You can relax: Normalization is important for Arab countries
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gantz and Foreign Minister Ashkenazi. The choice is still in their hands
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Mark Israel Salem
The Israeli government has to choose between the dream of the ages and the cry of the ages: the idea of applying sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and in 30 percent of Judea and Samaria is a historic opportunity that lies ahead, and it is not certain if it will return. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the alternative created by him as a result of three election campaigns, Benny Gantz, must go hand in hand on this issue. You need two for tango, as is customary for the century plan.
If they do not go for sovereignty together, the second option is the dissolution of the package. Today the choice is still in their hands; Tomorrow the choice will be ours. The distance between setting permanent boundaries and setting a date for fourth elections is small. According to the state of the polls, for the members of the Gantz the choice is quite clear: the Prime Minister's Office in a year and a half, or the Bureau of Labor.
The "annexation" opponents have many supporters in the international community. The United Nations, the EU, liberal media, the Arab League, the African Unity Organization - will all cry out for the idea that Israel will get a little fat. Under the Israeli left, the world has adopted a paradigm that only a diet that will keep Israel slender and shriveled will lead to peace. We were destined to be a state of raisin (elephant committee, partition agreement) and also our neighbors responded with a resounding, violent "no!" So what's changed under the sun anyway? The answer is Trump.
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The anti-annexation campaign also included an influential Jew overseas, including journalists with an agenda, and even reserve securityists who understood that sticking to the "no" slogans leaves them relevant until 120. The UAE did not know it was so important since its ambassador to Washington - Who miraculously turned from an anonymous figure into a diplomatic figure on a global scale within a week - came to warn the people of Israel that the continued normalization trend depends on "annexation".
Looking at the panic of the Israeli left every time someone in the world makes the Israeli government "Nu Nu Nu" with the finger, naturally longing for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's name, who taught us that "Our future is independent of what the Gentiles will say (and forgive me in the UAE)" B) but what the Jews will do. "
You can relax; Normalization with Israel is important not only to Israeli foreign correspondents, but also to moderate Arab countries. Since that letter of warning from the UAE ambassador, the Palestinians have been ridiculed to the point of expressing anger at the writer for his appeal to the Israeli public, and UAE Foreign Minister Anor Karkash has stated to American Jews that his country would love to continue to cooperate with Israel "despite disagreements".
The left, as is customary, does what it knows to do whenever Israel faces its own security or political interest: embarking on concerts of intimidation and threats, with guest appearances by outlaws, diplomats and other Oslo Hasidic adherents. If you annex you will receive terror, sanctions - And the new threat: annoyed with the Gulf states, but we do not forget that terrorist threats never interrupted Oslo followers to call for more and more retreats, that in the tsunami we promised political blossoms - including after the transfer of the embassy to Jerusalem, and that the normalization with the Gulf states has blossomed for the last decade, Without giving up a millimeter.
A senior European diplomat told me 20 years ago when I was a journalist in Paris and the Oslo Accords were still in vogue, that the Middle East should dictate agreements - otherwise nothing would move. Indeed, the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, on the Golan Heights under Israeli sovereignty, and even legally linked Judea and Samaria to legal Israeli sovereignty. It is a pity that Trump's century plan was presented as a suggestion or recommendation. It could be that if this sympathetic president declared her a fact, we would already have an eastern border.
June's Trump has a lot more trouble than January's Trump, when he introduced the Centennial Plan. But still, yesterday's Trump, like today's, is one of the few voices in the international arena that stands beside us without hesitation and without fear. Critics of the American president, especially in the right-wing camp, need to show much more modesty, and much less audacity.
The key point to keep in mind - and here we also return to the replacement prime minister, Benny Gantz - is that Trump can help promote sovereignty only to an Israeli government that makes one sound. The tragedy is that in the meantime, the Knesset has duplicated itself in the government, working against each other, coalition and opposition. How can Trump sell his plan in the world and support sovereignty - with an alternate prime minister among the opponents? And you have to understand; Unsupportment is like resistance. If the Israeli government is unable to present a united front for sovereignty, the White House cannot lobby it in the world either.
It is time to mention that Israel said yes to the plan and the Palestinians said (again) no. The Palestinians have four years to regret. But if we do not apply sovereignty - we will have more than four years to regret. much more. Look, we were warned.