A declaration championing Israel’s biblical claim to Judea and Samaria will be heading to President Donald Trump’s desk in the Oval Office backed by thousands of evangelical leaders.
Citing archaeological discoveries and biblical figures from Abraham to Jesus, American Christian Leaders for Israel unveiled the declaration last week at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas.
“The Jewish people’s inalienable right to the Biblical Heartland of Israel and reject all efforts—both from the United States and the international community—to pressure the Jewish people to relinquish their ancestral homeland in Judea and Samaria,” it reads.
Dr. Mike Evans, founder of Friends of Zion which boasts nearly 30 million members, explains to FOX News why Evangelical support for Israel is so strong.
“They believe in moral clarity, good versus evil, they are friends of Zion. They see Jews being killed because they’re Jews, not because of land,” he says. “The evangelicals gave Trump the presidency. He will support our position on the Bible and that’s why he chose Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Jerusalem, who supports Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”
Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) have already urged the president to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the region, describing it as “the heart of our shared Judeo-Christian heritage.”
Judea and Samaria encompasses some 2,180 square miles of land between Israel proper and the Jordan River, including historic cities like Hebron and parts of Jerusalem, which have been administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. The Oslo Accords divided the territory into three regions: Area A under full Palestinian jurisdiction, Area B under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control, and Area C under full Israeli authority.
Trump’s 2020 peace plan had initially supported Israel’s annexation of portions of Judea and Samaria, before pivoting to focus on the groundbreaking Abraham Accords that established diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab nations.
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