US ambassador lauds ‘courageous’ Trump for Golan, Jerusalem moves

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is up next.

“I bring you greetings from my boss, my friend, and Israel’s greatest ally ever to reside in the White House, President Donald Trump,” he says, to sustained applause.

Friedman says he wants to start on “an outrageous, sad, and ultimately a very important note,” referring to the rocket attack on central

That rocket was not aimed at Orthodox Jews or Reform Jews, progressives or conservatives, Ashkenazi or Separdic Jews, says Friedman.

“That rocket was designed just to kill Jews. We can learn much from that rocket. It cared not a whit about the differences among Jews,” he says.

“Let’s put our differences aside in favor of our common goals, now and always,” says Friedman.

The ambassador addresses the US embassy move to Jerusalem, saying the mission is growing considerably.

“Some say this is just a symbolic gesture, but I could not disagree more,” says Friedman, describing it as the culmination of a 2,000-year-old Jewish dream of the return to Zion.

Quoting Netanyahu, Friedman describes the recognition of the Golan Heights as the “Purim miracle.”

“For two generations, Israelis of all political stripes proclaimed: ‘the nation is with the Golan,’ which can never be severed from the State of Israel,” he says.

Pointing to the strategic nature of the territory and the threat posed by Syria, Friedman says “this will never happen on President Trump’s watch.”

“President Trump stood, yet again, courageously and resolutely with the people of Israel.”

If you don’t see the significance of these moves, “you may want to check your pulse,” says Friedman, to cheers.

Friedman also praises Trump for exiting the “flawed Iran deal.”