U.S. Presidents & Israel: A Blessing or a Cursing?

Woodrow Wilson: 1913 - 1921

Arthur James Balfour and Chaim Weizmann

The Balfour Declaration: November, 1917—Arthur James Balfour

His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine

of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best

endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . .

WOODROW WILSON: First U.S. President to

get behind Zionism

“How proud I am that because of the teachings

instilled in me by my father, it has been my privilege to restore the Holy Land to its

rightful owners.”

Louis D. Brandeis

• Supreme Court 1916

• Served until 1939

Warren G. Harding: 1921 - 1923

Warren Harding & Immigration

Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited Jewish immigrants and turned Jews

against him.

Anti-Semitism was rising in the 1920s.

Henry Ford: 1920

Calvin Coolidge: 1923 - 1929

Reed Johnson Act: 1924

Herbert Hoover: 1929 - 1933

“I have watched with genuine admiration the steady and

unmistakable progress made in the rehabilitation of Palestine…”

The Promised Land in Uganda?

• Aided Jews devastated by WWI and the pogroms

• Supported Jewish State

• Supported rescue of Jews from Holocaust

Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933 - 1945

Jeremiah 16 warning

• “Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.”

Exposed Roosevelt’s abandonment of the Jews: 1967

In office one week and first concentration camp opened: Dachau

May 1939: 900 German Jewish refugees sent home on St. Louis

Yalta Conference: February, 1945

What about bombing the railroads to the concentration camps?

“Such an operation would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our

resources.”--Roosevelt spokesman

Harry Truman: 1945 - 1953

Sgt. “Eddie” Edward Jacobson

Chaim Weitzmann & Harry Truman: 1947

Truman on May 14, 1948:“One of the proudest days of my life occurred at 6:12 p.m. on Friday, May 14, 1948, when I was able to announce recognition of the new

state of Israel by the government of the United States. In view of the long friendship of the

American people for the Zionist ideal, it was particularly appropriate that our government should be the first to recognize the new state.”

Truman’s burden: Jewish refugees—80,000 Jewish refugees entered U.S.

War of Independence

• U.S. State Department wanted no

involvement.• U.S. would not

arm the Jews.

War of Independence: On their own

• Air Force of 9 obsolete planes

• Ben Gurion: We only have a 50-50 chance of survival.

Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953 - 1961

Eisenhower years:

• Called the coldest years in Israel-U.S. history including the Carter years.

• Israel’s socialism bothered Eisenhower.

• The Arabs offered “containment” of Communism.

John Foster Dulles

“The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to Congress through influential Jewish people in America.”

“Jewish influence dominates the scene…”

February 2, 1957

• Eisenhower joined with 75 other nations in the UN General Assembly in passing a resolution "deploring"

Israel's occupation of Sinai.

John F. Kennedy: 1961 - 1963

Joseph Kennedy

March, 1956:

Sen. John Kennedy: “It is time that the nations of the world, in the Middle

East and elsewhere, realize that Israel is here to stay; she will not surrender, she will not retreat, and we will not

let her fall.”

John Kennedy & Golda Meir

Israel’s friend: Robert Kennedy

Kennedy’s Focus: Gamal Abdel Nasser

John F. Kennedy Memorial, Jerusalem

Lyndon B. Johnson: 1963 - 1969

LBJ’s Grandfather:

“Take care of the Jews, God’s chosen people. Consider them

your friends and help them any way you can.”

1945: Dachau

• Shaken• Stunned• Bursting with

overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror

A Righteous Gentile

Lady Bird: “Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, ‘I

wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for Lyndon Johnson. He helped me

out of Europe.’”

Johnson & the Six Day War: Neutrality

The war could have been avoided if

America and NATO had warned Egypt and Syria against

aggression.

America benefited with defeat of Egypt and Syria

Following Six Day War

• Lyndon Johnson urged Israel to

keep all territory it had won. That kept

secret.

Richard M. Nixon: 1969 - 1974

Golda Meir and Richard Nixon

Golda Meir to her American sister:

“If it hadn’t been for Richard Nixon, Israel would have been destroyed” (in the 1973 Yom

Kippur War).

U.S. – Soviet Conflict

• U.S. Sixth Fleet and Soviet fleet nearly engaged in a battle as U.S.

warned Russians to stay out of the war conflict. WWIII could have ensued. Soviets backed down.

Henry Kissinger

Gerald R. Ford: 1974 - 1977

Gerald Ford: December, 1974:

“….Israel will not negotiate with the PLO. Negotiations between Israel and the Arabs should be quid pro quo. If

Israel gives something up, she should get something in return.”

Gerald Ford in 1976

“I cannot conceive America selling out Israel.”

Jimmy Carter: 1977 - 1981

Camp David Accords: March 1979

SHAH OF IRAN

Ayatollah Khoumeini: 1979

2007

Good friends: Carter & Arafat

Ronald Reagan: 1981 - 1989

Reagan and Soviet Jews

The Soviet Union treatment of the Jews was a primary reason Reagan called them

“the evil empire.” He was burdened by

Soviet Jewry.

Yitzhak Shamir: This is the best administration we have worked with.

George H.W. Bush: 1989 - 1993

Persian Gulf War: Israel attacked January 1991

Tel Aviv Struck: January 1991

Bush, James Baker, closed dialogue with PLO

Bill Clinton: 1993 - 2001

Rabin, Arafat, Clinton: September, 1993 – Oslo Accords

Clinton, Arafat, Ehud Barak: July, 2000

Camp David, 2000

“Arafat’s rejection of my proposal,

after Ehud Barak accepted it, was an

error of historic proportions.”--Bill Clinton

ARAFAT IN 2000

George W. Bush: 2001 - 2009

George W. Bush & Palestine

• Wanted Palestinian State by 2005

• Came up with “Road Map for Peace”

• Endorsed disengagement from Gaza

Secretary of State: Condi Rice

Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel: 2004—Bill Koenig

Gaza Withdrawal

Land for peace leaves

Israel in pieces . . .

Barack Obama: 2009 -

Ingrid Mattson: ISNA

Islamic Society of North America

Part of inauguration festivities for Obama, 2009

Mahmoud Abbas

Cairo, June 2009

Compared suffering of Palestinians as comparable to the suffering of the Jews

during the Holocaust.

Israel Ambassador to U.S. Michael Oren

“Israel’s ties with the United States

are a crisis of historic

proportions.”--2010

Mohammed Elibiary

• Homeland Security Advisory Council: 2010

• His mentor: Ayatollah Khoumeni

• Supporter of Caliphate• Proponent of Muslim

Brotherhood.

The liberal Washington Post: “Obama is treating Benjamin

Netanyahu like an unsavory third world dictator.”

Barack Obama: 2011

“Israel’s Palestinian

partner is sincere in wanting a

peaceful settlement.”

Israel’s Knesset: November, 2012

“Israel can only rely on herself. Obama prefers the Arab world over the Western world, including Israel.”

(A response to his re-election)

Secret Negotiations with Iran: November, 2013 – P5+1

March, 2014

Obama states that the Palestinians do not have to recognize Israel’s legitimate

existence.

Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense

• Warns against Christian Zionists

• Calls them the “roadblocks to peace.”

John Brennan: CIA Director

• Converted to Islam

• Calls “Hezbollah” moderate

• Calls Jerusalem “al Quds”

Gaza War: Summer 2014

July, 2014

• Obama calls for an immediate,

unconditional ceasefire that will

leave Hamas’ rockets and attack

plans intact.

The Times of Israel: July 27, 2014

• Obama/Kerry intervention

empowers the terrorist

government (of Hamas) bent on

destroying Israel.

Gaza War

• Obama and Kerry offered Hamas $47 million to rebuild their terror network to further destroy Israel.

Netanyahu’s response to Obama- Kerry

NATIONS SENDING AID TO GAZA

Ynet News

This administration is closer today to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood or to

Iran, which encourage terror, than to Israel. This is an astonishing blindness, an abandonment of the West's leadership,

and a cultural decline at an inconceivable magnitude.

OBAMA AND ISIS/ISIL: CALIPHATE

• He uses the term ISIL as it includes the Levant which would mean the jihadists would also capture Israel and Jerusalem. That is part of the Levant.• Not just Syria and Iraq.

Jeremiah 31:31

• Pharaohs• Generals• Kings• Haman• Fuhrers• Mullahs• Ayatollahs• Presidents

Verses that warn . . .

Genesis 12:3: “And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who

curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth will be

blessed.”

Verses that warn . . .

• Joel 3: 1-2: God will judge nations for their treatment of My people and dividing up My

land….

Verses that warn. . .

• 2 Chronicles 20:29: And the fear of God was upon all the kingdoms of those countries, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel.

Zechariah 12:3

• It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.