Palestinian protests no longer matter
52 Don Surber by Don Surber
Call it the real global warming. American intellectuals were confused last May by the photo of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Saudi Arabian King Salman, and President Donald Trump placing their hands on a miniature globe in the opening ceremony of the Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology.
Being liberals, these intellectuals mocked what they could not understand, rather than explore it.
I, too, found it puzzling. And fascinating. In the 10 months since, we have learned that this is a new deal for the Middle East, years in the making. Arab Muslims are taking the lead in fighting terrorism.
I knew it was important by the way liberals mocked it.
Ignorantly, Jim Geraghty of National Review likened the photo to a comic book terrorist organization.
Geraghty is consumed by his deranged hatred of the president, who has made the mistake of actually implementing the very conservative policies that Geraghty has said he wanted for years. He talked the talk but dreads the walk because he secretly is a liberal gaming conservatives. Many of them are.
The United States had little to do with the sea change in the Middle East, which came despite the Obama regime, which pushed the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and sided with Iran.
But with Donald Trump as president, Arab Muslim know they have a friend in the White House. They know the American press largely lies about him.
Which brings us to Trump relocating the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
There is uproar on the fictional Arab Street that American journalists commonly refer to.
The Palestinians protested in Gaza during this Passover and Easter holiday.
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit sees this as the death of the Death to Israel period of Arabian history.
"Nobody ever actually cared about the Palestinians. Now, with the new alignment of forces in the Mideast, hardly anyone is even pretending to care. The Palestianians will need a while to adjust to that, after which they may actually be in a position to make peace. In the meantime, expect increasingly desperate and futile efforts to attract attention," Reynolds wrote.
But if 4,000 years of Judaism has taught anything, it is that anti-Semitism never really dies. The Moroccan-born Frenchmen who killed a Holocaust survivor because she was Jewish have shown that "Never Again" lasted but 70 years in Europe.
Still, hope rises with the sun in the Middle East. We have again a president who appreciates it.
UPDATE: Melania also has her hand on the globe, left of the king's hand.
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