“Trust Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3: 5-6
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President Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan
See “The Oslo blood libel is over”.
Before I get into the meat of this SnyderTalk editorial, I want to say a few words about Caroline Glick. I’ve been following her analysis for many years.
Glick was born in Houston, Texas. When she was a baby, her family moved to Chicago. In 1991, she made Aliyah and joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Glick’s latest article begins by explaining her role in the Oslo peace process:
From 1994 through 1996, as a captain in the IDF, I served as a member of Israel’s negotiating team with the PLO. Those years were the heyday of the so-called peace process. As the coordinator of negotiations on civil affairs for the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, I participated in all of the negotiating sessions with the Palestinians that led to a half a dozen or so of agreements, including the Interim or Oslo B agreement from September 28, 1995, which transferred civil and military authorities in Judea and Samaria to the PLO.
Throughout the period of my work, I never found any reason to believe the peace process I was a part of would lead to peace. The same Palestinian leaders who joked with us in fancy meeting rooms in Cairo and Taba breached every commitment they made to Israel the minute the sessions ended.
People who keep up with the goings-on in Israel know that Palestinians lie, cheat, and steal. They can’t be trusted. The people we call “Palestinians” today are a hodgepodge of malcontent Arabs that no Arab country wants.
Some of my Israeli friends are quick to point out that about 85% of Palestinians are okay. It’s the other 15% that you have to worry about.
That’s probably true. If you spend as much time in Jerusalem as I do, you get to see the 85% walking, talking, and laughing as they move about in Yahweh’s holy city. They are a threat to no one, and they really enjoy themselves. The 15% are rabble-rousers. They keep to themselves in their enclaves, including the Temple Mount. I do my best to avoid them.
Glick continues:
When Israel embarked on the Oslo peace process it accepted Oslo’s foundational assumption that Israel is to blame for the Palestinian war against it. From the first Oslo agreement, signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, through all its derivative deals, Israel was required to carry out “confidence-building measures,” to prove its good faith and peaceful intentions to Arafat and his deputies.
Time after time, Israel was required to release terrorists from prison as a precondition for negotiations with the PLO. The goal of those negotiations in turn was to force Israel to release more terrorists from prison, and give more land, more money, more international legitimacy and still more terrorists to the PLO.
The Oslo peace process is rooted in lies. It failed because Palestinian leaders didn’t want peace. I’ve said this before many times, but I need to say it again now. Palestinian leaders have been telling Palestinian people that annihilating Israel is their primary objective. The 15% believe in that objective. If a Palestinian leader signs a peace treaty with Israel that has teeth, he will be signing his death warrant. The 15% will assassinate him.
According to the Trump peace initiative,
The Palestinians have four years, he explained, to agree to the President’s plan. To reach a deal they have to agree to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. They have to accept Israeli control over the airspace and the electromagnetic spectrum. They have agree to a demilitarized state and accept that there will be no Palestinian immigration to Israel from abroad. They have to agree to Israeli sovereignty over the border with Jordan. They have to disarm Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and demilitarize Gaza.
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If they don’t agree, he replied, then at the end of four years, Israel will no longer be bound by the terms of the deal and will be free to apply its law to all areas it requires.
At the heart of President Trump’s peace initiative is the provision that Palestinians will have 4 years to sign a peace treaty with Israel that has teeth. If they don’t agree to peace, then the Oslo peace plan is null and void.
These are Momentous Times
Palestinians responded to President Trump’s peace initiative the way you would expect.
See “Palestinians cut ties with Israel and US after rejecting Trump peace plan”.
See “Palestinians scramble for Arab backing against the Trump peace plan”.
President Trump has a reputation at home and abroad. He says what he means, and he means what he says. He makes promises, and he keeps them.
Leaders in Arab countries know those things about our president. For the first time, Arab leaders realize that it’s time for them to fish or cut bait. They understand that Don Trump means business and that he will be re-elected.
See “Trump’s Plan for Middle East Peace Hinges on Support From Arab Leaders. That’s Looking Unlikely”.
See “Arab states walk careful line on Trump’s peace plan, praising effort but withholding endorsement”.
So, the onus is on Palestinian leaders and on the leaders of Arab nations. President Trump told all of them that it’s time to stop playing games. They have 4 years to get their act together, or their world will change dramatically.
Caroline Glick concluded her article with an accurate assessment of what is taking place:
Under Oslo, Israel had no interest in taking the initiative. Every “step forward” was a set-up. Tuesday Trump ended the 27-year nightmare. Oslo is the past. Sovereignty is now. We were like dreamers.
The time has now come to give thanks for the miracle and get on with building our land.
This is the peace treaty that we have been waiting for and talking about for a very long time. The time really has come.
It’s important to keep in mind that this is a “peace process”, and we are at the beginning of the process. Palestinian and Arab leaders have 4 years to complete it.
This is the real miracle that Glick alluded to but didn’t identify specifically: Donald Trump will be President of the United States 4 years from now.
HalleluYah!
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
