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Since the re -election of President Trump we have seen the most memorable first two weeks of each presidential term of office. But even according to Trump’s standards, this weekly meeting With the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu cannot be considered something other than historical.
In his first term, their discussions produced the praised Abraham agreements.
This time President Trump came out and said what no American leader had the courage to say since the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023: the United States are willing to perform and a leading role in the middle -old To play to prevent such an attack can happen again.
But the only way to ensure that history does not repeat is to break the paradigm of failure that has been repeated half a century and creating a new mold. President Trump’s meeting With Netanyahu suggests that he intends to do exactly that.
For those 50 years, America and others have failed because of the insistence that the Palestinians are something that they are not: a nation state. Without the sustainable institutions of a state, such efforts appear to be pointless, a fact that appears from the inability in the long term to achieve the so -called “two -state solution”, despite the insistence over generations that it should be the case.
Now President Trump is taking a new tack. He acknowledges that the situation in Gaza is untenable. In his joint press conference with Netanyahu last night, he announced his intention to initiate an American acquisition of the Gaza Strip, temporarily moving Palestinians and developing the war-torn region to the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’.
By doing this, President Trump provided for which the international community (and many Americans in political left) have called since the start of the war: a plan for the “day after” the war in Gaza. Instead of rejecting this plan hysterically, the people who demanded it, either one of their own proposal or should handle it.
This proposal reflects Trump’s determination not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. Gaza is currently missing the institutions to make a two -state solution viable. Doing that they exist will only lead to failure – which is unacceptable in an area that is crucial for the safety of Israel that the American taxpayers has already cost many billions of dollars.
President Trump’s position illustrates his understanding of this, as well as his ability to recognize a valuable piece of real estate when he sees one, especially one that falls so far below the potential.
Critics all the plan of President Trump simply argue with parrots where talks from a right -wing Israeli playbook, and that it marks a “alarming escalation in the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians.”
But this is not at all what the president has suggested. Instead, his goal is to rebuild Gaza As a place that is no longer a launch platform for terror attacks – something that makes it a better and safer place for Palestinians to live if they choose to make this their future instead of staying in eternal victimization.
These critics are some of the same people who have predicted virtual apocalypse when Trump announced the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2017. With a similar certainty as what they now claim, they stated that the relocation would inflam the Arab street, and the neighbors of Israel would be forced to take on the Jewish state To fall if they wanted to attack the Jewish state if they would attack the Jewish state or they would attack the Jewish state or they would attack the Jewish state or they would attack the Jewish state or not. It is clear that their claims were not true then and there is no reason to assume that they will do so now.
In that case, in that case the decision of President Trump, nor merely talk points of the Israeli on the right turned out. On the contrary, the clarity that brought the movement to the region about the American position, secured peace in Jerusalem, on the way to the wider peace of the Abraham agreements.
Today, President Trump is expanding that pattern further by offering Palestinians what he has always offered: peace through prosperity. It is theirs to take.
