Israel: It Is Now or Never

The controversy erupted when Qatar offered a $400 million plane to bribe President Trump, while doing the same with the American and pro-Palestinian woke academia (Doha is the most significant foreign donor to American universities).

After a lavish reception in the Middle East that included honorary escorts of Air Force One by state-of-the-art Saudi, Qatari, and Emirati fighter jets, a mobile McDonald’s restaurant greeted Trump whenever he had a craving (like when he offered this American “delicacy” to Clemson University football players in 2019). Before this surreal scenario, a royal reception in Riyadh alongside Musk and the promise of an investment exceeding $600 billion from the Al Sauds, $1.2 trillion from the Qataris, and $1.4 trillion from the Emiratis cemented the heroic image Trump wants to boast.

This relaxed, triumphant, and glorious atmosphere led Trump to commit the United States to a new military agreement with the Saudis to provide them with new weapons and civilian nuclear capabilities in a clear counteroffensive to the Iranian nuclear dispute, thus helping to finally sow the seed that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman wants to flourish in the region to fulfill his Vision 2030 and turn his country into the omnipresent geopolitical power in the region.

Before a gas and oil addict’s audience, Trump also announced that he will lift sanctions on Syria after Al-Sharaa, with whom he met in the kingdom of the 15,000 princes, called for rapprochement with Washington through a decent relationship with Israel alongside the Turkish-Saudi blessing. However, this move responds to Syria’s proposal that US companies will now have access to natural gas and oil fields in the northwestern region of the Levantine nation and the construction of a Trump Tower in Damascus. The creator of the iconic phrase “Sleepy Joe” also announced that he is close to reaching a new nuclear agreement with Iran (not very different from the one Obama signed with the Iranian terrorist dictatorship) and that he wants to turn Gaza into a “freedom zone”.

While everyone is distracted by this visit and considers it boring to say that RFK Jr. has recently announced that Jordan will no longer treat sick Palestinian children -as King Abdullah II had promised in front of Trump during his last visit to the Oval Office- after outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood and seeking to reduce Palestinian influence in the state, relations between Israel and the United States are weakening.

Thus, Trump says there are only 21 hostages alive while Netanyahu claims there are “20 or more”, the heads of government of both countries are not speaking to each other, and the US ambassador, Mike Huckabee, angrily stated that the United States does not have to inform Israel of its geostrategic moves in the region and that Israel will be in charge of security in Gaza, but not the supply of aid, since it will be handled by a private company through a new, neutral international mechanism. In short, the United States is negotiating in parallel with any regional issue that could affect the security of the Jewish State.

Under such circumstances, Israel is limited in its ability to forcefully respond to the Houthi threat, Jerusalem is pressured to negotiate with Hamas -following the release of an American-Israeli hostage following the parallel US intervention-even though the October 7th butchers do not want to demilitarize, and the Israelis are forced to watch as Trump allies with Türkiye in Syria and displaces it as its main ally in the region.

This new reality not only changes the geopolitical landscape, but also shows the increasing influence that Trump’s youngest daughter father-in-law is having in the White House; in short, the Kushners of life -as well as the United States’ historical allies- have been replaced by authoritarian and treacherous figures.

Despite all this, Israel—a country twice the size of Puerto Rico and with only 10 million people—signed an agreement last week to sell Israeli autonomous submarines to Greece and announced that it will eliminate Hamas by the end of this year and annex portions of Judea and Samaria next year, as Trump has eliminated the requirement for a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear program for the Al Sauds (something that would certainly delay the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict). Despite this, Israel is now negotiating directly with Syria on security and intelligence issues in the United Arab Emirates to pave the way for peace, and has a plan on how to face other immediate international challenges.

This Israeli desire to survive not only helped them to win the War of Independence without fighter jets and through the use of old weapons, but also demonstrates why a country that could hypothetically fit 595 times in an Arab continent -if these national entities were united- is still standing.

While Trump is currently busy renaming the “Persian Gulf” as the “Arabian Gulf,” this year’s Pulitzer Prize is being won by a self-proclaimed Gazan poet who denied that the hostages in Gaza are hostages and who denies that the Bibas were killed by Hamas, the NHL suspends a minority owner for condemning Hamas and antisemitism, the Netherlands and France oppose expanding the EU-Israel agreement, and the United Nations denies that the Iranian-made explosives found in the kibbutzim near Gaza are real.

Yet, in the face of all these challenges, the Jewish state is building mobile hospitals in Syria to help the persecuted Druze and eliminating terrorists in Gaza who celebrate the deaths of both Jews and Christians and advocate for Yahya Sinwar’s brother to lead the Gazan terrorists. While Israel remains alone, its intelligence operations are effective, and although Turkey reportedly discovered 1,300 explosive-laden beakers in a shipment of “food” from Taiwan to Istanbul, and only informed the Lebanese Prime Minister of this after the beakers had reached Hezbollah, wounding 3,000 terrorists and killing a dozen, the legend of the Jewish state only grows when solitude strikes and tensions are at their highest.

Hence, let’s hope that Argentinian President Javier Milei’s words -whose copper, gold, and new silver are rising from the ground and who has managed to revive the Argentinian economy like a true demigod of the Athenian Coliseum- in which he promised during the presidential election that his allies were “the United States and Israel”, will one day reach the Oval Office and remind Trump that the West is founded on its Judeo-Christian principles and freedom; not on authoritarianism and short term solutions.

As a defender of Trump’s national cause, mistakes must be identified because otherwise, eventually, we will see how everything we dreamed of faces reality and leads us into a deep limbo from which it will be difficult to escape.

Now, Netanyahu’s stance of clinging to power even though 69% of your citizens want the war in Gaza to end, who want hostages to return home, a peace agreement with Syria and Lebanon, and an end to the inflation that keeps rising while your political allies only betray you, undermines the positive image Israel may have.

Doubtlessly, there’s a wall between Trump and Netanyahu that only grows larger and larger. Trump’s “chivalry” in sidelining Netanyahu from key regional affairs is more than evident, and Netanyahu is only clinging to his chair out of fear that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir will accuse him of being “unfaithful” and ask for a Las Vegas-style quickie divorce. This dichotomy is dangerous, and if Netanyahu continues down this path, Trump will continue to isolate him while approaching our historical enemies, and the only ones who will suffer will be our citizens, who will see the ‘Sinwar butchers’ take revenge on our hostages.