Trump delivers to the Jews ‘a state of unconditional legitimacy’

Rarely in recent years has the tendency of Western European and Canadian leaders to bustle about international crises, inflicting mindless pieties about “cease-fires” and “de-escalations” and wringing their hands about the lack of judgments of American leadership, been exposed as such piffle as in the last week. Many of them, including the current leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Canada, in uttering such nonsense, have just been proposing the continuation of frequent terrorist activity against Israel by Hamas and Hezbollah, prompted by Iran, and of a policy of supine toleration of the criminally diseased regime in Tehran arming itself with nuclear weapons. That large echelon of European commentators and office-holders whose chief apparent occupation is wobbling at the knees in contemplation of any action of President Trump, over-confidently assumed that he would do no more than they would to prevent Iran completing its accession to nuclear military capability, after the asinine agreement of ten years ago under which Iran would now be fully armed with nuclear weapons with the blessings of the so-called Great Powers.

The ultra-sophisticated American air squadron that brought down the underground facilities housing the most advanced nuclear military activities in Iran had scarcely departed the airspace of that country, without incurring a single casualty, before ululations of alarm rose heaven-wards from the capitals of America’s principal NATO allies that a wider and more terrible war was now inevitable, even though habitually anti-American outlets like the BBC and the Guardian engaged in the rank conjuration that the US Air Force and Navy had done only minor damage to the Iranian nuclear programme and had greatly increased the danger of nuclear conflict in the Middle East. There was pandemical concern at the spread and intensification of the war, until Trump announced that a cease-fire had been agreed.

There are also some unpleasant lessons in these affairs for the Russians. The Russian S300 and S400 air defences were completely taken down by Israel. Israel also appears to have demolished Iran’s drone-building facilities which should leave Russia short of Shaheed drones for use in Ukraine. Iran will no longer have the resources to bankroll and resupply its terrorist puppets in the Middle East and the cause of terrorism generally has been dealt a shattering rebuff. There should now be no obstacle to conclusion of a comprehensive agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia and the full normalisation of relations between Israel and the Arab nations. The fact is that the Arab world has no interest in the Palestinians at all and the whole issue was maintained for decades as a distraction of the Arab masses from the misgovernment they were receiving from almost all of their rulers. The Hamas terrorist apparatus has been almost completely exterminated, and there may finally be a possibility of according the misbegotten and manipulated Arabs of Palestine a state, which they could have had at any time in the last 25 years, if their leaders had been prepared to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, which was the basis upon which Israel was founded by the United Nations in 1948.

The Islamist Republic has been a catastrophic 50-year interruption and degradation of the 3,000-year history of Persia. Xerxes was a statesman of surpassing genius and benignity compared to the ayatollahs. Trump is right to avoid seeking regime change. He has been the author of the greatest American geopolitical tour de force since President Nixon triangulated the Great Power relationship with China, signed the greatest arms control agreement in history with the USSR (which incidentally restored American nuclear superiority), and withdrew from Vietnam while preserving a non-Communist government in Saigon. But Americans should remember the appalling damage done by President Carter’s abandonment of the Shah, George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq which effectively made most of that country a vassal state of Iran, Obama and Biden’s appeasement of Iran, and the insane nuclear agreement with that country. Nor should the British forget that the origin of the principal Middle Eastern problem was when they sold the same real estate to two different parties in 1917, promising Palestine, which was governed by the Turks, simultaneously to the Jews and the Arabs.

It should cease to be so popular to disparage President Trump, who has shown both human qualities and geopolitical astuteness becoming to his great office, which was so inadequately executed by his three immediate predecessors. This has been the first test of the validity of the Jewish pledge after the genocidal massacres of the Third Reich: “Never again!” The Jewish people have validated that pledge and the United States has demonstrated that the Jewish people are no longer alone, as they have so often been in times of terrible adversity throughout their history. With American help, the Jews have achieved a state of unconditional legitimacy unprecedented in that history, and President Trump has given America its greatest Fourth of July present since Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence 249 years ago.