More than 25 members of parliament and congressmen from all over the world arrived in Samaria today (Sunday), together with the Parliamentary Lobby for Israel and the Foreign Relations Unit of the Samaria Regional Council, for a tour of Samaria and to express their support for the Jewish communities there.
Members of the parliament met with the head of the Samaria Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, and toured several points in Samaria.
Among the delegates was who participated was Alan Clemens, a senior Republican Party official and the person who removed the two-state solution from the Republican platform after touring Samaria more than three years ago.
During the event, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely criticized US President Donald Trump's decision not to transfer the American embassy to Jerusalem yet. "If you would really like to give peace a chance, move your embassy to Jerusalem in order to make sure that Jerusalem will never be divided; in order to make sure that Jews and Arabs can live peacefully together. Because, unfortunately, in the Middle East... terrorism is still here is not because they gave up on the idea of the peace process... it's because they would like to to remove Israel from the map of the Middle East."
Yossi Dagan, head of the SamariaRegional Council, said that "this visit proves that the words 'political isolation' are becoming irrelevant."
"We call on you to be our ambassadors in the world," he said. "We are pleased that Trump was elected, but we are not satisfied with the direction people in his administration are taking him in the context of Judea and Samaria. Unfortunately, he has received misinformation. Help us stop this fantasy that does not allow the construction of schools and kindergartens in Judea and Samaria."
Lawmakers from the US, Australia, Brazil, Guatemala, South Africa, Malawi, the Ivory Coast, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, and Lativa joined in Sunday’s event. A nine-member bipartisan delegation from the South Carolina State Legislature was included in the event.