MK Amit Halevi (Likud) responded to US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller's criticism of Israel's construction in Judea and Samaria.
Earlier this month, Miller published a statement saying that, "The United States is deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s reported decision to advance planning for over 4,000 settlement units" in Judea and Samaria.
On Wednesday morning, Halevi said, "First of all, I would like to wish from here, from Jerusalem, to our American friends, peace and health and a complete lack of tirade and discomfort."
Quoting Psalms 122:6, he added, "'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.' Our friends, the lovers of Jerusalem deserve peace and not tirade."
"This concern of the US government regarding our journey towards resettling our land, is a very strange thing to witness," he added, noting that, "a person should be concerned when something doesn’t go well, when the road goes wrong, when bad things happen around him."
"The US government should be concerned, but from a whole other thing. The US government should be concerned by the threat to world peace that the Iranian regime poses. The US government should be concerned by a radical regime whose radical vision threatens human freedoms, which, like the Nazi regime at the time, declares its ambition to annihilate Israel. A regime that aims to subdue modern culture, in the name of a twisted faith; from their attempt to get a nuclear bomb, in order to continue to take over the region and then the entire world.
"The US government should be deeply concerned by the sharp rise of antisemitism in New York and in London, the two cities in which most anti-Semite incidents have been recorded. How did we get to such a quantity of anti-Semitic events, to such discourse on the social networks?
"The West should be concerned by the incitement to terrorism in the Palestinian Authority, by the formal and informal education system, which educates to kill Jews in the account books and through the logic presented in language questions, accompanied by the official price list that Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – ed.) has published in law in 2004 in which payment to terrorists is calculated according to the number of dead Jews."
Halevi noted, "When the State of Israel builds in Shiloh and Beth El, in Dotan or Jerusalem – then the people of Israel comes back to its homeland, the vision of the prophets is being fulfilled, you Americans certainly do not need any explanations about what Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Beth El and Shiloh are – these are, like dozens of other names of biblical cities, the names of cities and settlements in the USA. at your own country."
"When we return to Judea and Samaria, we bring back with us values of truth and justice to the world. When we return to Jerusalem and Hebron, we strengthen the pure faith in the world. Not a twisted murderous faith, but a faith based on good and moral. When we return to these valleys and mountains of our homeland, we stand at the forefront of the campaign of the free world, for the values of freedom and rationalism, against radical and dark Islam.
"It is clear to every American who ever read the Bible, in the Old Testament, and it is also true for every true Muslim, a Muslim who is faithful and sincere about the things written in the Koran more than once and state that this land belongs to the Israelites.
"The front line of justice and freedom is here in Hebron and in Jerusalem. If Israel does not hold these places, if it does not build a strong national home of faith, truth and freedom in them, then the entire Western civilization will be in danger.
"It is not an obstacle to peace, but the only way to bring long-lasting blessings and peace to the entire world."