Jerusalem Peace

“Nattering nabobs of negatism,” was a phrase popularized, if not coined, by Spiro T. Agnew. Evidently William Safire originated the phrase. (ASIDE: The Press and Democrats hated him more than Nixon, so he served as a buffer between Richard Nixon and impeachment. Then Agnew got caught with his hand out, in a continuation of the extortionistic practices carried over from his term as Governor of Maryland and himself was impeached and removed from office.) Back to nattering nabobs.

A multitude have joined the chorus of decrying the United States’ President’s long overdue move to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel, and to relocate our embassy there. I have not seen any other UN member having been “guided” and then derided for placing its capital anywhere it wants to do so. But somehow the meddling merchants of mendacity in New York feel that it is their purview to instruct the Nation of Israel in the placement of its capital.

Our own nattering nabobs, here and around the world are decrying the irreparable damage done to “peace in the Middle East.” This is not my analysis, but I had thought of it. The Middle East is a boiling pot of unrest, instability, and outright war from Turkey on the north, to Iran in the east, to Saudi Arabia in the south to Lybia in central Africa. Only Jordan is relatively untouched by violence and terrorism, and its status is not overly stable.

So when the harping harridans of hopelessness harangue the President and the United States for destabilizing the Middle East, we can wonder what they have been smoking. Is it the famous hashish of Turkish and Arabian tales and legends? There is no peace there, so what can the recognition and move “upset?”

The vaunted “land for peace” initiative(s) have failed to produce any peace. In fact, I heard recently that Yassar Arafat said, and the record seems to bear this out, if he did not explicitly voice this phrase: “The Palestinians would force Israel out of the land by one thousand slices of land for peace.” The reality has been that none of the renunciations of terrorism, followed by land grants actually led to a tangible peace.

So the President has taken a bold stance to do what the American people, and Congress mandated back in 1995. Do you recall any other legislation whose implementation began over two decades after being passed and signed into Law?

Good job, President Trump. It’s about time.