19 July, 2017
The far-right vice president, for example, has been caught making all kinds of demonstrably false claims about Donald Trump and the Russian Federation scandal, but the latest controversy surrounds Pence's mendacious rhetoric on health care, starting with a speech to the National Governors Association. "This president stands with you". We will stand without apology for Israel tomorrow and President Donald Trump and I will stand with Israel always.
"And to the men and women of Christians United For Israel, this president hears you", Pence said.
This statement was indeed a welcome one to the members of CUFI, the largest pro-Israel grassroots organization in the United States.
Pence quoted President Trump, "stay tuned, we will return".
Hopes were high that this promise would materialize when the president visited Jerusalem in May, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to pray at the Kotel (Western Wall).
"Christian Zionists argue that the fate of the United States hinges on how fervently it supports Israel", Hummel wrote.
"While there will undoubtedly have to be compromises, let me assure all of you gathered here today, President Donald Trump will never compromise the safety and security of the Jewish state of Israel - not now, not ever", Pence said.
Congress passed a law in 1995 requiring the move, but every president since has found it practical to delay it for fear of damaging chances for peace. The ideology is also associated with political conservatives - with leaders of the Religious Right like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell advancing the belief that America should support Israel because the Jewish state is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Earlier Monday, a panel including Pastor John Hagee, who founded the movement 12 years ago, expressed concerns that Trump, who otherwise was presented at the conference as preferable to his predecessor, President Barack Obama, was losing credibility by not making good on his campaign promise.
"The capitol of Israel is Jerusalem, and the embassies of the world should be in Jerusalem", Netanyahu told the CUFI summit.
"To look at Israel is to see that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob keeps his promises", he said. The songs of the land and the people of Israel were the anthems of my youth. "It's really the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president to a president who cares so deeply for our most cherished ally".
