Trump’s Middle East triumph marks Europe’s ideological defeat - opinion

Indeed, the 3,000-year-old conflict that Trump is stopping is not with Gazans – most of whom have been there for under 80 years (1948 refugees) – nor with the Palestinians, who were collectivized by Europe merely 100 years ago.

The conflict dates back to the European invasion of Judea in the third century BCE.

One can trace it back further to the origins of Europeanism, which was developed in opposition to Judaism, and by extension, to the Judeo-Christian essence of America (see europeandjerusalem.com).

As discussed in my books, there are two autonomous, yet interrelated assaults on the Jewish state, both of which are also proxy assaults on America:

• A physical one coming from Iran and its proxies, who attack “Little Satan” (Israel) also as a proxy for attacking “Big Satan” (America).

• An ideological one coming from Europe and its proxies, who attack “little war criminal” (Israel) also as a proxy for attacking “big war criminal” (America).

Europe, which dominated the world throughout recorded history, has yet to come to terms with the rapid shift of power to the United States that occurred in the last century. This is on top of the ideological and religious battle: zealous European atheism vs America as “one nation under God.”

As explained in my recent Wall Street Journal article, Europe is building a new power base designed to counter American military and economic might. The International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice actions against Israel are building blocks for this European counter-American structure.

On Hoshana Raba, a day when Jews ask God for redemption, President Trump declared victory in the physical war. This was done in Jerusalem, in proximity to where the Jewish Temple stood, until it was physically destroyed by Europe.

That evening, as Simchat Torah began, President Trump took a big step toward victory in the ideological war. This was done in the Sinai, in proximity to where God gave the Torah to the Jewish people, an impetus for the ideological assault from Europe.

Stunningly, this came just three weeks after a European-led attempt to defy US global leadership and declare a Palestinian state on US soil – an act reminiscent of the declaration of the German Empire on French soil in 1871.

In fantasy land, in New Amsterdam, if you will, as the UN General Assembly was opening its annual session last month, European countries and their proxies established the imaginary state of Palestine. It was as if European leaders took a drug that hallucinated out the American Revolution and all that followed.

A few weeks later, on October 13, European leaders sobered up in the Sinai desert.

There was something symbolic about European leaders submissively standing behind Trump, clapping in obedience, fully supporting his plan. “These people all came on a 20-minute notice,” Trump said.

This reminded me of the Humiliation of Canossa of 1070, when the rebelling Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV succumbed to Pope Gregory VII through a humiliating ceremony in the Castle of Canossa.

Europeans have long memories: France in 1914 was still obsessed with avenging Germany for the humiliation it suffered in the 1871 war – a conflict that led to the merger of various German principalities into the German Empire, inaugurated in the Palace of Versailles near Paris.

Otto von Bismarck, the father of united Germany, declared around that time: “We shall never go to Canossa” – Germany is now a secular country rooted in the “German spirit” and will not subject itself to the Church nor any other power.

Theodor Herzl, the visionary of the Jewish state, meticulously studied Bismarck’s efforts and reflected that Germany was born through “fake wars” that Bismarck initiated against Denmark, Austria, and, indeed, in 1871, against France. The European concept of “forever war” is what created the “German spirit.”

Herzl fathered Zionism as an ideological exodus from Europe, including replacing the European value of “forever war” with the Zionist value of “peace through strength.” Once free, at home in the Jewish state, Jews would advance humanity to such unimaginable levels that the world would need the Jewish state to thrive.

Moreover, this would mitigate the threat to global stability emanating from within Europe – a threat that US Vice President JD Vance described at the Munich Security Conference as the threat that worries him the most.

Indeed, after ending eight wars, the next challenge for Trump might be to prevent the impending big European war, as its three factions are consumed with mutual-negation: EU integrationists, nationalists, and Muslims (referred to by some as the new Palestinians).

This could pave the path for weak European politicians to follow the lead of strong Arab statesmen: rather than oppose the shift of power to the United States and the eternity of the Jewish state, benefit from them.

In this regard, Sharm el-Sheikh symbolizes another phase of the American Revolution. An ideological revolution that benefits all of humanity, including Europe.

Indeed, in Jerusalem and in Sinai, President Trump took a big step toward ending a 3,000-year-old conflict by craftily applying the strength, providence, and, indeed, greatness of America.