WASHINGTON – After 22 of years ready for a president to maneuver the United States embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it lastly occurred Monday.
President Donald Trump made good on one of his key marketing campaign guarantees, to the delight of each Israeli Jews and evangelical Christians world wide.
The historic transfer acknowledges Jerusalem because the true capital of the Jewish state.
Big day for Israel. Congratulations!
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
It occurred 70 years to the day that Israel proclaimed its independence, combating to reestablish a homeland for the Jewish individuals.
In his welcoming remarks on the embassy's official dedication ceremony, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman praised Trump for his daring determination.
"Today's historic occasion is attributed to the imaginative and prescient, the braveness, and the ethical readability of one individual to whom we owe a monumental and everlasting debt of gratitude, President Donald J. Trump," Friedman stated.
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Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner additionally spoke in a uncommon public look.
"We imagine it's potential for either side to realize greater than they offer so that each one individuals can dwell in peace, protected from hazard, free from concern, and in a position to pursue their goals," Kushner stated of the Israelis and Palestinians.
He additionally condemned the violent protests that broke out on the Gaza border in which dozens of individuals had been killed.
"As now we have seen from the protests of the final month and even immediately, these upsetting violence are half of the issue and never half of the answer," Kushner stated.
Among the evangelical leaders on the ceremony had been Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, and Pastor Robert Jeffress who opened the ceremony with a prayer.
"We come earlier than You, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, thanking You for bringing us to this momentous event in the life of Your individuals and in the historical past of our world," stated Jeffress.
He and plenty of evangelicals imagine this transfer aligns with God's will and what the Bible says about Israel: "I'll bless those that bless you, and whoever curses you I'll curse," God says to Abraham in Genesis 12:three.
Jeffress and Hagee each thanked God for the management of Trump.
"We thanks, O Lord, for President Donald Trump's braveness in acknowledging to the world a fact that was established three,000 years in the past, that Jerusalem is and all the time shall be the everlasting capital of the Jewish individuals," stated Hagee.
Hagee stated Israel has turn out to be "the lone torch of freedom in the Middle East" as a result of of God's "eternal love for the Jewish individuals."
“Jerusalem is the city of God, Jerusalem is the heartbeat of Israel, Jerusalem is where Abraham placed his son on the altar,” he continued. “Jerusalem is where Messiah will come and establish a kingdom that will never end.”
For those that "curse" Israel, Hagee had a clear message.
"Let the phrase go forth from Jerusalem immediately that Israel lives. Let each Islamic terrorist hear this message: Israel lives!"
“Let the word go forth today that Israel lives,” Hagee stated, “because He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
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