27 Jan 2025
A Flawed Strategy
A strategic flaw of the Right is the historical tendency to take one’s foot off the gas. I won’t go through an exhaustive list, but one example is the catastrophic blunder by the George H.W. Bush regime to snatch terror-dwarf Yasser Arafat from the jaws of irrelevancy and make him into some sort of scarecrow statesman. A hot shower, clean clothes, and Nobel Peace Prize were part of the schtick. Arafat of course went on to use this irrational gift to murder many more Israelis.
I should wait longer, but in today’s technological age, information comes fast and furious. I was going to watch President Trump’s Middle East strategy play out, but I continue to be concerned about his somewhat-surprising agendas, and his associations.
One thing we have to remember: Trump does not come to the Israel question from an emotional base. He doesn’t see these things through a biblical lens. The ultimate deal-maker is addicted to negotiation and deal-making. His strategy in the Middle East is to be so repulsed by war that he swings too much that way. The previous regime was evil and illegitimate and drunk on war-making, like most previous Washington regimes. We had no idea decades ago how corrupt they were. They most certainly did keep us in endless wars.
Trump though is risking letting the terrorists off the hook in the Middle East, by negotiating with them and not killing all of them. His Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, is either naïve or indifferent to the danger to Israel (and, by extension, the rest of us; when terrorists see pressure on Israel, they keep their long-term plans of global domination). Trump’s son-in-law, Michael Boulos, is the son of Massad Boulos, a Lebanese-born, Greek Orthodox(!) businessman. He has ties to “Christian” groups that are sympathetic to Hezbollah.
(By the way, the Greek Orthodox Church is anti-Semitic.
Trump has named Boulos Sr. as a Middle East advisor!
Is it any wonder pressure has been put on Israel to accept a terrible deal with Hamas?
One can negotiate and all that, but we should NEVER negotiate with beasts that rape, torture and murder Israeli Jews. There is no moral reason to do it, in fact I think it’s obvious that such is immoral.
Yet Hamas is being allowed to take over parts of Gaza again, re-arm, and resume the theft of thousands of tons of relief aid. Trump’s policy, vis a vis Witkoff, has rolled back Israel’s gains of the last 10 months. This is madness.
A Jerusalem Post report is troubling, regarding pressure being put on Netanyahu by Trump, to stand-down in Gaza.
“If US President Donald Trump’s first week in office is indicative of what his second term has in store, Israel should get ready for the following: supportive steps in full public view and significant pressure behind closed doors.
“For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this duality will present a challenge. Obviously, the supportive steps will be applauded – such as several executive orders Trump signed this week that benefit Israel’s interests.”
Aside from Witkoff and Boulos, who are some of the other troubling actors in this drama?
“Trump will continue with many of the staunchly pro-Israel policies that marked his first term, even as his appointment of some isolationists to key Mideast positions is raising some eyebrows.
“The most prominent of these is Michael DiMino, a critic of Israel who believes the US should reduce its presence in the region, who is replacing Dan Shapiro as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy.”
Trump’s signaling that he wants to approach Iran from a sanctions and even negotiation process is also troubling. Why in the wide, wide world of sports would you let this terror scum off the mat? Israel has left Iran wide open to attack to finally knock out its sinister nuclear program. In a sane world, a good American president (an exceedingly rare animal) and a once-a-generation Israeli premier would easily coordinate a knock-out blow to the world’s leading sponsor of terro.
Further, the Middle East, which on the surface looks to be open to sanity in terms of rapprochement with Israel, is still in the grip of terrorists.
Syria’s new regime has met with 60 different armed factions—thugs—and they have agreed to become part of Syria’s defense establishment. That’s an obvious problem.
Iraq continues to spiral-down into a deeply anti-Semitic sewer.
Jordan, in my view, is never to be trusted.
And, again in my humble opinion, the Abraham Accords are merely a business deal for Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Both are deeply anti-Semitic and can turn on Israel in the blink of an eye.
All this reminds us believers that real peace is not coming until the Redeemer appears again to take us home and usher-in righteousness.
May He come quickly!
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