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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/americas-biblical-roots/
American Jews Who Support Israel Stand for the Very Best of Our American Heritage and Values
(JNS) Amb. David Friedman - "Support for Israel is actually a quintessential American value. Indeed, the Bible, so much of which is predicated upon God's covenant to our forefathers to install, and then later to restore, the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, is foundational to the principles upon which America was founded....The values of the Bible are deeply infused within our foundational roots." "How did our founding fathers know which rights God considered unalienable? Our founders knew, because they all read the Bible. There can be no question that the American Republic was sculpted from the lessons of the Bible. Not surprisingly, all of the unalienable rights identified in the Declaration of Independence - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - find their home in the Bible." "Understanding America's biblical heritage also is to understand why the United States opened a consulate in Jerusalem in 1844, 104 years before the State of Israel came into existence....It is also to understand why almost every state in the union has cities and towns named after cities and towns in biblical Israel, from Bethlehem to Shilo to Bethel to Hebron to Jericho to Nazareth to Zion to even Jerusalem." Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman spoke on April 19 at Bar-Ilan University's Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies.