In the wake of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week, the “experts” crowding the media predicted strategic calamity: Vast, violent protests and a wave of terror would sweep the Muslim world in the coming days.

Instead, the largest demonstration anywhere this weekend was the funeral procession for Johnny Hallyday, the “French Elvis.” Nothing in the Middle East came close.

We have witnessed, yet again, the carefully phrased anti-Semitism of the pristinely educated; the global left’s fanatical pro-Palestinian bias; and the media’s yearning for career-making disasters.

Rather than waves of protest, the waiting world got tepid statements of disapproval from otherwise-occupied Arab governments; demonstrations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that, combined, barely put a thousand activists in the streets; and yes, four deaths: two demonstrators and two Hamas terrorists hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Sunday did see a smallish protest outside the US Embassy in Lebanon, but it was hardly Benghazi under Barack Obama. Predictably, Turkish President and self-appointed sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan (officially our NATO ally) didn’t miss the chance to spew venom toward Israel, the US and Europe. But even in Turkey, things were all quiet on the Bosporus front.

An act of justice for Israel did not ignite Armageddon.

A generation ago, a US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would, indeed, have led to mass demonstrations and widespread violence. But now? While the endlessly recycled experts snoozed, the Middle East changed profoundly.

Once upon a time, the Palestinians were the only game at the propaganda casino, a marvelous tool for Arab leaders to divert attention from domestic failures. Then came al Qaeda. And Iraq. Iranian empire-building. The Arab Spring. The oil price collapse and the rise of ISIS, with its butcher-shop caliphate. The civil war in Syria, with half a million dead. And, not least, the region-wide confrontation between decaying Sunni power and rising Shia might.

Nor did it help the Palestinians that many of them sided with the Assad regime, alienating former partners from Amman to Beirut.


But by far the most significant factor is that Israel has become an indispensable, if quiet, ally of Sunni states against Iran. Although well-armed, Saudi Arabia remains inept on the battlefield, bogged down in Yemen and terrified of Iranian gains in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Israel doesn’t need Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia definitely needs Israel.

Nor does the United States automatically do Riyadh’s bidding these days.

As for Iran, the regional ambitions of Israel’s top enemy have ironically made it Israel’s unintentional benefactor. To the Arabs, yesteryear’s Israeli boogeyman now looks more like Caspar the Friendly Ghost. “Palestine” is so over . . .

And blame the Palestinians, not Israel, for their lack of statehood. Since the failed 1948 Arab assault on newly reborn Israel, the Palestinians have had literally dozens of opportunities for an advantageous peace. Yet even Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — no friends to the blue-and-white flag — ended up frustrated as Palestinian leaders, on the cusp of peace time and again, decided that three-quarters of the pie was insufficient.

Inevitably, the pie got smaller over time — but the Palestinian leadership continued to profit from “occupied” status. Now it’s too late for anything that looks like a viable Palestinian state. It’s time we all faced that reality.

In Paris this weekend for talks with the French president, Israel’s plainspoken prime minister stated that Jerusalem always has been and always will be Israel’s capital, and that the city has never been the capital of any state but the Jewish state. Trump simply recognized that moral, practical and historical truth.

And lest any reader mistake this as a partisan paean to our president, let it be noted that I am not and never have been among the president’s fans. But Trump got this one right. The reflexive condemnation of his action by the usual suspects was indecent.

As for the long-term strategic effects: We don’t know. But we do know that the cherished “peace process” doesn’t even have zombie status.

Will there be more terrorism? Sure. As there would have been more terrorism, anyway. Terrorism isn’t about us, it’s about them.

If Arab leaders refuse to let the “Palestinian question” shape their policies, why should we allow it to deform ours?

A Central Asian proverb runs that “The dog may bark, but the caravan moves on.” The hounds of appeasement have barked for generations, but the Israeli caravan kept going, arriving at the only admirable (or even livable) state in the Middle East, an island of civilization amid vast deserts of barbarism.

Last week, President Trump did some small justice to that

God bless Isreal

Good piece.

The dog may bark, but the caravan moves on.

Let the extremist Islamic fundamentalists, including their Nigerian counterparts, keep barking, while Israel and America move on with what is but moral, practical and historical conformation.

Well done Trump.... My fellow gemini

Intelligent writeup. The ball is now in their court, let them do their worst and let judgement be passed on them once and for all

Insightful.

Scripture is being fulfilled

Lolz.
Little wonder why our own Buhari has been quiet since after carrying d plight of Rhohingya muslims on his head like gala during his UN speech.
His puppeteers in Saudi Arabia probably instructed him to take a pass.

ShinnBet:
In the wake of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week, the “experts” crowding the media predicted strategic calamity: Vast, violent protests and a wave of terror would sweep the Muslim world in the coming days.

Instead, the largest demonstration anywhere this weekend was the funeral procession for Johnny Hallyday, the “French Elvis.” Nothing in the Middle East came close.

We have witnessed, yet again, the carefully phrased anti-Semitism of the pristinely educated; the global left’s fanatical pro-Palestinian bias; and the media’s yearning for career-making disasters.

Rather than waves of protest, the waiting world got tepid statements of disapproval from otherwise-occupied Arab governments; demonstrations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that, combined, barely put a thousand activists in the streets; and yes, four deaths: two demonstrators and two Hamas terrorists hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Sunday did see a smallish protest outside the US Embassy in Lebanon, but it was hardly Benghazi under Barack Obama. Predictably, Turkish President and self-appointed sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan (officially our NATO ally) didn’t miss the chance to spew venom toward Israel, the US and Europe. But even in Turkey, things were all quiet on the Bosporus front.

An act of justice for Israel did not ignite Armageddon.

A generation ago, a US president’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would, indeed, have led to mass demonstrations and widespread violence. But now? While the endlessly recycled experts snoozed, the Middle East changed profoundly.

Once upon a time, the Palestinians were the only game at the propaganda casino, a marvelous tool for Arab leaders to divert attention from domestic failures. Then came al Qaeda. And Iraq. Iranian empire-building. The Arab Spring. The oil price collapse and the rise of ISIS, with its butcher-shop caliphate. The civil war in Syria, with half a million dead. And, not least, the region-wide confrontation between decaying Sunni power and rising Shia might.

Nor did it help the Palestinians that many of them sided with the Assad regime, alienating former partners from Amman to Beirut.


But by far the most significant factor is that Israel has become an indispensable, if quiet, ally of Sunni states against Iran. Although well-armed, Saudi Arabia remains inept on the battlefield, bogged down in Yemen and terrified of Iranian gains in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Israel doesn’t need Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia definitely needs Israel.

Nor does the United States automatically do Riyadh’s bidding these days.

As for Iran, the regional ambitions of Israel’s top enemy have ironically made it Israel’s unintentional benefactor. To the Arabs, yesteryear’s Israeli boogeyman now looks more like Caspar the Friendly Ghost. “Palestine” is so over . . .

And blame the Palestinians, not Israel, for their lack of statehood. Since the failed 1948 Arab assault on newly reborn Israel, the Palestinians have had literally dozens of opportunities for an advantageous peace. Yet even Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — no friends to the blue-and-white flag — ended up frustrated as Palestinian leaders, on the cusp of peace time and again, decided that three-quarters of the pie was insufficient.

Inevitably, the pie got smaller over time — but the Palestinian leadership continued to profit from “occupied” status. Now it’s too late for anything that looks like a viable Palestinian state. It’s time we all faced that reality.

In Paris this weekend for talks with the French president, Israel’s plainspoken prime minister stated that Jerusalem always has been and always will be Israel’s capital, and that the city has never been the capital of any state but the Jewish state. Trump simply recognized that moral, practical and historical truth.

And lest any reader mistake this as a partisan paean to our president, let it be noted that I am not and never have been among the president’s fans. But Trump got this one right. The reflexive condemnation of his action by the usual suspects was indecent.

As for the long-term strategic effects: We don’t know. But we do know that the cherished “peace process” doesn’t even have zombie status.

Will there be more terrorism? Sure. As there would have been more terrorism, anyway. Terrorism isn’t about us, it’s about them.

If Arab leaders refuse to let the “Palestinian question” shape their policies, why should we allow it to deform ours?

A Central Asian proverb runs that “The dog may bark, but the caravan moves on.” The hounds of appeasement have barked for generations, but the Israeli caravan kept going, arriving at the only admirable (or even livable) state in the Middle East, an island of civilization amid vast deserts of barbarism.

Last week, President Trump did some small justice to that

You are not the writer of this article so i wont say much but Trump is doing more damage to US image across the globe. There might be no irrational reactions from Muslim countries I believe it's to come up with a more decisive action to push back excesses of Israel n the USA.

Ballmer:


You are not the writer of this article so i wont say much but Trump is doing more damage to US image across the globe. There might be no irrational reactions from Muslim countries I believe is to come up with a decisive action to push back excesses of Israel n the USA.

. when has terrotorial claims become synonynous with religion?.

Answer that question and have it in the back of your mind that Jerusalem under Jewish control invalidates the propherhood claims of mohammed and his religion

when are they started the 3rd World War.
I wanna watch a live war movie

Israel will always have an upper hand over her enemies. It's divine!! Islamic nations should continue living with that

They are free to explode

Some fools are better ignored the same fool claim there will be riots in the North several times but each time the devil he worships disappoints him.

Stalwert:
Some fools are better ignored the same fool claim there will be riots in the North several times but each time the devil he worships disappoints him.

Because your Arab masters in Saudi need Israel more than Israel needs them

The Jews now control the ummah with their stooges in Saudi Arabia

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Ballmer:


You are not the writer of this article so i wont say much but Trump is doing more damage to US image across the globe. There might be no irrational reactions from Muslim countries I believe it's to come up with a more decisive action to push back excesses of Israel n the USA.

[/s]KEEP DECIEVING UR SELF...TRUMP HAS BROUGHT BLESSING TO THE USA WITH THIS REGCONTION

ShinnBet:

. when has terrotorial claims become synonynous with religion?.

Answer that question and have it in the back of your mind that Jerusalem under Jewish control invalidates the propherhood claims of mohammed and his religion

Invalidating wetin
What are you saying

experience of the 6days war.where tiny israel spanked the whole arab world lol. they dare not try israel

Ballmer:


You are not the writer of this article so i wont say much but Trump is doing more damage to US image across the globe. There might be no irrational reactions from Muslim countries I believe it's to come up with a more decisive action to push back excesses of Israel n the USA.

Is there any decisive action more than Muslims blowing their selves up?

I take no sides on this issue.

Israelites and Phillistines are brothers, they should make peace with each other and live by example.

Jesus Christ and Mohammed are brothers, they should make peace with each other.

The Gods and the Angels are not religious.

We are one race, one specie and we must not continue to fight each other while goats, cows, pigs and even rats laugh at us. We have the most advanced brain, but we fight and kill each other and the mosquitoes are laughing at us.

I don't even knw the connection with Islam and Jerusalem, just like saying Christian having something affiliated with Mecca. All I know is that the truth will always prevail and for Jerusalem, it has come to stay as the capital of Isreal and so shall it be for ever and ever (Amen). If you're pained you can go through Lybia to Palestine to go and protest.

Billyonaire:
I take no sides on this issue.

Israelites and Phillistines are brothers, they should make peace with each other and live by example.

Jesus Christ and Mohammed are brothers, they should make peace with each other.

The Gods and the Angels are not religious.

We are one race, one specie and we must not continue to fight each other while goats, cows, pigs and even rats laugh at us. We have the most advanced brain, but we fight and kill each other and the mosquitoes are laughing at us.

Are high on Oshogbo weed? Jesus Christ and Mohammed where never in any way or circumstances related. we know Jesus history but of Mohammed no one knows.

samsono30:


Are high on Oshogbo weed? Jesus Christ and Mohammed where never in any way or circumstances related. we know Jesus history but of Mohammed no one knows.

I have nothing against Weed, especially the Oshogbo weed, which I understand make Oshogbo people wonderful set of humans. I spent a year at Ila Orangun, the home town of former IG Tafa Balogun, so I love Osun people.

Do not generalize your ignorance of the history of Mohammed. There is a place called Internet, from whence you type this nonsense. Go to google and search for the history of Prophet Mohammed(SAW), he is the Prophet of a God called Allah. I hope you know how to google for Jesus aka Issa Ibn Mariam aka Yahushua Ha Mashiach, he is an Avatar of Light, from the Christ Consciousness. Most people link him to the God Jehovah, but from my understanding, these two Entities came with a simple Message of Love and Peace, but humans decided to immortalize them instead of the message. That was wrong.

During their physical mortality, they came through the Descendant of Abram aka Abraham aka Ibrahim. So these two Religions are silly in essence that they have ignored the Fact that Jesus and Mohammed are of the same bloodlines and instead of sharing this understanding and make shame of the politics of the world, they dive in foolishly fighting each other and threatening the Peace of this Planet.

I am not religious, and I will never be, not because I do not like Religion, but one can not Preach a Message of Peace yet become extreme terrorists while the other Preach the message of Love but does not tolerate those who do not believe in their God and type of Heaven.

Next time you want to be stupid, be careful not to insult my username, because I come to this forum with Love and Peace, something you idiots can not do through your religions and I never insult until I feel insulted.

By the way, if you have some Oshogbo weed, feel free to share. It is time I join the Cannabis evolution going on now globally.

The dumb masses don't even know what's up. Going rabid all over social media

The fact is that this people are using the terror records they have against the world as an advantage to always blackmail the world with threats of violence as if monopoly of violence is limited to them alone. And that also implies that they are proud of their terror penchant. It's only when one begins to succumb to their terror blackmails that they will begin to fill in control, but when a high spirited man like TRUMP challenges their criminal based statuesque, you know that this people has long been overrated.

God bless Donald J. Chukwuma TRUMP!
God bless United States of America(USA)
God bless United States of Biafra (USB)
God punish United States of Terrorists(UST)

Crap!!! It beats imagination of sensible folks how iddiots come on here to spew toilet standard bullsh1t due to religion affiliation. The Israelis are the oppressor in this scenario any sensible human should side with the oppressed. The same Israeli government supported apartheid south Africa against the black folks, yet religious brainwashed black men still side with peeps that view em less than human.

Ballmer:


You are not the writer of this article so i wont say much but Trump is doing more damage to US image across the globe. There might be no irrational reactions from Muslim countries I believe it's to come up with a more decisive action to push back excesses of Israel n the USA.

One thing about all these terrorists like this idiot is that because they always on the wrong side, they lack the ability to confront issues with counter arguments, instead they always entrench violence as measure for disagreement on issues. Now to the terrorist above, the plans of the arab states to dominate the world with blackmails of terrorism and intimidations are gradually getting crumbling, and is left for them to rightly advise themselves, else... The biblical prophecies will come to pass against them.

Gone are those days when muslims persecute others.. Now the hunter has become the hunted all thanks to oga Donald.

Go to core muslim countries, they don't allow churches or christianity but they go to other countries and want freedom to practice their own religion.

Times have changed.

Billyonaire:


I have nothing against Weed, especially the Oshogbo weed, which I understand make Oshogbo people wonderful set of humans. I spent a year at Ila Orangun, the home town of former IG Tafa Balogun, so I love Osun people.

Do not generalize your ignorance of the history of Mohammed. There is a place called Internet, from whence you type this nonsense. Go to google and search for the history of Prophet Mohammed(SAW), he is the Prophet of a God called Allah. I hope you know how to google for Jesus aka Issa Ibn Mariam aka Yahushua Ha Mashiach, he is an Avatar of Light, from the Christ Consciousness. Most people link him to the God Jehovah, but from my understanding, these two Entities came with a simple Message of Love and Peace, but humans decided to immortalize them instead of the message. That was wrong.

During their physical mortality, they came through the Descendant of Abram aka Abraham aka Ibrahim. So these two Religions are silly in essence that they have ignored the Fact that Jesus and Mohammed are of the same bloodlines and instead of sharing this understanding and make shame of the politics of the world, they dive in foolishly fighting each other and threatening the Peace of this Planet.

I am not religious, and I will never be, not because I do not like Religion, but one can not Preach a Message of Peace yet become extreme terrorists while the other Preach the message of Love but does not tolerate those who do not believe in their God and type of Heaven.

Next time you want to be stupid, be careful not to insult my username, because I come to this forum with Love and Peace, something you idiots can not do through your religions and I never insult until I feel insulted.

By the way, if you have some Oshogbo weed, feel free to share. It is time I join the Cannabis evolution going on now globally.

God bless you
You will hear those fo0ls ask ignorantly where were the arabs when Jesus was walking the streets of Jerusalem. My response to them is the part I highlighted in your post. There conveniently forgot or choose to be stup!d by pretending Abraham and Ishmael walked the street of Jerusalem thousands of years before Mary (i.e Jesus's mother) was born.

I wonder why we can't all just live in peace. I have not seen any difference in the message of Moses (AS), Jesus (AS) and Mohammed (SAW)

Don't be deceive!

The Muslim world are busy recruiting people for there suicide mission to Jerusalem as we speak! But don't worry, the lord we send confusing among them and them will bomb there own mosque with their people in it!

Just like what happen in Adamawa!

Alariiwo:
Gone are those days when muslims persecute others.. Now the hunter has become the hunted all thanks to oga Donald.

Go to core muslim countries, they don't allow churches or christianity but they go to other countries and want freedom to practice their own religion.

Times have changed.

so true!

Them wanted to do the same here but God sent confusion among them and them started killing themselves!

Them know the Truth!

The Arab League has just recognized east Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, you kiriyos and your Donald Thrash can bring it on, we have enough crosses to nail you to.