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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
He didn’t say why, but I think I know. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about the latest from the mercurial president here, and here is more: “Trump: I will not allow Israel to annex Judea and Samaria,” by Elad Benari, Israel National News,
US President Donald Trump stressed in a conversation with reporters on Thursday that he will “not allow” Israel to apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen,” Trump replied firmly when asked by a reporter about the issue.
Asked whether he spoke about it with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about this, Trump responded, “Yeah, but I’m not going to allow it, whether I spoke to him or not. I did, but I’m not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank. There’s been enough. It’s time to stop now.”
Are you shocked? Of course you are. Here he was, Donald J. Trump, the man who moved the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, and has had his diplomats at the U.N. General Assembly defend Israel, and at the Security Council, veto the endless series of anti-Israel resolutions. But Donald J. Trump always likes to keep us guessing. In fact, he likes to keep himself guessing, because you often have the feeling he has no idea what he’s going to say next, and whether he means what he says, or possibly is just sending up a trial balloon to see what the reaction will be, in order to determine his next move. He’s erratic. But we know that there are two steadfast stars in his firmament: Money, and Golf.
The day before making his announcement that he “won’t allow” Israel to “annex the West Bank,” Donald J. Trump had a meeting with representatives from eight Arab and Muslim states: Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, where he listened to complaints about Israel, and was urged to put a stop to any Israeli “annexation of the West Bank.” No doubt that was enough to persuade him to publicly call for exactly that: “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen.”
Why is that? Let’s start with Saudi Arabia.
Just this May, Saudi Arabia agreed to invest $600 billion in America. In 2023 Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment fund put two billion dollars into Affinity Partners, an investment firm that Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, runs.
While the Saudi government has not directly invested in Donald Trump’s personal companies, significant financial connections exist through licensing agreements and investments in companies that his family members lead. This includes direct payments from a Saudi real estate developer to the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization has received licensing fees from a Saudi real estate developer, Dar Al Arkan, who paid the Trump Organization over $27 million in licensing fees for projects in Dubai and Oman between 2021 and 2024. The payments were for branding rights on properties, including a hotel, a golf club, and a villa complex.
As of September 2025, there is a Trump-branded golf course under development in Saudi Arabia, which is part of a larger relationship between the Trump Organization and entities in the Middle East. The partnership is with Dar Global, a London-based company with ties to Saudi Arabia.
In Qatar, the Trump Organization in April signed a deal to build a three-billion dollar luxury golf resort, with an 18-hole championship course.
In Turkey, Trump does not own any properties, but the Trump Organization licenses his name for the Trump Towers Istanbul complex. This is a branding and licensing deal, not a property ownership arrangement. However, now that Trump has agreed to let Turkey buy a squadron of F-35s, I have a feeling that there will soon be a Trump International Golf Resort under development on the outskirts of Istanbul.
In Dubai, the Trump Organization already has a golfing foothold in the region with Dubai’s Trump International Golf Club, which opened during Trump’s first term, in 2017. It was inaugurated by Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. but is owned by — can you guess? — Donald J. Trump. And also in Dubai, the Trump Organization has under development a residential and hotel project, Trump International Hotel & Tower.
In Oman, The Trump Organization is also behind the much-anticipated $500 million Trump International Oman, a luxury golf resort that is still under development.
In Indonesia, there is now both a Trump International Resort & Golf Club, Bali, and Trump Residences & Golf Club, Lido, West Java.
But enough about golf clubs and luxury resorts. Need I remind you that in just the last month, the United Arab Emirates invested two billion dollars in the Trump Family’s cryptocurrency company?
And let’s not forget the $400 million plane, a Boeing 747 that is a gift from Qatar, which Trump intends to sell and use the proceeds to help build his presidential library.
Now you understand why, soon after meeting with representatives of Saudi Arabia, the UAE (which includes Dubai), Qatar, Oman, Turkey, and Indonesia, all countries where Donald J. Trump and his sons have been doing business bigly, Donald J. Trump might have been moved to declare that “I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it. It’s not going to happen.”
The Caliphate never sleeps. The Islamic world has infiltrated the United States leaving no institution public or private untouched. Trump’s ego + his mercurial nature + money/all the business deals you meticulously cite + he remains thoroughly uneducated about the nature of Islamic supremacy = yet another US presidency that will not get us where we need to go. (PS Don’t forget he now has a son-in-law who is a Muslim.)
SARAH – The President has two sons in law. Jared Kushner is Jewish.
Michael Boulos is Lebanese Orthodox Christian.
Thank you, Annie. Of course, well aware of Jared, but did not know Boulos was Christian. I’m sorry to have been misinformed and appreciate your correction.
Dog piss on the Saudis…
Is he a dhimmi Christian? Dhimmi Christians suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and will side with their Muslin overlords.
The Dhimmi Christians in Chile have taken over Chile’s foreign policy and have made Chile champion the Palestinian cause.
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Indeed hubris in display! Who does Trump think he is to tell another country how to defend itself.? God? Besides ,it’s not an annexation! it’s a liberation of Israel’s heartland of the Jewish people,,where they were birthed! And it is the Jewish people’s land under international law and as a sacred trust. In 1967, Israel liberated Judea and Samaria and won it fair and square in a defensive war from Jordan.!
He can’t play with what God
Told Abraham-we should bless Israel-now is the time to cling to biblical righteousness and not tying ourselves with islam
Yeah… and that’s exactly the pressure Charlie Kirk was under… from some big donors., trying to sway him to speak more positive on Israel…
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The FBI is lying…
Take off that tin foil hat. You comment is pure insanity. Not one iota of proof or inference or a tad of a fact.
Yeah… you’re an idiot to believe what the government is saying about Charlie Kirk’s assassination…
There’s not a person which believes the 30.06 was stopped by bones of steel…
Dig a little deeper. Alexander Haig and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt said Israel saves America at least ten billion dollars a year in intelligence costs. Additionally, feedback from Israel provides F-35 builders in Texas valuable real information on live combat operations, saving tens of billions of dollars in research. There is no better test than actual combat. The F-35 has been plagued with problems for over a decade. Currently both Raytheon and Boeing are involved with Israeli companies Rafael and Israel Aerospace in joint ventures for missile defense technology.
Actually, that situation in Spain is gradually coming to pass. Within a couple of generations, Spain will effectively be under Muslim control.
I wish someone reading this has the ability to bring REAL figures into the discussion.
I have some news for Mr Monticello and others who always raise this side of the “trade” and never get around to the other side of the trade which is what Israel gives to the US. It is my belief that Israeli purchases of military tech alone would balance 90% or more of the equation. Israel then trades highly valuable military tech right back to the US with significant improvements the F-35 alone a sterling example. Also Israel has invented and is perfecting the world’s ONLY laser based air defense systems, infinitely ( ok you prefer greatly) reducing the cost of knocking drones, piloted bomber aircraft and rockets long, short and intermediate out of the skies. The US will profit enormously from the sharing by license this tech. Imagine the cost savings here alone. Star Wars has become real.
Then even during wartime, Israeli material advances in medical research and practical development continue to astound the modern world. Of course even the appeasers want this tech to save their own skins!
Israel MORE than any other nation on the globe carries many times its weight in terms of positive development and partnership with the US.
Not the Moors. They did conquer Spain, but were run out in 1492. Spain just reverted back to its original inhabitants. They also occupied Sicily from 872, but if memory serves, they were run out by the Normans in the 11th Century.
The Mediterranean military campaign that resulted in the “Muslimization” of the region is an occupation. Before the Muslims came, the Levant had belonged to the Hebrew tribes.
The problem is once a Muslim has so much as defecated on a few square decimeters of sand, they believe it should be theirs, part of the Umma, for perpetuity.
“The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them” – Lenin
President Trump is no intellectual, philosopher, or deep thinker, and that’s a problem. If G.W, Bush actually thought that Islam is a religion of peace, Donald Trump thinks Islam is a religion of capitalism.
He’s very intelligent
And Einstein was a pacifist.
You make an astute observation. Trump is a friend of the Jewish People and a long time supporter of Israel. He apparently thinks that business deals “trump” religious and political hatred . He seems to think that by being entangled in business arrangements with these Muslims that they will be rational and choose development and profit over jihad. He’s wrong. Unfortunately Trump is giving America’s worst enemies leverage over our economy which will not only damage America but give them the ability to turn the Republican as anti-Israel as the Democrats.
You’re close Rabbi but no ringer with the horse shoe you tossed – In all due respect to your Rabbiness lonsman sir!!
More tidbits of originality and stupidity from our Rezidentura of Objectivist cartoon philosophy.
Thank God you are not president. As usual you are out of your depth.
Trump is out of his intellectual depth, that’s for sure.
Since you never really have to take any responsibility for your moronic pronouncements, you get to talk smack, fortunately, without consequence. In other words, everything you say is meaningless.
At least you didn’t throw in an Ayn Rand quote — LoL
If G.W, Bush actually thought that Islam is a religion of peace, Donald Trump thinks Islam is a religion of capitalism. – Thank you! You said it brilliantly!
Here’s President Trump so far: border is manned and essentially shut –
Washington DC crime way down and other big cities targeted for same –
illegal criminals rounded up and arrested; a million illegals have left on
their own – cartel boats blown out of the water and their filthy drugs
now at the bottom of the sea – Iran’s nuclear capabilities bombed to
smithereens before anybody realized – including Iran – what happened.
IOW, America a whole lot safer in the merely eight months since Trump’s
been in office.
Today the President announced a 20 point peace plan for Gaza in which
all the hostages will be released and stipulating that if Hamas reneges,
America will fully back Israel in bringing down Hamas. All of the Middle
East countries in this article are fully on board with the plan. There is a
chance for peace in the region and a respite for Israel. At least temporarily.
After all, her enemy and ours is Islam – embodied in all those Mid East
countries. While Trump keeps them all juggled and attends to other issues
assailing the USA.
The Trump family has never made a secret of being businessmen out to
make money. It’s what they do. As long as the President is not part of it
which he personally isn’t. So what – along with businesses from all over
the world – if they have deals in the Middle East. Hugh Fitzgerald would
have us believe that Trump’s opposition to Israel annexing the West Bank
is due strictly for profit. I believe it’s appeasement to keep both Israel and
America safe for now. And I vehemently resent Fitzgerald’s insults to
President Trump whose “most steadfast stars in his firmament” are in fact
his ability to lead and his love for America.
I’m a big supporter of Trump. However he has his blind spots. Development and profit will never be a reason for Muslims to give up their goal of conquering the west and Islamic supremacy.
Rabbi Menashe – You’re quite right about development and
profit and the Muslims. As a matter of fact, if anything, the
more they are developed – the better they get at insidious
infiltration of Western countries. They will never stop in
their quest to kill Jews and Christians and for world
domination. Never.
But America has been wounded and very weakened under
Biden, Obama, Bush, Carter and all their minions. If Trump
hadn’t gotten in, we would now be living under full blown
tyranny, Our demise forever as a free people was that close.
Trump has only a short amount of time to make America
strong again – and safe – just as he promised. Meanwhile,
he is keeping the scourge of mankind – Islam – at bay. and
in temporary peace as best he can. It will soon be time for
someone else to carry on – and he or she will do so from a
position of strength – against Islam and the Left – thanks to
Trump.
Based on his words and actions against Islam when warranted,
I think President Trump’s depth perception of Islam is exactly
what is best now for both Israel and America.
Making deals with satanic islamic countries is NOT in the best interest of America…
I disagree, Annie.
Trump has a ‘huge’ conflict of interest.
Israel gets mostly dead and starved to death corpses with a few remaining living survivors of utmost human evil (is there any other kind?), technically ‘alive’, and Hamas gets amnesty and release of a horde of well-fed terrorist murderers from Israeli jails.
IDF is ‘allowed’ to remain in Gaza as multinational Arabs sympathetic to jihad (otherwise, why be pro Hamas?) roam the land and begin ‘governing’. Insane.
No completed demolition of terror tunnels. Just start ‘rebuilding’. And they will be ‘training’ a police force? For whom? Against whom? That’s demilitarization??
This same multinational Arab ‘coalition’ couldn’t take the Gazans out of Gaza and rehabilitate them on their own turf with their sympathetic ‘brethren’, sans weapons??
This deal smells to high heaven. Trump looks real bad. It’s impossible for him to put himself in anyone’s place. If he could, he could not, would not, clearly be compromising big time Israel’s future. The enemy voices of the past and present are flooding his consciousness while the voice of his own moral conscience is silent, squashed.
Trump has not ‘allowed’ Israel to win the war the way she must.
This is the season of repentance in the Jewish calendar. Eight days ago, the Jews around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah, when God judges the entire world because everything, all humanity, is interconnected. In two days is the day of atonement for every believing individual around the world who stands with the eternal nation of Israel to affirm the eternal covenant with the eternal one and only God. L’chaim!
גמר חתימה טובה
Right on. The financial deals enumerated in the article smell very much like those which caused the Biden family to be rightly labeled as corrupt. A conflict of interest is a conflict of interest is a conflict of interest, regardless of the party affiliation of the parties.
mj – Trump’s first job is to protect America, not Israel. He
has brokered a deal where all the hostages, living or dead,
will go home to their loved ones. A deal where the scourge
of Islam will be held at bay as he strengthens our country,
where Israel has some temporary respite from the exhaustion
of war.
It is futile to think that – with the Jew hatred inherent in Islam
and in the Palestinians – a lasting peace will evolve from the
deal. It does indeed stink on many levels, not least of which
is putting globalist scum like Tony Blair on the Board of Peace.
King Solomon himself in all his wisdom could not resolve the
Palestinian- Israeli conflict – while the two-headed monster of
Islam and Globalism is loose in the world.
President Trump is right to end the war. As Amit Halevi a Likud
lawmaker in Israel has said – out of 100,000 Hamas terrorists,
40,000 actually fight, 60,000 are in support roles. They can melt
right into the Gazan shadows and resurface later. Israel has gotten
some lumps in for Oct 7. Time for her – and America – to regroup, as
we continue to face the two-headed giant.
You’re the closest with your comment to being a ringer in the horse shoe toss.
You are confused just as the other Israeli left and appeasers. There is NO chance for peace in the region, and there must be NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH HAMAS! Israle ought to kill 1000 islamic piranhas every day since October 7, 2023: just that. To kill them and bury in pork skin!
Rather odd for this site – almost reads like the onion or MotherJones!
There’s no doubt that the TRUMP brand is wanted – always has been and I highly doubt PRESIDENT TRUMP would be doing anything not in the best interests of the USA or Israel! He simply doesn’t want ANOTHER West Bank right now!
Israel first
Charlie Kirk 2nd
Trump 3rd
The most concisely close – Ring A Ding Ding
And:
Trump is allowing them to invest in the USA.
Offering them breaks in his tariff war.
Defending their infrastructure from war.
Leaning on them to distance themselves from Russia and China.
The Art of the Deal cuts both ways.
Not to say it is ‘right’ or ‘good’ or that it will work or that it’s 6D chess,
… but it’s extremely rational,
… and it’s effective at building the sort of personal ties that can influence people.
If I seem skeptical – I wonder if Trump understands how untrustworthy the Muslim nations are?
Trump seems to believe that these Muslims are rational actors and will prefer development and profit to war. He’s right but Trump doesn’t seem to understand the Muslim mind. They are using him to give themselves influence in America and leverage over our economy. They’ll enjoy the development and profits and then use their influence to bring America down and destroy Israel. They are very sophisticated jihadists and think many steps ahead.
Exactly. The American universities have sufficiently demonstrated what Muslim “investment” in other countries produces.
Until your last sentence you were on the right track and then you derailed.
President Trump is POTUS and the most astute POTUS of the the last two centuries.
President Trump will broker peace – will give every nation a chance to not only participate in peace but in commerce, invention, innovation and prosperity it brings to nations to bring them up to first world status for their citizens in common sense people will enjoy this over jihad.
Before peace treaties left 3rd world nations to their own devices and peace is not enough – bring the people up is the answer.
If this fails because of demonic fathead fatwas then all bets and peace brokering is off and jihad nations will be blown to smithereens. Israel is rightly and justifiably pissed. Israel and the Jewish people have faced jihad since the Old Testament prophesy: Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” (NIV) – Admittedly because old Avram could not keep his pekker in his tunic and was pussy whipped by his wife to the point that Abraham give into Sara’s bitchiness and knocked up her maid Hagar….hence a curse was put on Avarm’s decedents and the world to this generation 6,000 years ago, give or take 1,000 years or so. So blame izzylamik jihad on the Jews? I don’t think so. It’s not that easy. But broker not only peace but a chance to join the global nations in prosperity and technology in all phases of and for human life. Now that’s a bargaining chip never been offered.
Rather eye opening capitulation with Israel’s enemies. Congress should censure Trump for his ill-advised, arrogant, comment about the West Bank. However, the Rs in Congress have little courage, vision, or love of country. Is Trump’s next move to buy off God? Why do I think this will not end well?
I agree… Trump is doing some stupid things…
Release the Epstein files Trump !!!
CONgrASS cannot censure a POTUS only each other – geeze — stop dinning a Taco Bell – industrial waste chemicals in the food and lack of nutrition is calcifying your cabeza.
According to ‘Historydotcom’, 14 presidents have been censured by US House or Senate since 1800. Trump makes many good, patriotic, statements, but sometimes he goes ‘off the rails’. Congress is an equal branch of gov’t, they are not supposed to be a useless, obsequious, group of dweebs.
I’m not a believer, but to me that photo looks disturbingly diabolical. A snapshot from the Pit. These endless “negotiations” seem like a modern Tower of Babel. Even Trump cannot part the blood red sea of islam.
1. President Trump is YHVH’S Man just as the ones YHVH chose to be leaders before they were born of women and are chronicled in the Old Testament.
2. President Trump is the most transparent POTUS since the age of television to now.
3. The ideal of POTUSs is to bring peace even when it means to wipe out the enemy.
4. Eyes and surveillance will forever be on Iran and jihad terrorists . President Trump and PM Bibi Netanyahu are not daft, they know there is the jihad of Damocles hanging over Israel and the prophesy in Genesis 16:12 “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren”., that doesn’t go away with yet another peace agreement between Israel and it’s attackers!
5. Israel is wore torn weary. Israel is done F’ing around. Israel was like USA 9-11-2001 who fell into complacency and paid the ultimate price! Slaughtered, genocide, massacred citizens on 10-7-2023. PM Netanyahu’s comments sharing the podium with President Trump yesterday said as much and no doubt announced this to those nations in partnership with this hopeful breather in a war.
6. I mused about this yesterday. If Israel gets pushed to the brink by jihad and the global nations supporting jihad against Israel they may just fire off those nukes and wipe out their enemy and start a new Garden of Eden to start new generations from the 8th Day Creation people. Of course that is not Biblical but I mused on it. I believe YHVH’s UFOs will appear to unite Earth’s nations on a common enemy from outer space and nations will be use air and ground artillery to fire at the UFOs that will have force fields the artillery will explode at and not injure UFO and humans. YHVH’S UFOs are described in the Book of Ezekiel Chapter One!
Ok. Here is the answer about Gaza — it’s costal territory. A few months or so again President Trump mentioned global investors making Gaza into a resort!
In yesterday’s press gaggle President Trump said to Israel PM Bibi Netanyahu that giving away Gaza was a mistake because of “location location location” beach front property as well as the enemy is at your gates!
I hope Israel will take back Gaza and redevelop it into such a global resort to bring commerce and jobs to the area.
I also hope the Palestinians will be relocated and Israel takes back the area called Palestine and rename it something out of the Old Testament, Israel and make that area a modern city Silicone Valley like city.
But most definitely reclaim Gaza and build to a costal paradise!
Alas, Pres. Trump ignores historical patterns and the deep-rooted fanaticism of islam! Trump does not understand that in this world, irreconcilable parties do exist, and no deal with them is possible. Trump naively believes as though his trillion-dollar deals with islamic nations were beneficial for America and the peace, while in reality they pave the way for the irreversible islamization of America by the method of “legal islam”.
As one commentator here brilliantly said, “If G.W, Bush actually thought that Islam is a religion of peace, Donald Trump thinks Islam is a religion of capitalism”.
Indeed, SHAME ON TRUMP FOR BOSSING ISRAEL! I dream about the time when Israel will become fully independent of the traitorous US, will have a fully capable nuclear triad, and the readiness to use it at the first call in the spirit of the paraphrased “Putin” doctrine.
LET NO ONE THINK THAT HE WILL REMAIN AFTER US!
There is respect for much of what Trump is doing in the United States, however, this man’s lack of significant understanding about not only the religious tenants of Islam but also their endless path of jihad against the infidel (unbeliever of Islam is frightening. Blinded by his extensive ignorance, he is stepping without discernment into the Islamic traps of both the Saudis and Qataris. Both of these governments are dictated by their adherence to Wahhabism Islam. This is the most stringent adherence to their 7th century Islamic dictates and those of their prophet.
The works available from author Robert Spencer alone would cause Trump to experience severe tachycardia when he realized how he has had his business acumen played by both Saudi Arabia and Qatar to benefit Islam’s further infiltration into the United States under economic development agreements.
Business strategies are quite different from Islamic duplicity. Islam allows all means necessary in destroying infidels and curating a false image of themselves in placating worries and concerns while formulating the incremental destruction of whatever is interfering with them manifesting the overthrow of our nation and moving toward their desires of a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. It is the continuous water dropping on a rock, the slow heating of a frog until death. Trump has been wooed by the charms of a forked-tongue snake, signed agreements that will now give unprecedented access to areas of our country formerly unavailable…and this is what they do. The charmer himself has been out maneuvered and his appeasement peace plan for Israel not at all what it seems. Oh, and it’s NOT the West Bank, it’s JUDEA AND SAMARIA–and it is part of the eternal inheritance of the Jewish people in an everlasting covenant with the G-d of Israel…and Islam can never change that no matter what they do and Trump would do well to educate himself before he causes more damage.