by Guy Millière • June 13, 2018
at 5:00 am
- Trump has shown the
strength of the United States and restored its credibility in
a region where strength and force determine credibility.
- Trump more broadly
laid the foundation for a new alliance of the United States
with the Sunni Arab world, but he put two conditions on it: a
cessation of all Sunni Arab support for Islamic terrorism and
an openness to the prospect of a regional peace that included
Israel.
- Secretary of State
Pompeo spoke of the "Palestinians", not of the
Palestinian Authority, as in Iran, possibly to emphasize the
distinction between the people and their leadership, and that
the leadership in both situations, may no longer be part of
the solution. Hamas, for the US, is clearly not part of any
solution.
- Netanyahu rightly
said that Palestinian leaders, whoever they may be, do not
want peace with Israel, but "peace without Israel".
What instead could take place would be peace without the
Palestinian leaders. What could also take place would be peace
without the Iranian mullahs.
Pictured:
President Donald Trump hosts Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
at the White House on March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by
Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
After three successive American Presidents had used
a six-month waiver to defer moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem for
more than two decades, President Donald J. Trump decided not to
wait any longer. On December 7, 2017, he declared that the United
States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; the official
embassy transfer took place on May 14th, the day of Israel's 70th
anniversary.
From the moment of Trump's declaration, leaders of
the Muslim world expressed anger and announced major trouble. An
Islamic summit conference was convened in Istanbul a week later,
and ended with statements about a "crime against
Palestine". Western European leaders followed suit. Germany's
Chancellor Angela Merkel said that President Trump's decision was a
"serious mistake" and could have huge
"consequences". French President Emmanuel Macron, going
further, declared that the decision could provoke a
"war".
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