SHALOM AND GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU GARY FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION. I ALSO WANT TO THANK PASTOR HAGEE, WHOSE DEDICATION AND LEADERSHIP IS UNPARALLELED. I AM HONORED TO BE HERE WITH SUCH STRONG AND LOYAL FRIENDS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. I ONLY WISH MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN COULD BE HERE WITH ME TONIGHT TO SEE THE MORE THAN 5,000 CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL. FOR YOUR LOVE, FOR YOUR CARE, FOR YOUR COMMITMENT, FOR WHO YOU ARE AND FOR WHAT YOU DO - I WANT TO SAY TO YOU TWO WORDS IN HEBREW, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, TODAH RABAH!

I AM OFTEN ASKED WHAT IT IS THAT CONNECTS ALL OF US TOGETHER. YES, IT IS OUR SHARED VALUES. AND OF COURSE, IT IS ALSO OUR MUTUAL INTERESTS. BUT, IT IS ALSO SOMETHING DEEPER. IT IS THE BOOK, THE BIBLE, WHICH BINDS US TOGETHER AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

TAKE OUR OWN NAMES FOR EXAMPLE. MY WIFE NOA'S NAME COMES FROM THE BIBLE. SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO PETITIONED MOSES FOR THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO INHERIT THEIR SHARE IN THE PROMISED LAND.

MY NAME IS ALSO FOUND IN THE BIBLE. MY MIDDLE NAME, MOSES, DERIVES FROM MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WHO WAS MURDERED BY THE NAZIS. MY FIRST NAME, SALLAI, WAS THE NAME OF ONE OF THE FIRST JEWS TO RETURN FROM EXILE IN BABYLON TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. THESE TWO NAMES SYMBOLIZE TO ME BOTH THE DESTRUCTION AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. IT IS WITH THIS IN MIND THAT I PLEDGE TO YOU TONIGHT, NEVER AGAIN! ISRAEL IS HERE TO STAY, NOW AND FOREVER!

FINALLY, HERE WITH US TONIGHT FROM ISRAEL IS A CLOSE FRIEND NAMED RAHEL. IT WAS THE PROPHET JEREMIAH, WHO IN CHAPTER 31 TELLS THE STORY OF RACHEL, WHO WAS "WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN." THE LORD THEN REASSURED HER, SAYING, "KEEP YOUR VOICE FROM SORROW AND YOUR EYES FROM WEEPING … THERE IS HOPE FOR THEIR FUTURE. YOUR CHILDREN WILL COME BACK TO THE LAND WHICH IS THEIRS."

I COME TO YOU TODAY AS ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES TO TELL YOU, FRIENDS AND LOVERS OF ZION, THAT THE CHILDREN OF RACHEL INDEED HAVE RETURNED TO ZION AND THEY ARE FULFILLING JEREMIAH'S PROPHECY EVERY DAY IN "THE TOWNS OF JUDAEA AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM."

AT THE SAME TIME, UNFORTUNATELY, MY DEAR FRIENDS, THE ENEMIES OF ZION HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED AND THE CHILDREN OF RACHEL ARE ONCE AGAIN THREATENED.

ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES AND THE FREE WORLD ARE UNDER ATTACK BY EXTREMISTS WHO WANT TO DESTROY OUR VALUE SYSTEM AND OUR LIVES. THIS THREAT IS LEAD BY AL-QAEDA AND IRAN. WHILE THE TENTACLES OF THE IRANIAN OCTOPUS ARE SPREADING TERROR ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND GLOBE, THE HEAD OF THE OCTOPUS IS MOVING TOWARD A MILITARY NUCLEAR CAPABILITY.

THIS DANGEROUS COMBINATION OF TERRORISM, FANATICISM AND, GOD FORBID, A NUCLEAR CAPACITY IN THE HANDS OF ROGUE REGIMES AND TERRORIST GROUPS POSES THE SINGLE GREATEST THREAT TO THE WORLD SINCE THE 1930'S. IF WE LET THIS GENIE OUT OF THE BOTTLE TODAY, OUR CHILDREN MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES TOMORROW. WE MUST PREVENT THIS NIGHTMARE!

THE WORLD MUST ACT AND ACT NOW. THE UNITED STATES MUST BE UNITED IN THIS EFFORT AND THE WORLD SHOULD STAND TOGETHER WITH THE UNITED STATES. THE MADNESS OF FEEDING THE IRANIAN REGIME'S ECONOMY MUST END! TAKE FOR EXAMPLE EUROPE. 33% OF IRAN'S FOREIGN TRADE IS WITH EUROPE, WHILE IT IS LESS THAN 1% OF EUROPE'S TOTAL TRADE. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK THAT EUROPE GIVE UP LESS THAN 1% OF ITS TRADE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD?!? IRAN IMPORTS ALMOST 50% OF ITS GASOLINE. THE NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS DRIVE TO WORK ON IMPORTED GASOLINE! THIS MADNESS MUST END. AN INTERNATIONAL NORM HAS TO BE ESTABLISHED, WHERE A DECENT PERSON DOES NOT INVEST IN THOSE COMPANIES THAT FOR AN ADDITIONAL SMALL PROFIT ARE READY TO RISK THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN.

WE LOOK TO OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS' GENERATION AND ASK WHY HITLER WAS NOT STOPPED BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE. WE MUST NOT MAKE THAT SAME MISTAKE.

DEAR FRIENDS, THE STORY OF ISRAEL IS NOT ONLY ABOUT THREATS. IT IS ABOUT MEETING CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHING OVER EVIL. JUST LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED. 100 YEARS AGO, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. LESS THAN 70 YEARS AGO, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE ALMOST DESTROYED. AND TODAY WE HAVE A JEWISH STATE, A STRONG ARMY, VIBRANT DEMOCRACY, GROWING ECONOMY AND APROMISING FUTURE. THIS IS THE ISRAEL THAT YOU LOVE SO MUCH. THIS IS THE ISRAEL THAT YOU CARE FOR SO MUCH. AND THIS IS THE ISRAEL, THAT WITH YOUR SUPPORT, WILL FOREVER THRIVE!

MY FRIENDS, THIS YEAR WE MARK 40 YEARS SINCE THE REUNIFICATION OF JERUSALEM. I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE DAYS WHEN WE WERE PREVENTED FROM TOUCHING THE STONES OF THE OLD CITY. I STILL REMEMBER RECITING EVERY YEAR THE HOPE THAT "THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD SHALL RETURN, AND COME SINGING UNTO ZION, CROWNED WITH JOY EVERLASTING." I ALSO STILL REMEMBER THE JOYOUS DAY OF REUNIFICATION. AND HERE I AM, TONIGHT, TOGETHER WITH YOU, PRAYING FOR A JERUSALEM OF PEACE AND VOWING THAT OUR BELOVED JERUSALEM, OUR ETERNAL CITY, WILL BE THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL FOREVER AND EVER!

TODAH RABAH!