The Israeli Prime Minister stands in the White House alongside the Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain • Presiding prayer with representatives of Arab countries • And above all, breaking the concept of giving up territories • The dream of the new Middle East has come true • After last night's events,
When the ceremony that took place last night (Tuesday) at the White House ended, another event that has never been seen before.
Dozens of Jews, wearing kippahs and hats, stood up with a moment's enthusiasm to say the opening prayer.
Not far from them stood representatives of Arab countries who took part in the ceremony, Muslims religiously and legally, who knew that alongside them were the most right-wing wings of American and Israeli politics.
Trump on peace between Israel and the Emirates and Bahrain: "New dawn in the Middle East" // Photo: GPO
Nevertheless, such were partners in the upliftment.
Such people want peace.
Only those who fired missiles during the ceremony made it clear he wanted a war.
And after yesterday's events there are good reasons to believe that the warlords have become a minority in the Middle East.
Donald Trump has provided many historic moments to Israel in the last four years.
Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Iran, settlement in Judea and Samaria. One would think that there is no other record that can be broken. But yesterday the imaginary list was joined by a record high.
Through the intensive and creative mediation of senior Trump administration officials, the Israeli prime minister stood at the foot of the White House, with two foreign ministers from two of the leading Arab countries by his side.
This image and this status will be etched forever in the history of the Jewish people and their state.
In America it is common for a bad movie to end in a good ending.
But yesterday on the Southern Lawn, you had to pinch yourself to make it clear that this is not a movie but a reality.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs peace with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. We were like dreamers.
Tired of hostility
The Arab countries, as expressed in the speeches of the two foreign ministers - and in particular of the emirate Abdullah bin Zayd who spoke Arabic to his audience at home - want to put the hostility period behind them.
They accept Israel as it is - a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, with a large Arab minority, which controls the territories of Judea and Samaria and strives for peace, but without endangering its future and security.
With this country, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and possibly other countries, intend to join hands for the future.
It was impossible not to get excited, admired and impressed by the way this peace was achieved, which breaks so many conventions we have been told about.
First, as Netanyahu has been saying for so many years, peace is achieved out of strength and not out of weakness and concessions.
This, rather than cowardly retreats from surfaces, is impressive statesmanship.
PM Netanyahu's Speech at the Signing of the Peace Agreement Ceremony // Photo: GPO
Second, who achieved this peace?
The same people in the left-wing media and among the peace experts of all kinds, slander as warriors, as dangerous or even as "new Hitler".
Yes, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump have cast a ridiculous light on the insults that the Israeli and American media have been hurling at them for so many years.
Equally important, the mediation moves themselves were made by two young men, who grew up in yeshivas and not in the peace industry.
Following the agreement of one Abraham, Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz, David Friedman and others, thousands of studies on the "way to resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict" were thrown in the trash.
In the Middle East, and in the history of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, a turning point took place yesterday, the effects of which will be felt for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years.