In 2024, they founded the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel to create a setting for leaders of Christian organizations to learn more about Israel and anti-Semitic tropes, take trips to the region, and start to police anti-Semitic outbreaks wherever they appear.
Israel is considered a high income country, according to the World Bank classification system. There are 46 high income countries that received aid, getting 12.4% of US foreign aid provided to individual countries in FY 2024.
Israel reached a ceasefire with the designated terrorist group Hezbollah on June 19, following an intense flare-up in fighting overnight in Lebanon, a U.S.
Vice President J.D. Vance called out Israeli counter-signaling of U.S.-Iran negotiations, telling the country’s leadership that its popularity in the world has been diminishing and the United States, under President Donald Trump, is the “only powerful ally” Israel has left.
The president issued a statement calling for the attacks to stop after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck a five-story apartment building and shopping area in a suburb of Beirut on June 14.
The State of Israel lies at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, within the region known as the Middle East. The state was established in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people.
Israel is a country in the Middle East, located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of government and the proclaimed capital, although the latter status has not received wide international recognition.
While serving similar and different functions, none of these fortifications were wholly effective. Yet in December 2021, after three years of construction and $1.1 billion along a 40-mile frontier, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared this one a “wall of iron.”
Shortly after Israel’s Wednesday attack on the South Pars gas field, Trump posted to social media, “Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump wrote.
State Secretary Marco Rubio admitted Monday that the administration “knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” against Iran, and so Trump “made the very wise decision” to be the first to attack. In other words, our “closest ally,” Israel, a country that only exists because we fund its defense, forced us into war for its own interests.
How much has been provided to Israel? The United States has provided its Middle East ally with more than $155 billion since its founding in 1948 to improve its military’s capabilities, including about $4 billion a year since 2019.
When I finished reading Left Behind, I was fully convinced of the central role Israel played in God’s plan for the nations. I was only 15 years old, but my imagination had been captured. Israel, in my mind, was the ticking clock of prophecy.
Dig deeper: Read Elizabeth Russell’s report on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the conspiracy theory that Israel was behind the assassination of Kirk.
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