(Tel Aviv, Israel) — “Tell you what, if there wasn’t me, there would be no Israel right now”… Those were the words of President Trump in an interview on Wednesday.
I am a Jewish follower of Yeshua (Jesus). I live in Israel. When President Trump takes credit for the survival of the nation that God calls the “apple of his eye,” it’s very much within our mandate to respond.
Very respectfully, I want to say to the President of the United States: Mr. Trump, you’re wrong.
I understand the instinct. He moved the United States embassy to Jerusalem when every expert swore that it would set the Middle East on fire. It didn’t. He tore up a terrible Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran. He recognized the Golan Heights. He brokered the Abraham Accords. He brought the final Israeli hostages out of the Hamas dungeons in Gaza.
Trump has been the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House—and I say that with no asterisk.
But Israel doesn’t exist because of any man. Not President Trump. Not Prime Minister Netanyahu. Not Ben-Gurion. Not even King David. Israel exists because God says it will.
Empires that were supposed to last a thousand years are dust. Pharaoh is dust. Babylon is dust. Rome is a tourist attraction—a beautiful one. When other civilizations have tried to conquer this tiny nation, they have been the ones erased. Israel is still here. It stands with the same language, same prayers, and same resilient people. That is a promise being kept.
In Genesis, God made an everlasting covenant with the seed of Abraham. How long is everlasting? It’s forever!
In Exodus, God calls Israel His firstborn.
God isn’t looking for a partner to share His glory. He is looking for servants who understand whose hand—His hand—is really holding up the nation of Israel.
President Trump: be the friend and be the fighter. Keep doing what no president before you had the courage, the chutzpah, to do. But when the cameras are on, and you have the temptation to say, “it’s all about me,” give the credit back to the One it really belongs to.
I say all of that from the Jewish state, from Israel, the land that has outlived every man who has ever tried to claim it.
