LETTER: Trump’s words on Gaza peace could apply to peace at home

To Ozaukee Press:

Remarkably, President Trump played a role in creating steps for peace in the

Middle East. While addressing Israel’s parliament in a victory lap, even more remarkably, President Trump spoke of friendship among neighbors, cooperation in making deals, the importance of renouncing terrorism and threats, and recognizing the rights of others.

Firmly and positively, our president used words of conciliation and peace to

foreigners on their soil that I have never heard him use talking to Americans on our soil. I can’t help imagining the seismic impact if President Trump spoke those same words to all Americans here on American soil. The speech he gave to the Knesset would only require slight revisions:

“If both political parties go on for three, four more years fighting, fighting, fighting—it is getting bad. It is getting heated. The hand of friendship and cooperation must be kept open by all. I’m telling you, people of both parties want to make a deal that improves the lives of Americans in all walks of life. We can only achieve this by friendship and cooperation. There’s nothing that would do more good for this part of the world than for every one of us to renounce terrorists, stop threatening neighbors, quit funding hate campaigns and misinformation and finally recognize that everyone on American soil has the right to exist. It will be the best decision that our country has ever made. We can all work together to ensure that the war between America’s own citizens against each other is truly over, and only then can a new era begin.”

The president also reportedly told Netanyahu that he would be remembered

“far more” for accepting the peace agreement than for continuing an aggressive war. “The ultimate prize is peace and prosperity for all,” President Trump said.

Fingers crossed for America,

Jennifer L. Wilke

Cedarburg