Trump's Gargantuan Blunder: Hell-bent On Harming Islam And Usurping Its Holy Places
29 December 2017By Khalid Amayreh
In order to endear himself to organized Jewry and especially to Israel
Firsters among evangelical Christian Zionists on the American arena, President
Trump issued earlier in December a formal executive decree, recognizing
Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The decision has been widely considered a
drastic departure from long-standing American policy regarding the town which
Israel seized from Jordan in 1967.
Moreover, the audacious feat is considered a gigantic insult and brazen
defiance and provocation to the sensibilities of hundreds of millions of
Muslims and, although to a lesser extent, Christians around the world. More to
the point, the fateful decision seems to underscore many facts, including the
President's over-reliance on a group of mostly ignorant advisors who had
apparently convinced him that the Palestinians would eventually come to terms
with the decision; a view which I am sure is grossly inaccurate.
The truth of the matter is that Jerusalem is and will always remain paramount
for Palestinians as the vast majority of them would rather keep the cause of
the holy city alive, even without a state, than having a state, even on the
entirety of the remainder of the West Bank, but without Jerusalem.
Another bad advice that Trump received from his ignorant advisors had
ostensibly swayed him into thinking that if the US administration exerted some
bullying and arm-twisting with Palestinian Authority Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas,
he should be able, at least in the long run, to pacify his people and get them
to accept the fait accompli. This is also a misleading notion. In fact, a
people who defied history by surviving as a people, despite the immense
savagery of the Nazi-like onslaught of the Zionist movement are unlikely to be
cajoled or coaxed into agreeing to liquidate their national cause (heart and
soul) just to please the proverbial monkey of the Israeli organ grinder, aka
the United States of America. We Palestinians are not and won't ever be a herd
of two legged human-sheep that our current or future leaders can conduct us as
they wish. I can even dare say that any Palestinian leader who might venture
to play the collaborationist game with our enduring cause wouldn't live to
regret the utter foolishness of his folly. In short, Trump ought to eject from
his mind, if he still has one, the illusion that the Palestinian people will
one day backtrack on Jerusalem. I also say to Trump if he is willing to
listen, don't listen to the bigot named Netanyahu. He has the tongue of a liar
and the mindset of a dishonest person. Lying is his policy and dishonesty is
his shield.
I know, as many others do, that Trump's folly won't be innocuous or harmless.
It is already radicalizing the wider Palestinian street and putting the
advocates of peace on the defensive. It is also expected to give a new life
and vigor to violent groups as it will enable them to claim that they are
fighting for the honor of Islam and standing in the face of neo-Crusades,
hell¬ bent on harming Islam and usurping its holy places such as the Aqsa
Mosque. But the most enduring impact of the millenarian stupidity coming from
the White House will undoubtedly manifest itself in prolonging or even
perpetuating the conflict and causing more suffering, bloodshed and violence.
Two weeks ago, the elderly Israeli journalist Uri Avnery wrote an article in
which he pointed out that within mandatory Palestine (between the River Jordan
and the Mediterranean) now live 7.8 million Israeli Jews and 8.2 million
Palestinians, whose numbers (the Palestinians) are expected to reach 25
million in less than three decades. These people will not just accept the
status of children of a lesser God. They won't settle for a life of water
carriers and wood hewers. The writing is on the wall, and denial won't help
either the fool of Washington or fool of Jerusalem!
I also know the fool of Jerusalem is having morbid dreams these days about
possible ways and means to expel us or the bulk of our people from our
ancestral homeland, probably using an updated version of what Zionist thugs
did to us in 1948. But we have learned the lesson rather well, and we won't
make the same mistakes again!
- Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and political analyst living in
the Hebron region of Palestine.
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