No, the Bible says. Cruz and secular Zionists target US Christians to convince them that the STATE of Israel is what the Bible is talking about, but if you READ the Bible, you will see that it is a lie. Cruz spouted off the Scofield Study Bible’s false teaching of Genesis 12:3 “ I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed,” but Abram was a Hebrew, NOT a Jew or Israeli. You have to read to Genesis 32:28 to find where God changed Jacob’s name to Israel. Jacob’s 12 sons were the first Israelites. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Joseph, and Benjamin. Easy son represented a “tribe” of Jacob/Israel, each established its own ‘kingdom.’ The Hebrew term “Yehudi,” translated to English as Jew, appeared in 2 Kings 16:6, and was used to refer ”specifically” to Israelites from the Kingdom of Judea, NOT all Israelites, but, after the Babylonian Exile, it evolved to represent all Israelites. In 1890’s, secular Zionism ‘politicalize’ the term “Jew” in order to form a National STATE of Israel. So, the STATE of Israel does not represent ALL Israelites, just like the term Jew does not represent all Israelites. So, ask yourself, where is the STATE of “Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Catholics, etc.? Nowhere, we all live “harmoniously” with each other as Christians. It is only Zionist and radical Islam that wants to control, demand conversation, or kill Christians. THINK!! And actually read the Bible, preferably one published BEFORE the 1800’s.