And why the political elites hate America’s president so much. My latest in FrontPage:
“This is one of the great days in the history of Sudan,” President Trump declared Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added: “Today, Khartoum is saying yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel and yes to normalization with Israel. This is a new era, an era of true peace — peace that is proceeding and widening with additional Arab countries. Three in the last few weeks.” It is indeed a new era. Could it even mark the end of the modern era of jihad?
In September, when Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed their deals with Israel, Trump stated: “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history. After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East.” This was accurate. These “Abraham Accords” have already changed the entire landscape of the Middle East, as for the first time in decades, pragmatic considerations are taking precedence over the fixed ideas that have guided the foreign policy stances of all the Muslim and Arab countries regarding Israel.
Although this aspect of the conflict has been little noted and is still routinely ignored by foreign policy analysts, the Muslim world’s opposition to Israel has not been based upon conflicting claims for land or anything else, but upon core principles of the Islamic religion. As The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows, the Qur’an commands Muslims to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191). Even though it is a historical fiction that Israel actually drove Muslim Arabs out, this claim is a staple of pro-Palestinian propaganda, and hence it is a divine imperative, no more negotiable than the Ten Commandments are for Jews and Christians, that Muslims must destroy Israel and “drive out” the Israelis.
That means that as long as pious, believing, knowledgeable Muslims are in charge in Muslim countries, which is by no means always the case, no negotiated settlement will ever establish Israel securely and end the jihad against it. That in turn is why analysts ignore Islam when considering the conflict: people don’t like bad news, or problems that cannot be solved. Nonetheless, this is the reality of the situation, and no good can ever come from ignoring reality.
Why, then, did Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and now Sudan normalize relations with Israel? Because it was in their interests to do so. Sudan was taken off the terror list in exchange for normalization. The Islamic Republic of Iran has for years claimed Bahrain as Iran’s nineteenth province, and the UAE likewise feels the heat of being in close proximity to one of the world’s leading state sponsors of terror. In a certain sense, these deals with Israel are a byproduct of Barack Obama’s decision to send billions to the mullahs’ tottering regime: a newly secure and empowered mullahcracy threatens Bahrain and the UAE, and so it was in their best interests to look for assistance from a country that Iran also menaces.
Islamic law stipulates, based on the example of Muhammad’s Treaty of Hudaybiyya with the pagan Quraysh tribe, that truces can be made with non-Muslims for a period of ten years (although they can be extended if necessary) if the Muslim forces are weak and need time to gather strength. Muhammad broke the Treaty of Hudaybiyya when he no longer needed it, and that, too, is part of Islamic law for treaty-making with infidels: Muslims are bound to the agreement only as long as it is beneficial to them.
Do Sudanese, Bahraini and Emirati authorities regard their deals with Israel as akin to the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, which Yasir Arafat famously invoked to mollify enraged Muslims after concluding the Oslo Accords? The possibility cannot be discounted, and the Israelis would be foolhardy to proceed without bearing in mind Ronald Reagan’s old adage, Trust, but verify.
However, there are also numerous indications that many in the Islamic world have had quite enough of the Palestinians’ jihadist intransigence and resistance to all peace accords, and are willing to proceed on a pragmatic basis, quite aside from what Islamic doctrine and law say, in order to secure their own countries against the threat from Iran. And so in these agreements the Palestinians have been largely bypassed, and that is the brilliance of Trump’s move here: if the Palestinians won’t come to the table and make peace, he has chosen a path that no previous president and no previous negotiator has followed: leave the Palestinians to stew in their own rage and conclude agreements instead with other countries that are looking after their own interests.
Thus, even though these accords ignore the Islamic imperative of jihad and its deeply ingrained anti-Semitism, they are a tremendous source of hope for the future. As I have noted many, many times, what Islam teaches is one thing, and what any individual Muslim or Muslim group may do is quite another. In this case, Sudan, the UAE and Bahrain have demonstrated that their priorities are not to foster the growth of the jihad against Israel, and that’s all to the good. President Trump is to be commended for refusing to follow the advice of foreign policy “experts” who have failed again and again, and to strike out in a new direction. That’s a primary reason why the political elites hate him so much.
Adam says
Normal relations with murderer’s, rapists and thieves.
Hope for the best.
eduardo odraude says
Excellent article.
Wellington says
So-called experts rarely think outside the box. Trump regularly thinks outside the box.
Still so much to do, and Islam remains the menace it always has been, but it was Trump who really initiated giving up on just about the most hopeless people on the planet, i.e., the so-called Palestinians, and the results of this are starting to appear.
Trump gets things done. And he’s the best and strongest force for freedom in all the world—bar none.
gravenimage says
The Trump Effect: Sudan Joins UAE and Bahrain in Normalizing Relations with Israel
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Certainly much better than most have been able to get from these Muslim nations.
Rod says
The Trump Effect
Well would you believe, the President of the United States of America is defending a rape charge.
Again.
The Trump Effect, ladies and gentlemen. (But ladies especially.)
Phil Copson says
“…Well would you believe, the President of the United States of America is defending a rape charge….”
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What, really ? Just like Brett Kavanaugh ? Has Christine Ford just “remembered” events at another teenage party that nobody else can ? You’d think that the Democrats could have thought of something else by now.
(as with everything else they throw at Trump, this is just projection: it’s Bill Clinton who’s the serial rapist whose lawyer wife Hillary then threatened complainants to silence them / it’s Biden who’s lied throughout his career from the folksy anecdotes about his upbringing and boasts about his education, through to his corruption which motivated the destruction of manufacturing jobs to advance Chinese interests, and his plans to shut down the US energy industry to benefit Russian and Ukrainian producers / it’s Biden and Clinton (and a raft of their placemen in the intelligence services) who colluded with the Russians over fake intelligence to overthrow Trump’s presidency / and Democrat backers such as Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Bezo who are interfering in the US election.)
CogitoErgoSum says
Wait. What? This is news to me. Is it being suppressed like the Tony Bobulinski story? Our news media in the U.S. has gone to hell so could you provide a link to the story? I just came across another story that happened in July that I knew nothing about at the time because it was not widely reported. Apparently, while some BLM activists were blocking an interstate highway two women were sent flying by a speeding car. Both of the women were white and the driver of the car was black. Oh, the irony. Sorry about the salty language of the guy in the video but his video is the only way I was able to find out about this story. Be warned he does use salty language in the video and it does show people being hit by a car:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6mPJnMeA0k0g/
gravenimage says
I haven’t seen anything new, either. If there was, surely it would be all over the news.
Fred van de Bunt says
Basically Sudan has been building a happy Islam country the last 20 years . They could get rid of these awful non-Muslims, by committing genocides and treating non-Muslim slaves as inhumane as possible, which resulted in all these poor buggers escaping and concentrating in their own country South-Sudan.
But now, after the horrors of the holy Jihad, which resulted in the creation of a beautiful righteous Islam country, which is inhabitant by 99,99999% Muslims? To organize a daily meal, half the righteous citizens are collecting dessert bugs poo, while the other half desperately searches for water.
Let’s make friends again with the rest of the world, that searches for markets to sell their products. In the mean time there is also a new kid around the block, China, a competitor with it’s belt and road product, also happy to penetrate new product markets.
Rod says
“Yesterday, the supreme court blocked officials in Wisconsin from counting votes that are sent by election day but arrive later, and the court is expected to rule on similar cases in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before election day.”
Why on earth would you want to count all the votes of all the people who voted? Come on! Those votes could affect the result. They only do that in primitive countries (like mine).
Witness the Trump Effect on the world’s greatest (disintegrating) “democracy”.
Phil Copson says
Given that that the whole world and his dog know the date of the US election, and that ballot papers are sent out months in advance, it’s hardly difficult to get them back in time.
(and if anyone does leave it a bit late – there’s even a wonderful new invention called a “polling station” where you can vote in person on election day.)
What Rod means is that he wants the Democrats to be given a few days extra after November the 3rd in which to fake extra votes in the districts they’ve lost.
Rod says
You seem to have missed the point, Phil. So I’ll ask again –
“Why on earth would you want to count all the votes of all the people who voted? Come on! Those votes could affect the result. They only do that in primitive countries (like mine).”
In democratic countries (like mine and many others), EVERONE who votes has their vote counted. That is their right, by law, and this right is accorded them, unhesitatingly, by their fellow citizens. If the result is close, election results are not announced, (and this happens only rarely), until all postal votes are received and counted.
Government by “democracy” comes from “demos” – the people.
Voting limited to a smaller group of the people is not true democracy. That requires a different word. How about “Trumpocracy”? Or taken to its logical endpoint, “fascism”?
CogitoErgoSum says
How do you know when all postal votes have been received?
Rod says
After two hundred and fifty years, the world’s greatest “democracy” is still deciding, a few days before election day, how to process votes, and how many to count. In other words, who will be allowed to cast an effective vote, and who will have their vote disallowed.
And even your president tells you that your voting system doesn’t work! Why doesn’t it work? Or is he lying? Again?
If he is lying, it’s disgraceful. If he’s not lying, it’s disgraceful.
What is wrong with you people?
And I’m so impressed that in some states you can take your gun into the voting centre! That’s real civilisation.
gravenimage says
“Rod’s” claim that if you don’t allow people to vote after election day that you are a fascist nation is just bizarre.
Rod says
Sorry cog, I forgot. You probably have no idea of what an efficient postal service looks like. No politics, just letters and parcels.
curious george says
The United States of America is NOT a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic.
https://thenewamerican.com/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it/
James Lincoln says
President Trump’s Middle East peace plan — the “deal of the century” – will not be offered again.
The so-called “palestinians”, much to their chagrin, lost their chance and are about to become the laughing stock of the Middle East.