director's message

- director's message
dear friends,
 
With Israel’s miraculous June 1967 victory, the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount once again returned to the hands of the Jewish people. In a matter of just a few fateful days, the barbed wire and barricades that cruelly divided the city, the foreign flags that mockingly flew from its walls and the Arab guns that menaced Israel, were all swiftly swept into the ashcan of history. The widowed city that was destined to sit alone, would now remain in solitude no longer, as its children ecstatically returned home. For people of faith worldwide, the return of Jerusalem changed it all. 

The Arab nations, their Third World supporters and those rogue regimes that hate western democracy, never desist from their dreams of clutching Jerusalem once again. Barely a week has passed in the last half-century where there has not been an international effort to seize God’s treasured city away from its rightful inhabitants and to reverse this fulfilled biblical prophesy. From all quarters of the globe and in the worldwide forums the demand is relentlessly voiced that Israel must cede this territory to the Palestinians and the holy places must be returned to the Islamic trust (wafq). Over and over again we are warned by the extremists and their representatives in the U.N. agencies that Jerusalem is “occupied”, that the Jews are “trespassers without any historic ties” and the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem is a “crime against humanity.”  

“a global network of lawyers and jurists are needed to defend Jerusalem against those who would deny Israel’s historic, religious and moral rights to the Land”

A central component of the battle for Jerusalem today plays out in courtrooms around the world. What Israel’s enemies could never achieve through their violence they are attempting to accomplish through the international tribunals. Accordingly, a global network of lawyers and jurists are needed to defend Jerusalem against those who would deny Israel’s historic, religious and moral rights to the Land. The government and elected officials of Israel must be urged and encouraged to never tire, never retreat, nor compromise on Jerusalem.
 
It is my honor and privilege to head a coalition of legal activists who are determined that Jerusalem will remain eternally under Israel’s control and that all people of faith will be free to go up and worship there. All the gates of the city must remain open and all the holy places must remain accessible and free.  
Jerusalem is truly the birthright of Israel and must be secured as its reunified capital city forever. We need your support to continue the legal struggle for the Holy City. 
 
Join with Defend Jerusalem and help us to reestablish the promised biblical Kingdom on earth. 
 
Please be a guardian, stand together with us and place Jerusalem above your chiefest joys! 
 
With love of Israel, 

Jeffrey Schwartz, Esq.

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