“I am Yahweh. I do not change. I am why Jacob’s descendants are not destroyed.” (Malachi 3: 6)
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Caroline Glick—Europe wants unity on Iran while undermining Trump on Jerusalem:
As French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel beat a path for the White House in back-to-back visits this week, the media coverage of U.S. – European Union relations is focused on efforts to convince President Donald Trump to keep faith with his predecessor Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Left largely unreported is that while the European leaders are is pressuring Trump to align his Iran policy with theirs, Macron, Merkel, and European Union Foreign Policy Commissioner Federica Mogherini are waging a multifaceted campaign to undermine and discredit one of Trump’s most significant foreign policy initiatives: namely, Jerusalem.
Since last December 6, when Trump officially recognized that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and announced his intention to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Macron, Mogherini, and Merkel have been leading a major effort to undermine his policy.
On May 14, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is set to lead a 250-member American delegation to Jerusalem to participate in the opening of the U.S. embassy in Israel’s capital. Forty lawmakers and other senior officials, reportedly including President Trump’s senior advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, are also set to join. Vice President Mike Pence and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley may join the delegation as well.
Merkel, Macron, and Mogherini lobbied hard to convince Trump not to honor his campaign pledge to move the U.S. embassy to Israel’s capital. All three warned that any change in U.S. policy on Jerusalem would destabilize the region in a dramatic way. Yet, as the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported, there was no significant increase in Palestinian violence against Israel in the six months following Trump’s announcement over the six months that preceded it.
When, unmoved by their fear-mongering, Trump went forward with his determination to recognize Jerusalem last December, Merkel, Macron, and Mogherini led the charge in condemning his move. Media reports indicate that key Arab states Saudi Arabia and Egypt have prevented major criticism of the U.S. move domestically. But in striking contrast, the EU has gone to great lengths to keep the criticism on a high flame.
In late December, EU members France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden joined the other ten UN Security Council members – aside from the U.S. – in voting in favor of a draft resolution demanding that the U.S. cancel its recognition of Jerusalem and retain its embassy in Tel Aviv. The U.S. stood alone in opposing the resolution and vetoed it in a 14-1 vote.
Unperturbed by the veto and by Ambassador Haley’s angry reaction, two days later, led by France and Germany, 23 EU member states voted in favor of a General Assembly resolution declaring the U.S. policy “null and void.”
The U.S. is not without its allies in Europe.
Out of respect for the U.S., five EU member states — Romania, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, and Croatia — defied Brussels and abstained from voting in favor of the General Assembly resolution.
More significantly, in defiance of the EU’s position, Czech President Milos Zaman enthusiastically applauded Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem and said the Czech Republic would also move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital.
Last Thursday, Liviu Dragnea, the leader of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic party, told Romanian television outlet Antena3 that Romania would also relocate its embassy to Jerusalem.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
President Trump can lead Europe out of the wilderness if they will let him.
See “EU Defends Iran Deal in Wake of Trump Warning”. European leaders may follow President Trump in the right direction, but most of them will do it like spoiled brats kicking and screaming all the way if they do it at all.
What can I say? They are Europeans. European leaders think they are more sophisticated and more intelligent than their counterparts in the U.S. despite all the evidence to the contrary. It didn’t take them long to forget how World Wars I and II started and who had to pull their chestnuts out of the fire.
Yahweh remembers. So do I.
“Liberal progressives” in the U.S. (mostly Democrats) love wallowing in filth. They love it like overweight hogs love slop. President Trump has his hands full at home, too.
Thankfully, the president continues to lead the world in a better direction while naysayers at home and abroad snipe at him. His most vocal critics will wake up one day and realize that the world has changed completely.
They aren’t known for quick thinking. Come to think of it, they aren’t known for thinking at all.
“Liberal progressives” are best known for parroting things they’ve been told, and they don’t care who tells them. They will repeat anything no matter how idiotic it is and no matter how unreliable the source.
By the way, Palestinians are behind the European effort to convince President Trump to betray Israel by reneging on his decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Will they succeed? I don’t think so.
President Trump is best known for doing what he says he will do. Palestinians will learn that lesson soon enough. I think they know it already, but being Palestinians, they can’t accept a fact until they get hit in the head with a 2X4.
May 14, 2018 will be an important day. That’s the day a U.S. delegation will be in Jerusalem to celebrate moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Palestinians are already practicing their Palestinian Two-Step for the occasion. On that day, I expect them to do what Palestinians do. President Trump will take notice and act.
If Palestinians conduct another Day of Rage, I expect President Trump to pull out his trusty 2X4 and whomp them upside the head. What a wonderful day that will be.
Palestinians are begging for an attitude adjustment. It’s time to give them one.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
