Our nation will come under judgment for this folly. Very soon.
Posted on 08/21/2020 4:31:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
With one stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- nationalist, conservative world leaders much-maligned by our sclerotic global elites as bigoted warmongers -- did more last week to advance durable peace in the Middle East than did generations of Washington's failed "peace process," "two-stater" professional classes. Peace between Israel and the oil-rich Gulf state, the United Arab Emirates, represents a profoundly impactful act of statesmanship and reifies an ascendant, transformative paradigm. In a just world (which we do not presently inhabit), the Norwegian Nobel Committee would be knocking on their doors.
In the decades following the infamous "three no's" (no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel) of 1967's Khartoum Resolution; the Arab world's (third) failure to destroy the Jewish state in 1973's Yom Kippur War; and the onset of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian national movement in earnest, veteran Middle East hands uniformly asserted, as if it were Scriptural truth, that there would be no broader Israeli rapprochement with the Arab world in the absence of a final settlement with the Palestinians.
Presidential administrations of both parties imbibed this canard as if it were mother's milk, and thus was born the "land for peace" paradigm -- wherein Israel, a state smaller than New Jersey, was expected to cede large swaths of land as conciliatory gestures to bribe irredentist Arabs to accept peace. The disastrous Oslo Accords of the 1990s -- which Arafat publicly accepted before a credulous world but privately rejected as a betrayal of the entire founding-era purpose of the Palestinian cause ("The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromise of mediations," Arafat had boasted two decades prior) -- encapsulated this fatal Western conceit.
The blood of over 1,000 Israelis spilt during the Second Intifada -- to say nothing of the calamitous results of Israel's 2005 unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which was quickly transformed into a Hamas-run jihadist enclave singularly interested in raining down indiscriminate rocket fire on Israeli villages -- solidified in the minds of Israeli Jews the utter moral bankruptcy of Western elites' prevailing capitulatory "land for peace" consensus. Israel's historically liberal Labor Party, the party of preeminent national founder David Ben-Gurion and the decades-long dominant political party following Israel's founding, has become an irrelevant and impotent laughingstock.
Nonetheless, this failed consensus persisted in the minds of Washington and Brussels simpletons. It reached an apex during the famously anti-Israel Obama administration, a coterie of quixotic liberal internationalists who preferred the hubris of trying to craft a Middle East anew -- best embodied by 2015's harrowing nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic of Iran -- over the prudence of addressing the Middle East as it actually is.
At long last, the U.S. has a president grounded in reality -- who sees the world as it is, and not as academes and theorists would rather it be. The U.S. has a president who advances a hardened and realist foreign policy, grounded in a properly narrow conception of American nationalist interests, which properly rewards our allies as allies and punishes our enemies as enemies.
In the Middle East, this has translated into a famously pro-Israel, anti-Iran set of foreign policy initiatives. Trump has moved the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, defended Israel to the hilt at the United Nations, unveiled the most pro-Israel U.S. peace plan initiative ever, withdrew the U.S. from Obama's terrible nuclear deal and punished the Islamic Republic with crippling sanctions as part of a broader "maximum pressure" campaign. As Israel's relations, following the nuclear deal with Shiite Iran, began to clandestinely thaw with the region's Sunni Gulf states, those Sunni Arab countries saw a strong, militarily emboldened Israel that had unambiguous American support. They saw a nation unequivocally committed to opposing a nuclear Iran, which the Sunni Arab states also fear, by any means necessary. They saw an Israel, with the imprimatur of Trump's peace plan, confident that it would not be browbeaten by supercilious Western elites into yielding yet more land concessions for an illusory peace with an implacable Palestinian foe.
The Israel-UAE peace agreement is Israel's first with an Arab country since the 1994 accord with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. But it is the single most transformative peace agreement of them all. Israel has not given up any land. Nor, for that matter, has Israel been weakened in any way whatsoever.
The race is now on to see who will next follow the UAE and make peace with Israel: Bahrain, Oman and Morocco appear to be the leading contenders. This is the legacy of the Trump-Netanyahu doctrine: the latest proof of the age-old truth that peace comes when a historical foe is not weak but strong, and the evisceration of the elites' consensus that claimed the contrary.
Our nation will come under judgment for this folly. Very soon.
What I see, is a situation where Israel's neighboring antagonist seeing their chances slipping away and attack, causing an Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 situation.
This would result in an Israel that is much larger. Then the players of Ezekiel 38 would find themselves in the same situation and act accordingly.
These seem to be just quick battles, with Israel winning Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83, but the LORD stepping in for the win in Ezekiel 38. Which causes Israel to want a new temple built.
However, make no mistake. This "Abraham Accord" is absolutely giving away God's land, which He specifically warned against in the most alarming terms.
“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:1,2
Jared Kushner said on 17 Aug that Israel agreed to give up land to create a "Palestinian" state.
Kushner said: "Israel has made a very generous proposal for the establishment of a Palestinian state, including an exchange of territories. The understanding that this is the situation has enabled the breakthrough that led to the current agreement."
"The president laid out his vision for peace in January this year … and this is the first map ever agreed to by one of the parties publicly put out in a peace negotiation. We got Israel to agreed to negotiate on the basis of the process of division, they agreed to the map and agreed to move forward on a Palestinian state. This was a major breakthrough that changed the view of a lot of people in the region about Israel’s seriousness to actually make concessions to resolve this longstanding conflict."
We will suffer as a nation for being a party to this. God's Word is very clear. We have played with fire.
No doubt all nations will turn against Israel and pay. The map you show looks a little big, the bible says south to the little Egypt river, and if I recall Jordan remains Jordan.
the little Egypt river,
That's the wadi el-Arish.
Nice.
The 6th of October city was named to commemorate the commencement of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War in 1973, and it isn't remarkable in size, there are loads of other suburbs of Cairo -- clearly the Google bigot who made that map hates Israel.
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At long last, the U.S. has a president grounded in reality -- who sees the world as it is, and not as academes and theorists would rather it be.
You wouldn't think that would be so difficult. GWB talked about facts on the ground, then insisted Hamas participate in palestinian elections. The Brotherhood in Egypt too, but Egypt refused. Hardly reality.
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