Israel is joining an emerging alliance of countries “that support Christian communities around the world, beleaguered communities who deserve our help,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Evangelical Christian leaders Wednesday in Palm Beach, Florida.

“In Africa, with intel, in the Middle East, with a lot of means that I won’t itemize each one,” he said, without explaining what this new “alliance” was in practice, or what other countries or parties were involved.

“But this is what our agenda is, it’s a main part of our agenda, and it’s going to continue with greater force and greater might in this coming year,” he said.

Netanyahu was in the US to meet with US President Donald Trump and other top officials, to discuss the situations in Gaza and the West Bank as well as the simmering conflicts with Iran and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.

Netanyahu went on to accuse regional rival Turkey of being among the countries that persecute Christians: “We are conscious of the fact that Christians are being persecuted across the Middle East, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Nigeria, in Turkey and beyond.”

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