One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday.
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The conservative Christians met with Netanyahu on Monday at Blair House, which is near the White House. The gathering came ahead of the Israeli leader’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, which led to Trump’s dramatic The meeting was a reminder that evangelical Christian Zionists are among Israel’s strongest supporters in the U.S. – and they wield considerable influence as Trump begins his second term. They have also backed controversial sentiments expressed by Republicans and Trump this week over the territories of Gaza and the West Bank.with Netanyahu on Tuesday, suggested that Palestinians from the Gaza Strip could be removed and resettled elsewhere, with the U.S. taking over the war-torn region.
The national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, assailed Trump’s proposal. “Any forced relocation of the Palestinian population will only escalate violence and resistance, leading to more instability in the region,” he said. “Anti-American sentiment will spike even further than what we have witnessed over the last year.”The president of an umbrella group representing relatively progressive congregations, Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism, was skeptical.
Yet he described the policies affecting Gaza for the past two decades as “utter insanity,″ with Hamas holding control and then invading Israel in 2023.
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