WhatsappElise Stefanik has proven to the entire world that she is willing to stand up to the highest levels of academia and confront them on their moral failings. But in front of her hearings in Congress she also showed that she is not scared to say things that are not at all in the mainstream minds of many people in the West. She flatly said that she believes that the entire Judea and Samaria is Jewish Land due to a Biblical right that the Jewish people have to the entire Land of Israel – from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
The 2nd term of Donald Trump’s Presidency will be filled with eye-openers on nearly every level for many who have trouble with anyone who is trying to change the status quo. This is already occurring in terms of the immigration authorities that were clearly waiting for the order on Jan. 20th to finally be able to work on securing the borders of the United States.
But for many reasons, on the foreign policy level, there will probably be even more surprises. Donald Trump knows that the Abraham Accords were one of his most successful foreign policy successes in his 1st term. It is absolutely logical that he will decide that he wants to extend the success into his 2nd term and bring Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region towards a regional state of economic cooperation with Israel instead of a state of enmity.
It would seem that one of the ideas that is popular among the main advisors in the 2nd Trump administration is that Hamas and other terror supporting organizations must not be allowed to have any power structure at all within Gaza and anywhere within the State of Israel. Israel will probably declare sovereignty in wide swaths of Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The protests from Qatar, Egypt, and other countries will be muted by a wide-scale Middle Eastern agreement that will empower the more moderate countries in the Middle East and sideline the more radicalized entitities.
Syria is in the midst of a massive upheaval. The new government in Lebanon is struggling to hold on with the new reality that Hizbullah has been severely weakened. King Husseing= of Jordan is scared out of his mind that Jordan will fall apart as Syria did. Egypt is in the midst of a difficult economic situation weakening it’s power in the region. Iran has very little defensive capability to defend against their offensive nuclear capabilities. For all of these reasons, it is actually a very opportune time for the United States, Israel, and more moderate Arab countries to make a joint regional agreement that will place Saudi Arabia in a more dominant position as a country that is focused on moderation towards Israel without fearing for it’s hold on power.
But part of this will be the United States and Israel declaring once and for all that the Arab claim to Judea and Samaria is like the Hamas claim to Gaza – a farce that is all about destroying the State of Israel – nothing more. The Arab claim is empty and if they truly want to have self-determination and power, they can have it in any of the Arab States surrounding Israel or live peacefully within the State of Israel as a minority with voting rights.
Remember, most Arabs will choose to stay within the State of Israel. They’ll have better medical care, better roads, better chance for upward mobility on an economic level, and in general, a longer life span. Elise Sefanik knows this and that is why she has no problem standing up to the morally obtuse questioning that presupposes that Israel is the reason that the Arabs don’t have self-determination in Gaza or Judea and Samaria. This lie is one of many.
But very soon, these Arabs will have a choice to make. Stay and vote in Israel or move to one of many neighboring Arab countries and live in a moderate or not-as-moderate Arab dictatorship.
