Peloni: The entire world stands in a much more secure position today due to the election of Pres. Trump. From the shores of the US, to the Eastern Mediterranean, across all of Europe and throughout the Pacific. In fact, his election was an inflection point in history, in which the world might take a step back from the brink of many impending and evolving disasters, not the least most relevance of which lies in the Middle East and within Israel most particularly. There can be no regret that the gross incompetence and even grosser corruption of Obama’s acolytes have once again been turned out of power, hopefully forever, and we can only hope that Trump’s return as leader of the free world will meet the many challenges it faces with a sense of responsibility and certain judgement, and devoid of such inside trading tactics and political malfeasance which characterized the Biden regime from its first day to its last. I still remain hopeful that this will be the legacy of Trump’s second term, and that the disastrously harmful Witkof affair will soon be dwarfed by the potentially revolutionizing steps which have yet to be played out in what will come to be the remaking of the Middle East, leaving Israel far more secure, and the world in general far safer than it stands today. Time will tell if the deeply troubling Witkof affair will be the mark of Trump’s second term or simply an aberration of his policies. Again, hopefully it will be the latter.
By Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | January 31, 2025
A few days ago, I took issue with the Doomsday Squad of prominent pearl-clutchers and naysayers — including Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, director of Jihad Watch and prolific author Robert Spencer, president of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes, prolific British writer Melanie Phillips, and the formidable Morton Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — all of whom condemned in the strongest language the ceasefire/hostage release deal that then-president-elect Donald Trump insisted on before his January 20, 2025 inauguration.
In fact, Mr. Trump had sent a threatening ultimatum to Hamas, letting them know that the consequences of their failure to comply with the deal that his envoy — lawyer and business mega-mogul Steve Witkoff — worked out would be the following: “There will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity.”
The then-president-elect concluded by warning that “those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
QUESTION
What if Mr. Biden had uttered these words on October 7, 2023? Had promised to defend Israel with all possible resources, both monetary as well as the “hell to pay” power of the American military?
…and, as they did upon hearing Mr. Trump’s words about the hostages, the Hamas terrorist cult complied by backing off and ending their savagery?
And what if Mr. Biden had not inflicted an arms embargo on Israel, severely hurting the momentum of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the middle of the genuinely existential war the tiny Jewish state has been waging against not one, but seven surrounding enemies — Hamas, Hezb’allah, Syrian groups, the Houthis, Yemen, Iran, and Iraqi groups?
What if he had been a true ally and unleashed those weapons, which President Trump — to his credit — did release immediately after taking the oath of office?
More from the Paper Tigers
After the three young Israeli female hostages were released on January 19, Hamas once again demonstrated an inability to keep their word by changing the agreed-upon date to release the names of several other hostages, thus delaying their release.
But it took only a few words from American and Israeli commentators for the keffiyeh-camouflaged terrorists to back down, with one headline reading, “Scared of Trump?”
QUESTION
What if Mr. Biden had let it be known that changing the rules was unacceptable…big time?
Would those predictably glass-is-half-empty savants have wrung their hands in despair and written that the world is practically coming to an end?
Of course not. Because what now-president Trump has flushed out over the past nine years — since he and his wife Melania descended the escalator in Trump Tower — is the astounding numbers of weak-kneed politicians and commentators who are so afraid of the righteous assertion of power and the positive things it can bring about that they inevitably opt for and support the passive accommodators and apologists who have contaminated the political landscape for the last four years, as well as for the eight years that preceded President Trump’s first term.
Much more crucial is this question: if Mr. Biden had acted as President Trump has acted, would we today be 15 months away from a war that never happened? With almost 900 fallen IDF soldiers still with us? With the unspeakable horror of the hostages’ suffering never having taken place?
More from the Puppet President
Shortly before the election, President-Elect Trump spelled out to all college administrators, in language clear as crystal, what he planned to do immediately upon taking the oath of office about the metastasis of antisemitism on college campuses, a strategy designed to stop the harassment, bullying, and vicious criminal behavior clearly endorsed not only by professors and administrators, but by the rampaging mobs of racist students we have witnessed over the past four years.
“They will lose their accreditation and federal funding,” he said.
Translation: All these schools will lose the objective measure by outside agencies of quality and educational value, and also the loss of multi-multi-multimillions of dollars every year.
And the perpetrators, Mr. Trump continued, “will be found accountable and charged with violations of the Civil Rights laws.”
Well, whaddaya know? Colleges are already complying!
QUESTION
What if Mr. Biden had made this simple announcement, instead of reflexively — and preposterously — warning our citizens of the dangers of Islamophobia?
Imagine sparing our nation all those months — all these past four years — of all that violence and damage and danger and, again, malevolent racism.
The List Goes On
The What If list is too long — at least a few doctoral theses in length — for a mere article.
What if Mr. Biden had done or said X, Y, Z? Would we have been spared such astronomically high food and gas prices, or the luxury hotels in several sanctuary states being filled with illegal migrants for a reported $1-billion cost per city?
Would we have been spared the five wars — count ’em, in Darfur, Yemen, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Israel — that didn’t exist when Trump 45 was in office?
Most important, would we have been spared the violence, the grief, the bloodshed of the Hamas-Israeli War?
The Hatred of Jews and Israel on Steroids
Let’s figure it out. Going back to Barack Obama’s eight-year regime, there was clearly a fetish with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs — for peaceful purposes, of course.
All the Democrat powers-that-be at the time — and to this day — supported this plan, even though they had all read the Iranian Charter and Mission Statement, both of which stated that their number-one goal — their objective, their desire, their raison d’être — was to wipe the State of Israel off the map and to make sure that every last Jew on Earth was dead.
They also knew that Iran was the sponsor of the bands of criminals, thugs, and murderers that the United States of America has listed as terrorist groups — Hamas, Hezb’allah, and the Yemenite Houthis, which Mr. Biden took off the list and President Trump just put back on.
None of this mattered to the leftist radicals, who continued to believe — and who believe to this day — that nothing was more important than putting nuclear weapons in the hands of the arch-enemy of our faithful ally, Israel.
But when President Trump 45 posed severe sanctions against Iran, in essence bringing about a depressed economy, the threat toward Israel somewhat abated.
However, when Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office, he immediately lifted those punitive sanctions because, as stated, nothing is more important to the Democrat enemies of Israel than putting a nuclear threat in Israel’s backyard.
It is sad, actually tragic, as well as infuriating, to think what things might look like today if President Trump’s four-year sabbatical had never happened.
Joan Swirsky is a New York–based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
Peloni
Since you have ignored the writing of the great Leon Trotsky
What gives you any right to say what or who or how to fight against Jew hatred in any country on earth
An ignoramus, which you are, has no right.
“but Trump has already made the Jews of America safer with the expulsion of the foreign nationals leading the riots on college campuses across the US.”.
“Safer”
Don’t make me throw up!
The USA, like many other countries, are aware that they need their Jews to survive. What better way to keep them close than to arm the Iranians with nuclear weapons aimed at Israel? This approach has drawbacks; target #2 is the USA!!
@fquigley
To be certain, Trump should not be offering any American to fight for Israel. He has his hands full with dealing with China. Furthermore, Israel needs both the authority and abilty to shoulder its own wars, and only by doing so will she have any role in deciding the fate of her own people, which was the very purpose of the reconstitution of the Jewish State. It was true under Biden, and it is true under Trump – the US should stay out of Israel’s war in Gaza.
I disagree that this is true. Trump has been at the forefront of dealing with antisemitism in America, and this was true during his first term and the period of interregnum which took place when he left the White House four years ago. Of course, we will see which of is correct in the coming days, but Trump has already made the Jews of America safer with the expulsion of the foreign nationals leading the riots on college campuses across the US.
This is a disgusting lying about the reality of Trump and Israel by Peloni and Swirsky. Trump was never prepared to offer a single American soldier in any fight, for a Jew or American Jew. BigMouth trump warning to Hamas was to fight to the last Jew. Great Man Indeed.
The more Jewish people manoeuvre inside the influence of American Imperialism and reject Jewish independence the more they cannot make any correct decisions.
The very first decision that had to be made was to deal decisively with traitors inside the Jewish state who opened the door to October 7 and to the taking of the hostages and murdering of many by Hamas on October 7
The second was moving the civilians into Sinai and thereby the total isolation of civilians from Hamas and it’s heavily armed tunnels. No food at all entering Gaza. But with the UNRWA destroyed forever Israel distribution of food in Sinai
That provided the basic principles
1. Never fight on ground prepared by the enemy
2. When the ground is prepared fight to the end as an independent power without trump sticking his nose in in any way
As Leon Trotsky said often in his copious writings, especially on the Spanish Civil War, the primary condition for revolution is to always STATE WHAT IS.
That means in this case stating and repeating that Egypt broke the Sadat-Begin truce as evidenced from the extensive motorway tunnel network between Sinai and Gaza. That also means that Egypt created October 7 as a central component in the world islamic Jihad against Jews, Christians and Marxism. This is therefore a new world for Israel.