US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft issued a statement Friday warning the Palestinians against expressing any displeasure to Trump’s peace plan at the UN. She warned criticism would do nothing. The US is expected to veto any resolution criticism the plan.
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour has taken the plan to the UN already, and is working on a UN Security Council resolution, describing Trump’s plan as a “recipe for the destruction of the national rights of the Palestinian people.”
Mansour’s resolution wants to condemn the text in the “strongest possible language” and express the scope of the Palestinian opposition to it. A US veto at the UN Security Council would allow the Palestinians to take the matter to the UN General Assembly, where it would likely be a much bigger matter.
While Craft was warning the Palestinians against any moves at the UN, it’s not clear that the United States can actually do any more to the Palestinians than they’ve already done with the plan and the encouragement of Israeli annexations in the West Bank. The US is likely to blame the Palestinians for the plan failing, but that was likely the idea all along, given literally no one expected the Palestinians to be on board with it.
What are you going to do, Donald- attack Palestine, too? Surround it with US bases and troops? If Palestine is so bad and full of terrorists as the Israelis claim, why aren’t we bombing them and launching drone strikes every day? Maybe Palestine isn’t the problem- maybe the problem is in Netanyahu’s fevered dreams.
Ya think Trump/Kusher wouldn’t?
Hezbollah would try and level Israeli industry with rockets, though.
Racist Palestinians have been oppressing & lynching Jews for centuries – long before Israel declared independence, long before the first Zionist arrived in Israel.
How was life for the Jews in Palestine before the Zionists arrived?
The Jews “walked with a shuffling, cringing step that told of blows received and blows expected. No one could mistake the difference between oppressor and oppressed—“between those poor creatures and the Arabs who jostled them in these crowded alleys, …. The Arabs stride along with a spring in every step.”19
There were rules: Jews had to pass Muslims on their left side, because that was the side of Satan. They had to yield the right of way, step off the pavement to let the Arab go by, above all make sure not to touch him in passing, because this could provoke a violent response. In the same way, anything that reminded the Muslim of the presence of alternative religions, any demonstration of alternative forms of worship, had to be avoided so synagogues were placed in humble, hidden places, and the sounds of Jewish prayer carefully muted.21
Today we have apartheid, in a faux democracy,while its tentacles extend into Palestine to steal by every and any means possible other peoples land who never left the area,lived there for millennium and it is a crime not because who is whom, it is because the injustice one group is inflicting on another and the fools who are now doing the wrong,should know better for they morphed into the evil beings that committed that very injustice on their euro-ancestors. Why dont you tell the folks here of how in Palestine it is under israeli military courts for the Palestinians but for jews in all of Palestine they live under israeli civil law. Bit of a difference? How bout jewish kids are kids till 18 and cant be tried in adult courts whereas Palestinian kids can be at the age of 13,subject to Administrative Detention. Any iserls suffer that? Hell no. Any Israeli in a Palestinian detention center? Jail? Prison? House Arrest? NONE MF>How many Palestinian kids has the israeli military/occupation/police forces killed this year? Shot in the eye? Knee? Medics? Journalists?
This is a slow anaconda squeeze ethnic cleansing of a viable culture who have the unalienable right to self-determination as they see fit, not as foreigners seek to impose. On the bus ride from Ben Gurian airport to Jerusalem guess what i saw? Mainly pastoral,dry,empty rolling hills and no residential or businesses going up there. Its when you get east, you see this encroachment,house by house,sometimes room by room, road by road. This pushy, shoving,arrogant jingo-hubris of brutal racism called zionism in this ugly form as its flag to rob from those who are not the same…
Ever hear of these folks? https://www.truetorahjews.org/
https://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/refuseniks-occupations-underbelly/
https://www.btselem.org/
Surely we all know that the US always does all it can to enhance the interests of Israel and ensure the destruction of any hope for Palestinians. What is important is that the rest of the world supports Palestine, which can hardly be expected to overcome the huge power of the Zionist lobby all alone.
The UNSC always has the USA to veto needed reforms, and the General Assembly must massively support justice for Palestine, but with the power of the USA to intimidate most of the globe,hopes must be low.
Palestinian has to be threatened by USA for Palestinian to understand how good the deal is for them. They just don’t know yet . Palestinian doesn’t know what is good . They are throwing away a golden opportunity .
Balfour that’s why impose mandatory status . The Arab didn’t know what was right for them.
May be Trump should be told by Stormy Daniel what would be good for him in bed with Kushner while Likud brigade keeping watch on every move .
Trump is an Israeli puppet. Adeleson, Jared Kurshner and Netanyahu are his puppeteers whom he bows down to. The US govt is an occupied, subjugated Territory of Israel, partner to not just an apartheid state but to the reincarnation of a Nazi state – Israel – a parasite sucking the life blood from a nation, America, that was once a great beacon of light of right vs wrong, good vs evil. America, now deformed and debased by an rampant infection named Israel – as the world watches silently as it exercises a slow motion genocide of another race.
Spot on–but not sure if America was ever a great beacon of light. Check with Native Americans on that.
“but not sure if America was ever a great beacon of light”
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Ditz makes a good point; this plan was probably all optics and expected to fail, but blame placed on the Palestinians.
On the other hand, its not like the false hope given by previous so-called peace processes.
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https://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/index-of-countries-on-the-security-council-agenda/israel-palestine-and-the-occupied-territories/refugee-right-of-return.html
The Palestinians are conducting genocide against the Jews. The Palestinian Authority pays people to murder Jews. The more Jews they kill, the more money they get. That’s genocide! Why is there BDS against the Israeli victims of genocide, but no BDS against the Palestinians who are committing genocide?
“The Palestinians” aren’t doing anything, any more than “the Jews” are.
Ethnic groups don’t act. Individuals do.
The Palestinians have rocks and the Israelis have nukes. Your comment is a complete load of BS.
Well they aren’t doing a very good job. If we want to start stacking bodies, I bet the pile of Palestinians is way higher than the pile of Israelis. Each one comes with a story that usual starts with “this leaves us no choice”.
Put more truthfully, we live in the Zionist United State of America.
I suspect that Trumps very close friendship with Israel and Zionists in particular has something to do with Democrats failure to impeach Trump. They want desperately to get rid of Trump who is very likely to win an other four year term in the White House. What other way is there to dispose of him? So his life could very well be in grave danger. Think of Kennedy but this time they will do it not so obvious and more subtly. Just a thought and it may not be too far fetched
Actually, the Presidential Curse, the Curse of Tiepecanoe (various names) has a very good track record, for those overly concerned about Trump winning the 2020 election.
The Zero Year curse was broken by Ronald Reagan, who used astrology. That, or his driver just happened to take an injured Reagan to the nearest private hospital instead of the designated Bethesda Naval Hospital.
The Zero Year curse was also broken by Shrub, who probably got by on a technicality; he wasn’t ‘elected’ but appointed by a judge over Al Gore.
https://www.thoughtco.com/tecumsehs-curse-and-the-us-presidents-105440
“Trump who is very likely to win a fourth term in the White House”
Only four? He’s continued Obama’s two, Bush’s two, Clinton’s two, Bush the first’s one…..
Kelly Craft is the next in line of horrible US Ambassadors to the United Nations.
It has become a tradition to put an arrogant, hawkish, neo liberal/conservative moron in that seat.
And one thought it would be hard to equal Nikki Haley.
It has become a prestige to outdo the previous idiot.
and they have no shortage of candidates 🙂
Trump and Netanyahu are possibly the worlds two biggest bigots. Unless he has changed his thinking Netanyahu sees Arabs and others as less then human, “they (referring to Palestinians) are not like us, all they understand is brute force”. Trump is no different, possibly worse in his treatment of minorities. His building walls and using his Presidential powers to punish those who are not worthy to enter the US or his treatment of those who resent Israel’s crimes against humanity, Trump is a disgrace.
WTF. Why does the trump administration think it has the right to legally impose its ridiculous plan on a group that it has no governance over? As if he is a dictator and his word is law. Haha! I hope that sanity prevails in the UN and that the PA literally laughs this sham off. I feel that a one state solution where every citizen is equal under the law is the only way to move the needle on these disputes. The Israeli leadership is going to have to powershare with the PA. It really comes down to the fact that the Palestinian population is growing at a much faster rate than that of the Israelis and no amount of stuffing people into corrals is going to fix this issue. One state with equal rights for all will guarantee that all people living in the region, including Bedouins, will have the same access to just outcomes when faced with potential loss of land and resources.
Was Hitler ready to negotiate his invasion Czechoslovakia? The Israelis (like the Nazis) are convinced that they were chosen to take what they want.
Israel signed peace treaties with both Jordan & Egypt even though that meant giving up large areas of Biblical Israel. That shows that Israel is more interested in peace than in territory.
If they’re more interested in peace than in territory why won’t they stop illegally building settlements on Palestinian land?
This is how mobsters operate. Trump and Kushner, both owned by the “Russian” mafia in New York City for decades, would be expected to do nothing other than to bully, bribe, and threaten their way to a “deal.” There was never even the pretense of negotiations involved in this “offer that can’t be refused.” It’s up to the rest of the world to say no to this travesty, the EU in particular, now that lapdog Britain is no longer a member.
Thomas, There you go again, making wild assertions you cannot prove, geez!
The Southern District of New York is sitting on massive evidence of money-laundering for the Mob and tax evasion going back decades, but guess who won’t release his tax returns? That’s why he’s so desperate to stay in office, just like his partner in crime, Netanyahu.
Thomas, I can’t believe that you are actually believing and pushing that B.S.! I would not release my tax returne either because it is non of your fu##ing bizzness. 🙂
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Thomas, there are far to many who are indeed,,blind.
To get any clearance in the intel, or any other security related job, everything is looked at, heck, they will come and talk to your neighbors. Jay, your bs “privacy” excuse for trumps taxes are just lame, and cultish. Get a grip.
Jay,
But would you, like Trump, lie about why you aren’t releasing your tax returns and claim that you can’t do so while under audit? Or would you honestly say, “none of your business?”
Thomas, Prez. is not as rich as he claims, not a billionaire, so to cover that up he refuses to show his tax returns,,and that is his right. Prez. Trump is a bull shi#er for sure and vastly prone to exaggeration
, just like every disgusting DC GHOUL and wanna be Presidential candidate.
It was a simple question.
Interesting that you didn’t answer it.
Its doubtful Trump is that careless, but who knows.
When Trump swam with the sharks in Atlantic City during his casino days, I assumed there was a high probability he was working for the FBI, one their of many lines of investigation.
The mob got busted, in Atlantic City and New York.
Cannot Prove…?????????????
Does anyone need to prove what all can plainly be seen by all and is spread across the world stage and for even the even the uncurious is difficult to avoid. And is seen by those perpatrators as a symbol of their supreme dominance of all of that matters in this world and their Believed in next world. How can you ask such a question in THIS forum of opposition to their bribing, bullying and brutalizing???
Mv,,Great rant Dude! Ya, sorry to tell you, but if you are claiming criminal actions you better be ready to PROVE it with facts and evidence, NOT by “can plainly be seen by all”,,,so goofy and foolish of you! LOL….lay of the drugs,,Dude. 🙂
If you mention extortion again I’ll have your legs broken.
“Accept this one time offer for your chance to win a free stay at Trump Tower Gaza, or else.”
You left out the part where negotiations were offered. Craft said that while the Palestinians’ initial reaction to the plan was anticipated, “why not instead take that displeasure and channel it into negotiations?”
A good point; perhaps negotiations are not desired.
Its an effective psyop; the U.S. is openly calling the shots at they make them. Eventually the Palestinians will have to deal anyway.
There isn’t much point in negotiating with the US. They make agreements and then pull out of them on a whim. A country that should never be trusted. And this is not a peace plan, it is a “give Israel whatever it wants” plan.
The situation is changing by the half hour. Jared Kushner has NOT yet given to green light an annexation that the stalemated Israeli caretaker government is wishing for. Jordan has stated it will not accept Annexation. The Arab League has rejected the plan in Cairo. The Palestinian Authority has decided to cut relations with US security apparatus. STAY TUNED!
… I’d rather tune out of that whole $#!* show.
I’am asking a question ? Are there more Israel Arabs in the Israel defense force known as the IDF . Which is one of the most powerful military forces in the world . Or are there more Orthodox Jews . Neither the Arabs or the Orthodox Jews can be compelled to serve in the IDF . The Israeli government has been begging and even considering passing laws forcing Orthodox Jews to serve in the armed forces . My guess is there are more Arab Muslims and Christians carrying weapons to defend Israel than Orthodox Jews . I suppose the Orthodox Jews are praying more to their God and perhaps still doing the most good .
… How is this outcome a disadvantage in Israel?
The Orthodox are kind of their core culture of what it means to be Jewish. Seems the system works just fine.
Even the gentile Andrew Carnegie wanted to be remembered as “A Man Who Knew How to Enlist in His Service Better Men Than Himself.”
Thomas you are a know it all or at least you know how to get some answers . We know us country boys both black and white are over represented in U.S. military forces percentage wise . How far off am I on my guess of Orthodox Jews verses Arabs in the IDF
It’s not even a peace plan, it’s a “give Israel whatever it wants” plan. A complete farce.
Complain and we will steal even more money from US citizens and give it to Israel so they can kill even more of you and steal even more of your land…..so there….oh, and where’s my Nobel Peace Prize?