Today is a historic day. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem from the Jordanians, President Trump made a historic visit, the first of any American President in US history, to the Western Wall. The timing of this could not have been better. 50 years ago on this very eve, for the first time in over 2,000 years, we saw the return of my people, the Jewish people to our one most sacred sites, the Western Wall or the Kotel, and the re-establishment of united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. And for the first time since the destruction f the Temple in 70 C.E., all of the major Abrahamic faiths have had free and open access to their houses on worship within this sacred city.
In contrast to this, President Obama, who as his administration was in its waning days had refused to veto a United Nations resolution calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.”
If one picture is worth a thousand words, President Trump’s visit today, to this, the most sacred place for the Jews symbolically refutes his predecessor’s cavalier dismissal of the moral, historic and religious claim of our people to this Holy site.
For many other reasons, the timing of this visit could not have been better. It is as though President Trump has put his finger on the proverbial reset button and is reestablishing America’s traditional alliances and friendships that were substantially damaged during the Obama administration.
These include alliances with the Gulf Arab states, Israel and Egypt. The cement that glues together the Sunni Arab countries with the state of Israel is the very real, lethal threat of a nuclear Iran, which as you all know, has been immensely enriched, emboldened and empowered because of President Obama’s appeasement policies towards the Shiite theocratic regime.
It is also a historic day because President Trump, in impromptu remarks with Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed that “Iran will never have nuclear weapons, that I can tell you.”
And again, the timing of this, on the immediate tail of the sham elections in Iran, could not have been better. President Rouhani, the so –called moderate was re-elected on Friday. President Rouhani has proven to be nothing more than a wolf in sheep’s clothing He had spoke eloquently at the United Nations to seduce the world into the fallacious belief that he was a moderate and a peacemaker, when all he wanted was sanctions relief in order to use this money to further buttress the control of the Iranian regime.
One cannot help but contrast President Trump’s words, to what happened in the very beginning of the Obama administration, the 2009 uprising against the Iranian theocratic regime, we remember that millions of people were on the street, holding up signs saying, “Obama where are you?”
These beautiful, freedom loving dissidents were being literally whipped, beaten and trampled on by the stallions of the regime, their skulls were being crushed, and many were carted off to the notorious Evin prison never to be seen or heard from again.
President Obama’s calloused ignoring of the voices of the freedom-loving dissidents, we now understand in retrospect, was part of a way of setting the stage to cozy up to the mullahs, for a negotiation or rather, a capitulation of historic proportions to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
An immensely enriched Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continues to sew unrest throughout Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. And it has provided Hezbollah and the IRGC with no less than 100,000 missiles. They are now just slightly north of Israel’s Golan Heights where they can easily reach Tel Aviv. Tehran views itself as the rightful heir to the thrown of Islam and seeks to dominate the region, if not, eventually the world and establish a Shiite caliphate.
The nuclear deal with Iran is enabling the Iranians to replace their old centrifuges with more modern ones that should take about 6 months to enrich uranium to the highly purified point for a bomb, to approximately 3 weeks.
President Trump, in his foreign trip, has telegraphed to the world that a new sheriff is in town, and that we, once again, can be relied upon by our friends and feared by our enemies.
Reprinted with author’s permission from EMET Online
