US officials from the Jerusalem Embassy issued a statement on Friday reiterating that they are wholly comfortable with Israel’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank as part of the Trump Administration’s “peace plan” unveiled earlier this year.
Trump’s plan was meant to stake out a nominal Palestinian state as part of this plan, even though it clearly isn’t heading that direction. US officials want to clarify that they don’t mind if Israel’s annexation comes without a Palestinian state.
This almost goes without saying, as officials were very clear at the time that the Trump plan favored Israel over the Palestinians as a matter of policy. In great measure the plan was meant to further normalize the occupation as part of US policy, and that means annexation.
Annexation of much of the West Bank, absent a Palestinian state, essentially ends the track to statehood. Israel’s far-right is fine with that, since they never intended to let them have a state to begin with, while the Trump Administration is fine with it too as a way to punish the Palestinians for not endorsing the Trump Plan, which was deliberately not in their favor.
What a surprise. It probably does not matter since Trump’s decision to get rid of the START agreement with Russia means that the world will be destroyed by nuclear war by next year. MAGA of course-what else matters?
Yup, it’s all bombs bursting in air and nukes’ red glare.
Do the Israelis know that America is in a steep decline as the World’s leader? In my opinion, they should be spending their shekels bribing Chinese lawmakers. What a wretched development that will be when the Chinese or Russian Army comes into Palestine and says, “No, Bibi – everything you see is not yours!”
I don’t think either the Russians or the Chinese care.
john,
Be real – the Chinese are on a “charm” agenda – they are building client relationships with all of the little countries and nationalities that they can. And what better way to impress a billion Muslims and a lot of other colonized and discriminated people than “sticking up for the victims of Western apartheid”, the Palestinians. Israel only has one friend – Uncle Sucker, and that friendship is on the wing.
Yeah – which means cash in fast…
Of course. If Israel nuked the world, the US would be perfectly find with that. No news here.
I’m fine with this.
One state. Equal rights and votes for all. All Palestinian refugees must be included in the annexation. Palestinian majority.
Of course, they mean to further subdivide the Palestinians, exclude them from politics, and victimize them as helots.
So the Trump Administration openly supports war crimes and crimes against humanity that are perpetrated by Israel with our financial support of $10 million per day. And we wonder why the world is turning against us?
And this upstart “nation” is requesting double military aid from us. The USA is broke and in serious economic decline. Maybe the guy in his Greenwich apartment that can’t pay his rent for May can wire Bibi for assistance. When has the leech “nation” of Israel given anything back to America?
Election years tend to make U.S. leaders particularly spineless with regards to whatever Israel wants.
I am noticing that there seems to be very little, if any, response from the American public about these ongoing, US supported, Israeli depradations. I think people have given up protesting, because “What’s the use”? This is not to say that people don’t care…they do. But how many Americans ever hear their reps in Congress bring up the Israeli/Palestinian issue? How often is the issue even raised in their newsletters?
If i write in about it, the response is to just list the usual talking points without addressing my concern, or even offering an opinion of their own .
“Palestinian Annexations Are Fine With Or Without an Israeli State”
What if the headline was this instead???
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/de04a635c5ab3fafc9044c0742d16919c464f97e78f6e3db05422fd7e1e7c122.jpg
Of course ‘it’s fine’- it’s an election year and somebody wants those Israeli dollars in their war chest. Funny how that works out.
You are absolutely right! Many of our “elected” representatives are surviving because they have sworn allegiance to a foreign nation, called Israel, in return for financial support from AIPAC and similar devious lobbying organizations in our country that refuse to register as a “Foreign Agent”. The blame is on us because we allow it to continue.
Term Limits would be a good step to start cleaning up this vile behavior.
I guess there had to be a payoff.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/redacted-fbi-document-hints-at-israeli-efforts-to-help-trump-in-2016-campaign/
(In the middle of JerUSAlem, is usa)