Dear Mr. President:

You should not be supportive of the Saudi’s initial negotiating position in their current peace proposal, which calls for Israel to withdraw within the borders that existed prior to the 1967 War. These are the same borders that the Arabs went to war over in 1967. Why would you believe that going back to them today would make the Arabs happy today?

Dear Mr. President:

You should not be supportive of the Saudi’s initial negotiating position in their current peace proposal, which calls for Israel to withdraw within the borders that existed prior to the 1967 War. These are the same borders that the Arabs went to war over in 1967. Why would you believe that going back to them today would make the Arabs happy today?

The just way to settle any dispute over land is to make a title search of the records to establish who is the real owner of the land. A search of the legal records, going back some 4,200, years clearly reveals that the Bible, a document which you are very familiar with, outlined Israel’s borders as the land promised to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob. It is described as encompassing the land from the River of Egypt, or Red Sea in the south, to the great river, the Euphrates in the north, and from the sea of the Philistines, or Mediterranean Sea in the west, to the Wilderness or Arabia in the East. Today, this soil composes an area made up of the nations of Israel (including the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip), Jordan. Lebanon, Syria, and portions of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

To question the current validity of Israel’s deed to these lands is to question the validity and authority of the “One Who Granted The Deed.” This is not a good position for any nation or President to be in. Consider the counsel of a certain Pharisee named Gamaliel, “If the [Peace] Plan you support be of men, it will be overthrown...and you may even be found fighting against GOD’ (Acts 5:33-39).

Quite naturally proposing these 2200 B.C.E. borders as an initial negotiating position in the current Middle East peace proposal would bring an outcry, not only from the Arab Nations, but from the many antisemitic countries around the world. Further, due to its small population Israel is in no position to take possession of these borders today.

What to do? Use your position and power to strongly encourage Israel and the Palestinian Authority to enter into direct negotiations until they reach a mutually agreeable settlement. Please note: Neither the United States, the United Nations, the Arab states, nor any other country should dictate the terms, or be a party to these negotiations. The terms should be those mutually agreed on by Israel and the Palestinians.

Any peace agreement that serves the purposes of antisemitism, rather than the legitimate interests of the Israelis and Palestinians has no hope for success.

Mr. President you are in our prayers.

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