Despite top figures in Israel’s far-right government seeing his election as the end of the peace process, President-elect Donald Trump is talking about his serious interest in the challenge of trying to reach “the deal that can’t be made.”
During the campaign, Trump had presented his experience as a deal-maker as a major boost for making a push at peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, fueling considerable disquiet during the Republican primary for promising to approach the talks as a neutral broker.
There has been considerable split both in the expectations from outside of the Trump campaign on what he will bring to the peace process, and also within, as Trump’s campaign aides within Israel certainly didn’t do anything to harm the far-right’s impression that he’d roll over and let them do whatever they want.
The advisers had also given the impression that moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was a done deal, something Trump has since backed away from. His campaign suggested last week that the move was dependent on there being relative unanimity among officials on the matter, and early reports from advisers suggest they are deeply divided on the matter.
Israel is keen to see embassies in general relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a way of proving an international recognition of their claims over all of Jerusalem, including the occupied portion. Congress called on the US to move the embassy way back in 1995, but allowed presidents to delay the moving indefinitely for “national security concerns.” This has left the embassy in Tel Aviv, and the Jerusalem site a consulate.
Trump’s negotiations in this regard are starting and I suspect not alienating Israel is part of the process but the UN general assembly has voted against Israeli subjugation of the occupied territories for 50 years.
How ever with Israel shooting children and bulldozing 40 West Bank residences every day it is hard to see how Trump can get behind that without allot more of the corrupted establishment propaganda Trump says he is against.
Trump is not in the pocket of AIPAC as are most Congressmen and Senators, it is forming up to be an interesting event.
If anyone can make the deal it is DJT!!
But he is surrounding himself with establishment dyed-in-the-wool AIPAC knee-bneders. It’s just a matter of time before he starts following their “advice” and bends the knee also.
He should cut off all military aid to Israel until they vacate the settlements
The Palestinians say that time is on their side.
Building settlements says it’s not.
Every time Israel offers to end the occupation, the Palestinians say “No!”
Even Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia (certainly not a Zionist) said that Arafat’s refusal to accept the January 2001 offer was a crime. Thousands of people would die because of Arafat’s decision & not one of those deaths could be justified.
Every time Israel offers to end the occupation, the Palestinians say “No!”
Welcome to our universe. Your parallel one sounds amusing, but I think I’ll pass.
You do understand that every offer the Israelis make to the Palestinians is designed to get a “No” from the Palestinians, don’t you? Each and every one of the “offers” is one-sided in Israel’s favor and not advantageous at all to the Palestinians and they are surely not fair. Perhaps you should take the time and read some of those Israeli offers yourself. Just sayin’…
Trump can’t be a honest broker. He’s just like all the all the others before him. An Israel-firster.
As long as the Embassy is IN Tel Aviv there is hope among the Palestinians the day the US Embassy moves to Jerusalem is the day they will lose that hope! The Palestinians do not Target America, and ONLY because of this!
Trump ought to try to negotiate the terms of a one-state solution. If the Israelis panic at that, then maybe they’ll make a real offer for a real two state solution. Dual track negotiations work, I’ve done some, and they can mutually reinforce to get to a conclusion.
What would Baldwin IV do ?
Trump will be real President and he will run USA its economy,like he was running his empire, surely that’s a good think. Least he is not a George W.Bush whom couldn’t even speak proper English.
So,why on earth all these demonstrators wants?
Since media declared war on Trump
things might get tricky but Trump knows that already.
So all good for Americans and international politics.