PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release
January 21, 2025

CONTACT:
Dede Laugesen
[email protected]

 JOINT LETTER URGES PRESIDENT TRUMP TO REVERT TO POLICY OF HELPING ISRAEL DEFEAT HAMAS, NOT SAVE IT

Should be Among the Biden Policies “47” Rejects

WASHINGTON, D.C.— After his inauguration yesterday, President Donald Trump spent his first hours back in the White House repudiating many of the disastrous policies Joe Biden promulgated during the nation’s 46th presidency. In a joint letter sent today, a group of American patriots has urged him to add to that list one such policy that, unless promptly reversed, will likely do enormous harm to America’s preeminent ally in the Middle East, Israel, and to Mr. Trump’s and our country’s longstanding commitment to her security.

After congratulating the forty-seventh president on his return to office, the group of thought- and faith-leaders, subject matter experts and national security practitioners offered strong arguments for President Trump to make a course-correction with regard to the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that the Biden team structured and his personal emissary, Special Mideast Envoy-designate Steven Witkoff, helped impose on the government of Israel. These include the following:

The deal as it stands will mean victory for Hamas, defeat for Israel and another war in a matter of years, at most….In fact, [it] was purposefully structured to embody the Biden administration’s efforts to leverage Israel’s desire for the return of her hostages to force on the Jewish State major strategic concessions to Hamas that leave her weakened and locked into a failed peace process that prioritizes establishing a Palestinian state over expanding the Abraham Accords.

The problem of the outgoing administration was not weakness in implementing good deals, but that they sought bad deals that inherently undermined U.S. interests.

Strong allies can defend themselves and help us reduce our regional footprint. Weakened allies require constant help and demand endless American involvement. The Biden administration preferred the latter to control our allies to force them into appeasing our regional enemies.

The foundations of an America First policy are the most important to successfully establish. It is thus imperative that your administration enter the White House free of the policies and agreements deliberately designed by the outgoing administration to drive a wedge between the

United States and Israel and to shackle your administration in order to prevent it from realizing its far more powerful and grounded regional foreign policy based on strong, victorious, self- reliant and burden-carrying allies.

In short, the Gaza ceasefire deal, and what would flow from it, are not compatible with: your past, extraordinary and highly successful leadership in fostering a genuinely more peaceful Middle East; your campaign promises to help Israel be victorious over her enemies and ours; or the policies of your incoming administration as described in recent days by key subordinates like National Security Advisor-designate Mike Waltz, Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth.

The Victory Coalition applauds the signatories of this joint letter and encourages our new President Donald Trump to demonstrate afresh the quality of his leadership ability by adjusting policy direction when presented with compelling evidence of the need to do so.

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CONTACTS:
To interview representatives of the Victory Coalition or the joint letter’s signatories, contact Dede Laugesen at [email protected]

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