“Drive them out from where they drove you out,” says the Qur’an (2:191), and that’s why Muslims throughout the world believe that Israel has no right to exist, and that they have a responsibility before Allah to do everything they can to destroy it. That’s why every negotiated settlement to bring peace between Israel and the “Palestinians” has failed, and why Trump’s attempt will fail as well. In fact, the very idea of attempting a negotiated settlement with forces that have openly and repeatedly vowed to stop at nothing to destroy Israel is fantasy-based policymaking at its worst. It assumes that the maximalist, genocidal rhetoric of the “Palestinians” is just that, rhetoric, that they don’t really mean it, and can be bought off with a few concessions. This is a fundamentally and fatally false assumption.
“Shalom! Trump lands in Israel in pursuit of elusive peace deal and vows to make the Middle East a place where children can ‘grow up free from terrorism and violence,'” by David Martosko, Dailymail.com, May 22, 2017:
Donald Trump landed in Israel late on Monday morning in advance of a whirlwind two-day visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank.
He arrived from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Air Force One – flying direct, as no other planes are permitted to do – following a 48-hour lovefest with leaders from dozens of Arab nations.
The second leg of Trump’s nine-day excursion will put a spotlight on his vaunted efforts to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians – a prospect that the billionaire businessman has called the ‘ultimate deal.’
He said alongside Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in a Jerusalem photo-op that even challenges like a belligerent Iran with nuclear ambitions can be an ‘opportunity’ as Tehran’s saber-rattling ‘has brought many other parts of the Middle East toward Israel.’
‘You have a great opportunity right now,’ Trump told him. ‘There’s a great feeling for peace throughout the Middle East. I think people have just had enough. They’ve had enough of the bloodshed and the killing.’
The president will face tough questions, though, from an Israeli government that had been aligned with him during his campaign – even after pledging upon his arrival that he would ‘reaffirm the unbreakable bond between the United States and the state of Israel.’
‘The people of Israel are excited by your arrival – and have great expectations,’ Rivlin told him during an arrival ceremony on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport.
‘The world needs a strong United States. The Middle East needs a strong United States. Israel needs a strong United States,’ Rivlin said, each crescendo outdoing the last.
‘And may I say, the United States needs a strong Israel.’
Monday’s arrival couldn’t have been more different from Saturday’s spectacle in Riyadh, in one major respect: The uniformed Israeli Defense Forces soldiers included many women who held machine guns next to their skirts.
In Saudi Arabia, the only females visible on the airport tarmac were two small girls holding bouquets and a single U.S. Secret Service agent.
Cultural schisms aside, Trump warmed to the Saudis over the weekend, praising their hospitality and assuring the Arab world in a landmark speech that despite his past advocacy for a ‘ban’ on Muslims, America is not in a terror war with all of Islam.
That hasn’t sat universally well with Israelis who see Islamist theocracies as existential threats.
But Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu clung Monday to Trump’s anti-terror message.
‘Yesterday in Saudi Arabia you delivered a forceful speech of clarity and conviction,’ he said. ‘You called on all nations to drive out terrorists and extremists. … For 69 years Israel has been doing precisely that.’
He thanked Trump for the ‘powerful expression of your friendship to Israel’ that his trip represents.
And he made what, for him, has become an ordinary but plaintive entreaty toward Palestinians.
‘Israel’s hand is extended in peace to all our neighbors,’ he said, but only in the services of ‘a genuine and durable one in which the Jewish state is recognized, security remains in Israel’s hands and the conflict ends once and for all.’
Trump has become adept at playing to Netanyahu’s lifelong tensions, the same ingrained historical fears of a repeated Holocaust that preoccupy Israel to the point where its national anthem – played Monday and sung by everyone on the tarmac except the Trumps – is the only such song on earth written in a minor key.
On Monday he promised Israelis that he would work toward ‘a future where the nations of the region are at peace and all of our children can grow – and grow up strong, and grow up free from terrorism and violence.’
And Trump has, since taking office, made a 180-degree turn away from his campaign position that Jews should continue to build settlements in the contested West Bank region….
mortimer says
Whoever is advising Trump is giving him fantasy-based ideas about Islam. The supremacist, intolerant, totalitarian agenda of Islam will always REASSERT itself after a period of dormancy.
The period of dormancy is actually a time of rest and preparation for the next jihad attacks. The only way to stop the jihad is for Western governments to finance its psychological warfare departments so they may completely deprogram Muslims right out of Islam. Only that will bring world peace.
no_one says
When Bethlehem became Palestininan Christians were driven out of there. Same will happen to Jerusalem if it is given to Palestinians. People will not be able to visit the site of Resurrection, the holiest place for Christians. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel.
mgoldberg says
They were’nt able to do so for 19 yrs from 48/-67′. Jews were not able to pray at the western wall, and some 6–70 synogogues were destroyed- the stones of some used for the walkways to arab outhouses. This was the muslim way to religious tolerance.
Now we have the UN creating a fiction that the ‘western wall’ is all muslim owned. Even though its 3000 yo’s old and was build by jews, allowing for all to come and pray there. Unlike Mecca where non moslems cannot walk.
One needn’t state the obvious, that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, nor that it was the jews who allowed all others to pray there. One needs to state as you did, that the jews absence means the tyranny of the religion of pieces, and the UN holding it’s greasy hands in obeisance.
no_one says
Christians have no problem visiting territories under Jewish control. It is not so easy with the “Palestinian” territories.
gravenimage says
One thing Trump has done is to affirm that Jerusalem is in Israel. This seems obvious; but no American president in decades has done this.
balam says
Mohammad was born in Mecca and Jesus was born in Bethlehem. If the Palestinian Muslims want to have control over Bethlehem ,then why not allow the Christians to control Mecca? That should be a fair deal.
CM says
sounds good to me!
Debi Brand says
“fantasy-based policymaking at its worst,” indeed.
Berengaria says
I love our President, but I fear he & America are being lulled into a trap, the Muslims have one Agenda & that is to make the entire world bow to ISLAM.
We Americans have, through our Taxes, been forced to support the “Non-Palestinian,” Palestinians, thereby Paying Tribute to these Savages.
I pray that the Israelis can offer our President a more Realistic View of The Muslim World.
no_one says
Americans are paying jizya. Muslims probably think the funds belong to them anyway.
Dawn says
He needs advice or just a good sit down with Robert Spencer and hear the real truth about Islam . He needs to make Robert an advisor. Stop ignoring the real problem get educated Mr President. Get real there will not be peace . When you learn the truth use it
Rondo says
Trump thinks everyone is motivated by money. This type of thinking will fail.
“The problem of radical Islam is the problem of Islam itself.
Many are afraid that if Islam is the problem there can be no solution. That terrifies them. So they do all they can to avoid engaging with the evidence that Islam is the problem.”
Mark Durie.
Dennis says
I have little faith in Trump. He will not move the embassy,he will ask israel to leave samaria and judea, he will betray the israelis. Israel dont count on him!
Lee Hicks says
Dangerous language from Trump, and such language always signals that Israel should give up their security, land, and safety for a fictional peace.
Trump will never enforce the admission from Arabs and Muslims that Israel has a right to exist, so any peace plan is just one more fool’s errand.
I have to run now, to get a bigger container to hold the red flags that are popping up concerning Trump, the “deal maker”.
I wish I could say I was wrong about him, but no, I don’t believe that I was.
John W. says
I don’t disagree with what Robert says. I 100 percent agree that Islam itself is the problem. The only question I have is what exactly should we do or say? And I don’t mean in generalities. I’m talking specifics. And what will the outcome likely be?
balam says
Muslims are like the SNAKES ,some more poisonous than others and ISLAM is like VENOM in their bellies. If you take the venom out ,,that would kill the snake according to a snake charmer .Sadly , we have to live with it .Peace and Islam are incompatible AND CAN NEVER CO-EXIST.period
somehistory says
“”I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war”.(Psalm 120:7)
“His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords” (Psalm 55:21)
These verses, written long before the terrorist of the desert began his murderous campaign, his raping of children, his life’s evil course. But, they describe the present situation that Israel has in dealing with moslims.
Wellington says
Reminded again of the line from that great film, The Lion in Winter, when Henry II’s mistress asks him why he just promised what he did to someone else and he replies, “Good God, you don’t think I really meant it.”
Let’s hope this is just pro forma talk by Trump and underneath he knows that peace between the Palestinians and Israelis will never come about because the Muslim world wants no Israel at all. Yes, let’s hope that is what is really going on here. Better be.
gravenimage says
I fervently hope so, Wellington.
RAB says
I was criticized and branded “ignorant” for referring to Trump’s ghost-written speech in Saudi Arabia but his comments upon arriving in Israel confirm my conclusion that “Mr. President” knows nothing about Islam or has been given such bad advice that he is sounding like one more useful idiot for Islam. As Pamela Geller says, Jew-hatred is in the Koran and until devout Muslims give up their divinely ordained agenda to spread the religion of Allah over the whole world peace is impossible between Israel and Palestine. And that won’t happen because it would mean throwing out much of the Koran and admitting that Muhammad is not the perfect role model for the rest of humanity. This of course would mean the virtual dissolution of Islam as it is. Tell me I’m wrong.
balam says
you are absolutely right.
Paul N Silas says
Trump needs Jewish American votes and Saudi money/support if he wants to get reelected. He’s a liar like most people in D.C., London, Paris, Moscow, Peking, etc.
People who will tell you what they think that you want to hear. “Make America Great again” my butt!
gravenimage says
Trump lands in Israel, tells Israelis they have “a great opportunity” for “peace throughout the Middle East”
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Israel’s only chance of survival is standing strong against Muslim efforts to destroy them.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Gravenimage,since the Quran contains prophesy that the jews will rise and become more affluent towards the end of this(as they are now)that will push them to become aggressive and triger wars with Muslims that lead to their total destruction ,it will definitely happene. Jews are conscious of that.it is just a matter of time.Gravenimage,continue deceiving yourself that the united states should adopt this and that policy on israeli_palestinian conflict,all cannot avert the inevitable. Note: the Quran never contains a prophesy that has not come to past unlike that of mithraist bible where it was reported in mathew that mithraist jesus told audience standing infront of him that this world will end before they die,which turned out to be false ;this world is still in existence 2000 years after those standing infront of mithraist Jesus died.Note also that island never says that muslims hall go and murder the Jews;but the Jews will triger wars on which the muslims will respond that will lead to total destuction of the jews.the current aggressive behaviors of evil jews towards muslims are parts of the signs of that final Battle that will lead total destruction of the jews.Tell evil jews to mark the time of their end.
rabrooks says
But who’s definition of peace?
Our myopic sense?
The Israeli’s idea of peaceful cohabitation?
The muzzies’s idea of when all the Jews are dead and Israel is destroyed?