Netanyahu Announces Israeli Initiative to Protect Christians Facing Persecution, Islamic Terror Worldwide
“Just as you are helping us, we want to help back.”
Israel pledges to provide greater protection to Christian communities facing persecution and Islamic terrorism across the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a gathering of Christian leaders last Wednesday in Palm Beach, Florida.
Highlighting the plight of Christian minorities in Muslim-majority countries of Africa and the Middle East, Prime Minister Netanyahu unveiled an initiative to unite Christian communities worldwide.
“We are joining an effort to have basically a united nations of countries that support Christian communities around the world, beleaguered communities who deserve our help, just as you are helping us, we want to help back,” the Israeli Prime Minister said.
Israel would offer its expertise in intelligence and security to these embattled communities. “And we’re capable of doing this. In Africa, with intel, in the Middle East, with a lot of means that I won’t itemize each one,” he said, without specifying measures and methods, apparently due to security reasons.
Prime Minister Netanyahu met today with evangelical community leaders.
The Christian church and university heads congratulated him on his successful meeting with President Trump and for his steadfast position, as well as for the determined decisions he took, throughout the war. pic.twitter.com/5JkXU4rPxx
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 31, 2025
Expressing gratitude for the historic role Christians, and particularly Christian Zionists, played in the establishment of the Jewish State nearly eight decades ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to join forces in “our common Judeo-Christian civilization’s battle.”
The biggest threat to Christian communities came from two forms of radical Islam, notably the Shia-Islamic axis run from Iran and the Sunni axis led by the Muslim Brotherhood, Netanyahu said. Christians facing this twin threat “deserve our help, just as you are helping us, we want to help back,” he assured.
Yesterday in Florida, I met with leaders of the Evangelical community and Christian institutions.
We discussed our deep historic partnership and the shared fight for values, faith, and identity.
Terror must be confronted and defeated, not justified.
As they stand with… pic.twitter.com/JCY56ZMcUe
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) January 1, 2026
Here is an excerpt from the speech the Israeli Prime Minister gave to Evangelical leaders:
“You are representatives of the Christian Zionists who made Jewish Zionism possible. It’s hard for me to conceive of the emergence of the Jewish state, the re-emergence of the Jewish state, without the support of Christian Zionists in the United States, also in Britain, but the main thrust was in the United States in the 19th century.
So Christian Zionism facilitated the rise and success of Jewish Zionism. And it’s been an enormous partnership since then. (…)
We’ve fought, as you know, a seven-front war, and we’ve come out in many ways victorious, but there’s an eighth front, and that’s the front for the hearts and minds of people, especially young people in the West, and for me, especially in the United States, and for me, especially on the conservative wing of the United States.
I think it’s not just Israel’s battle. I think it’s our common Judeo-Christian civilization’s battle, and I think we have to engage in that battle, as forcefully, with as much resolution as we engage the other seven fronts. I think it affects not only Israel, it affects America, it affects our alliance, it affects the future of Western civilization. (…)
There are some people who believe that faith should be silent, and terrorism should be understood. No, faith should speak its voice, and terrorism should be confronted, not understood, confronted and defeated. And that is what we’re engaging right now. (…)
I see the battle against us and the battle against our Judeo-Christian tradition, basically being waged around the globe, and it’s waged primarily by two forces, radical Shiite Islam and radical Sunni Islam. That means the axis that is led by Iran, much battered, admittedly, but still there, and the Sunni axis led by the Muslim Brotherhood, which permeates everything. They go to Europe, they go to the United States, they go to Africa, Nigeria. And we are conscious of the fact that Christians are being persecuted across the Middle East, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Nigeria, in Turkey and beyond.
We’re also aware of the fact, as you are, that one country protects the Christian community, enables it to grow, defends it, and makes sure that it thrives, and that country is Israel. There is no other, None.
We are joining an effort to have basically a united nations of countries that support Christian communities around the world, beleaguered communities who deserve our help, just as you are helping us, we want to help back. And we’re capable of doing this. In Africa, with intel, in the Middle East, with a lot of means that I won’t itemize each one.
(Click here for the full transcript of the speech on the Israeli Prime Minister’s official website)
Benjamin Netanyahu says Christians in the Middle East and Nigeria should be protected.
"Christian communities are beleaguered around the world and especially in the Middle East and parts of Africa too. We stand for the same thing." pic.twitter.com/dEnEE7fcEo
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) December 29, 2025
Israel, surrounded by hostile Muslim-majority countries of North Africa and the Middle East, is the only place in that region where Christianity flourishes. While Christians in neighboring Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon are being driven out of their historic homes, Israel’s small Christian minority continues to grow, the official population census released in December showed.
Benjamin Netanyahu:
“And the Muslim militant displacement & attacks against the Christians in Nigeria; that too must end, & it must end now. To all our Christian friends around the world, know that Israel will always stand by you.” pic.twitter.com/aMHWzy2MlA
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) December 24, 2025
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Unspoken is the reality that EVERYONE of faith is in danger where Muslim shave a majority or a critical minority.
Not that non-believers are safe either; Islam is fine with killing and enslaving everyone else.
A dangerous and barbaric ideology masquerading as a religion.
Islamic hit list (my order)
– Pagans (Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Sikhism, Daoism, Confucianism)
– Jews
– Zoroaster and Druze
– Christians and Mormons
– Muslims of other sects
Not sure where atheism, agnosticism, and some of the other religions fall on the Tower of Death! If monotheistic probably with Zoroaster and Druze, Otherwise with the pagans,
I assume they would consider Scientology paganism.
Apostates of Islam would probably be #1 on the list.
That should be true but there are probably a zillion apostates and most are left alone. Only if you are high profile do they attempt to off you.
Top of the list will be LGBTQ++++++, then Jews, then atheists.
And, a lot of thanks the Jewish state will get for this.
IMO this is a bad idea. They seem to have set themselves up for failure. Some evil whackos start slaughtering a group of missionaries or some village of converts and Israel gonna get blamed for not providing proactive protection. Then there’s the aspect of this that many will call pandering to the evangelicals who fancy themselves as Zionists out of their interpretation that Israel must be supported. It will come down to how the Israeli govt PR is able to frame the effort, set limitations on what is to be reasonably expected (and what expectations are Cray Cray) all.while avoiding even the impression that they are seeking to shore up political/policy support or creating some litmus test in US politics, and in particular within the ‘right’. That’s a really tough needle to thread successfully.
Hopefully they can train and arm effective defense forces. My guess is that they will go for small elite mobile groups well-armed with the best small arms, a few crew served heavy weapons and drones for intelligence and remote attacks.
They may arm local militias as well. But they need an elite force to pursue and destroy the bases and core of the Islamic terrorist groups.
Whatever they do it is better than leaving the Christian populations defenseless in the face of repeated massacres and atrocities.
Maybe. Though the USA spent a lot of effort doing similar things in out of the way places in Africa during Cold War era and still has a much larger footprint in Africa than most understand. I guess I don’t get the need to make appeals for support based on religious grounds. Historically speaking there’s a lot bad examples of using religion as a pretext. ‘The X religion is attacking Y religion so we all gotta go/do/spend’ despite it being halfway around the world and not a direct National Security threat. If some nation or group of private individuals wants to fund a Foreign Legion style force to go play world police on behalf of a particular religious group have at it. I’m a hard pass on any new Crusades but everyone can and should decide whether they are willing to sign up for it themselves or if they’ll sit it out. I suspect most will not choose to personally join up and deploy themselves.
Civilization the world over faces the existential threat of Islam. And while I applaud Netanyahu’s words greatly, I disagree with his use of the word “radical”, meaning “to the root”. Taken together with the translation of the word “Islam” meaning “submission” do you see any room for “Islam light”? I don’t. It would be like asking me to reject the divinity of Christ. If I did that, I wouldn’t be a Christian, would I? I might be a Unitarian, though. 😛
(em)the establishment of the Jewish State nearly eight decades ago
You mean the re-establishment. Right?
Felgerkarb. Stupid virtual keyboard.
the establishment of the Jewish State nearly eight decades ago
Also, that’s one of the greatest moves he could make for Israel and for us.
Yes, it actually is Us against Them.
Of course its Us against Them. Islam is not the only Them, however. The Green-Red-Green alliance won’t last forever, but while it does, we’re in peril.
The most effective thing Israel could do would be to train and arm local self-defense, militias.
Too bad Nigeria has gun control
Smart move, and they also might want to consider granting asylum to some of these poor souls fleeing what may be turning into a new Holocaust. Western democracies acted shamefully towards the Jews trying desperately to escape destruction by the Nazis. Now the Israelis can demonstrate how a decent society should respond to the persecution of the faithful.