The president-elect believes his son-in-law Jared Kushner can make peace between Israel and the Palestinians
The euphoria of his victory over Hillary Clinton must have left Donald Trump in a stoner-like dream world. He actually believes that because his son-in-law is Jewish, Jared Kushner can make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump needs to get off his high and get real on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Trump met Tuesday with publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and journalists from the newsroom and opinion staff at The New York Times. During that meeting he said he was thinking about making his son-in-law a special envoy charged with brokering peace in the Middle East.
Here is an excerpt from the Times’ report on that meeting:
Mr. Trump said that Mr. Kushner, who is an observant Jew, “could be very helpful” in reconciling the longstanding dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
“I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians,” Mr. Trump said, adding that Mr. Kushner “would be very good at it” and that “he knows the region.”
“A lot of people tell me, really great people tell me, that it’s impossible — you can’t do it,” Mr. Trump added. “I disagree. I think you can make peace.”
“I have reason to believe I can do it,” he added.
Yeah, right. President Bill Clinton was sure he had made peace between the Israelis and Palestinians after the Oslo Agreement was reached only to see Yassa Arafat break the accord. President Obama made peace between Israel and the Palestinians one of his top priorities, sending Secretary of State John Kerry flopping from place to place in the Middle East in a fruitless effort at reaching an agreement between the two parties.
And now Trump thinks he can achieve a peace the Palestinians really don’t want. If Kushner gets appointed as a special envoy, the Israelis can expect him to lean over backwards for the Palestinians so as to avoid any appearance that he might be favoring Israel because he is Jewish.
If he gets off his stoner-like high, Trump will realize that, rather than peace, what the Palestinians really want is to obliterate the Jewish state. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly vowed – in Arabic – “there will be only one state from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea and that will be a Palestinian state.” Other PLO and Fatah leaders have made the same vow over and over again. Of course in English, Abbas and the other lying bastards say they favor a two-state solution.
Instead of wasting his time and the resources of the United States on pursuing a futile peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians – with or without Jared Kushner – Trump should look to other foreign affairs solutions.
During the campaign, Trump promised Jewish groups he would move the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu, Trump promised that his administration would “finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel.” The Europeans and the U.S. have thus far refused to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for fear of pissing off the oil-rich Arabs and the rest of the Muslim world.
The policy wonks at the State Department adamantly oppose moving the embassy to Jerusalem. President George W. Bush made the same promise but wilted under pressure from the State Department. And President Obama, in his attempt at a love affair with the Muslim world, never made any such promise.
I expect Trump to keep his promise about moving the embassy. It’s a promise he can easily keep. But will he keep it? I’m not holding my breath because, as usual, the State Department will insist that the embassy remains in Tel Aviv.
If Trump, like Obama before him, prioritizes an attempt to achieve that unachievable peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, he won’t be able to move the embassy while his Secretary of State or Jared Kushner are kept flopping around the Middle East in endless negotiations throughout his administration.
5 comments:
He will do more than Obama ever did.
Oh yeah? Anon, please explain how you think he's going to do that.
Because Obama did nothing at all.
The majority of the Palestinian people want a two state solution. I understand that there are some that actually believe the Aipac line that it is really just the Palestinians who are to blame, and the Zionist state is blameless. Taking Palestinian land, uprooting olive trees etc. etc. But anyone who is not an ignorant fool, or a Israeli-firster, sees that the only reason we support the bastard Zionist state is because of the Aipac money that bribes politicians to wear the dunce hat and go against the interests of the United States by blindly supporting Isreal and giving them over 3 billion a year where all we get in return is the USS Liberty and Jonathan Pollard. Most of these politicians in the US senate behave like they are in the Knesset.
The one good thing Trump has done is hire Steve Bannon, who fortunately is on record for putting the interests of the U.S. above Israel, and cutting off the
shekels to Tel Aviv.
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the Bin Laden unit at the CIA, and an American hero, has explained ad nauseam in his books (Imperial Hubris, through our enemies eyes)why we should stop supporting Israel now, and how it is not in America's interest to give them anything.
To the Anon who sees Israel as a "bastard Zionist state," your hatred of the Jewish state knows no bounds.
After establishing its independent nation in 1948 on land inhabited by Jews long before any Palestinians lived there, Israel was invaded five times by Arab armies determined to eradicate the Jewish state. That's why Israel occupies the West Bank.
The majority of Palestinians really do not want a two state solution. The overwhelming majority of them want to see the Jewish state eradicated and wiped off the map.
That $3 billion you complain about creates American jobs and profits for American industries because Israel is required to purchase its war materials from the United States.
I can see why you admire Steve Bannon. He publicly stated he did not want his children to attend school with Jews. Although he and Trump deny it, Bannon is anti-Semitic, and obviously so are you.
For your information, I am an American-firster!
A good friend suggested I make any reply to your comments short and to the point ... something like, FUCK YOU!
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