Israel has waited 76 years for an American president to say what Donald Trump just articulated with stunning clarity. Holding up a pen, Trump compared Israel’s size to the vast desk representing the Arab world.
“This is Israel,” he said, pointing to the pen. “And this is the Middle East,” motioning to the desk. In a single stroke, Trump conveyed a geopolitical truth Israelis have long understood but never dared to express so plainly: Israel’s size and strategic position are precarious.
It was this irreducible fact that made me choose the cover as I did for Israel in Maps, our best of breed historical map and infographic collection. The fact that Israel is a tiny sliver on the map of the Mideast should be the primary factor in every calculation. We are a “one bomb country.” That’s why we need a lot of bombs. Until Donald John Trump came along that is.
For decades, Israel fought wars, signed treaties, and engaged in endless diplomacy, hoping the world would acknowledge its unique vulnerability. Yet the truth remained suppressed—until now. Trump has done more for Israel’s strategic standing than all its wars combined. By recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, acknowledging Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and brokering the Abraham Accords, he fundamentally reshaped Israel’s security landscape. But his latest statement is even more seismic.
Trump has now spoken openly about the issue that Israeli leaders have long feared addressing in public: demographic survival. While Israel branded those advocating the transfer of hostile Arab populations as “extremists” and “fascists,” Trump has reframed the discussion entirely. By calling for “relocation,” he is normalizing what was once unspeakable. He understands what Israeli elites refuse to admit—that Israel cannot indefinitely sustain a hostile, radicalized population in its midst without jeopardizing its own existence.
Israelis who once whispered about these realities behind closed doors now hear the leader of the free world speaking them aloud. This is a turning point. For years, Israeli politicians hesitated to take decisive action for fear of international backlash. But Trump, unconstrained by diplomatic niceties, has given voice to the obvious: Israel is a tiny, embattled nation surrounded by vast Arab lands. There is no moral argument that requires Israel to absorb populations that refuse to accept its legitimacy.
While Israeli leaders still tiptoe around these fundamental truths, Trump wields his pen like a sword, cutting through decades of political correctness like Alexander the Great cut through the knot of Gordius.
His words matter. His instincts, honed in the ruthless world of business and politics, recognize that Israel’s survival depends not just on military strength but on securing its demographic and territorial integrity. His pen, it seems, really is mightier than Israel’s words. But if Israel is the pen, it’s time to sign off on Trump’s transfer suggestion.
It’s LONG past time to tell the “Palestinian” squatters to “shape up or ship out”! Either fall in line with Israel’s Yhwh given RIGHT to their own homeland, and obey their laws, or get OUT! It’s the “Palestinians” who have NO right to be in that land; not Gaza, not Judea, not Samaria; not 1 square nanometer between the Jordan River, and the Mediterranean Sea belongs to them, in any sense of that term! Christians, who are born again by water and the blood, blood bought in Yeshua, have a greater moral “right” to go or be there, yet we make NO such claims, for all our Redeemer is a Jew! Arab Muslims have neither valid legal, nor moral claim to the land Yhwh decreed to the children of Yakov (Yisrael) in perpetuity for as long as the sun rises and the grass grows; no one else may possess it!