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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Home of Representatives immediately adopted a decision stating members’ help of Israel.
Home Decision 1037 is authored by Rep. Mark McBride, R-Moore; Home Speaker Professional Tempore Terry O’Donnell, R-Catoosa; and Majority Ground Chief Jon Echols, R-Oklahoma Metropolis.
“As a Christian, I merely should stand on the biblical basis that Israel is the apple of God’s eye – His chosen individuals,” McBride mentioned in a press launch despatched to The Metropolis Sentinel, CapitolBeatOK.com and different information organizations.
“Below the Abrahamic covenant, those that bless Israel will likely be blessed, those that curse her will deliver a curse upon themselves. This decision states that Israel has a proper to exist, and the Jewish individuals themselves have a proper to exist, and it condemns terrorism. I’m grateful for the help of my fellow co-authors and all those that voted in favor of this decision. I really feel nearly all of Oklahomans are in favor of this as nicely.”
The decision will likely be despatched to the members of Oklahoma’s congressional delegation asking them to signal on to the statements it accommodates and to help the nation of Israel throughout a time of adversity and hostile actions by a overseas energy. It needs to be famous that this decision was handed on the day in historical past when Israel declared statehood in 1948, fulfilling a 3,000-year-old prophecy from the Guide of Amos that God would deliver his individuals, Israel, out of captivity.
The decision partly reads: “We should stand united with Israel on this newest assault in opposition to their sovereignty and their proper to exist as a nation and for the Jewish individuals to exist. Israel is likely one of the United States’ staunchest allies. We should stand agency in condemning the hatred in opposition to this those who has led to their expulsion from nations throughout the globe for hundreds of years and to their bloodbath, together with the greater than 6 million Jews killed within the Holocaust beneath the Nazis.”
McBride mentioned he and the opposite authors of the laws had been spurred to motion by the newest assaults in opposition to Israel and Jerusalem that started Could 10, Jerusalem Day – a nationwide vacation that commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem after the Six-Day Warfare in 1967. Rocket assaults and fires have left a number of lifeless in Israel and surrounding areas.
The decision states that the Oklahoma Home of Representatives requires a restoration of peace in Israel and asks for prayers for the Jewish individuals and others concerned within the newest escalation of combating.
The decision additional states: “We stand immediately united in our help of Israel and the Jewish individuals and we bless them, and we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”
The decision handed the Home 61-15, with 25 members not voting. Copies will likely be distributed to every member of the Oklahoma congressional delegation.
NOTE: State Rep. Mark McBride, a Republican, serves District 53 within the Oklahoma Home of Representatives, which incorporates elements of Moore, Norman and Oklahoma Metropolis.
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