“Region-Changing”

Not even a clown like Joe Biden can unravel one of President Trump’s centerpieces of achievement: the realignment of the Middle East.

Now comes word that a Moroccan delegation is bound for Jerusalem. This is surely as astonishing as Anwar Sadat’s visit to the Holy City in 1977. Morocco you’ll recall jumped onboard the train carrying the UAE and others.

According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, a delegation will work to “create several work groups to discuss mutual cooperation concerning water, energy, investments and tourism.” This comes after a Friday conversation between Benjamin Netanyahu and the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI.

Morocco, perched on the northwest tip of Africa, is an important new partner for the Israelis. The country has a population of 37 million and is 99 percent Muslim! Deep State types like Brookings (along with leftist media) are quick to try and find any tiny negative; remember, they have a vested interested in undoing the marvelous achievements of the anti-globalist Trump.

One of the benefits (motivations) for the Moroccans is international recognition of their sovereignty over the Western Sahara.

And here is a Brookings negative wave for the whole affair:

“Partial normalization has triggered outrage from some of Morocco’s neighbors and will likely upset many of its citizens; indeed, 88% of surveyed Moroccans said they would oppose diplomatic recognition of Israel, and 70% viewed the Palestinian cause as one that concerns all Arabs (according to the 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index). While this discontent may not translate into immediate contestation, it will taint citizens’ view of the regime and may shift state-society relations in the long term.”

Don’t be too sure though that diplomatic cocktail sippers in Washington really know what the average Moroccan thinks. I remember reading once a comment from an Israeli diplomat describing the Syrian regime’s insistence that “Syrians” demand the return of the Golan Heights:

“In a totalitarian regime, no one knows what the populace thinks.”

That’s a fair point and one to keep in mind as this nascent regional cooperation. Indeed, if normalization takes root, everyone benefits.

Except the terrorists.

However, there is also this:

“Immediately after Trump’s announcement, the royal cabinet issued a press release discussing a phone call between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and King Mohammed VI — who is incidentally the chairman of the Al-Quds Committee (a committee under the auspices of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in charge of discussing and implementing resolutions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict). The implication of this phone call and the communication around it is that the Palestinian issue remains an important matter to the Moroccan regime and that ties remain strong between the two parties. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has claimed Morocco’s position on Palestine has not changed; it continues to support a two-state solution and to promote negotiations between both sides that would lead to definitive peace.”

Those of us in the RR family always have to have the long, prophetic view. Plenty of passages in books like Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel (among others) tell us that in the end, Israel will have no friendly superpower backing it, and in fact will be devoid of friends.

I personally see the Palestinian issue as the end-times trigger to war over Jerusalem, so it makes sense that this gang of criminals (PLO) will continue to agitate both on the ground and diplomatically around the world. We have to be honest and see that the Gulf States cooperation with Israel is probably purely for pragmatic reasons. It will take generations for people’s hearts to change, if they do.

Too, the malevolent actions of Biden and the gang of criminals that run Washington will continue to agitate grievances of the Palestinians. And this is a non-partisan issue in DC; both Republicans and Democrats have worked mightily to ruin peace in the Middle East. They won’t stop doing that.

Still, let us look at this latest diplomatic achievement as something akin to Egypt and Jordan. At least for a generation, those countries have not been at war with Israel.

And even one life saved is cause for celebration.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

www.thegodthatanswers.com

 

The Politics of Corruption

Mahmoud Abbas has been “president” of the Palestinian Authority for 16 years. And yes, you’re right; I mean the Holocaust denier and funder of terrorists.

When the goblin known as Yasser Arafat was removed from this earth in 2004, it seemed logical that his righthand man would take over. That was the last time the Palestinians saw anything resembling an election.

(And yes, those elections are rigged, too.)

Abbas’s problem/rival is of course Hamas, the terrorist group formed in 1987. Hamas is sort of Mr. Hyde to the PA/PLO’s Henry Jekyll. One is an open brute, the other wears suits and sleeps in the Lincoln bedroom.

Notice this interesting background, courtesy of the Jerusalem Post:

“In the past few years, Abbas has come under pressure from Palestinians and various international parties, especially the European Union, to set a date for general elections, notwithstanding the ongoing dispute between Fatah and Hamas.

“Rebuffing the pressure, Abbas constantly cited Hamas’s refusal to cede control of the Gaza Strip as the main reason the Palestinians cannot hold free elections.

“In 2019, Abbas, during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, again pledged to call for general elections upon his return to Ramallah.

“A few days later, however, he found another excuse to avoid fulfilling his promise. This time, he blamed Israel for obstructing the proposed elections by refusing to allow the vote to take place in Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Abbas’s allegation came despite the fact that he had never set a date for the elections or even made a formal request to Israel regarding the participation of Jerusalem Arabs in the vote.”

For his part, Abbas found himself in the exact right moment in history, when the Western powers fully lost their minds by pulling Arafat out of hiding in a cave in Algiers and giving him legitimacy. In 1990, the PLO was almost literally hanging from the edge of a cliff. Bankrupt and isolated, the killers were rescued in one of those historic head-scratchers. Just as America’s cabal has installed the corrupt Biden, to reverse all the policies that Trump installed to help our working class, President Bush 41, Tony Blair and other European elites set the stage for a quarter-century of murder of Jews in Israel, by propping-up Arafat and making him into a “statesman.” Meanwhile the Palestinian people suffer in poverty.

It made no moral sense. Still, they did it. Morally bankrupt people make insanely stupid decisions on a daily basis. And the rest of us suffer.

The Israelis will now suffer more because Biden will dust-off Oslo, and the corrupt, 85-year-old Abbas will be given free reign again to meddle and make mischief.

He shares another trait with the puppet Biden. Just as Lunch Bucket Joe is a craven career grifter, Abbas has amassed quite a fortune.

Stealing the West and his own people blind for decades, Abbas has a palace in Ramallah.

(If you need a laugh, Wikipedia identifies Abbas as the president of the “State of Palestine.” More upside-down world. There has never been and there is not now a “State of Palestine.” Oh well.)

He is worth at least $100 million.

On a drive along the Jordan Valley a few years ago, I took note of the palatial homes of PLO elites, alongside the shacks of their people. This is a big part of Abbas’s legacy.

Now at this moment of history, onto the stage walks a corrupt terrorist leader and his new counterpart in Washington.

God help us.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

www.thegodthatanswers.com