Trump in Israel: The Coming Golden Age of World Peace and Prosperity
A Historic Moment and a Brilliant Speech in the Knesset in Jerusalem
What a week! This was a week in which history was being made. It may be that in centuries from now, possibly even in millennia from now, this time period will be studied and remembered.
It is a truly momentous occasion, for anyone who cares about world peace. There is so much to say, that I’m not going to say it all myself this time. (Fancy that!) In this post, I’m going to hand over first to a few recent commentaries that I found especially good, from 7 other sources, then share some closing comments of my own on the bigger picture. Let me know if you, too, like any of these comments – or my perspective on them.
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The left-wing, war-critical Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid spoke at a special session in Jerusalem on Monday, which Trump attended, and said:
“I am the leader of the opposition. And I tell you: You were deceived. Propaganda experts, funded by terror money, manipulated you. Now that the war has stopped, you have time and a chance to go and learn the facts. The truth is: there was no genocide, no intentional starvation.”
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (Palestinian activist):
“Hamas is a cancer, which is unfortunately supported by the fraudulent “pro-Palestine” movement that doesn’t care about Gazans.
“Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and a whole host of so-called “human rights organizations” have said absolutely nothing about Hamas, a terrorist Islamist deadly entity, executing, torturing, & killing the Palestinian people of Gaza since the ceasefire. Absolute frauds!
“Daily torture, killings, executions, disappearances, kidnappings, interrogations, and intimidation continue across the Gaza Strip at the hands of Hamas terrorists who are reasserting their presence in the coastal enclave and seeking to eliminate any competition to their rule.
“Hamas is looking for the bodies of Israeli hostages in Gaza by digging for tunnels that it placed under an entire residential city where there were thousands of apartments. This is under the Qatari-built Hamad City in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Hamas gave itself the right to use every inch of the Strip as a theater for its horrendous terrorism, placing its operatives and infrastructure under homes, hospitals, schools, and every imaginable space. This isn’t just Israeli propaganda - this is the absolute, shitty, unpleasant, and brutal truth that all Gazans know and understand, but is somehow refuted by “activists” and “journalists” who run cover for Hamas.”
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Ben Shapiro (American journalist, podcaster and founder of The Daily Wire):
“It’s not enough to call out the violence. Calling out the rhetorical and ideological permission structures for violence - that’s the thing that needs to happen.”
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A few thoughts of mine about Ben’s comment above:
The context is that he was referring to a multitude of global trends which have included murders of people such as Charlie Kirk, the attempted assassinations of Trump last year, various random assassinations of Jews in different countries, and so on, and above all the many people CALLING for such violence and/or CELEBRATING it!
This opens out a larger subject – on which Ben is very articulate, and speaks about often, but about which I will only very briefly summarise here:
I have heard nobody else comment using this language about “permission structures”, but I consider that it is a point VERY well-made, and, as you will have seen if you have read any of my previous posts, I see the world as being run mainly by IDEOLOGIES or INFORMATION FIELDS.
So it is surely of the utmost importance to call out and identify those which are deficient, destructive, deceitful and malevolent narratives, and replace them with more Truth-Loving ones that are characterised by a broader context of vision, and by humanitarian values.
That is, in short, the best way to reduce the wars, deaths and misery in the world.
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It is also, in my view, the main and most important type of activism: the power of the Word, and the power of the Conversation.
An ex-girlfriend of mine takes a different view; she believes that ‘activism’ means getting angry, waving banners and expressing disdain for those in power. Sometimes I wonder how we came to be in a relationship together in the past, given that our respective approaches to life have since diverged so much! To me, spitting in the face of whoever holds the reins of power is not real activism at all, but is a form of catharsis for angry people, peppered by psychological projection of one’s own inner shadow onto external targets of blame.
To me (and this is something I commend Charlie Kirk for, as he believed the same), true activism is when we each do our bit to help develop and expand the collective Conversation. Everything else is downstream from that.
And you will notice (which is key) that I am not referring to the promulgation of any particular points of view – but to the development of the Conversation itself. Like a dance which moves through different steps and phases, the Collective Conversation of Humanity is a never-ending, evolving phenomenon – including on my ‘lips’ and on everybody else’s!
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Natasha Hausdorff (legal director for UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust) on The Brendan O’Neill Show:
“This industry of anti-Israel hysteria and frenzy”
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Konstantin Kissin (Russian-British comedian, author and interviewer) in a recent video:
“Many of the anti-Israel arguments are, at best, driven by emotions which are understandable but irreconcilable with the facts, and, at worst, deliberate manipulations designed to weaponise our natural horror at seeing the realities of war.
“The Trump plan is a roadmap to peace which delivers every single anti-war and pro-peace objective.
“To my complete lack of surprise, however, many of the most prominent campaigners against genocide, who have graced our airwaves for the last 2 years, have either stayed silent or openly called for Hamas to reject the deal.
“Far from being genocide, it’s a war. The overwhelming majority of those demanding an end to the so-called genocide in Gaza do not believe it is one themselves, as demonstrated by their unwillingness to pressure Hamas to accept a deal that would end it. This is a war. Their side is losing and they’re using the suffering of Palestinian civilians, human shields placed in harm’s way by Hamas, to generate clicks, likes and views.”
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“There were a bunch of protests that took place all over the world in favour of Hamas, AS the President was trying to negotiate a ceasefire.
“You’ve seen no advocates for the Palestinians abroad celebrating President Trump’s ceasefire. None. Zero. They don’t exist. They all disappeared.
“Now I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of a genocide in world history in which the supposed victims of a genocide don’t celebrate when it ends. That’s kind of telling, is it not? Shouldn’t there be hundreds of thousands of these people in the streets celebrating Donald Trump - for ending the war, for getting to a ceasefire, for stopping the carnage? But they’re not.
“Where are they? Why did they disappear? Because they didn’t give a **** the entire time about the Palestinians. They didn’t care about them at all. It was all just a weapon against Israel. Because if they were truly concerned about the cost of war, they would be happy when it ends. Instead they were protesting for the war to effectively continue on October the 7th.”
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Realign for Palestine (RFP) (a Palestinian advocacy group):
“Those who are displaying signs of antisemitism in response to what’s happening in Gaza are not the allies of the Palestinian people.
“It is essential to have a Palestinian-led movement that’s centrist and moderate. I believe these values are central to Islam and are exemplified in the Quran... ‘So, we have made you believers an upright community... A temperate/middle-ground nation.’ Peacemakers amid conflict are the courageous and essential leaders of our community.
“Regional and international priorities are shifting; no one invests in instability. A credible, stable, forward-looking Palestinian vision will be essential to earn meaningful investment and support.
“The world is moving on from the Palestinian issue. Arab countries have their own needs. They cannot pour endless resources into this. We have to show a serious commitment to peace and a desire to be an economically and politically viable country, before the world is going to seriously invest in us.
“For Realign for Palestine, these proposals [Trump’s peace plan] affirm the pragmatic policies we have long advanced: demilitarization, leadership reform, policies that protect Israel’s security and ensure Palestinian rights and freedoms.”
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Last but not least, Trump delivered a brilliant and historic speech at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Monday, which I will describe in more detail further below.
This is the most exciting part of this post, in my view! His speech left me feeling overjoyed.
Here are some key extracts from it that I liked:
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“All over the world, people are dancing in the streets.
“Let me convey my tremendous appreciation for all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that came together to press Hamas to set the hostages free and to send them home. We had a lot of help, from a lot of people that you wouldn’t suspect. And I want to thank them very much for that.
“It’s an incredible triumph for Israel and the world to have all of these nations working together as partners in peace, and it’s pretty unusual for you to see that, but it happened in this case. This was a very unusual point in time. A brilliant point of time.
“Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better. Like the USA right now, it will be the golden age of Israel, and the golden age of the Middle East, which is going to work together.
“When you settle 8 wars in 8 months, that means you don’t like war. Everyone thought I was going to be brutal. In fact, I remember Hilary Clinton during a debate said: ‘Look at him, look at him, he’s going to go to war with everybody!’ And she said: ‘He’s got a personality that’s all about war!’ No, my personality actually is all about STOPPING wars. It’s called Peace Through Strength.
“This is the end of the Age of Terror and Death, and the beginning of the Age of Faith, and Hope, and God. It’s the start of a Grand Concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region.
“This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
“I love Israel. I’m with you all the way. You will be bigger, better, stronger and more loving than ever before. Thank you very much. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. And God bless the Middle East.”
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Now, a few words from me about the broader context:
Trump attended a special session in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem on Monday which marked the (probable, or very near) end of the latest 2-year Gaza-Israel War.
This might be one of the most astonishingly positive end-of-war moments in all of history, because, with it, the session also marks a transition between two eras – with what is possibly the end (or at least the beginning of the end) of what is probably the world’s most long-standing and intractable conflict (the Palestinian-Israeli one) – and the beginning of the grand expansion of a plan for peace (the Abraham Accords) for the whole of the Middle East, with UNPRECEDENTED SUPPORT for all of it from almost the entire Arab world – INCREDIBLY!
How did such an implausible thing happen – where even Qatar and Turkey (the last remaining core supporters of the Gazan totalitarian regime of Hamas left standing) are on board with the proceedings, and seem to want to be on this train along with the rest?
Trump has, with his team, been the mastermind behind these negotiations. They have been touring the world pressing all the right levers, offering all the right incentives, and effectively FINDING WAYS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
How he achieved this will, I expect, be one of the things that will be studied by many people for a long time to come – and will also (I predict) become a lesson for people in the future wishing to learn how to become better negotiators! I have so far heard tons of theories, many of which are no doubt among the numerous pieces of this intricate jigsaw puzzle of emerging global peace amongst nations.
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The location of the Knesset is less than 2 miles away from the holiest place in Jewish memory – where Jews traditionally believed that God created the world – and which is also where Muslims go to on pilgrimage to the Dome of the Rock – and where Jesus Christ once upturned the tables in the ancient Jewish Temple and spoke truth to power to the corrupt holy men of his day – and where the symbol of Jerusalem (also referred to as ‘Zion’) has endured through thousands of years, and, perhaps most importantly of all for the modern world, became the cradle of modern civilisation through the birth of the ideas of modern ethics, freedoms, rights and social responsibilities.
Here, Trump gave a talk of over an hour which, frankly, is one of the most interesting talks you could ever listen to, for many reasons (including due to its colourful and varied cascade of entertaining moments, personal anecdotes and strongly-expressed views on many things – including some that you might or might not agree with).
And so I heartily recommend listening to all of it, even if only to feel the vibe of this moment in history.
It’s notable that in Trump’s speech he spends a fair bit of time crediting the various people he has been working with to make this happen, and he goes into depth on what they have each brought to the table. This includes Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, Israeli PM Netanyahu and others.
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As for me, when I heard Trump’s Knesset speech, I felt it in my heart, and if you listen to it you may feel it too: a wave of joy rippling through the world.
It’s not in any of the specifics (even though the words and tone of voice do reflect or make frequent reference to things such as peace, love, freedom and various other higher universal values), but is, rather, in the mood of the moment, and in the collective consciousness. For what it’s worth, I feel it, and I credit my intuitive powers as being stronger than average, for such things.
That is: something extraordinary is taking place in the world.
It is, indeed, the dawn of a golden age, and I know it most of all because I feel it in the core of my being, and if you tune in to your being you might feel it too.
This is the moment where – collectively – we start to see this golden future come out into the light where more people start to notice it taking shape.
It is fitting that Jerusalem has become the place where, at this particular moment, all these energies aligned – both because it has been the focus of such an intractable conflict, and because (as described above) of its past role as the cradle of modern civilisation and higher humanitarian values.
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As you may have noticed, I have been writing a lot about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in my recent posts, and now I see all the more clearly why I have felt the calling to write about this topic.
It represents the culmination or apex – in the world today – not only of understanding how propaganda works and how mainstream narratives often deceive us (which are important lessons for us all on the road to becoming Truth-Lovers!), but also of the very real fight that is taking place in the world between those who love freedom, and those who seek to tear it down.
Namely, those (like the Christians and Jews believe) who see themselves in service of God, and of the higher values of Freedom (yes, the Free Will of every individual person is, after all, a central tenet of the Judaeo-Christian heritage!) and Love (ditto!). . .
. . . versus the forces of destruction and tyranny who, out of their own ignorance, either seek to control everything in an inherently unstable web of mass surveillance and overbearing bureaucracy, or else seek simply to kill or break things. (I’m reminded of that wonderful symbol of it – perhaps one of the greatest antagonists conceived of – in the fantasy film ‘The Never-Ending Story’: a great dark cloud of nothingness that is spreading over the whole Universe and seeks only to demolish whatever it touches, and whose name is, aptly, “The Nothing”).
The former (God, Freedom, Love) have formed the basis for what we call Western civilisation, while the latter (ignorance, tyranny, breaking things, tearing things down) are taking form in today’s world in those who seek to express hatred - a hatred of many things, but most especially of the West.
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Let’s celebrate, then, the rising of the ‘Lion’: the emergence of peace, love, courage, truth, cooperation, humanism and above all freedom in the world today, and in the future into which we are rapidly moving.
That does not mean that the fighting is over, or that it won’t be a rocky road – I expect it will be.
But still we can see that the sun is rising (metaphorically speaking) on this world. And about time too.
It’s an exciting and uplifting time to be alive.
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[Endnote: Calibration of this post = 650. For those aware of the work of Dr David Hawkins, I nowadays calibrate my articles to check what overall context of truth (“level of consciousness”) the current of ideas within them matches. It helps me to do my best to anchor my main themes in the broadest and most humanitarian truth context I can. And, far from being an exercise in self-congratulation, it’s a useful exercise in self-critique, as it also helps me to identify and correct any lower-calibrating content or ideas that may mistakenly creep in. So, I use it also as a personal compass. Soon I will be writing more about what this means and why it is useful!
Also I will add here, in case of interest, the calibration of Trump’s speech at the Knesset this week, which is: 580. This calibration, in the high 500s on David Hawkins’ scale, rapidly explains - for those familiar with his scale - why I felt the impact of the speech in the ways I described above in my post, and helps to give us an indication of the nature of the team and project behind the speech.]