For 15 years, Saudi Arabia has been pitching its formula for peace among Israel, the Palestinians andthe Arab world, with little response from Israeli leaders.

       And for months now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted Israel’s increasing strategic alignment with Persian Gulf states over their shared enmity toward Iran.

       But it took President Trump just a couple of hours after he landed in Israel on Monday to suddenly and quite publicly combine those two ideas as the centerpiece of his plan for a peace deal.

       In a strong start to the journey, Mr. Trump inked arms sales and economic investments deals with Saudi monarchy and charted a new course for US anti-terrorism and foreign policy with a speech to leaders from 50 Muslim countries.

       Despite criticism that his campaign rhetoric had alienated America’s Muslim allies, Mr. Trump received a hero’s welcome

when he landed in Saudi Arabia, kicking off an eight day trip across the Middle East and Europe.

       He was greeted on the tarmac by King Salman, an honor denied to President Obama in 2009.

       Mr. Trump deviated from other past rhetoric including not using the phrase “racial Islamic terrorism” when addressing the Muslim leaders. He had harshly criticized Mr. Obama for not using the phrase, saying he couldn’t defeat an enemy he refused to call by name.

       Still, Mr. Trump did refer “Islamists” and “Islamic terrorism” urging Muslim countries to look within their borders for the source of extremism that’s spreads death and destruction around the globe.

   Saudi king Salman described US president Donald Trump’s visit to the Muslim kingdom in the Gulf as a “turning point” in relations between the two countries. Well, who knows what happens at last?

       This is the same Donald  Trump who said during his campaign that “Islam hates us” and called for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. He opined that a sizable segment of Muslim population has “great hatred towards Americans,” and falsely claimed that he himself witnessed “thousands” of Arabs celebrating in the streets of New Jersey on 9/11.

       And of course just seven days after taking office he signed an executive order temporarily banning people from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the United States.
Now he wants to mend relations with the leaders of Muslim world. 

       He has delivered a grand speech in Saudi Arabia, the country that hosts the two holiest sites in Islam, to an audience of more than 50 leaders of Muslim countries. And who helped him in delivering this wonderfully written speech-Stephen Miller-who was one of the key architects of Trump’s “Muslim Ban” and has a long history of espousing anti-Muslim views.
Trump’s plan to improve relations with the Muslim world is to travel to the birthplace of Islam and deliver a big speech written by his anti-Muslim adviser about the religion’s problem with extremism in front of more than 50 Muslim leaders.

       Well done Trump!!

       When Trump chose to add Israel to his itinerary, it was supposed to be an easy win-after all, Israel one of America’s closest allies, Trump promised to put an end the Obama administration’s “disdain and disrespect” for Israel as soon as he took office and be the friend Israel truly deserved.

       Past US Presidents have avoided visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem while in office because it happens to be at the

center of one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: control over the holy sites of Jerusalem.

       The wall is located in the Old city of Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan during the Six day War in 1967. But some Muslims believe the wall is part of the al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site in Islam, and therefore should be controlled by the Palestinians.

       The international community and the official US policy historically doesn’t recognize Israel’s authority over the Western Wall, asserting that the final status of who controls what in Jerusalem is subject to negotiations with the Palestinians. But, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu- and most of the Israeli public as well as world Jewry and many politically powerful American Evangelical Christians- are adamant that the Western wall, and indeed all of Jerusalem, is and always will be part of Israel.

       So by visiting the Western Wall, Trump had made a very symbolic gesture implying that the US recognizes that the Western Wall does indeed belong to Israel.

       No previous American President has come to Israel this early in his tenure.

       But the question, does this make any differences in the relation between Israel and Palestine?

       We can’t say it now. The Person who banned Muslims entering into his country has changed. Now he is trying to make allies with the Muslim nations. Likewise, these grudges between the two nations will melt down eventually. 

       But the attitude of people all over the world towards Trump is still the same. They still compare him to science fiction and fantasy villains!!!