The latest in a series of threats to cut foreign aid around the world, President Trump has issued a statement today complaining the Palestinians don’t show him “appreciation or respect” for the hundreds of millions of dollars the US has given them. He went on to suggest the US shouldn’t make any future payments because of their refusal to accept his peace process.
This centers around President Trump’s Jerusalem declaration, which declared the city as Israel’s capital, and fueled massive worldwide protests, but nowhere so much as Palestine, which considers the eastern part of the city their own capital. Trump’s declaration led Palestinian leadership to conclude the US could no longer serve as a peace arbiter.
President Trump appears not to realize how badly the Jerusalem declaration was taken, however, presenting it as having resolved the “toughest” issue, Jerusalem’s status, and thereby making the rest of the negotiation simpler.
Trump’s declaration is not only not accepted internationally, but even within his administration most officials had been insisting it wouldn’t have an impact on Jerusalem’s final status in the peace process, despite Trump clearly declaring the city “off the table” and ceded to Israel by US diktat.
This is all but a best-case scenario for Israel’s far-right government, as they not only don’t have to keep putting off Trump on the peace deal, but don’t have to take the blame since Trump’s decided it’s all the Palestinians’ doing.
Who gives a toss?.. That money was just going to their sock puppets in the Abbas faction. It wont impact on Hamas, the true representatives of the Palestinian people, other than to swell it’s ranks with disgruntled ex PA members.
Good job, Don!
I do.
Israel is a welfare state for the privileged
We owe a greater debt to making Liberia a first world nation.
Good luck with that…. !!!!! BUT I agree, we own a bigger responsibility to Lyberia, than to the place that has unfortunately become our No.1. Welfare Queen. No one sees to care that they have purchas ed and own way more than half of our Congressional Representatives & probably two thirds of our Senators… And the longer Trump’s record become the more it looks like we need to add him to the list.
It would be a good job if he cut off the little parasite also. So no, it isn’t a good job but just another example of Trump’s undying loyalty to said little parasite.
Much of the so-called aid is used to provide security, pulling it will increase conflict – and that’s what Trump wants, so more Palestinians can die.
I’m sure there are plenty of Palestinians who will be more than happy to deal with the Russians, or Chinese, or the Iranians in return for funding and support if the US isn’t going to play fair ball with them. Maybe when Palestine gains its independence they will grant some prime real estate to Iran for a military base or embassy. I’m sure the Israelis would love that.
Another Zionist justifying the ethnic clensing of a local population by slavic Europeans claming to be semitic. Actually, the indiginous people are semitic (arabs) regardless of what political entity they reside in. Of course it is occupied territory by European and American invaders as established by the UK post WW1 and subsequent “wars’ against a population with no standing army.
It is apparent that the Palestinians are never going to get a fair shake and that Israel’s goal is to confiscate all Palestinian land. Since the U.S. is part and parcel of this it only seems only fair to me that the U.S. should offer to bring every Palestinian family to America and set them up with enough money to live here, say $1 million per family of four and $100K for each child above the number of 2. It would have been far cheaper for the U.S. to do this than to wage all these wars for Eretz Israel and give Israel $Billions in foreign aid since 1948 as well as foreign aid bribes to other countries in the Middle East. The U.S. has not been an honest broker in these so called Peace Negotiations since Jimmy Carter was President. Trump has ended the ruse.
The aid was supposed to be used to build Palestinian institutions Like jails.