President Trump arrived in Israel with big ambitions for the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and as with many of his biggest ambitions since taking office,, he’s shown little real indication of having a plan, let alone being willing to articulate it.
“I have heard it is one of the toughest deals of all, but I have a feeling that we are going to get there eventually, I hope,” Trump insisted. This was the sum total of what he set out, a feeling that a deal could happen eventually, or at least so he hopes.
Instead of talking peace, which was supposed to be the whole point of his visit, Trump took a page out of his visit in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, and instead played up the US and Israel being united in their hostility toward Iran, a position which obviously plays well with Israel’s far-right government, but again offers little of substance.
Still, Israeli officials weren’t exactly comfortable that Trump “spoke incessantly about his meetings in Saudi Arabia and said that the Arab world wants peace.” Peace doesn’t play nearly so well with the far-right government, though it may be consolation for them that Trump doesn’t seem to have anything but hope on how to get there from here.
Just like his “plan” for Israelis/Palestinian peace, his “plan” to “make America great again” also consists of little to no substance. Perhaps if people, especially those who voted for him based on his “Make America Great Again” meme, had bothered to ask him to explain his “plan” and how he saw it going down, we might not have to be dealing with this fool.
Of course, if his “plan” was to let the Republicans in Congress ram their previously failed and/or rejected programs down America’s throat then I guess we’re getting what he promised. But this way, if his “plan” pushed by the Repubs actually fail (again) and make things worse for the majority of Americans, Trump can look back and say, honestly, that wasn’t his plan – not his fault. Seen that gambit before.
An American plan has not proven to be a good idea. It did not work for Obama, not at all.
Maybe “do something” will work better. It can hardly work worse.
No, I don’t think it will work. But then, I think its hopeless. Israel is out of control, and the US cannot and will not do anything about it. It will take some outside events to change the whole picture, events not yet in evidence.
There is no plan.
“Trump Talks Israel-Palestinian Peace, Offers No Details on Plan”
Plan? Only Netinyahu knows