Dear Mr. President:

Balaam was restrained from carrying out his intentions to curse Israel. “A mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet” (2 Peter 2:16).

Mr. President we pray that the God of Israel will send you a messenger to restrain you from rushing headlong into the error of Balaam. May you not be allowed to place a stumbling block before the sons of Israel (2 Peter 2:15; Jude 1:11; Revelation 2:14).

The media reports that, this afternoon you will announce your widely anticipated policy proposal for the creation of a Palestinian state. If you do this, Mr. President, you will be rushing headlong into the error of Balaam. You will be guilty of placing a stumbling block before the sons of Israel. You will be doing it for the wages of Arab oil, and because of fear of radical Islam.

The future of America may well depend on understanding what has happened in Israel and what is happening today. If you make the wrong decisions about Israel, we could be destroyed by the God of Israel. He says, "It shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:9). We certainly don't want to be one of the nations destroyed by God, and yet, because we bow before Arab oil money we could end up on the wrong side of our Creator.

It is madness to commit our country’s support to the blasphemy that Jerusalem, the city of David, and the ancient Israelite kingdoms of Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank), should be recognized as a sovereign Palestinian State, because that State will serve another god.

There is a better solution.

Fortunately, you have a relationship model that has worked for the past fifty-four years, one that has had Israelis and Palestinians live together 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. On the other hand, the Jews will rest in the assurance that they serve a God who can control wombs and immigration in their favor.

Mr. President, do not divide God’s Land! Instead, let Him control a few wombs.

Mr. President you are in our prayers.

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