Dear Mr. President:

How can you, Mr. President, on one hand ask God to bless America, and on the other hand stick your finger in His eye by supporting a proposal to divide His Land?

“For thus says the LORD of hosts, “...for he who touches you [Israel] touches the apple of My eye” (Zechariah 2:8).

The day you declare support for an interim Palestinian State which gives the sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the people of another god—to Allah, the god of Islam—will be a black day for America. We (and as a Christian this includes you Mr. President) who belong to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel, can never support this blasphemy.

Why? Because Jesus (Yeshua), in His final instructions to His disciples, commanded them to be His witnesses both in “Jerusalem, all Judea, and Samaria” (Acts 1:8). Most Bible translations add, “even to the remotest part of the earth." However, the Peshitta, the Bible of the Aramaic, or Ancient Eastern churches, defines this command to be a witness in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria to remain in force “even to the consummation of the world.” Either way, it does not appear that Yeshua imagined a time when the testimony of His witnesses (Greek martus or martyrs) would not be required in this special land. This command is even more true now at the “consummation of the world,” or the end times in which we live.

Understand that the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom unto all the nations of the world requires a witness in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (Matthew 24:14). It would be difficult to be an effective witness in a Palestinian State that may prescribe the death penalty for preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, as many Muslim countries currently do.

Mr. President you need to change your vision! Fortunately, you have a relationship model that has worked for the past fifty-four years in having Israelis and Palestinians live in peace: Make them both citizens of one state.

Presently the State of Israel includes a million Arabs among its citizens. There has been no outcry from these Arab citizens in Israel, or from the world, that they are being mistreated. In fact, there has not only not been an outcry to deliver these Arabs citizens from Israel, the reverse is true. Some three to four million Arabs, claiming to be the descendants of the 750,000 refugees that fled during the 1948 War of Independence, want back in.

Integrating the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into the present State of Israel would result in a state with a population of 9,730,000. Of these: 5,190,000 would be Jews, 3,980,000 Muslims (Arab), and 560,000 Christians (many of whom are Arab). Such integration would bring immediate peace because the Arabs believe they could win the ensuing population battle and thus achieve their objective of having a state in which they would be in the majority. At least this would be a battle to protect and create life, rather than to kill. However, the big advantage of this solution is that it does not divide God’s Land.

Furthermore, the proposed solution of a separate Palestinian State will not work. Putting a different label on the package does not change the contents. Radical Islam has not, is not, and will not allow any entity to coexist peaceably with Israel.

Mr. President you are in our prayers.

Shalom in our generation,
Angus Wootten
Executive Director, Messianic Israel Alliance