{"id":45639,"date":"2025-08-03T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45639"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:44:03","slug":"johnson-visits-jerusalem-after-israel-trip-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45639","title":{"rendered":"Johnson visits Jerusalem after Israel trip postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">House Speaker&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mike-johnson\/\"><u>Mike Johnson\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-La.) visited Jerusalem on Sunday after he previously postponed a trip to Israel earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson was seen in footage visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem and joining a group of House Republicans to meet with Israeli officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt is such a moving time for us to be here, to be here at the Wailing Wall. We\u2019ve offered our prayers, we\u2019ve put our notes into the wall, as is traditional and we\u2019re so moved by the hospitality of the people and the great love of Israel,\u201d Johnson said in a video posted to Instagram by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOur prayer is that America will always stand with Israel and that we will \u2014 we pray for the preservation and the peace of Jerusalem. That\u2019s what Scripture tells us to do. It\u2019s a matter of faith for us and a commitment that we have,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar shared a photo on social platform X of Johnson and other House Republicans including Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/michael-mccaul\/\"><u>Michael McCaul\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Texas) meeting in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe discussed the alarming global wave of antisemitism, including efforts by countries like Ireland to delegitimize Israel. I also described the horrific attacks against the Druze in Syria, the same kind of barbarism perpetrated by Hamas,\u201d Sa\u2019ar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gidonsaar\/status\/1952072008919093601\"><u>wrote<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5353053-speaker-johnson-speech-before-knesset-israel-iran\/\"><u>postponed a trip to Israel<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;back in June, when he was supposed to address the Knesset, due to the military conflict between Israel and Iran. Jewish Insider&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2025\/08\/house-speaker-mike-johnson-israel-visit-western-wall\/\"><u>reported<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Sunday that Johnson does not have plans to address the Knesset on his trip this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5434646-johnson-visits-jerusalem-after-israel-trip-postponed\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker&nbsp;Mike Johnson\u2002(R-La.) visited Jerusalem on Sunday after he previously postponed a trip to Israel earlier this year. Johnson was seen in footage visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem and joining a group of House Republicans to meet with Israeli officials. \u201cIt is such a moving time for us to be here, to be here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1239,2222,1878,605],"class_list":["post-45639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-johnson","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45641,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions\/45641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}