Moving the embassy to Jerusalem brought peace

Tonight in Jerusalem:

President Trump hosted the heads of three states Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, today to sign the Abraham Accords which means two Arab states will officially recognize Israel as a state.

More will follow.

He said, "Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain will establish embassies, exchange ambassadors, and begin to work together as partners. They are friends."

The American press is largely ignoring this achievement because it does not fit the Democrat narrative. Besides, peace doesn't attract the viewership that war brings in.

Fox's news site did not mention it. CNN illustrated its analysis with a picture of Begin, Sadat and Jimmy Carter signing the Camp David accord 42 years ago. Egypt's recognition of Israel was historic, but followed only by Jordan 16 years later.

I am not denigrating the work of Carter and Clinton, but rather pointing out how difficult it is to get these sides together. The 1978 peace accord led to Sadat's assassination. I don't blame others for hesitating.

President Trump is hopeful that Arabia will finally be open about its tolerance of Israel. There has not been a war in 47 years after 3 in 25 years. Israel went 3-0.

Mark Knoller of CBS tweeted, "Now President Trump says he expects 7, 8, or 9 additional countries to agree to normalization of relations with Israel. Just a few hours earlier, he put the number at 5, 6, or 7. Before leaving WH for a Town Hall in Philadelphia, he said he thinks Saudi Arabia will be one of them."

I will believe the Saudis will open an embassy in Jerusalem when they actually do.

Still, I am an optimistic about that. Saudi Arabia -- the home of Mecca -- is the crown jewel. As other Gulf states recognize Israel, this eases the pressure on the Saudis to stop snubbing Israel publicly.

Privately, the Saudis and the Israelis have partnered on a few things, including defense projects. The Saudis quietly allowed flights between Israel and India to cross their borders.

The experts in Washington said President Trump would bring war, not peace. They also said Obama would bring peace, not war.

The Brookings Institute -- revered by the uniparty and Fake News journalists alike -- posted on January 30, 2017, "Why moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem would be dangerous and unwise."

The story said, "Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would reverse 70 years of U.S. policy and needlessly antagonize a quarter of the world’s inhabitants, writes Khaled Elgindy, who argues that the move wouldn't advance U.S. interests or make Americans safer at home or abroad."

The institute said, "Those advocating for moving the embassy assert that it would have only minimal security or diplomatic fallout. They argue that relocating the American embassy to West Jerusalem would not necessarily preclude the possibility of either an independent Palestine or a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. However, unless the United States is prepared simultaneously to establish an embassy to the State of Palestine in East Jerusalem — the likelihood of which is virtually nil — it would merely be validating Israel’s exclusivist claim over the whole of Jerusalem.

"Whatever pretexts are used, the reality is that calls for moving the embassy ultimately have less to do with American policy or national security considerations than with cultural and ideological ones. This was evident in Trump’s speech before the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee last summer, in which he first announced his intention to 'move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.' Such assertions reflect a particular worldview in which Jerusalem belongs solely to the Jewish people, or at best to Judeo-Christian civilization, while diminishing (or denying altogether) the city’s Palestinian, Arab and Islamic heritage."

What a load of ignorance.

That 70 years of U.S. policy failed to bring peace to the Middle East.

Clinton and Ehud Barak offered Arafat his own state. He declined because his goal was to eliminate Israel.

The Palestinians, however, represent a very small portion of Arabs and Muslims. Most of them don't care about Palestine because they have their own problems. 99 to be exact. Israel ain't one.

By moving our embassy to Jerusalem, President Trump signaled to the world that Palestinians no longer controlled U.S. policy in the Mideast.

A far wiser reader than me wrote, "Today's peace agreement is truly historic. Other Arab states may follow. However, Iran and possibly Turkey are sitting on the fence awaiting the results of the presidential election. I hope the American electorate is smart enough this time to seize the day and re-elect President Trump. If this happens I believe Iran, Turkey, and possibly North Korea and China will fall in line and true peace might break out.

"I was a staff officer at Headquarters Strategic Air Command at the end of Desert Storm. We had a sign on the wall with the three biggest threats listed -- Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, with Iraq crossed out. The US had a strong European and Arab coalition against Iraq and had convinced Israel to hold her fire in retaliation for Iraq Scuds fired at Israel. All this country had to do was re-elect George H.W. Bush and the threat countries would have fallen in line and there might have been a chance for real peace in the Middle East. But we foolishly elected that snake oil salesman from Arkansas along with his bitch of a wife. The whole thing fell apart and Clinton sold out our country to Red China providing them with nuclear and missile technology that allowed them to leap 25 years ahead of where they were.

"We actually had another chance under George W. Bush, with initial victories in Afghanistan and Iraq. Libya gave up their nuclear program as a result and Iran might have followed; however, the evil democrats played politics and started the ridiculous where's the Iraq WMD? bullshit that weakened our hand. As a result Iran dug in their heels and resisted coming on board. The Green Revolution failed because the American electorate fell for another snake oil salesman -- the human scum Obama. He sat on his hands when a little encouragement from us might have enabled the Green Revolution to succeed and overthrow the Mullahs. I believe that McCain would have shown support for the Green Revolution.

"We now have perhaps one last chance to establish peace throughout the world. The key is to re-elect President Trump. If we don't, China and Iran will own Joe Biden and his worthless son and brothers. I hope the American electorate gets it right this time. Our country and the world depends on it."

37 states.

Bret Stephens -- a fake conservative at the New York Times -- said President Trump got lucky, "A final point about these deals: This wasn’t supposed to happen. Not under the leadership of Israel’s supposedly bellicose Benjamin Netanyahu; certainly not through the diplomatic offices of the usually crazy/amateurish/perverse Trump administration. Luck and timing played a part, as they always do."

Yes, just like Donald Trump got lucky in building a resort empire, got lucky in penning best-sellers, got lucky in marrying beautiful women, got lucky in having a hit TV show, and got lucky in winning the presidency.

Moving the embassy to Jerusalem made this possible, as did plenty of hard work and statesmanship by everyone involved on all sides.

And it is not over until the House of Saud joins in.

Back in 2017, the Brookings Institute said, "The onus is on President Trump and his administration to explain to the American people and the world how reversing 70 years of U.S. policy while needlessly antagonizing a quarter of the world’s inhabitants advances U.S. interests, or makes Americans safer at home or abroad."

President Trump delivered his answer today.