gen Z audiences.
December 7, 2025: Eurasia Review reported: Opinions concerning Israel among young US Evangelicals are shifting. A survey conducted between March 22, 2021, and April 2, 2021, by the Barna Group, a social research organization, and by Mordechai Inbari and Kirill Humin, two professors at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, found that support for Israel among US Evangelicals aged 18 to 29 dropped by half between 2018 and 2021. In their 2021 survey, only 33.6 percent of respondents expressed positive support for Israel—down from 69 percent in 2018. The 2021 survey also indicated that 42 percent of young Evangelicals in that age group identified as neutral, supporting neither Israel nor Palestine. There is no polling data that specifically tracks the attitudes of young Evangelicals toward Israel from 2021 onward. However, an existing recent poll does capture general American attitudes toward Israel across different age groups. Conducted in August 2025 by Harvard University and the Harris Research Foundation, this poll found that a majority of Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) support Hamas. When asked whether Hamas should remain in power if it released the remaining Israeli hostages, 60 percent of Gen Z respondents answered in the affirmative.
December 8, 2025: Christian Daily reported: A leading Palestinian evangelical figure has expressed concern that a high-profile visit to Israel by more than 1,000 American pastors and Christian influencers did not include any meetings with Christian communities in the Palestinian Territories. Rev. Jack Sara, Secretary General of the Middle East and North Africa Evangelical Alliance, said the delegation’s tour of Israel highlighted global Christian solidarity with the Jewish state but failed to acknowledge or engage with Palestinian Christians who also live in the Holy Land. Sara’s comments follow an unprecedented visit organized through a partnership between Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Friends of Zion Museum. According to CBN News, the gathering brought more than 1,000 pastors to Israel — a group which organizers described as the largest such delegation since the country’s founding. The initiative aimed to strengthen Christian support for Israel and mobilize pastors to counter rising antisemitism worldwide.
December 12, 2025: Arab Weekly reported: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump in the United States on December 29, as the two countries mull different visions for the next steps towards implementing the US 20-point plan for Gaza. It will be Netanyahu’s fifth visit to meet Trump in the US since the start of the year and comes after the prime minister said he expected the second phase of the US-sponsored ceasefire plan for Gaza to begin soon.“The meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu will take place Monday, December 29,” Shosh Bedrosian, spokeswoman for the prime minister’s office, said. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu and Trump were expected to meet twice during an eight-day visit to the United States by the Israeli prime minister.
December 18, 2025: Washington Times reported: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” — Isaiah 7:14
One of the most quoted Bible verses during the buildup to Christmas is from a Jewish prophet who predicted the birth of the Messiah. Isaiah goes on in Chapter 9 to say, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” He further proclaims in that chapter: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
One of the most quoted Bible verses during the buildup to Christmas is from a Jewish prophet who predicted the birth of the Messiah. Isaiah goes on in Chapter 9 to say, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” He further proclaims in that chapter: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
December 20, 2025: Mondoweiss reported: Genocide is both a cumulative process, according to the document, “one that began in the minds of the settler-colonial powers of Europe when they denied the image of God in others and legitimized death, domination and slavery,” and a “structural sin against God, against humanity, and against creation.” “We consider the State of Israel, established in 1948,” Kairos II maintains, “to be a continuation of that same colonial enterprise built on racism and the ideology of ethnic or religious superiority.” Authors of the document charge that “the genocidal war has laid bare the hypocrisy of the Western world, its hollow values and its empty boasts of commitment to human rights and international law. In truth, the Western world has sacrificed us, revealing racism and double standards toward our people.”
January 13, 2024: Premeir Christian News reported: Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a second package of emergency aid for Christians who've lost their livelihoods because of the war in Gaza. It's supporting the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem with £430,000 over the next three months. It brings the total amount of money donated by the charity since the start of the Israel Hamas conflict in October to nearly £600,000.
January 23, 2024: Baptist News Global reported: Ever since Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis more than 100 days ago, Israel has relied on America, its best friend and biggest defender. If you want to understand how that came to be the case, check out On the Road to Armageddon, a 20-year-old book by Baptist historian (and my former church history professor) Timothy P. Weber. Widely acclaimed when published by Baker in 2004, Weber’s lucid and inviting study shows how John Nelson Darby’s dispensational theology, Hal Lindsey’s bestselling prophecy books, Left Behind novels, the rise of the Religious Right, and a cooperative Republican Party have brought about an unquestioned loyalty to Israel despite the mounting international outcry (and genocide allegations) over Israel’s deadly and destructive response, which has killed nearly 25,000 Gazans, most of them women and children
May 14, 2024: Jerusalem Post reported: On January 14, 1947, Fraser Wilkins of the State Department’s Near East Division sent a secret memorandum to State Department officials. Wilkins was the desk officer for Palestinian affairs at the time, and he detailed seven “factors” upon which United States policy vis-a-vis the British Mandate entity was based. Among them, he wrote: “continued uncertainty and uncertainty regarding the Palestine question... is distressing to Christians everywhere because the Christian interest... tends to become submerged in an Arab-Jewish controversy.” Some 78 years later, the new US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a Baptist pastor, visited the Shiloh archaeological site (rediscovered by American Edward Robinson, the “father of Biblical geography” back in 1838), spoke personal words of spiritual meaning, and met with the leaders of the Yesha (Judea and Samaria Council), representing the over half a million Jews residing in the areas of the former Mandate not yet under full Israeli sovereignty. A new era, following on from the first Donald Trump presidential administration and the ambassadorship of David M. Friedman, is beginning.
November 22, 2024: USA Today reported: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heralded the success of a pro-Israel Christian ministry as a struggle akin to Israel’s own. “I remember when you began. Once you were one of a handful of brave voices in the wilderness,” Netanyahu said in a livestream broadcast from Jerusalem to Washington D.C., where a crowd of about 5,000 gathered for the Christians United for Israel annual summit in July 2019. “But thanks to your leadership, now there are millions of millions devout Christians who stand with Israel.” That 2019 summit was a victory lap for Christians United for Israel and its founder, Texas televangelist pastor John Hagee. The ministry had built considerable political clout over the course of 13 years to the point of helping shape policy decisions in President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. That included securing David Friedman’s appointment as ambassador to Israel and the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv moving to Jerusalem.
“If a line has to be drawn, then draw that line around both Christians and Jews. We are one,” is powerful, clear and moving. - Pastor John Hagee
January 31, 2023: Religion Dispatches reported: A week after elections that produced the most far-right government in Israel’s history, the protests began—protests that increased exponentially in numerous cities and towns. In some way, it seemed, those in mourning had woken up as if rising from shiva (the seven days of mourning in the Jewish tradition). In that newfound exuberance against draconian government reforms—political, judicial, and cultural—the Left, center-left and some on the moderate Right (in Israel often referred to as the “soft right”) have raised their voice in opposition to certain government proposals. This should be cause for celebration in the midst of deep anxiety, but there’s something conspicuous in its absence. The protests are indeed fighting against a threat to democracy created by a democratic election, flawed as it may be. Let us remember: this election was not an anomaly. In the four previous elections the results were quite similar. Electorally, this is where the country stands.
January 31, 2023: TRT World reported: Dozens of Christian graves defaced in Occupied East Jerusalem's Mount Zion. The Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion was established in the mid-19th century and is the final resting place of figures, including clergy, scientists and politicians. A Jerusalem bishop said he was "dismayed" by the desecration of dozens of Christian graves on the edge of the Old City, as police probed the vandalism.
February 26, 2023: Jerusalem Post reported: Israel's government estimates that around 10,000 Ukrainians will immigrate to Israel in the coming weeks, government officials told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. The Ministry of Immigration and Absorption would not comment on this estimate, but responded saying: "The Ministry of Immigration and Absorption is prepared for the emergency immigration of Ukrainian Jews, and in view of the escalation in Ukraine, the ministry, headed by Minister Tamano Shata, is preparing all sectors to assist and absorb any Jew seeking to immigrate to Israel."
March 28, 2023: Christians For Israel International reported: The role of President of Israel has always and only been that of a figurehead. The president has no political clout, so much so, that for years there is a repeated discussion about the need to do away with the office completely. Yet despite the grumblings of whether there should be a president or not, the issue was never voted on. This could be in part due to the affection that many Israelis feel towards their presidents whose role is to present the noble and “good side” of Israel to the international community. But he had a distaste for anything formal, and especially pomp and circumstance. Back home, he was an informal, first-name character and a type of father figure to Israelis everywhere. One of the most beloved presidents was Ezer Weizman, the nephew of Chaim Weizman who was Israel’s first president. With Ezer’s humility, perfect English, humour and glossy air force carrier, when elected in 1993 he easily wiggled his way into the hearts of Israelis everywhere. There was no presidential rule book for Weizman or instructions of how he was supposed to behave. He thus invented many of the ceremonial responsibilities. Priorities were first and foremost at home and not abroad. He spent a lot of time visiting prisoners, refugees, and wounded soldiers. Three days a week he travelled to small villages all over the country to put up the Israeli flag.
October 10, 2023: Associated Press reported: Support for Israel becomes a top issue for Iowa evangelicals key to the first Republican caucuses. Steve Rowland admonished the roughly 500 people at Rising Sun Church of Christ in the Des Moines suburb of Altoona. It had been three days since Hamas attacked Israel and killed hundreds of civilians. In Iowa, where evangelical Christians dominate the first-in-the-nation Republican presidential caucuses, Rowland and other pastors are delivering a message meant to resonate both biblically and politically.
October 13, 2023: Peter Leithart posted at Gospel Coalition: Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel was like something from the dark ages of antiquity. Marauders invaded Israel not to claim territory or even treasure but to slaughter innocents and take hostages. They killed young women, snatched elderly people from the streets, murdered and burned families with their children.
Hamas’s tactics resemble nothing so much as those of the biblical Amalekites.
Hamas’s tactics resemble nothing so much as those of the biblical Amalekites.
October 25, 2023: Quotes: Israel-Hamas War
“What we’re seeing in that region is pure evil. Israel has mobilized their army and they are intent on stamping out evil, and we should be behind them. That’s where we should be, and I want you to know that, as a pastor....At some point along their way, along their journey, they’ve heard the end of the world is going to happen. There’s fear that comes into play for a lot of these people. And whatever it is you fear, you pay attention to.”
-Steve Rowland; Rising Church of Christ; Des Moines, Iowa
"We’ve got a true war between good and evil, and we have to have a leader that has the moral clarity to know the difference” -Nikki Haley
“The Arab-Israeli conflict has become part of the culture-war framework. That’s part of the Trump and post-Trump Republican Party, that terrorism and immigration are really deeply linked.”
-Daniel Hummel, author of “Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations”
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” -Sen Tim Scott
“Even though Donald Trump has done amazing things when it comes to Israel, we need some assurances now. I don’t think he understands the biblical foundation of why we stand with Israel.”
-Joseph Brown; Marion Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa.
“I think he’s trying to figure out what conservatives want to hear. And I think he thinks conservatives want a less interventionist foreign policy. But that does not work when it comes to Israel.”
-Brad Cranston, former pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Burlington, Iowa.
“There are victims on both sides now. The terrorists who want to rid the world of Jews struck first and killed innocents, and now Israel is retaliating and there is innocent loss of life on both sides.”
-Ann Trimble Ray, a conservative from Early, Iowa.
“What we’re seeing in that region is pure evil. Israel has mobilized their army and they are intent on stamping out evil, and we should be behind them. That’s where we should be, and I want you to know that, as a pastor....At some point along their way, along their journey, they’ve heard the end of the world is going to happen. There’s fear that comes into play for a lot of these people. And whatever it is you fear, you pay attention to.”
-Steve Rowland; Rising Church of Christ; Des Moines, Iowa
"We’ve got a true war between good and evil, and we have to have a leader that has the moral clarity to know the difference” -Nikki Haley
“The Arab-Israeli conflict has become part of the culture-war framework. That’s part of the Trump and post-Trump Republican Party, that terrorism and immigration are really deeply linked.”
-Daniel Hummel, author of “Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations”
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” -Sen Tim Scott
“Even though Donald Trump has done amazing things when it comes to Israel, we need some assurances now. I don’t think he understands the biblical foundation of why we stand with Israel.”
-Joseph Brown; Marion Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa.
“I think he’s trying to figure out what conservatives want to hear. And I think he thinks conservatives want a less interventionist foreign policy. But that does not work when it comes to Israel.”
-Brad Cranston, former pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Burlington, Iowa.
“There are victims on both sides now. The terrorists who want to rid the world of Jews struck first and killed innocents, and now Israel is retaliating and there is innocent loss of life on both sides.”
-Ann Trimble Ray, a conservative from Early, Iowa.
October 29, 2023: The Wire reported: Amid Israel’s intensifying offensive against Gaza, a pastor in Delhi exhorted his church members this Sunday to pray for peace in Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6) and for the protection of “God’s chosen people” (Deuteronomy 7:6), referring to the Biblical commandment to Christians. Such calls are all too common whenever skirmishes break out between Israel and Palestine, which occur with chilling regularity. Evangelical Christians around the globe, including this pastor in India, believe that Jews are “God’s chosen people” who are under attack from their “enemies”, and it is a religious obligation on the part of Christians to extend their unequivocal support to the state of Israel.
October 30, 2023: The Guardian reported: It didn’t take long for many evangelical Christian groups in America to show their support for Israel. Hours after Hamas attacked the country on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people, Christians United for Israel, an evangelical lobbying group which claims to have more than 10 million members, posted a message to on X, formerly known as Twitter.
October 30, 2023: Arlene Jones wrote in Austin Weekly News: I cannot totally imagine the horrors those children and all children who are being bombarded day in and day out, are suffering from. At a very young age, they are losing out on any hopes and dreams. What I do know is that there are villains on both sides of the issue. How do we tolerate the theft of a child’s future because of conflict and war? How many children are going to be scarred by this for the rest of their lives? Is there any hope for a peaceful resolution so neither child sees the flag of the other side and reacts with anger, fear and hatred? The Bible has always predicted that the end of the world will start in the Middle East. I hope and pray that this situation is not leading to World War III, which would truly be the end of the world as we know it because of nuclear weapons.
November 3, 2023: Presbyterian Outlook reported: As social media becomes saturated with falsified images of mass violence in the Israel-Hamas war, the Ukraine war and other regions of the globe, individuals should ask what ethical responsibility they bear for their consumption of misinformation and disinformation. Some might deny that users of digital media bear any such responsibility, since they are merely the passive recipients of content created by others. Philosopher Gideon Rosen claims that when people are passive toward some occurrence, they generally don’t bear ethical responsibility for it. Anyone scrolling the internet will passively encounter hundreds of images and related texts, and it is tempting to assume they bear no responsibility for the images of war and mass violence that they see but only for how they respond to them. However, users of digital media are not merely passive recipients of falsified images and stories. Instead, they have power to influence the kinds of images that show up on their screens. This means, in turn, that users bear some ethical responsibility for their consumption of visual misinformation and disinformation.
November 10, 2023: Reckon 11 reported: The pro-Israel sentiment among evangelicals is prominent and growing, according to Pew Research Center data. This sentiment is evident on the debate stage in the polls, which show 86% of evangelical Christians view Israel and Jewish people “favorably,” according to data from a March Pew Research survey. Without evangelicals, Republican views on Israel would be similar to those of the rest of the country, according to a University of Maryland critical issues poll in 2021. Israeli officials have also focused their outreach on evangelicals.
Ibrahim Karatas
Evangelicalism is a movement within Protestant Christianity. In fact, the birth of Evangelicalism and the support of Israel by Protestants go back to the 19th century. It should be noted that many great Christian thinkers like Saint Augustine, Martin Luther, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin did not read prophecies in the Bible as foretelling the establishment of an earthly state of Israel. For them, Israel meant “people of God” and “returning to Israel” meant returning to the Church; they never referred to Jews when talking about Israel. It was John Nelson Darby, an Anglican British priest, that introduced dispensationalist theology, the basic ideology of Christian Zionism, in the 19th century. However, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield is a more famous name in Dispensationalism as he greatly contributed to the spread and consolidation of this theological school in the United States. There are strong claims that Scofield wrote the book with the sponsorship of Samuel Untermeyer, a Jewish lawyer and staunch Zionist. According to those critical of Evangelicalism, Scofield’s book was deliberately written to insert Zionism into Protestant theology. -- Ibrahim Karatas, international relations analyst and journalist who specializes in Turkish foreign policy, the Middle East and security. 11/10/23
November 12, 2023: The Times of Israel reported: High above Times Square the images flash: a bloodied pacifier, rope-bound hands, an empty wheelchair, pictures of the 240 Israeli people taken hostage by Hamas. The images are part of Don’t Look Away, a campaign launched by Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
Over a month into the Israel-Hamas war, American Evangelicals are providing moral and material support to Israel, hosting fundraisers and poster campaigns, and sending volunteers and supplies. With more than 100 million Evangelicals in the United States, it is a deep well from which to draw.
Over a month into the Israel-Hamas war, American Evangelicals are providing moral and material support to Israel, hosting fundraisers and poster campaigns, and sending volunteers and supplies. With more than 100 million Evangelicals in the United States, it is a deep well from which to draw.
November 13, 2023: Providence reported: A few days ago, a Facebook friend posted in all caps, “A MUST SEE!!” The focus of my friend’s enthusiasm was a YouTube video of a prominent evangelical dispensationalist explaining “what’s next” in Israel’s war against Hamas. My friend concluded his post repeating the video presenter’s closing Bible verse from Psalm 121:4: “He who watches over Israel, neither slumbers nor sleeps.” George Marsden, the premier historian of American evangelicalism, has written extensively about the important role that dispensationalism played in shaping American Protestant fundamentalism, the precursor of contemporary American evangelicalism. Central to dispensational theology is the belief that the 20th century return of Jews to Palestine, and the birth of the modern state of Israel in 1948, was a key prophetic marker pointing to the Second Coming of Christ.
November 14, 2023: BBC Reported: “Each of the great world civilizations,” Christopher Dawson wrote in his classic work from the 1940s on Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, “has been faced with the problem of reconciling the aggressive ethos of the warrior with the moral ideals of a universal religion. But in none of them has the tension been so vital and intense as in medieval Christendom and nowhere have the results been more important for the history of culture.” At the heart of Dawson’s provocative thesis is the insistence that Western European culture was the coming together of two cultures, two social traditions, and two spiritual worlds. The cultural formation of Europe combined “the war society of the barbarian kingdom with its cult of heroism and aggression,” leavened by “the peace society of the Christian Church with its ideals of asceticism and renunciation and its high theological culture.” Arguably, the Crusades expressed the best and the worst of this synthesis. There were times when the fusion of warrior-heroism and Christian virtue produced something noble and exemplary during the centuries-long effort to reclaim the Holy Land. And there were times when the fusion failed and produced something ugly and lamentable. But even the failures teach us about the aspirational ideals of Christendom. We cannot understand the rise of Western culture without the religious unity imposed by the Christian Church in the Middle Ages, and likewise, we cannot understand the flourishing of Christendom unless we understand that it grew up out of the soil of warrior kings and barbarian kingdoms.
November 18, 2023: Jerusalem Post reported: The Jewish world responded with uncharacteristic mania to a picture of four men in cowboy hats, taken by Haviva Litman Zwickler, that went viral on social media. The picture was captioned, “These Cowboys from Arkansas and Montana were at JFK today on their way to help out at the farms in Israel. They are not Jewish.” Jews were still celebrating their arrival when reports started appearing, intimating that the American cowboys, and HaYovel, the sponsoring organization, have an agenda that might include “spreading the gospel.”
November 19, 2023: Reuters reported: - Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. At one point a shelter for tens of thousands of Palestinian war refugees, Al Shifa Hospital has been evacuating patients and staff since Israeli troops swept in last week on what they called a mission to root out hidden Hamas facilities.
December 7, 2023: Baptist News Global reported: Americans and people the world over are deeply divided about the current state of affairs in Israel and Gaza. I previously wrote there are no “good guys” in this war, and I stand by that assertion. It is possible for both Israel and Hamas to behave in horrible ways at the same time. We do not have to valorize one side in order to criminalize the other. We also must separate the world’s Jewish people from the political state of Israel. They are not the same thing. We must be able to call out Israel without attacking Jews.
December 14, 2023: Providence reported: On October 7th, Hamas launched attacks that killed over 1,400 Israelis. Yet even prior to these attacks Israel has been consistently in the news for another reason. In July 2023, the Knesset (Israel’s legislature) passed reforms to the judiciary to get rid of the “reasonableness doctrine.” Many Israelis perceive these reforms as an assault on the independence of Israel’s courts and have protested in large numbers. The entire controversy over judicial reforms is a symptom of a larger issue: Israel lacks a written constitution. Without one, Israeli society cannot have an objective standard to resolve disputes between the branches of government. Americans may be surprised to learn that, unlike their own country, the State of Israel does not have a written constitution. Instead, the Knesset drafts “basic laws” which will be written into a formal constitution at a later date. One of the downsides of lacking a written constitution is that the courts of Israel have adopted something known as the “reasonableness standard” in deciding cases. Basically, this means the Supreme Court of Israel can block laws or other government actions if the judges believe they are unreasonable. (Matt Cookson/Providence 12/14/23)
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December 25, 2023: The Guardian reported: The archbishop of Canterbury and the pope are using their Christmas addresses to show solidarity with Bethlehem and those caught up in the Israel-Gaza war. Referring to Jesus Christ’s birthplace, which is now in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Justin Welby will say “the skies of Bethlehem are full of fear rather than angels and glory”.
February 24, 2022: Israel 365 reported:Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday accused Russia of “violating international order,” after the Kremlin invaded Ukraine.
“Israel condemns the attack and is ready to provide humanitarian aid to the citizens of Ukraine,” Lapid tweeted. “Israel is a war-torn country. War is not the way to resolve conflicts.”
“Israel condemns the attack and is ready to provide humanitarian aid to the citizens of Ukraine,” Lapid tweeted. “Israel is a war-torn country. War is not the way to resolve conflicts.”