Posted on 05/28/2017 6:37:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
If the Trump Administration wishes to succeed in achieving true peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. must first recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and must demand a full stop to Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel. This makes all the difference between true peace and an empty agreement.
The Trump administration appears determined to finally achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). This attempt to broker true peace between Israel and Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (aka the Palestinian Arabs) is doomed to failure unless and until the “peace process” takes a radically different approach toward making peace.
If the Trump administration simply follows the strategy of the previous three administrations (Clinton, Bush, and Obama) it is doomed to also fail in achieving peace. The strategy of the previous administrations was to pressure both sides to negotiate and demand numerous concessions from Israel, from security concessions to transfer of land from Israel to the PA. Such concessions have often led to a significant deterioration in peace, with Palestinian terrorists attacking Israel. One such infamous example was the “disengagement” from Gaza where roughly 10,000 Jews were expelled from their homes. Shortly thereafter, Hamas took control of Gaza. Since then there have been three major military conflicts between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.
Therefore, if the Trump administration truly wants to see if peace is even achievable, they must take a very different approach than previous administrations. Otherwise, if the U.S. wants to achieve a meaningless declaration of peace signed by both parties on a piece of paper, even if it leads to violence rather than peace, they would simply be proclaiming “‘peace, peace!’ while there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 8:11)
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Sorry. But true peace will come to the region only when the Islamic world is transformed and is able to respond rationally and effectively to the ongoing challenge of Western modernity. Traditional Islamic culture is simply not compatible with the practices, institutions and values that constitute Western modernity. Hence the violent instability and migrations. Also peace will only come to Israel itself when either the Palestinians or the Israelis cease to be a definable political entity. They both covet the same land. Neither can make a real concession to the other without denying the rational of their own existence.
Actually only the Israelis covet the land - on the elimination of Israel and the Jewish problem, all the muslims will do as they have in the past - leave, returning to their countries of origin, and the territory formerly known as Israel will return to its historic state - desert where goat herding a the major industry. See the Palestinian use of Gaza as a modern example - farms into weapons factories.
Oh really?
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