By Chris Mitchell, Breaking Christian News—
From Iran to Saudi Arabia and beyond, US President Donald Trump has put his stamp on the region. (Photo: PM Netanyahu, President Donald Trump/via CBN News)
Perhaps the most dramatic decision, acting where other presidents had not, was moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
“What a glorious day. Remember this moment. President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Middle East analyst and author Jonathan Spyer called it a “bold move.”
“The decades of talk about that and then, frankly sort of empty talk, suddenly it happens. That’s a very bold move that I think has, you know, again really changed the whole, sort of basics, you know, topography in some way of the Israeli Palestinian situation,” Spyer told CBN News.
That move strengthened the US-Israeli relationship that suffered under the Obama administration.
Israeli Minister of Diplomacy Michael Oren said the Trump administration has strengthened the Jewish State.
“Many of us grew up in a world of Pax Americana, and we felt safe under those great eagle wings of the United States of America, and those wings have been a fluttering away. How shall I say recently? And we feel now that they’re back. And it gives us strength. It gives us strength sometimes to even be—to be conciliatory. Israel needs that behind,” Oren said.
The next step: Isolate Iran by pulling out of the questionable nuclear deal. Continue Reading….