White House Chief of Staff Speaks against Israel's "Occupation" of the West Bank

Denis McDonough

Speaking at J Street’s fifth annual conference, Denis McDonough, the White House Chief of Staff, called Israel’s control of the West Bank “an occupation” that “must end” (“Obama’s Chief of Staff Fires up J Street,” Breitbart.com, Mar. 23, 2015). J Street “was founded to disrupt the close U.S.-Israel alliance and to serve as an alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel group.” Israel won control over West Bank and east Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, though it has withdrawn from most Palestinian towns and returned control of the Temple Mount to the Muslims. Those who consider Israel an illegal “occupier” of any part of that land don’t believe God’s eternal promise to Abraham and his seed, and the fact that Israel is willing to bargain any part of the Promised Land for peace is evidence of her continued apostasy. “And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever” (Gen. 13:14-15). “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God” (Gen. 17:8).

(Friday Church News Notes, March 27, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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