The bond between America and the Jewish people did not begin with the creation of the modern State of Israel. It predates even the founding of our great country 250 years ago. This relationship has never been simply diplomatic. It is covenantal.

A Shared Heritage

Long before there was a United States, there was a people learning to govern themselves by the principles God gave at Sinai. The Puritan settlers read that story not as ancient history but as their own unfolding plot.

Scholar Os Guinness documents the source of the American Revolution not in the libraries of Greece or the common law of England, but the Jewish idea of a people who choose, freely and morally, to be bound to one another and to God.

A Covenantal Relationship

Our founders repeatedly expressed admiration for the Jewish contribution to civilization. John Adams wrote, “The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation…. and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

The U.S.–Israel relationship does not begin with the intelligence-sharing, the joint military exercises, or the innovation Israel produces in water, medicine, and cybersecurity, though all of that matters enormously. It begins with our two nations, born out of the same audacious idea that people can covenant themselves to liberty and to law under God.

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