Kindly pardon my use of "damn!" in the headline od all places, it is strictly in the capacity of an interjection - an exclamation of annoyance - strictly that. Thanks
The surprise about U.S. president Donald John Trump is of those that are surprised about his surprises. Thankfully I’m not and I’d be surprised at me if I ever was. It is the new normal – the Trump manual.
There’d been relative peace in the Middle East before early last week when word had it that Mr. Trump was set to make an announcement on no less an issue as the Israeli – Palestinian process, the truth is I don’t even know what stage those long winding talks are at.
I grew up knowing Tel Aviv to be the capital of Israel. I watched how turbaned Yasser Arafat entered peace talks after peace talks with Shimon Peres, Ehud Barack, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon even with Bibi Netanyahu.
Talk of the conflict between the two nations being historic and hardly going to be resolved has long been bandied around. The key point is that at every point, it seemed that the Palestinians were the worse for it in the case of any armed confrontation.
Roll forward the years, Donald Trump has altered our geography lessons of years back. He is alone in his mission but it would not have mattered if he did the alteration at Trump Towers in NYC, he did it at the White House as head of the U.S. political establishment.
If condemnation could effect a reversal, if it could significantly change anything in a Trump manual – roll back to the U.S. position on the Paris climate accord and UNESCO pull out, Tel Aviv will be the capital but the declaration had come from a man who should know better.
I have and continue to wonder how a man across the ocean could keep the press waiting to make a pronouncement on a matter in another region. And now that he has, there are riots and clashes that have turned deadly especially on the Palestinian side.
The social media thuggery continues unabated as some Muslims have resolved to saying funny stuff about the Saudi establishment. Saudi has been slammed than Trump in some quarters.
Interestingly, people who know as much as nothing on global diplomacy and the Middle East crisis are parroting diatribes and casting Saudi in shady light. But that is what social media and affordable internet does to some people.
A Palestinian lawyer reacts to tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes
America’s position as a global hotshot is emphasized in its trumpy and grumpy move on Jerusalem. At a point I asked what will become of Washington D.C. if say Saudi or Turkey says it recognized Harlem as the new U.S. capital? Oversimplification of the point but is that not why America is seen as who they are today, a superpower?
Well, if it is about power, they were nobodies decades ago. They took over from others and as much as we believe the word of Allah at all times to be true, their reign will round and wrap up just as those before them.
Back to Saudi and the shade throwers, Muslims around the world owe each other the value of supplication. We must pray for one another, remember Rasool’s last cry? Ummatii, Ummatii… I cannot go to Palestine but I can pray for the burdened people of that land.
You can insult Saudi because you have access to social media, years back, nobody will hear your rants. You can/must pray for Palestine because you must. You can box the two – insults, prayer – or stick to one, in that case, I suggest you pray for Saudi and more for Palestine.
As for Trump and his tawaga – lieutenants – even if we don’t resist of their machinations, history will sort them out. I repeat, for the promise of Allah is TRUE. May Allah ease the affairs of our brethren. May HE have mercy on the souls of those lost in the struggle. Ameen.
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