Star Parker: "Let Obama's Trip To Israel Open Up His Eyes"

Miss Israel Yityish Aynaw will be on hand to help open President Obama's eyes

The conservative Republican commentator, who has recently returned from a trip to Israel, writes: "I saw a once-barren land — a land once described by Mark Twain as 'a desolate country....a silent and mournful expanse' — now fruitful and ripe. Everything the Israelis have touched seems to have come alive and then some. You see the result of the relationship of a land that uniquely goes with a people and the people that uniquely goes with that land, and you think of the Song of Songs: 'I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine: He browses among the lilies.'"

More from Ms. Parker: "I saw the great hope of my Scriptures come alive right before my eyes, and I was left exuberant and confident that the God of truth and justice is still speaking today. In the words of the Psalmist: 'When the Lord brings about the return to Zion, we will have been like dreamers.....Then they will say among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them, The Lord has done great things for us. We will then rejoice.' Yes, I pray that when the president of the United States lands in Israel for his first time since he was a senator, that he sees what I saw."