Oren recounts GOP lawmakers’ Bible-based support of Israel

Member of Knesset Michael Oren speaks of the deep, Bible-based ties between Israel and the US, at the Judea and Samaria Conference today.

He notes John Adams’s dream of seeing Hebrew soldiers liberating the Holy Land and Woodrow Wilson’s pivotal role in birthing the Balfour Declaration. The former ambassador to the US champions Congress’s role in supporting Israel.

“American public opinion is best expressed in Congress, where 70-75 percent of the members consider themselves pro-Israel,” says Oren, an MK from the Kulanu party.

He describes meetings that he had “every week,” where he would come into the office of a west Texas congressman who would have the Bible open on his desk, generally to Genesis, and say, “How much money do you want for Iron Dome?”

He adds that Hillary Clinton, a presidential hopeful, who thought that insisting on a settlement freeze was a tactical mistake, could yet, as president, go from being “the solution to a problem.”

— Mitch Ginsburg