Your historic victory on November 2nd has been correctly defined as a victory for moral values over moral relativism amd the renewal of America's commitment to the eradication of global terrorism and its support structure. 

 It is hardly coincidental that your 3.6 million vote majority tallied almost precisely with the 4 million Evangelical Christians who turned up at the polls after being marked absent four years earlier. In a race that focused so pointedly on the sanctity of unborn life, the viability of the institution of marriage and the credibility of America's response to the severest challenge it has faced in more than half a century, their willingness to brave long lines, soaking rains and malfunctining voting machines in order to make their voices heard bore eloquent testimony to the importance of the issues at stake.

There are 120 million Americans -- one-third of the U.S. population -- who identify themselves as Evangelical or born-again Christians  It is this same constituency, standing sentinel over the moral and anti-terrorist precepts that defined the 2004 campaign, which has also registered its profoundest opposition to the creation of an Islamic state within the Land of Israel.

 As you are personally aware, these are Christians whose reverence for God's word and his promises prefigure virtually every aspect of their daily lives. High on the list of those promises was God's pledge to Abraham and his children of the Land of Israel as an eternal legacy  That pledge has never been disavowed.  We were privileged to witness its renewal 56 years ago, when after an absence of 1,900 years, the children of Abraham reclaimed their patrimony, reestablishing Israel as the only functioning democracy in the Middle East.                 

Since its inception, that tiny outpost of liberty has been a fixed target of the darkest forces stalking civilized humanity.  In a world that would see it cashiered for the price of a barrel of oil, Israel has but one ally -- the United States -- and the soul of that alliance is the Evangelical community.

That community's overwhelming rejection of a sovereign Islamic entity with deep-rooted terrorist connections implanted in the soil of Israel has been underscored in the results of a national internet referendum initiated by Global Israel Alliance in partnership with New York-based Americans For A Safe Israel.  Featured on the website  www.globalisraelalliance.com, it has since July afforded Christians the opportunity to vote in favor or against the establishment of a PLO state in Israel. By a ratio of nearly 100 to 1, the tens of  thousands of respondents to the referendum to date have declared themselves categorically opposed to the creation of such a state. 

Mr. President, we joyfully share in the celebraton of your victory on November 2nd.  At the same time, we implore you not to sully the moral content of that victory by embracing a course of action certain both to imperil the security and strategic integrity of Israel and the credibility of America's continuing assault on terrorism.  America will need a strong, territorially viable Israel at its side to win that war, not an Israel tendered as a sacrifice to forces sworn to its destruction. The choice before you could not be more clear.

Respectfully, 

Bill Mehlman