Astounding.
Directly from the world’s hottest of hotspots in the Middle East, there is the president of the United States announcing that a history-making peace has been made. (RELATED; Give (Eternal?) Peace a Chance?)
The world’s media — some of it at least — raced to headline the news. Samples:
From Newsmax: “Trump Signs Peace Deal: ‘Incredible Day for the World.’”
From Fox News: “Trump receives praise from media, Democrats for Israel-Hamas peace deal.”
From Fox News: “Trump lauded by MSNBC, liberal media figures for securing Israel peace deal,” with the subtitle, “CNN’s Abby Phillip called out Obama for not naming Trump in social media post about peace deal.”
From the New York Post: “President Trump declares an ‘end of an age of terror and death’ to raucous applause in Israel’s parliament.”
From the Washington Times: “Trump signs peace documents to end war in Gaza: ‘It’s going to hold up.’”
The Jerusalem Post: “Live from Gaza, Hostages Square: All you need to know on this historic day.”
Associated Press: “Israelis and Palestinians rejoice as hostages are released and prisoners freed, in photos.”
Los Angeles Times: “Trump arrives in Egypt for Gaza summit after urging Israel to seize a chance for peace.”
The Jewish Chronicle: “‘The best friend Israel ever had’: Trump cheered in Knesset after hostage releases,” with the subtitle, “Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana hailed the US President, whose speech was interrupted by a vocal protest, as ‘the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House.’”
It would take various leftist media outlets — still sinking in Trump Derangement Syndrome — to be more grudging, as here in theWashington Post: “Trump eyes transformational Mideast peace as Israel, Arabs stay miles apart,” with the subtitle, “The challenge of turning a Gaza ceasefire into a lasting regional peace was on display as Trump made separate stops in Israel and Egypt.”
But the bottom line in all this?
President Trump has made history — major league world history. One can only pray that the Middle East is on its way out of the horrific decades of mass violence that arose with the formalization of the Jewish state in May of 1948. (RELATED: Nobel Snubs Trump but Will His Peace Plan Hold?)
All of which leads to the obvious question: Can the rest of the world imagine a world without ongoing violence in the Middle East?
The answer to that question is, one suspects, that it has taken President Trump, the man who has made a career of envisioning everything from buildings to the results of presidential elections to peace agreements that the world’s collective political leaders could not envision themselves.
A look back in history, and it is crystal clear that there have been plenty of struggles or difficult relationships that were solved and vanished over time.
Once upon a time, Americans and their then-British masters saw their rising tensions first explode into revolution and later the War of 1812 before their relationship evolved into the tightest and best of alliances that saw the globe through two World Wars and a Cold War after that.
Inside the United States, the North and South launched themselves into a Civil War that eventually ended with a staunchly reunited nation that would lead the world.
In this respect, President Trump has said of his trip to the Middle East that he has seen the faces of the people lining his motorcade routes and sees good people behind those eyes.
Exactly.
Whatever else human experience has shown, it would be that when the world’s people work together in peace, the world grows and prospers — its children educated, its families prosperous. And as former Speaker Newt Gingrich has said, Trump now has a “presence built on achievement” that is leading that peace, prosperity, and growth.
That, clearly, is President Trump’s vision. And fortunately for the world, that Trump vision of peace and prosperity that, as Trump has said, no one thought could happen, is now becoming a historic reality in the wartorn Middle East.
Thanks to President Trump.
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