My Letter to President Trump
#1293 October 27, 2025
Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington DC 20500
October 27, 2025
Dear Mr. President:
I’m a MAGA Republican grassroots American Jew who just mustered the chutzpah to write a letter of complaint to the President.
My hope is you don’t fully grasp the unjust double damage in your statement “Israel will not annex the West Bank,” denying our claim to our homeland’s core in the most delegitimizing pejorative terms. I ask you to watch Sec. Pompeo’s and Amb. Friedman’s DVD, Route 60: The Biblical Highway, which sold more tickets in American theaters than any other film the first two nights it was shown. Judea-Samaria is replete with Christian and Jewish revered sites, as well as making Israel defensible. As Speaker Johnson stated after you spoke, “Judea and Samaria belong to Israel.”
You commented Israel should heed the world’s view, the world that united not to save us during the Holocaust, when all nations stood up and deplored alas having no room for Jews. (See Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945.) The land of Israel is historically (three-millennia physical presence), legally (Palestine Mandate) and equitably (Palestinian Arab majority of ¾ of Palestine, judenrein Jordan) ours. We have to have it, secure and Jewishly meaningful, not a nine-miles-wide-in-the-lowland-middle Jewish national ghetto.
“Judea and Samaria,” Hebrew origin names, remained in use for 3,000 years, including by the UN itself in 1947. Jordan coined “West Bank” in 1950 for the same reason the Romans renamed defeated Judea as “Palestine” – to disassociate what had been Jewish from Jews. “Annexation” is taking over another country’s lands. “Applying sovereignty” to what’s ours is what’s going on. To be perfectly frank, Mr. President, what you did, after all you’ve done for us, was not only stab us in the back by denying our right to our homeland’s heartland. By using the pejoratives “West Bank” and “annex,” I’m saddened to say you twisted the knife. I beg you to reconsider.
Respectfully,
Jerome R. Verlin
President Trump’s February 6, 2026 reply to my letter:
Dear Jerome,
Thank you for taking the time to write to me about foreign policy in the Middle East.
In my first term, my Administration brokered a historic breakthrough in the Middle East – the Abraham Accords – which laid the foundation of stability in a region marked by centuries of conflict. We have built upon that incredible achievement since returning to the White House and are proving that nations across the globe can move beyond longstanding conflicts of the past.
I am proud to have led a significant peace agreement between the State of Israel and Hamas to end more than 2 years of profound suffering and loss, secure the full liberation of all hostages, deliver humanitarian relief, and open a new chapter for the region defined by hope, security, and a shared vision for peace and prosperity.
Now, we stand on the doorstep of one of the greatest diplomatic achievements in history, as Israel and Hamas have taken meaningful steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace. As President of the United States, I will continue leading with strength and resolve – and never stop working to end conflicts in every region and on every continent.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump
Admirable ambitions, but responsive to my plea for him to undo “Israel will not annex the West Bank”?