Like any other sensible and reasonable human, I would love to see the Middle East at peace. I’d love to see the region, whilst being separate nations, cooperate and trade with one another and have mutual respect for one another. It’s why, when I get the opportunity to do so, I pray that one day the Children of Isaac and the Children of Ishmael will one day water their sheep together on the banks of the River Jordan.

But despite wanting and praying for peace, I cannot see how any nation and especially Israel, can make peace with those who decry peacemaking efforts and refer to those who seek a path to peace as traitors. Would you? If we make an analogy to the mid east situation and instead of two nations and people’s, we have two individuals in dispute, we can get someway towards an answer to that question. If this dispute involved one person being on the defensive but trying their best to be peaceful and the other ranting about wanting to kill the other person, which one would you say really wanted peace? In my view it would not be the ranting thug, it would be the individual or nation that not only said that they desired peace but had made efforts to create peace. This is a picture of the situation between Israel and the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.

This is an example of what the peacemakers of Israel are up against when it comes to the ‘Palestinians’. According to Palestine Media Watch, a senior Palestinian Authority official called those who want to go along with President Donald Trump’s peace plan ‘traitors’.

Palestine Media Watch said:

A few days prior to US President Trump’s revelation of his peace plan, top PA official Mahmoud Al-Habbash, who is Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari’ah Justice, warned that acceptance of Trump’s deal is “humiliating,” and “shameful,” and even threatened that whoever does accept it “will pay the price of treason.” Moreover, he taught that to fight the deal and die as a Martyr is far better than to accept the “filth of the century,” as he scornfully termed the plan, which is commonly known as “the deal of the century”: 

This man is not some ordinary street corner ranter, this is a senior ‘Palestinian’ official, a Sharia Judge and a person of influence. Does he strike you the reader as a person who wants peace or whose administration wants peace? This person looks to me more like a warmonger than a peacemaker.

No reasonable person would trust any person like Al-Habbish to make peace with, as all such attempts to make peace would be thwarted. Whilst I believe that Israel truly wants to live in peace with its neighbours and with the Arabs, it is likely that these latest Trump moves for peace will fail as other peace moves have failed. If or rather when, the latest peace moves fail, the blame will be laid, as usual and correctly, at the door of the Arabs who keep saying that want to kill Jews rather than live in peace with them.