Christians are pushing Trump to free a path to Israel to annex the West Bank
Evangelical Christian leaders who have delivered votes to President Trump are now pressing him to declare that Israel can claim the ownership of the West Bank, on the basis of a promise that God has done to the Jews in the Bible.They are looking for a way to open a path to the annexation of the territory which is widely considered internationally as intended for a future Palestinian state. Israel has seized the territory as part of a war between it, Jordan, Egypt and Syria in 1967 and has since occupied it. In recent years, the right minister's right government Benjamin Netanyahu has encouraged Jewish settlers to build houses there at a growing pace.The main evangelical supporters of Mr. Trump are increasing a multiple approach to put pressure on the president - by appearing in Israel, pre...