By Steve Bryan
“The people of Israel and the land are one. Bless the people and the land will yield blessings to the world. Cut off the Israeli people from the land and the land will not prosper” (Dr. Alveda King, Founder of King for America.)
“The very idea that Barack Obama would endorse the Palestinian position by saying the border lines should be rolled back to where they were in 1967 is almost laughable,” chided Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, “Apparently, our great country is saddled with a milk-toast president who with all his degrees, and accomplishments doesn’t understand the very basics of the importance of ensuring Israel is able to protect herself.”
Day and King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, were commenting on the US President’s May 19, 2011 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in which he said Israel-Palestinian negotiations should start from pre-1967 borders and include land swaps.
The pro-life activists were quoted in Jerusalem on May 19, 2011 while on pilgrimage in Israel. “For decades, Americans have taken comfort in knowing that we are Israel’s ally,” said Dr. King, who serves as associate and pastoral director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, “How can we pray for the peace of Jerusalem if we move to deny them and the world the rights to weep at the Wailing Wall and be freely refreshed in River Jordan?”
“The Palestinians don’t want peace,” Gardner pointed out. They want to destroy Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu, he said, has every right to reject this proposal from the Obama Administration.” He offered an illustration. “Consider how we as US Citizens would react if it were proposed that our borders should be redrawn with us surrendering our entire eastern seaboard to a country such as Iran.”
While maintaining strong support in the minority community, President Obama’s numbers have been slipping according to recent Gallup polls. However, neither King nor Gardner were part of the 95 percent support from the black community President Obama enjoyed in the 2008 election.
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