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Century Plan and Evangelical Context

2020-01-25T21:55:03.737Z


Jacob Ahimeir


A question, and perhaps an answer to it: Is there a solution to the wonder about what and why does President Trump want to present his plan for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within days? Is he not aware of the failures of his White House predecessors who sought to perpetuate their names in the words of the endless conflict?

There are those, like me, who are impressed by President Trump's sobriety, uncompromising, unsophisticated, even logical policies. Makes sense, Trumpist style of course. Here is an example of this line of thinking: Trump resents US alliance with NATO alliance because financial portion of US alliance is disproportionate to US. He is highly qualified by his country's membership of the UN, which most of its companies, including Europeans, Despise his administration. Still, strangely for the Trumpist taste, the US is vigorously strengthening this organization. President Trump often asks: Why should the US be involved in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and more war conflicts? Aren't they, Americans, in the Vietnam War traumatizing the lives of more than 50,000 American cavalry?

Still, the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not seem to be dropping out of its agenda, and within days, as stated, it will lay down its peace plan. This is true, although its chances of being realized, at least a settlement if not reconciliation, are slim to nil. Well, Trump has a concern that is only growing: his election to a second term in the November election. Its success, whose chances are not bad, depends on an important population segment: the evangelical movement. This is the movement that prompted President Trump to take steps his predecessors did not dare to take: for example, transferring the embassy to Jerusalem, recognition of Israeli rule in the Golan Heights, and more. Not only that, apart from the ideological fraternity that prevails between him and Netanyahu, Trump strives for the proper maintenance of the evangelical movement's support for religious goals of religious significance, such as recognition of Jerusalem or continued Israeli control of Judea and Samaria, to the tacit agreement to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, .

It is quite possible that without maintaining his identity with the evangelicals, of whom about 60 million believe in the US, Trump would not have come to the White House. Not because he has dismissed Mike Pence, devout of this religious adherence. This weekend, Trump strengthened his adherence In this conservatism, when he became the first US president in office to publicly declare that he strongly opposes abortion, he announced on Friday in a "March for Life" protest against federal funding for abortion, prompting the Republican Party to return to values They have roots in US law, such as supporting the right to bear arms, despite the mass killings.

Meanwhile, it is a very worrying phenomenon that jeopardizes his political future: it turns out that the abandonment movement from the Trump camp is growing stronger within the evangelical movement. The editor of an evangelical personality-owned journal recently called for President Trump's ouster, not least because of the suspicion that Trump is involved in the Ukraine investigation into his Democrat rival Joe Biden. As is well known, this is the cause of the Senate impeachment hearings, and earlier in the House of Representatives.

A wise American, Henry Kissinger, once said, Israel has no foreign policy but domestic policy. It is possible today that this rule could also be applied to the United States, under President Trump.

For further opinions of Yaakov Ahimeir

Source: israelhayom

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