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Saturday, December 9, 2017

Caroline Glick: Trump’s great gifts to Israel and America

I keep saying to myself:
"No more blog posts about Trump and Jerusalem."
But then I just can't think of anything more important and timely. I've been getting messages from all sorts of people, friends and family from all over asking about how Trump's statement is affecting us. The media keeps on saying that the Arabs will riot, another intifada. I've lived through all the previous intifadas and even was injured in a terror attack over twenty years ago. For whatever reason, I felt less in danger afterward. When it's time to die, we'll die, whether murdered or in our sleep, whether illness or attacked. Terrorists don't obey reason. If the Arabs had wanted peace, we would have achieved peace with them decades ago. They don't want peace, and they're encouraged in their violence by the international media and so-called diplomats from most countries and international bodies. They're waiting for the world to explode, so they can blame it on Israel and Donald Trump. 

Caroline Glick stats things very clearly here:
Trump’s great gifts to Israel and America
With his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump gave a Hanukka gift to the Jewish people. But he also gave a Christmas gift to the American people.

Trump’s gift to Israel is not merely that 68 years after Israel declared Jerusalem its capital, the US finally recognized Israel’s capital.

In his declaration, Trump said, “Israel has made its capital in the city of Jerusalem, the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times.”

By stating this simple truth, Trump fully rejected the anti-Israel legacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.

In his speech in Cairo in 2009, Obama intimated that Israel’s legitimacy is rooted in the Holocaust, rather than in the Jewish nation’s millennial attachment to the Land of Israel. Whereas the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate rooted the Jewish people’s sovereign rights to the Land of Israel in its 3,500-year relationship with it, Obama said that Israel is nothing more than a refugee camp located in an inconvenient area. In so doing, he gave credence to the anti-Israel slander that Israel is a colonialist power.

By asserting the real basis for Israel’s legitimacy, Trump made clear that the Jewish people is indigenous to the Land of Israel. He also made it US policy to view Israel’s right to exist, like its right to its capital city, as unconditional.

Trump’s extraordinary gift to Israel was an act of political and moral courage. It was also a stroke of strategic brilliance. (read the complete article-click)




4 comments:

Shiloh said...

Gift? He is getting ready to shove the Saudi Initiative down our throats! Bibi will sign it!

Batya said...

Shiloh, considering how many things you're wrong about...

Mr. Cohen said...

Articles about Pro-Israel Arabs and Pro-Israel Muslims
from Aish HaTorah:


Mr. Abdullah Al-Hadlaq a Kuwaiti Writer says Israel is Legitimate:
www.aish.com/jw/me/Kuwaiti-Writer-Israel-Is-a-Legitimate-State-Not-an-Occupier.html

How Mr. Kasim Hafeez became a Muslim Zionist:
www.aish.com/jw/me/Muslim_Zionist_and_Proud.html

Why Mr. Noor Dahri is a Muslim Zionist:
www.aish.com/jw/me/Why-Im-a-Muslim-Zionist.html

Mr. Walid Shoebat an Ex-Muslim-Pro-Terrorist is Now Pro-Israel:
www.aish.com/jw/me/48900422.html

Farhana Rahman is a Female Muslim Zionist:
www.aish.com/jw/id/A-Muslim-Zionists-Message-of-Hope.html

Dema Taya an Arab-Muslim Female Defends Israel on Arab News:
www.aish.com/jw/me/Muslim-Woman-Defends-Israel-on-Arab-News-Channel.html

Dr. Qanta Ahmed a Female Muslim Defends Israel:
www.aish.com/jw/me/The-Accidental-Muslim-Zionist.html

Sarah Zoabi is Proud to be a Muslim Zionist:
www.aish.com/jw/me/Sarah-Zoabi-Proud-Muslim-Zionist.html

John S said...

Batya, thank you for your reference to the very insightful article from Caroline Glick.

The one insurmountable barrier that the Arabs in their confected outrage over many so-called injustices cannot overcome is the truth. No one seems better able to ply truth in the face of dishonesty than the U.S.A.'s ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.

While Trump's boldness has raised the hackles of many, Nikki Haley compels the U.N. to face truths that they cannot refute. She said on Friday,

"And finally, I will not let this moment pass without a comment about the United Nations itself. Over many years the United Nations has outrageously been at the world’s foremost centers of hostility towards Israel. The U.N. has done much more damage to the prospects for Middle East peace than to advance them. We will not be a party to that. The United States no longer stands by when Israel is unfairly attacked in the United Nations. And the United States will not be lectured to by countries that lack any credibility when it comes to treating both Israelis and Palestinians fairly."

Trump's real strength might be in Nikki Haley.