America and Israel: A covenant, not a contract

The bond between America and the Jewish people did not begin with the creation of the modern State of Israel . It predates even the founding of our great country 250 years ago. This relationship has never been simply diplomatic. It is covenantal. Long before there was a United States, there was a people learning to govern themselves by the principles God gave at Sinai. The Puritan settlers read that story not as ancient history but as their own unfolding plot. In 1630, their leader John Winthrop