Trump has sided with Israel on the right side of history • United States has created opportunity for sovereignty in Israel • Century plan may not bring long-awaited peace with Palestinians, but it gives them four years to make decision • Realization of plan required statesman, non-politician • Special column

• Netanyahu and Trump at White House Ceremony // Photo: IP

• Ma'ale Adumim. Time for sovereignty // Photo: AFP

• Ma'aleh Mishmash, it's time to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria // Photo: IP

1. US President Donald Trump has for many months staged "the Oslo antibody." As much as we expected.

Yes, it is precisely this president, who many allow themselves to disdain, understood the Middle Eastern reality better than countless Orientalists, commentators, statesmen, diplomats from around the world and other advisers who, out of loyalty to magical but misguided paradigms, and in stubborn thought fixation, tied our future and our destiny The Palestinians: "We will return territories - we will get peace," "We will (or) make them a state, and the world will recognize us." In practice, we were withdrawn from homeland terrorists and "brought back" territories - but we received blood, terror and victims. But then we were told it was happening because we were "conquerors," and if we wanted it to stop, we should go out a little more, give some more, make more smooth.

White House history: Trump and Netanyahu present century plan // Photo: White House spokesmen

The Trump administration's centennial plan has come to one of the complex dilemmas in Israeli history with clean eyes, recognizing immediately the urgent need to change its concept. One great thing: it is connected to reality and adapted to the conditions of the field. Trump yesterday gave Israel the ladder to step down from the delusions of the Oslo Accords, which had long since been passed over to the archeology department. This plan not only interferes with the current situation - as opposed to the utopian one - but also gives Israel the opportunity to set its own boundaries. Netanyahu achieves Ben-Gurion's achievements not only in terms of length of office, but also in terms of establishing sovereignty and establishing boundaries. In Washington, we founded the borders of Israel.

Photo: IP

2. The skeptics and critics will say: But what about the Palestinian state? She is also mentioned there. This is exactly the secret of the power of the program: because it is so connected to reality, it allows each of the parties to choose: they will - they will take. They won't - they won't. And if only one side wants to move forward - Tadadel, or more precisely: please. There are things that can be taken right now: security control from the sea to the river, maintaining most of the settlement, taking into account the demographic complexity, and most importantly - the possibility of expanding sovereignty in Israel. But in order for this moment to have any practical significance, the Israeli government must learn from the beloved children's image, and more precisely, Netanyahu must become the "builder of the bible."

This is what is expected of him later for the centennial plan; Operative realization is critical. If not, what is the drama, the trip to Washington, and the energy the Trump administration put into preparing the plan? Above all, it's a pity for the upcoming March 2 election. They should and should be about it; Between the implementation of the program and the litmus of the program. The right-wing government will never fail to implement its worldview in accordance with the spirit of the plan and in coordination with the administration, no less bad than a left-wing government that will - undoubtedly - exercise its mandate to quickly and effectively influence reality - in the opposite direction.

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There are also some who will say, and already say, that the program has no chance. "The bride will not come," a learned commentator told us. As if the bride (Abu Mazen) hurried to accept other far-reaching proposals. If Barak and Olmert were decent enough, they would tell candidly about Camp David's experiences or Olmert's 2008 proposal, just before retirement and without public support, which gave Palestinians sovereignty over the Temple Mount and an Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley.

Even for this promiscuous gift, the Palestinian leadership responded with complete refusal, at the expense of the good of its people. And in the meantime, we continued to blame ourselves. The bride, by the way, always cried and scolded, because it was more important for her not to be a "groom" than "a wedding". But we continued to live in virtual reality, blaming ourselves for anything bad that happened. The Arab tragedy (Palestinian, for those who insist) lies in the fact that Arafat was never ready to be Ben Gurion, first of all to take what was offered.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu - and also Benny Gantz - who visited the White House this week have a great and rare opportunity to enter the history book of the Jewish people as statesmen. They can be the son-in-law and the servant (even if they belong to the same camp) of our time. If they both recognize "the size of the hour," they can be expected to set aside the controversies for a moment, and act against what America has opened to them this week: a window of opportunity, if not a balcony. The duty, by the way, is first and foremost on the Prime Minister; Benny Gantz is welcome to join. Both, by the way, understand the importance of homeland security, and are aware that the US plan goes a long way when it comes to strengthening Israel's security vis-à-vis a demilitarized Palestinian political entity.

And those of us who find it very difficult to digest the idea of ​​the Palestinian state (I do not have to admit it, either, I must admit), should remember that the current asymmetry between Israel and the Palestinian Authority makes it difficult for the establishment of a Palestinian state in the full sense of the term "state". And it is not Israel's fault, as we often tell ourselves, but the totality that has characterized some of us - and the Palestinian leadership - all or nothing. This tree, too, should start to fall.

Netanyahu's plan for the century: "We made history" // Photo: From Netanyahu's Twitter account

4. This is the time to apply our sovereignty to ancestral land. This is our opportunity to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley (without holding symposia on the reasons why it has not yet been done). Regarding the Jordan Valley, there seems to be no real dispute, probably not between the Likud and the blue.

The Jordanians, who have expressed opposition (as expressed around Oslo) on the outside, are also satisfied and even satisfied with their special status on the Temple Mount and the mosques there, since the 1994 peace treaty was signed with them. It is also time to build in Area C, 50 percent of which will remain under our control. We have no desire to control another people, and the American plan finds a solution for those Arab populations living in the area; Also, the three percent of Jews living in Judea and Samaria are in distances of 450,000.

The Arab world does not appear to be alarmed by the century plan. There are no parent circles in Cairo, Riyadh or Amman, and there is also domestic troubles and local public opinion, but priorities for Arab and Arab governments have changed: they have not become "Zionists," but they are also less and less Palestinian. In general, the program also expresses the fact that we have been able to deepen our interest partnership, and not only with Iran. Israel, the one who foretold cautionary loneliness, turns out to be the one who has nevertheless been on the right side of history. Various Arab leaders have been able to understand this, even if they are in no hurry to give it a public expression.

5. Yesterday at the White House, when President Trump introduced the Centennial Plan, I was excited. I am. For many years, I mentioned conversations and encounters in the first paragraph of Dr. Dan Shiftan's smart book "The Separation Force," in which he explains that Israeli governments throughout their generations - left and right - have not had enough courage to swallow or vomit Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, the territories (read This is in accordance with your conscience order.) And suddenly this is possible.

One should also say a word about the hero of the day, if not the hero of the time. Our hero who has entered the storm of the history of the Jewish people - Donald Trump. Some derided the man, some questioned his chances of winning the presidential election, some doubted his ability or commitment to fulfill his promises after he won. So yes, I am proud that "Israel Today" was able to identify and support it almost from the first moment. I remember my first meeting with candidate Trump, in December 2015. I sat in front of the likes of Israel. The same was true in the Oval Room, with the U.S. President talking to me in an open and friendly, and very positive way, about the conversion of his beloved daughter.

It is time to apply sovereignty. Trump and Netanyahu in the White House // Photo: IP

Yes, Donald Trump also has an election, and his constituency, with the evangelical stream, wants, like him, for our own good. I watched him yesterday, and under the Israeli prime minister, and thought for a moment what things would look like if Hillary Clinton were there, not Trump. We were in the same old failed movie again. The Centennial Plan may not bring the long-awaited peace with the Palestinians, but it gives them four years to make a decision, essentially allowing us to finally build in Judea and Samaria like Tel Aviv. And that tells me a senior American source here. who would believe. Think for a moment about an ore skyscraper.

6. Thanks to Trump - The Craft for Netanyahu. This is a realistic plan, but its implementation requires a statesman, not a politician. Netanyahu proved again last night that he was winking at this stuff. I do not like the plan at all, and any action that follows will be criticized. But it solves three complex problems: it puts an end to the impractical return demand, allows sovereignty to be applied in large parts of Judea and Samaria, and it establishes the status of United Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The big question, of course, is what will actually be done, and it might be better to start with the question: when and where will sovereignty be applied. In 100 years, they will talk about the conduct of Israeli leaders these days of a historic turnaround.

The people of Israel are waiting for it, history is ready for it, and the elections should not interfere. We must not forget: We still have the right-wing government, the one that is striving for this moment, and it is the one that needs to realize it. True, the map presented yesterday is not that of Switzerland but ours, in the problematic Middle East. There are bypass roads and an underground passageway that will connect the PA to Gaza (a tunnel Hamas will not build for change). Big Trump, too, cannot present a perfect program in the Middle East so complicated and complex. But at least we finally replaced the instructions page. You have to make progress, don't you?