Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered the keynote address at the Celebrate the Faces Israel event at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem.
The Governor spoke about his long track record of support for the U.S.-Israel alliance throughout his time in public service and laid out his vision for the region’s future and America’s role in the world.
“Throughout two thousand years of exile in dispersion of the Jewish people, the bond between the Jewish people in this holy land was never severed. Both the Balfour declaration and the British mandate recognize the historic connection of the Jewish people with the land of Israel and acknowledge the compelling basis for reconstituting their national home right here in the Holy Land,” DeSantis.
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“Nevertheless, when David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern state of Israel seventy-five years ago, he did so knowing that the odds were long,” DeSantis said.
“How could a ragtag group of sabras, refugees and holocaust survivors possibly prevail against powerful Arab armies determined to snuff out the Jewish state in its infancy? The odds were about as long as the odds that a young shepherd boy armed with rocks and a slingshot could slay a giant. But just as David defeated goliath, the newly minted Israelis beat the odds, won their independence, and preserved their right to self-determination.
“Israel’s victory meant the long-standing dream had become reality- a national homeland for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. Now Winston Churchill noted, the establishment of the Jewish state was “an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand, or even three thousand years.”
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