Caroline Glick: Trump’s great gifts to Israel and America

I keep saying to myself:

"No more blog posts about Trump and Jerusalem."

But then I just can't think of anything more important and timely. I've been getting messages from all sorts of people, friends and family from all over asking about how Trump's statement is affecting us. The media keeps on saying that the Arabs will riot, another intifada. I've lived through all the previous intifadas and even was injured in a terror attack over twenty years ago. For whatever reason, I felt less in danger afterward. When it's time to die, we'll die, whether murdered or in our sleep, whether illness or attacked. Terrorists don't obey reason. If the Arabs had wanted peace, we would have achieved peace with them decades ago. They don't want peace, and they're encouraged in their violence by the international media and so-called diplomats from most countries and international bodies. They're waiting for the world to explode, so they can blame it on Israel and Donald Trump. 

Caroline Glick stats things very clearly here:

Trump’s great gifts to Israel and America
With his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump gave a Hanukka gift to the Jewish people. But he also gave a Christmas gift to the American people.

Trump’s gift to Israel is not merely that 68 years after Israel declared Jerusalem its capital, the US finally recognized Israel’s capital.

In his declaration, Trump said, “Israel has made its capital in the city of Jerusalem, the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times.”

By stating this simple truth, Trump fully rejected the anti-Israel legacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.

In his speech in Cairo in 2009, Obama intimated that Israel’s legitimacy is rooted in the Holocaust, rather than in the Jewish nation’s millennial attachment to the Land of Israel. Whereas the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate rooted the Jewish people’s sovereign rights to the Land of Israel in its 3,500-year relationship with it, Obama said that Israel is nothing more than a refugee camp located in an inconvenient area. In so doing, he gave credence to the anti-Israel slander that Israel is a colonialist power.

By asserting the real basis for Israel’s legitimacy, Trump made clear that the Jewish people is indigenous to the Land of Israel. He also made it US policy to view Israel’s right to exist, like its right to its capital city, as unconditional.

Trump’s extraordinary gift to Israel was an act of political and moral courage. It was also a stroke of strategic brilliance. (read the complete article-click)