The US State Department’s annual terror report offers a surprising amount of criticism of Israel, uncharacteristic for the Trump Administration, which has made a point of being outspokenly favorable toward the Israeli government from day one.
The report detailed several lone-offender attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, as it does every year. But the report went a lot further, saying that Israeli government policy toward the Palestinians was in no small part driving the violence.
They identified the “continued drivers of violence” as settlement expansion within the occupied West Bank, overly aggressive Israeli military tactics, and a growing “lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood.” All of these are long-standing criticisms toward Israel, but rarely articulated by the US government, let alone Trump’s Administration.
On top of that, the State Department reported credited the Palestinian Authority for its efforts to prohibit “incitement” and for making serious efforts to prevent terrorism. Such a recognition is also uncharacteristic for the US, and is likely to anger Congressional Republicans, who’ve been pushing for a US crackdown on the Palestinians as a way to show support for Israel.
This certainly makes it easy to see who is in the pocket of Israels campaign funding support.
“..they say we’ve got to kill the Terrorists, well why have we got the Terrorists?, Well, cause they are sick & tired of us bombing them” …Ron Paul Liberty Report July 2017…..Not only is all this so obvious…& fur 50 years now!…..but how hopeless & desperate would any person be to blow themselves up?..and/or to aid another person or family member to do it?
This is utterly ridiculous and full of lies. Israel has made every effort to make peace with Palestinians but they are the ones who are the aggressors. Hamas and other Palestinian groups have regularly broken cease fire agreements with Israel in which Egypt was the moderator of the talks. Trump has been a staunch ally of Israel and this goes to show State is a pit of vipers, still full of Obama holdovers.