{"id":523441,"date":"2026-07-03T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/523441\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:29:08","slug":"mike-huckabee-faith-and-freedom-america-and-israels-common-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/523441\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee: Faith and freedom, America and Israel’s common thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of 56 extraordinary patriots gathered in Philadelphia and did something the world had never seen: they risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to declare that freedom is not a gift from government \u2013 it is a birthright from God.<\/p>\n

In the immortal Declaration of Independence, our founders proclaimed the then-radical idea \u201cthat all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those words didn\u2019t just launch a nation. They launched a revolution of the human spirit that is still reverberating across the globe. As President Donald Trump has said, \u201cWith a single sheet of parchment and 56 signatures, America began the greatest political journey in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing here in Israel, I am reminded every day that America\u2019s founding ideals and the Jewish people\u2019s ancient values are not parallel lines \u2013 they are intertwined. We must recognize that America\u2019s founding ideals did not emerge from thin air. Rather, they derive their wisdom from the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as revealed to man in the Hebrew Bible, the moral architecture of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

The founders were, after all, steeped in Scripture. They drew from the Exodus story a model of liberation from tyranny. They borrowed from the Hebrew concept of justice as described in the Laws of Moses \u2013 the conviction that law must be grounded in a higher moral order.<\/p>\n

\"AA 1784 painting by Charles Willson Peale titled \u2018George Washington at the Battle of Princeton.\u2019 (credit: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS)<\/p>\n

In George Washington\u2019s famous 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, he affirmed that the United States would give \u201cto bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance\u201d \u2013 a promise rooted in the same Judeo-Christian heritage that shaped the Declaration of Independence itself.<\/p>\n

As we mark America\u2019s 250th birthday<\/a>, I find myself reflecting on what it means to represent the United States in Israel \u2013 a nation that understands, perhaps better than any other, what it costs to be free and what it means to fight for survival. The American and Israeli stories are different in some ways, but we share a common thread: the unshakeable conviction that liberty is worth defending, and that a people rooted in faith and purpose can accomplish the impossible.<\/p>\n

From founding ideals to a new era of power<\/p>\n

This milestone also reminds us that the American experiment \u2013 our pursuit of a more perfect union \u2013 is a living story, continually shaped by the hard work of generations of Americans at home and abroad. It is shaped by diplomats and soldiers, by teachers and entrepreneurs, by industrious souls who crossed oceans for a chance at something better. America\u2019s story is never finished. That is its genius.<\/p>\n

Under President Trump\u2019s vision<\/a>, we are forging new partnerships, championing innovation, and defining a new era of American power that will carry us forward for the next 250 years. The United States remains what it has always been: a trusted, dynamic partner, ready to lead \u2013 not from a place of nostalgia, but from a place of renewed confidence and purpose.<\/p>\n

These 250 years comprise the story of our nation \u2013 our glorious heritage and our proud destiny. The values enshrined in our declaration are as urgent today as they were in 1776. So we invite you to celebrate with us \u2013 not merely as observers of history, but as participants in it. Attend a US Embassy event near you, share what freedom means to you, and join Americans around the world in recommitting to the ideals that have guided us for two and a half centuries. If history is any guide, the next 250 years will carry us to achievements we cannot yet imagine.<\/p>\n

Happy 250th Birthday, America. The best is yet to come.<\/p>\n

The writer is the US ambassador to Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of 56 extraordinary patriots gathered in Philadelphia and did something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,46,18264,1034,43,1032,64274],"class_list":["post-523441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-us","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-us-israel-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}