Older readers of this article may be familiar with the Khartoum Declaration of 1967. Following Israel’s military victory in the Six-Day War against the combined forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, the declaration stipulated ‘no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel‘. It led the then Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, to denounce the declaration and affirm the world’s only Jewish state’s right to defend itself and its very existence.
Somethings in the intervening 58 years haven’t changed. Israel remains the world’s only Jewish state, and it continues to be discriminated against by large portions of the Muslim world – be it through travel bans for citizens or through a lack of diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. However, one country no longer features in that anti-Zionist league: Sudan, the country whose capital Khartoum became synonymous with that menacing declaration in 1967, now affords official recognition to Israel and, in principle, is set to establish full diplomatic relations with it – the latter move currently on hold pending the end to the civil war in Sudan. It is not on its own. That recognition has now been extended by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. The Abraham Accords (AA) (https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords) were not only revolutionary in terms of how some of the Arab World views and deals with Israel, it also set the stage for others in the region to show the same maturity and magnanimity. In fact, it was the willingness of Saudi Arabia to signal an intention to join the AA that encouraged Iran to activate its Hamas proxies in Gaza to launch the genocidal slaughter we witnessed in southern Israel just over two years ago. Iran figured any Israeli retaliation would dissuade the House of Saud from taking this essential step towards regional peace and stability. Their calculations were correct. A spokesman for the supposedly more moderate Fatah faction in the West Bank, Jibril Rajoub, specifically attributed the Abraham Accords and the normalisation of relations with Israel as “one of the reasons” Hamas carried out its terrorist attack on October 7th, 2023 (https://www.jns.org/fatah-official-oct-7-part-of-palestinian-defensive-war/ )
Had any other US President been as indispensable to the creation of a ground-breaking international peace agreement, the cries of adulation from the international media and political circles would have been deafening. But this was Donald Trump – the bête noire of liberal dinner parties everywhere. One of the biggest advances in Arab-Jewish relations since the foundation of modern Israel in 1948 was met by the sort of sniffy dismissal we’d expect from global institutions captured by partisan figures. Take the Nobel Committee, for example. They were perfectly content to award St Barack the Evangelist the coveted Peace Prize in 2009 for Obama’s efforts “to reach out to the Muslim world” (incidentally, Obama presided over the biggest wave of Islamic immigration to the USA in its history – both through legal routes and through affording refugee status to record numbers. Did I mention Obama’s father was a Muslim? What a coincidence!). But for facilitating parts of the Arab World and Israel reaching out to each other? Nothing! Zero! Even now, the Nobel Committee in Oslo declares Trump to be undeserving of such recognition (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15180839/White-House-fury-Nobel-Peace-Prize-handed-Venezuelan-opposition-leader-instead-Donald-Trump.html).
Mind you, in one sense should it really bother us if the Nobel bigwigs have overlooked President Trump? Like the assignation of knighthoods here in Britain to thoroughly underserving scumbags like Keir Starmer and London’s own Mayoral calamity, the quality of Nobel prizes has been undermined by the choices of some past nominations. From Lê Đức Thọ to Yasser Arafat, several of the nominees or winners have hardly been shining beacons of moral propriety, let alone genuine peaceniks. That said, Donald J Trump is the architect of an accord that has led, among other thing, on to schools in the UAE teaching their children about the horrors of the Holocaust. Thanks to him, new generations of children in Dubai and elsewhere will grow up not to hate Jews, but to accept their legitimacy and historical roots in the region. He is the most consequential US President since Ronald Reagan, and I hope history has enough scholars of repute to afford him the recognition he so richly deserves for this.
You don’t have to like the personality of Trump to appreciate to enormity of what is likely to unfold over the coming days (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2nzlj2j4kt). A mixture of diplomacy, strong-arming Hamas terrorists, and a businessman’s focus on the importance of securing a deal, has a high chance of ending the two-year war in Israel and the Gaza Strip. Whilst the UK and EU shamelessly engaged in the performative playground politics of prematurely recognising Palestinian statehood, the Trump Administration gathered together those interested parties who know full-well they must live in harmony with Israel instead of seeking its destruction. If successful, it will be America’s Head of State that will have reason to trumpet his ego in the way only he can. Not one European politician has the right to claim credit for any of this. Which is probably why Donald Trump didn’t give one of them a mention in his briefing to the gathered assembly of news corporations at the White House yesterday afternoon. Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump does what he says he will do. Alas, it’s so long since we had anyone in the UK cut from the same cloth, we’ve forgotten what it’s actually like to live under a leader of strong principles. As a child of the 1980s, I am old enough and lucky enough to remember it all too well!
Meanwhile, back in increasingly Islamified and compromised Britain, we’ll have to continue to take the cold showers every time we come in close proximity to the armies of anti-Semites and ultra-Lefties who show no sign of stopping their hateful marches on our streets every other weekend. Eventually, the broad mass of the population will vote in a party that will rid our towns and cities of this poison. Then, the rest of us will have reason to give thanks in the same way the families of the Israeli hostages are expected to give thanks over the next few days. Add the letters (I) and (H) to ‘Trump’ and you have the word ‘Triumph’. And this one, if all goes to plan, is likely to be the biggest one of his Presidency!
