Undoing more than half a century of US policy on Israel’s occupations and annexations in the wake of the 1967 War, President Trump today went onto Twitter to publicly endorse Israel’s permanent control over the Golan Heights, which is legally part of Syria.
Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, and annexed it in 1981. The US, and the rest of the world, never recognized the annexation, but considered it part of Syria under military occupation. Trump now says the US recognizes Israel’s “Sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” calling it critical for “Regional Stability.”
While on the surface this is just another in a long line of mostly meaningless concessions to show how “pro-Israel” he is, the timing also comes across as a cynical political ploy, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo already in Israel to visit Netanyahu, who faces reelection in just three weeks.
Polls showed a very close race, with Netanyahu’s far-right coalition struggling to retain power against a more centrist bloc. Since Netanyahu asked for Golan on Wednesday and got it on Thursday, the optics of this are Trump very much trying to swing the election in favor of the Likud far-right coalition, which he has long favored.
Even I can’t defend this whorish behavior.
Definitely beneath and beyond any call of realpolitik.
” the President is out to make history – and build a better Israel.”
This is an altered quote from Justin’s column. I think it’s more accurate.
And talk about meddling in other country’s elections.
MIGA!
Those hats were in clear view in the last CPAC convention. Almost every speaker bent over forward to show obeisance to Israel.
So, “conservative” is now supposed to mean allegiance to a foreign state? …… No thanks.
So the question arises: Are American ass-kissers?
Not necessarily. But the American political class are whores.
1. JR is the only one who see that the emperor has clothes.
2. Trump is a strange whore who pays for her customer.
3. America first my ass, yes, it is all about Israel (Isragate, not Russiagate).
4. You bet that the suckers ignore all those news that don’t fit their curve, and will vote Trump again – a new version of Obamanites.
Israel is now 44 x 27 MILES bigger- Party Time for Genie Investors like Cheney, Murdoch, N. Rothschild… GNE Stock up.
This is unbelievable. Why is Trump endorsing Israeli annexation of a territory (the Golan Heights) that doesn’t rightfully belong to it, but to Syria? Is he out of his mind?? He certainly must be, because the UN and the vast majority of other countries’ leaders aren’t endorsing this land theft.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad should proclaim without any hesitation that the Golan Heights rightfully belong to Syria and send armored and infantry units in to drive the invader Zionist Entity’s forces back into Israel. He also should tell Trump that endorsing this theft is a huge mistake, and he (Trump) has to backtrack on that endorsement and endorse Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights instead.
By endorsing the theft of the Golan Heights by the tyrannical Nutty&Yahoo Govt, Trump has lost whatever respect he had from his European and Asian allies .. He’s lost whatever respect he had from many Americans as well. Nutty&Yahoo certainly doesn’t respect him, no matter how hard he tries to do the Israeli PM’s bidding. Is this the way to put America first? That was what he pledged to do during his campaign and in his Inaugural address. Putting a hostile nation such as Israel first, is an act of treason. JFK was the only President who really did put America first, and he paid the ultimate price – assassination – for doing so.
Don’t forget, Israel First has considerable U.S. domestic elite and popular support. This is beyond Trump.
Prior to this, Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) introduced motions recognizing Israeli Golan annexation in the Senate and House.
Its a coordinated campaign.
Trump is a willing participant.
More than willing. The percentage of U.S. popular support for Israel likely exceeds the percentage who voted Trump.
Therefore Trump may very well be aligned with substantial bipartisan U.S. popular will in supporting Israel’s Golan annexation.
Pour out all your venom and hatred.We wil have 6 more Trump, years, eight Ivanka years, and a proud and free Israel will go on and on
Proud and free for part of its population. Second class citizens for the rest.
I would rather be an Arab citizen Israel than an Arab citizen of an Arab country. There are no Jewish citizens in most of the Arab countries
Strawman. You guys(hasbara)are good at that.
Why do you assume that people with differing views are not sincere in their beliefs, and are part of some vast plot?
Maybe because they always use strawman arguments. And maybe because you hasbara types don’t have enough respect for your fellow human beings to think they have a right to self determination.
You cannot unilaterally annex someone else’s territory. It wont be recognised by the UN anyway so any annexation remains illegal under international law. Same with Venezuela. Crimea is a different case. It was not annexed but joined the Russian Federation voluntarily after two referendums. May be purely from a legal point of view it was “illegal” (I don’t know) but at any rate they were the Crimeans themselves who voted for joining Russia and thus avoided the bloodshed that befell their Russian brethren in eastern Ukraine. The latter is an important point to consider.
Surprise! Now all the resources of Golan are there for the consortium with US members like Lawrence Summers. Not only Bibi in power but the US fully integrated. Bipartisan, like the “democratic régime change” in Venezuela. George W Bush surely approves-no borders broached!!!
And what are these wonderful resources-? oil? gold. Rubies?
“Since Netanyahu asked for Golan on Wednesday and got it on Thursday, the optics of this are Trump very much trying to swing the election in favor of the Likud far-right coalition, which he has long favored.”
The optics of this are that Donny is Bibi’s bottom bitch. The dom commands and the slave submits. The safety word is ‘mashugana’.
Prez. Trump really loves being on his knees before Israel and his best Bud,,BiBi,,,but let’s be clear, so does almost all the Ghouls of DC, except for a couple Muslim Congress Women!! LOL,,ain’t diversity great,,,well…ain’t it??????????????
Ilhan for president, of the f**king universe.
Bush gave Israel [not 6 days] but 34days to rout Hezbollah from Lebanon, they failed dismally.
Having morphed Syrians dissatisfaction with Assad into a full blown war Israel, ISIS and Takfiris were supposed to rout Assad in days if not weeks. 8Y later that plan failed too and instead they got their collective tuchas handed to them by Russia, Iran and Hez.
Hezbollah has been stealing weapons etc from their border post as the IOF
slept so don’t fancy their chances of holding on to the Golan.
Israel now is facing a war with Iran with the Iranian forces well established in syria. The continue push to be bibi poodle will result in any war costing a lost of our kids lives. Israel never fights a well armed force so it will have to be done by the USA who apparently has lots of kids available to die for a war in the middle east.
Russia, Iran and Hezbollah must have collected a truck full of US/Israel weapons incl missiles, from ISIS etc.
A few stray ‘unidentified’ missile launched in quick succession in the direction of Tel Aviv, will soon have Israel begging for another ceasefire.
In 1967, Israel defeated 3 larger, better armed Arab forces.
Yet armed to the gills with US state of the Art weapons Israel was soundly defeated by Hezbollah and their rag tag army of resistance fighters. IOF only fights kids and old women.
Hezbollah hid among women and children.Hezbollah will ultimately be defeated,because love conquers hate
This move compliments the earlier U.S. moves to end the two-state solution for Palestine.
The Eurasian century scotched the two-state pretension; its all about consolidation of the MacKinderan geopolitical battlefront. Palestine will not be allowed to play West against East and be another Eurasian ally on the Mediterranean, and, the Golan Heights apparently must be definitively secured.
There may be tradeoffs offered behind closed doors, like Golan returned to Syria in return for Iran leaving Syria, but obviously there’s nothing to negotiate.
That said, when talking to other ears, Israel portrays itself as ‘Asian’, not Western.
https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hUdbE8-BI5A
Parag Khanna’s book, ‘The Future is Asian’ is notable in that he identifies with the ‘Eurasian century’ without the Eu (Western) part. Israel has a lot to offer Asia, thanks to the U.S.; more than David ‘Opium Wars’ Sassoon ever did.
https://original. antiwar. com/giraldi/2010/01/27/stealing-success-tel-aviv-style/
Ya’ll go easy on the man because he’s a victim of President Trump Sanity Disorder (PTSD).
Oldest trick in the political book, create a diversion.
“He did it again,” the Israeli prime minister said of an American president who seems determined to make every wish of Israel’s far-right nationalist leader come true. “First, he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved the U.S. Embassy here,” Netanyahu said, “then he got out of the disastrous Iran treaty and reimposed sanctions, but now he did something of equal historic importance — he recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”
Bibi be happy BFF Trump comes through again. Be proud of your man Justin.
There is zero reason to talk about this at this time except it is the USA interference in the Israel elections. Bibi has an indictment and Trump is giving him help in keeping his job. It is disgusting to enter another nations political games. We were not successful in Iran, Iraq, Libya. We will most likely end up with a lot of our sons and daughters dead because of the support of bibi
This from an excellent summary from:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/trumps-golan-move-is-designed-to-guarantee-netanyahoos-reelection.html#more
“The hasty move itself was typical Bolton. There was no policy process to plan and announce the decision. Long standing legal advise from other departments which warned of the move was ignored.
Trump has no power to give Israel sovereignty over anything. Several UN resolutions determined (UNSCR242) and reconfirmed (UNSCR497)
that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory illegally occupied by
Israel. The European Union, Russia and others rejected Trump’s move and
called it illegal.”
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This zionist trump regime, shooting not even from the hip but from other parts of its body, is becoming ever more dangerous: kushners, bolton, are more than a tad worrisome.
Trump, head zionist, and his zionist crew of thugs in suits are preparing their knee walks to the AIPAC seance. I would expect netinyaahoo to be carried into dc in a sedan chair with rose petals thrown along the path. Sickening!
The kushner family, jarad, ivanka, and kushner senior are working very hard to ensure nitenyaa’s re-election as he makes a trimphant arrival into the aipac seance-the only thing missing evidently are the yet to be seen trumpets.