After witnessing Hamas’ atrocities, my support for Israel is unshakable

As you might know, I have always been a strong supporter of Israel. I recently had the opportunity to join 249 other legislators from across the country — the largest ever delegation — to visit Israel.

My strong connection to the Holy Land grew even stronger on this trip, where we met face-to-face with victims of the Hamas-Palestinian massacre on October 7, 2023, when terrorists invaded the country, starting at the rural Be’eri kibbutz in the Gaza Envelope. Hamas terrorists threw grenades, fired shots, smoked out homes, and then killed 132 people. These were the very individuals who had been advocating for peace for decades, aiding Palestinian people with health care, food, and support. Despite that, they were brutally slaughtered.

Hamas terrorists led the charge into Israel, with Palestinians following their parade of terror — killing, raping, and looting. Brave residents of the kibbutz fought hard until the Israeli Defense Forces could arrive amid the chaos. Heroes saved hundreds, but still hundreds died. The heartbreaking stories of these families encapsulate the reality they have endured.

We then toured the site of the Nova music festival massacre, where 378 young partygoers were slaughtered. Survivors recounted stories of rapes and mutilations, of couples forced to watch each other’s murders by these savages, and of others hunted down and executed in cold blood.

In 2005, Israel decided to cede the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians so they could form their own government. Instead, the people of Gaza elected Hamas terrorists, who have since ravaged the area. Gaza could have been a place of prosperity and trade, but Hamas turned it into a terror state — using its own people as human shields, hiding in hospitals to frame Israel as the aggressor, and blocking 99% of food aid (most of which comes from Israel). What Hamas didn’t seize outright, it resold to its starving population at 300% markups — effectively murdering their own people through starvation.

By contrast, Israel goes out of its way to reduce civilian casualties, issuing warnings days before strikes through leaflets, text messages, and radio signals. Though this limits Israel’s military effectiveness, it preserves countless innocent lives. Hamas, meanwhile, built a 500-mile underground tunnel system for terror operations, making hostage recovery and troop safety nearly impossible.

During our trip, I spoke with people in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Samaria, Kibbutz Or HaNer, and beyond. Some told me how narrowly they escaped the Nova massacre; others described life under daily rocket fire. On our first day, we visited the Old City of Jerusalem — the deeply spiritual experience of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where our Lord was crucified and rose again. We prayed at the Western Wall and toured Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, a powerful reminder of the importance of memory.

We also met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visited the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, where even anti-Israel voices can be elected — proof of Israel’s commitment to free speech.

Our delegation traveled to Ofakim, where each state planted a tree in memory of victims of Hamas terror. We saw the yellow ribbons symbolizing the 48 hostages still in captivity. We dined with young people at Or HaNer kibbutz, witnessed Tel Aviv’s resilience under missile sirens, and learned of the sacrifices of IDF soldiers killed just the day before our departure.

We visited the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, SpacePharma, and the Tel Aviv Medical Center, where cutting-edge trauma care has lowered battlefield mortality rates to just 6%. We ended in Samaria and heard from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, closing with one last walk on the beaches of Tel Aviv.

This journey reaffirmed my unwavering support for Israel. This war can end immediately if Hamas releases the 48 hostages and renounces its extremist rule. As an American of Sephardic Jewish descent, this trip felt like a reconnection to my roots and reinforced the critical road ahead: standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel in its fight for survival.

We must continue advocating against Hamas’s propaganda and lies, which manipulate statistics and fake images to spread hate. Having seen the evidence firsthand, spoken to the people, and reviewed the facts, there is no way any reasonable person could support Hamas or its vision of “Palestine,” which seeks to wipe Israel off the map.

I will not be silenced, nor will I abandon my biblical belief that the Jews are God’s chosen people. We must stand with Israel, no matter the onslaught of hate. God bless the United States, and God bless Israel.

P.S. An interesting fact: over 700,000 Americans live in Israel — more than in any other country — according to Ambassador Huckabee. Supporting Israel is not only standing with our greatest ally but also standing with hundreds of thousands of fellow Americans.

To view these photos from this trip on Facebook, please see this post linked here.

State Rep. John Block represents the 51st District in the New Mexico House of Representatives located in Alamogordo. John is also the founder and editor of the Piñon Post, New Mexicos #1 conservative online news publication.

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29 thoughts on “After witnessing Hamas’ atrocities, my support for Israel is unshakable”

  1. If you don’t understand that Israel IS Hamas, you don’t understand how evil Netanyahu and his government really are. I’m so sick of people saying “I stand with Israel” but you don’t even know who they are. The geo-political country that calls itself Israel is absolutely not the ancient people group called Israel (or the Israelites) in the Bible. Do a deep dive. Really read your Bible and realize that the 12 tribes were scattered, destroyed, enslaved, and corrupted. The nation-state we call Israel was created in 1948 and has nothing to do with the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    Furthermore, I’d like to know why 250 individuals from the US thought it was a good idea to take a vacation to Israel on my tax dollars?!

  2. Congrats on your sanitized vacation to modern Israel. First the modern state of Israel was founded by the Rothchilds banking family , the same ones who own our “federal reserve “ . Zionism is a political movement founded by Theodore Hertzl in the late 1800s and has no connection to the Bible but does advocate for world domination by Jews. Second, it’s a fact that modern “Jews” have almost no semitic blood and the vast majority are “settlers” from Poland , Russia, Germany, etc. i noticed your trip didn’t include a trip to Gaza talking to Palestinians who’s homes have been leveled and their children murdered or maimed because 2 year olds can be Hamas terrorists too! As for the 750,000 “Americans “ living in Israel, well they hold dual citizenship like most of our Congress. If they get into trouble here Americas best friend and ally hasn’t any extradition treaty with our best friends in the Middle East. Well your political star should be rising now that you’ve pledged your fealty to a foreign country . Perhaps you can move to Kentucky or Georgia where the representatives there are on their way out since they don’t take bribe money from gods chosen!

  3. “I stand with Israel” is the name of the largest money-laundering scheme going. Our taxes go to Israel. Israel buys our politicans. How many representatives from New Mexico are funded by Israel? Only a handful of politicians in the United States are not directly bought by the throne room of Satan. When will this end?

  4. Not sure why the “reply” button doesn’t work. Support for genocide is disgusting. I don’t care that the “left” calls it genocide while the right is fooled into thinking Israel can do no wrong.

  5. Artemis and Norton. I am slowly waking up to what you both state. Where can I find evidence showing your words to be factual?

  6. i only have a few words to say. You are a traitor and an idiot to support genocide. The evidence is all over the place, you just have to look, and not use google which is a joke. I would also say you are a whore for taking money and being a puppet. You have no business supporting israel, This is America. If you want to support israel, go move there and resign. You should be impeached and put in prison for treason.
    Where was your trip to Gaza to see starved and injured and dead men women and children?
    Thank you Artemis and Norteno.

  7. There’s a plethora of information on the internet about what took place on the creation of Israel. First read about the Balfour declaration then look at all the players. The banking house of Rothschild exists today in the City of London but their tentacles are worldwide to include the US federal reserve installed by chicanery in 1913 which is neither federal nor does it have any reserves. It is a private Jewish owned bank. As for dual citizenship, it’s common knowledge that Jews have automatic citizenship in Israel if they want it. Congress just put out a list at the request of congressman Massie about dual citizens in congress. All these are easily found facts if you have the gumption to want to find truth.

  8. Susan Noel — first read the Bible. And do not proof-text verses to make them say what you want them to say. God made a covenant with Abraham, not with the Children of Israel. The Israelites did not exist yet. If you are a Christ-follower, and have received His gift of salvation, you are part of the New Covenant brought about with Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. As for Hamas, just yesterday I saw a short video with Matt Gaetz on Fox News. In the video, he stated there is evidence that Israel is paying Hamas $30 million per month. Also, some Israeli troops are now confessing that Netanyahu sent “stand down” orders to the troops on October 7. He knew Hamas was going to slaughter his own people, and he told his troops not to do anything. Beside all the evidence, it should not be the function of the US to financially and militarily support Israel. It’s time we let the world fight their own wars. In regard to our New Mexico representatives going to Israel on our tax dollars, please don’t tell me you “care” or it’s our duty. You went because you were paid to go. You saw a make believe Israel. They were never going to show you nimrods the truth.

  9. Great video showing how October 7th was an Inside Job!

    October 7 was an Inside Job (55:55)

    https://odysee.com/@ConspiraciesFromCatholicPerpective:2/October-7-was-an-Inside-Job:9?lid=9b63feff8fad1fe7c082c37cb02e669ab53a48e7

    Take a 8 minutes to educate yourself from a person who worked with the distribution of food in Gaza about how Israel is STARVING the Palestinians.

    Former U.S. Special Ops: What I Saw in Gaza

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpkZNAFwkc

  10. 600 Years after Christ was crucified, a psychotic raider of Caravans, a psychopath, invented a ‘religion’ called Islam. He claimed the angel Gabriel appeared to him – while he lay on the floor in a Epileptic siezure – and gave him messages from a ‘god’ he called Allah. This pervert converted a few to his new ‘faith’, but because many would not accept, threats of death and rape and mutilation converted many. This CULT has spread world-wide in the 1,400 years since, by the Sword: rape, murder, genocide, pedophilia. This eternal JIHAD is against ALL Unbelievers, not just Jews. Hitler was influenced by their ‘holy’ book in his Mein Kampf, and his ‘final solution’ was the same as Mohammad’s: annihilate the Jews. This ‘holy war’ is against all unbelievers: Pagans, Christians, Gays, Atheists. This is the bottom line: This Jihad is happening today around the World, and is now within our borders, in Cities and States where massive populations of Muslims have been created Muslim ghettos and entire cities.
    Those commenting above ignoring these facts are either ignorant or are part of the Jihad and Enemies of America and Western Civilization.

  11. Sorry TIJERANDY, you are the one sleeping at the wheel. Take 1 minute and educate yourself.

    Ron Paul Explains How Israel Helped Create Hamas

    https://odysee.com/@ConspiraciesFromCatholicPerpective:2/Ron-Paul-Explains-How-Israel-Helped-Create-Hamas:7?lid=9b63feff8fad1fe7c082c37cb02e669ab53a48e7

    Then take 8 minutes and educate yourself some more about how Israel is starving the Palestinians.

    Former U.S. Special Ops: What I Saw in Gaza

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKpkZNAFwkc

  12. Gaza was the two state solution, it was largely Israel that brought it into reality, and it was Palestinians that destroyed it.
    An Israeli once told me, “I don’t hate Palestinians, I hate that I am forced to kill someone to stop them from killing me.”
    The U.N. established Israel in 1948 with the firm belief that it wouldn’t last more than a couple years on the outside, and then jews would by and large be wiped off the planet. Only the U.S. really cared about the survival of Israel. 77 years later the worlds political climate is largely unchanged, with roughly 90% of the world in favor of wiping Israel off the map. Because that’s what’s at stake with recognizing a Palestinian state.
    Palestinians are indoctrinated from birth to hate jews, but it’s not just Palestinians that are being indoctrinated, it’s a majority of the worlds population. To me, the reason’s for this indoctrination are clear, it’s easier to incite hate than love, once you have groups incited they are easy to manipulate. Right now we have a marriage of convenience between socialists/communists and radical islamics, both with objectives of world domination. Neither can achieve their goal militarily against western powers, so they must do it from within. The moment they were ever able to achieve their goal, they would turn on each other with every weapon of mass destruction they could get their hands on.
    President Trump is going to speak at the U.N. tomorrow, I’m putting the odds at 60% that he is going there to serve an eviction notice.
    The U.N. was created as an alliance of democracies to promote democracy around the world, it is now an alliance of totalitarian regimes promoting totalitarian regimes under the guise of world democracy.
    It’s time to stop the indoctrination, and start educating the world.

  13. Thank you, John Block, for standing with Irael, and John, for telling the truth about the Two-State Solution. Most of you in the Comments section have been spewing vile Leftist lies. Thankfully, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has seated Jesus Christ on the Throne of David. The nations of the Earth will rage, but they will be defeated.

  14. So many…terrorists. Israel needs to put out bounties. Truly. Mossad will be busy hunting these Pieces Of Shit. We need to bring back Crucifixion and crucify each and every one. Truly.

    Tick Tock, baby killers. Tick. Tock.😐

  15. Christian Zionists at the MOST retarded people in the world! God never supports these idiots. Look at how the Scriptures condemn Christ Denying Jews who they support with their blind support of Anti-Christ Israel.

    Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” (Gal. 3:7)

    “For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:26)

    “Know ye therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham… For you are all the children of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:7, 26)

    “And if you be Christ’s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.” (Gal. 3:29)

    “That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh [racial Jews], are the children of God; but they, that are the children of the promise [Catholics], are accounted for the seed.” (Rom. 9:8)

    “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.” (Jn. 1:11-12)

    “Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, who denieth the Father, and the Son.” (1 Jn. 2:22)

    “But their senses were made dull (Apostate Jews). For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void). But even until this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.” (2 Cor. 3:14-15)

    “And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.” (Mt. 27:25)

    “Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me: Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.” (Jn. 8:42-44)

    “(The Jews) Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;” (1 Thes. 2:15)

    “Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews;” (Acts 20:19)

    “Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven (Jesus) given to men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

    “And the field, is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom (Catholics). And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one (Non Catholics).” (Mt. 13:38)

    “Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.” (Jn. 7:13)

    “Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:10-12)

  16. Mr. Jackson, you seem to be well versed in the scriptures of the bible, but you also seem to know almost nothing ABOUT the bible, Jesus, or the history and politics of that time.
    Jesus was a Jew.
    Jesus criticized certain Jewish religious leaders for their actions and interpretations of the law, but he did not speak against the Jewish people as a whole. His teachings often emphasized love and compassion, and he identified deeply with the Jewish community.
    The versus you quote came from his followers after his death, and are not in line with anything Jesus taught.
    Jesus did not create any kind of organized religion, his followers did.
    His followers tried to capitalize on his popularity and his death.
    They saw no way of profiting monetarily or politically by continuing his teachings under the banner of the Jewish faith, so they branched off and started condemning Jews.
    All of the verses you posted came from Jesus’s followers, not Jesus.
    And all were politically motivated.
    Mathew, Peter and John all have more in common with Mohammed than with Jesus, and in some ways are responsible for the creation of Islam.
    You, like many other Christians, can quote bible verses left and right, but know little about your own religion.
    If you want to know more about Jesus, you must study Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, among others, because those are the philosophies that Jesus was exposed to and incorporated into his Jewish faith.
    Nothing exists in a vacuum, you must take context into account.
    The bible was compiled more than 300 years after Jesus’s death from selected scriptures that fit a narrative. It cannot truly be said to be the word of god. More accurately it is the selected word of god as transcribed by men, who at the time were trying to avert a religious civil war. The version you most likely have, The King James version, was edited again hundreds of years later to fit a different political narrative.
    What would Jesus do? He would say love thy neighbor as you love thy self.

  17. Amen!! Jim Jackson well said. The evangelicals have been deceived into worshiping a corrupt political, murderous state instead of Jesus Christ the redeemer of mankind through truth, love ,beauty and justice . The Scofield “Bible” that is used to deceive many was written and funded by Zionists to confuse people and justify their atrocious conduct against all men in the world today!

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