We Won’t Recognize Israel

Rebuttals…

“Whether they [Palestinians] like it or not, this is my territory. Zion is all ours. Whether you like it or not, you have to get used to the idea. I’m not forcing you, but trying to convince you. It is for our best interest—it is the mutual interest of Jews and Arabs to live together, and we have lived together.”

—Israeli Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin

“We [evangelicals] are very much of the understanding that if there had not been Judaism, there would not be Christianity. I don’t think the Jewish people fully appreciate this. We have no organic connection, for example, to Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and atheism. But we have absolute, total genetic DNA ties to Judaism…It is very easy to be supportive of the right of the Jews to have a homeland, and believe there should be security in that homeland.”

—Former US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, during a visit to Israel in August