Martin Luther King spoke out for Israel

It took courage to defend a people’s right to live in security and dignity when they were being terrorized. Dr. Martin Luther King didn’t just speak out for the civil rights of Americans – he did it for Israel, too. In 1967, he spoke up for the people of Israel shortly after their Arab enemies tried once again to destroy the Jewish State:

“Peace for Israel means security. It means that Israel must be protected and it means that the whole world must see that Israel exists and has the right to exist as one of the greatest outposts of democracy in the world.”

Today, there looms a new threat to Israel’s security and its democratic way of life: The danger that a terrorist state called “Palestine” — one committed to the destruction of Israel — will be created on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Last June, President Bush courageously declared the United States’ opposition to such a Palestinian state. Yet, representatives of the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and his own State Department are promoting a “road map” that would lead inexorably to the recognition of a state of Palestine — even if it had not met President Bush’s requirements that the Palestinian Arabs: “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by terror,” and embrace democracy and free- market economics.

The Center for Security policy has sponsored a new TV ad on Martin Luther King’s support for Israel. Click here to see it.