Posted on 12/10/2017 7:38:03 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
President Trump’s Jerusalem Move Deals a Blow to Terror We won’t let Islamic terrorists decide where we put our embassies. December 8, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
Hamas has announced that President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has opened the “gates of hell.” Its Muslim Brotherhood parent has declared America an “enemy state.”
The Arab League boss warned that the Jerusalem move “will fuel extremism and result in violence.” The Jordanian Foreign Minister claimed that it would “trigger anger” and “fuel tension.”
“Moderate” Muslim leaders excel at threatening violence on behalf of the “extremists”.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned that recognizing Jerusalem will trigger an Islamic summit and be considered a "blatant attack on the Arab and Islamic nations."
The last time the OIC was this mad, someone drew Mohammed. And wasn’t stoned to death for it.
According to the Saudi ambassador, it will “heighten tensions”. The Deputy Prime Minister of Islamist Turkey called it a “major catastrophe”. And the leader of the largest Muslim country in Europe, France's Emmanuel Macron "expressed concern" that America will “unilaterally recognize Jerusalem."
PLO leaders and minions meanwhile made it quite clear that now the dead peace process is truly dead.
The Palestinian Authority’s boss warned that recognizing Jerusalem will “destroy the peace process”. The PLO’s envoy in D.C. threatened that it would be the “final lethal blow” and “the kiss of death to the two-state solution”. A top PA advisor claimed it “will end any chance of a peace process.”
A day later, the peace process is still as alive and as dead as it ever was.
Since the chance of a peace process is about the same as being hit by lightning while scoring a Royal Flush, that “chance” doesn’t amount to anything. The peace process has been deader than Dracula for ages. And even a PLO terrorist should know that you can’t threaten to kill a dead hostage.
The only kiss of death here came from Arafat.
Peace wasn’t killed though. It was never alive. Because a permanent peace is Islamically impossible.
"The world will pay the price," warned Mahmoud Habash, the Palestinian Authority’s Supreme Sharia judge.
Habash isn’t just the bigwig of Islamic law, he’s also the Islamic adviser to the leader of the Palestinian Authority. And Abbas, the terror organization’s leader, was there when Habash made his remarks.
Previously Habash had declared that the Kotel, the Western Wall of the fallen Temple, the holiest site in Judaism, “can never be for non-Muslims. It cannot be under the sovereignty of non-Muslims.”
While the official warnings from the Palestinian Authority, the Arab League and assorted other Islamic organizations have claimed that recognizing Jerusalem threatens the non-existent peace process, Habash had in the past had made it quite clear that the issue wasn’t land, it was Jihad.
“The struggle over this land is not merely a struggle over a piece of land here or there. Not at all. The struggle has the symbolism of holiness, or blessing. It is a struggle between those whom Allah has chosen for Ribat and those who are trying to mutilate the land of Ribat," Habash had declared.
Ribat means that Israel is a frontier outpost between the territories of Islam and the free world. The Muslim terrorists who call themselves “Palestinians” have, according to the Abbas adviser, been chosen for “Ribat” to stand guard on the Islamic frontier and expand the territories of Islam.
The sense of Ribat is that the Jihadists may not yet be able to win a definitive victory, but must maintain their vigilance for the ultimate goal, which a Hadith defines as performing Ribat “against my enemy and your enemy until he abandons his religion for your religion."
That is what’s at stake here.
It’s not about a “piece of land here or there”, as the PA’s top Sharia judge clarifies, it’s a religious war. And Israel is not just a religious war between Muslims and Jews, but a shifting frontier in the larger war between Islam and the rest of the world. It’s another territory to be conquered on the way to Europe. And Europe is another territory to be conquered on the way to America.
There can be no peace in a religious war. Nor is there anything to negotiate.
“It isn't possible to compromise on or negotiate over Jerusalem,” Habash had said. “In politics there can be compromises here and there... In politics there can be negotiation. However, in matters of religion, faith, values, ethics, and history, there can be no compromises.”
There’s an extremely thin line in Islamic theocracy between politics and religion. But what Habash is really saying is that there might be room to negotiate how many times a week the garbage truck comes to pick up the trash, but not who gives him the orders. Islamic supremacism is non-negotiable.
The Supreme Sharia judge warned Trump that moving the embassy is “a declaration of war on all Muslims.” Why all Muslims? Because the “Palestinians” are a myth. Islamic conquests are collective.
And it’s not as if any of the Muslim leaders disagree.
Why is Jerusalem their business? It’s not empathy for the “Palestinians”. Kuwait ethnically cleansed huge numbers of them. They aren’t treated all that much better in other Arab Muslim countries.
It’s not about them. The Muslim settlers in Israel are just there as “Ribat”. They’re the frontier guard of the Islamic conquest. Much like the Sharia patrols in the No-Go Zones of Europe or the Jihadists in Kashmir, the Rohingya in Burma and all the other Islamic Volksdeutsche variants of occupying colonists.
Sunni may fight Shiite. Muslim countries, tribes and clans may war with each other. But the land they’re fighting over belongs to all of them collectively.
It can never belong to non-Muslims. That is the essence of Islam where conquest is religion.
That’s true of Jerusalem. And of the entire world.
That is what is truly at stake in the war over Jerusalem. When countries refuse to move their embassies to Jerusalem, they are submitting to Sharia law and Islamic supremacism. The issue at stake is the same one as drawing Mohammed. It’s not about a “piece of land”. It’s about the supremacy of Islam.
Refusing to move the embassy doesn’t prevent violence. Islamic terrorism continues to claim lives in Jerusalem. And Islamic violence has been a constant before Israel liberated Jerusalem or before there was even a free Israel. The Arab League, the Jordanians, the Saudis and the rest of the gang aren’t promising an end to the violence. Instead they warn that if we don’t obey, it will grow worse.
That’s not diplomacy. It’s a hostage crisis.
President Trump made the right decision by refusing to let our foreign policy be held hostage. We don’t win by giving in to terrorists.
We win by resisting them. Or else we’ll have to live our lives as hostages of Islamic terror.
Jerusalem is a metaphor. Every free country has its own Jerusalem. In America, it’s the First Amendment. Our Jerusalem is not just a piece of land, it’s a value. And the Islamic Jihad seeks to intimidate us into giving it up until, as the Hadith states, we abandon our religion for Islam.
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem will do much more for America than it will for Israel.
The Israelis already know where their capital is. We need to remember where we left our freedom. Islamic terrorists win when they terrorize us into being too afraid to do the right thing.
President Trump sent a message to the terrorists that America will not be terrorized.
Previous administrations allowed the terrorists to decide where we put our embassy. But Trump has made it clear that we won’t let Islamic terrorists decide where we put our embassies, what cartoons we will draw or how we live our lives. That is what real freedom means.
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“Because a permanent peace is Islamically impossible.”
Ding!
The biggest impediment to world peace is Islam.
‘Mr Netanyahu, tear down this mosque.’
Did President Trump set a date for the move?
It’s about time that fruitless “process” be put to eternal rest. It was all “process,” diplomatic drones marking time, living in 5 star hotels on expense accounts, wallowing in trivial matters with real “progress” decidedly not an outcome, principals hoping for their Nobel (sorry, Kerry). I wonder if the size and orientation of the negotiating table was even yet decided.
Daniel Greenfield is absolutely correct.
It’s a total fiction that the Palestinians want a two state solution. They want one state and the destruction of Israel. Trump’s decision says we’re through playing games with these animals.
Compliments of Wikipedia: Construction of the Second Temple was completed under the leadership of the last three Jewish Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi with Persian approval and financing.
Iranians are still pissed at their ancestors over this.
“It isn’t possible to compromise on or negotiate over Jerusalem,” Habash had said. “In politics there can be compromises here and there... In politics there can be negotiation. However, in matters of religion, faith, values, ethics, and history, there can be no compromises.”
"When countries refuse to move their embassies to Jerusalem, they are submitting to Sharia law and Islamic supremacism."
Well said.
Wow, what a great read. Greenfield has articulated Islam dead on.
Classic Trump Negotiation 101:
1.Push your opponent into the position he said he would never take.
2. Don’t ever concede it back.
3. Start negotiating from there.
Greenfield is brilliant, but I see it differently. My Jerusalem is the Second Amendment.
“Its Muslim Brotherhood parent has declared America an “enemy state.”
I recommend we start treating them as one, then.
Immediately and with extreme prejudice.
L
“”Did President Trump set a date for the move? “”
I don’t believe so. I think he said they were preparing for the move...Also didn’t Ukraine say if the US moved to Jerusalem, they would move their embassy there also? That would be acceptable and also more should follow.
I hope it happens soon. Rent some office space: the State Department drones can just live with it!
I was looking for anything that would tell us WHEN this move will take place...and ran into this. Not a very comfortable read for those of us who look on Jordan’s King Abdullah as our friend. She gets right to the meat of this issue of Israel and Jordan.. I didn’t like what I was reading but she knows the territory better than most who write about it. I’ll look some more for a date of the move!
http://carolineglick.com/from-amman-to-jerusalem/
I’ve never considered the King of Jordan - present or past - a “friend.” More like, “someone who wasn’t as hostile as you might have expected.”
To be fair, he’s in a tough situation. On the other hand, the Jordanian royal family are descended from old Mecca nobility - before the Saudi conquest. Of course they hate Israel.
Supposedly direct descendants of Mohammad, I think....I’ve never read anything negative about the current King but that article sure has me re-thinking the situation. I think he’s always been respected by our presidents BUT that doesn’t prove anything, does it? We haven’t always had the brightest of men in that position!!
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