March 9, 2021
Trump’s Middle East peace initiatives continue to bear fruit
By Andrea Widburg
Had Trump remained president, his legacy would have included making true peace in the Middle East. This would have encompassed Sunni Arab nations laying down arms as to Israel, while Iran would have been rendered inconsequential – and, perhaps, the beleaguered Iranian people might have been able to eject the mullahs. With Biden, though, Obama pulls the strings, which means wooing the mullahs, being hostile to Israel, and denigrating the Saudis. Nevertheless, some amazing Saudi outreach to Israel means Trump’s Middle East peace plans still matter.
Trump’s genius in terms of the Middle East was to ignore the Palestinians into oblivion. Instead of pandering to their extreme demands – all of which were meant to block peace while they continued to their Iran-sponsored efforts to destroy Israel – he took things off the table. Suddenly, there was a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and the U.S. recognized Israel’s control over the Golan Heights.
In 2020, despite the Wuhan virus, Trump went into overdrive sidelining the Palestinians. Resisting the same old push for a global Middle East peace that magically gave the unreasonable Palestinians everything they demanded, Trump brokered deals between Israel and individual Sunni Arab nations. These nations have no love for the Palestinians, who are seen as troublemakers and view Israel as both a valuable trading partner and a useful ally against Iran’s continuous aggression against Sunnis as well as against Jews.
So it was that, in very quick order, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain both entered in “Abraham Accords†with Israel, normalizing relationships between these Muslim nations and the Jewish state. At the same time, the Saudis began cleaning anti-Semitism out of their textbooks while Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, who served as Chairman of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology, said he supported recognizing Israel.
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