How to Evaluate the Deal of the Century?

American Thinker ^ | May 26. 2019 | Gary Gindler, Reuven Miller

[WWII_Historian]

The Trump administration's Middle East peace plan is demonstrating a great deal of uncertainty because the plan is unfinished and raw. That explains why the White House always finds an opportunity to postpone its release. Although the administration could have made the plan's main ideas known a long time ago, it is not worth speculating on rumors about its content.

So what should we pay attention to when the project eventually comes to life?

We have to pay attention to the compliance of the proposed peace plan with established international law.

The inability to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict for almost a century is largely explained by abuses and blunt illegality of the earlier attempts. In other words, if the new peace plan is not based on international law, it will fail, like all the previous ones. Obviously, the new peace plan must comply with the Old Testament. It is written that the Almighty God gave the Land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, making the Covenant with them and their descendants. Such (or similar) interpretation of events also exists in Christianity and Islam.

In 1917, against the backdrop of the imminent defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Zionists and Conservatives, who ruled Britain at that time, relying on Bible verses, agreed to restore Israel on the territory of the Roman province Palestine. Originally, Romans called it the Province of Judea after defeating and occupying ancient Israel. Palestine was always a name for a geographical area, not for a country or a state. (In contrast, Judea was the name of one of the two Jewish kingdoms.) Romans renamed Judea "Palaestina" in the second century A.D.

[jjotto]

The authors are fools. They blame the lack of peace on ‘abuses’ and ‘illegalities’ of previous peace plans.

This will be settled when the losers in an aggressive war are forced into leaving territory controlled by the winners, just like millions of Germans were repatriated to Germany proper after WW2.

[faithhopecharity]

“International law” (aside perhaps for trade and navigation etc purposes) is a ridiculous and highly dangerous concept. And a farce too. Sort of like “global warming” or “U.N.” or “same sex marriage.” Anyone using such verbiage is immediately suspect. He’s either a communist agent or else mushy in the head.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"God gave the Land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"

That's all we need to know, basically. The Jewish people are the only ones who have lived on that land the longest. All others are gone. Arabs are relative newcomers, and are committing genocide by wanting it for themselves. But then Arab Muslims are committing so many other genocides around the world, and of course liberals don't care.

[null and void]

This God of whom you speak, is He the same one who said of Ishmael “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”

[Telepathic Intruder]

God wasn’t kidding.

[null and void]

Although I think He just might have a warped sense of humor, He doesn't kid!

[Telepathic Intruder]

God does have a sense of humor, actually. He laughs at us fools sometimes. But this time, He really, really wasn’t kidding.