Donald Trump's commitment to Israel remains undeniable, a decade later - opinion

We are about to enter 2026, a decade since the year Donald Trump was first elected president of the United States.

Throughout that decade, too many of my fellow strong supporters of Israel in America have warned that Trump was about to turn against the Jewish state.

And, as I predicted to the doomsayers, every time, President Trump has proven them absolutely wrong. They should not expect that their current concerns will meet a different fate, yet their consistent kvetching continues.

The answer to all the questions is a rather obvious absolutely not.

President Trump will always support Israel, just like he will always do the right thing for his own country, because he rightly believes that preventing harm to Israel helps America.

That can be seen from every step Trump has taken since he first got elected, from recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to moving the US embassy there, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, closing the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, and ending the nuclear deal with Iran. And that was just the tip of the iceberg in his first term.

In less than a year in office in this term, President Trump freed every live hostage in Gaza and, at the time of this writing, all the dead Jewish hostages except two. He bombed the most fortified Iranian nuclear facilities with the bunker-busting bombs Israel lacked. And he is ending the war on terms so favorable to Israel that the naysayers could not have dreamed possible.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first world leader Trump welcomed in Washington after returning to power, and he has been invited three times since – more than any other world leader – ensuring there is no daylight between the two leaders.

Can anyone imagine any of those positive steps being taken by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or, frankly, almost any other potential Democratic president of the United States?

And yet the doomsayers continue with their doubts.

LET’S ADDRESS them concretely:

Trump held a surprisingly cordial meeting with Mayor-elect Mamdani, but he still considers him a vile antisemite and, as he has called him, a “lunatic,” “radical,” “communist,” and “not very smart.”

The president, who is very smart, does not want to see New York harmed, and when Mamdani does harm the city, he doesn’t want the White House to get the blame. What matters most is that Trump will not let Mamdani arrest Netanyahu or do anything to hurt Israel.

The Syrian leader came to Washington and got a spritz of Trump’s cologne. Did he get Israel out of any of what was Syrian sovereign territory before 2024 or 1967? No.

Relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are gradually getting back on track to be normalized after they were understandably harmed by the war. Israel’s qualitative military advantage will be maintained, and official normalization between the Saudis and the Jewish state will be finalized long before any American fighter jet is delivered to Riyadh.

No, Trump is not creating a Palestinian state. There are plenty of conditions on the way to the “credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” in United Nations Resolution 2803 that I know – and the president knows – have no chance of being met.

Meanwhile, the International Stabilization Force being created in Gaza will have soldiers from Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Italy. You don’t see Turkey or Qatar on that list because Israel vetoed their participation, and the US accepted its requests.

Yes, President Trump has maintained positive relationships with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which helped him bring the Israeli hostages home. But the president knows how to tell them no.

There are only three years left of President Trump’s term in office. Supporters of Israel must cherish this time, the golden years of US-Israel relations, and the doomsayers of Donald must desist.