Questions about the Israel-UAE deal and annexation may have been answered by Jared Kushner, who says that Israel will not annex without US permission, and the US won’t give that permission for “some time” after the deal.
Israel’s peace deal was said to delay annexation, though Netanyahu said it wouldn’t be an obstacle. If Israel’s annexation is predicated on US permission, which has been the indication, then the delay seems entirely up to the US to enforce.
With some officials, including Kushner, condemning the Palestinians, it is always possible the US will cut the delay short to spite them. That the annexation is up to the US at all is sure to be onerous for Israel’s settler movement.
How long the delay is remains to be seen, but could change at any time as it could rapidly become a political issue, particularly in that the annexation is such a blow to the peace process.
Wow. What a generous dude 🙁
Hmmm
How reassuring that Jared Kushner has suddenly become “our” (as in America’s) Gatekeeper of Israel’s ongoing theft of Palestine.
According to international law (San Remo Agreement) Palestine is for the Jewish National Home. Uti possidetis juris or uti possidetis iuris (Latin for “as you possess under law”) is a principle of international law which provides that newly-formed sovereign states should retain the internal borders that their preceding dependent area had before their independence. On the day Israel declared independence, the West Bank & Gaza & East Jerusalem were all part of Israel. Israel can’t steal its own land.
The San Remo Agreement was an agreement between the British, French, Italian, and Japanese regimes. Why would the people who lived in Palestine, be they Arab or Jewish, be either bound by it or entitled to anything under it?
We shouldn’t forget though that Jared has, a major conflict of Interest in allowing Israel to do what it pleases. He can at a seconds notice along with his wife and children, apply and receive Israeli Citizenship, and hence benefit from the policies he is espousing as good! Not that there are not a dozen other conflict of interest problems elsewhere.
I’d pay to watch someone slap that smugness off of that spoiled little bastard’s face.
I would say, about three weeks.
The American people have gotten extraordinarily tired of the demands, bullying, and blackmail the American government has received from the fully nuclear armed, viciously apartheid, theocracy which is what Israel has become in the 21st century.
And we have one word for you: enough!!
We will provide you no more American military to get slaughtered or maimed for life in the process of “neutralizing” all your alleged existential threats in the Middle East. And of course, as we both know, that includes all of your neighbors in the region.
And on top of that, sir, we would appreciate it greatly if the US government immediately pull all financial and military aid from your country immediately, as all this aid is completely illegal under the Symington Amendment.
We the people would like to see this accomplished and immediately, sir. The days of the host/parasite relationship between the Us government and that of Israel may well be coming to a very abrupt halt, and it is damn well about time, sir!!!
Sun comes up, Israel demands money. Sun goes down, Israel demands money. Moon waxes, Israel demands money. Moon wanes, Israel demands money. Weather is sunny, Israel demands money. Weather is rainy, Israel demands money. I sense a pattern here!
The US will not OK the annexation for some time…… well they may as well do it immediately, that comment says we are not going to stop you from doing it, no sanctions no problems, we will just have to wait a while before the US gives the Nod and the Wink.
Now lets look at the other Annexations in the works, Crimea, the US immediately sanctioned Russia. not withstanding that the US funded the Coup that caused the annexation, Russia was never going to let the US put a military base on the Crimean Peninsula!
And of course the US Annexation of the Syrian Oil Fields, So America is against annexation except when it benefits from that annexation themselves. We shouldnt forget that there are US Citizens that are benefitting from the Annexation of the Golan Heights, Rupert Murdoch, and I believe former VP Cheney have shares in a company that holds exploration and extraction rights there. Illegal extraction rights under Geneva! Of Course in Eastern Syria the US has given a US company extraction rights there as well, again illegally under Geneva. We should also remember that the argument that the US puts forward that it is Kurdish Oil is problematic as the Syrian Rights to the oil were emplaced by two US WWI Allies, the French and the British who carved up the region and Purposely made sure that the Kurds got nothing, in a divide and conquer scenario!
Americas problem of pick and choose who it is acceptable to allow Annexed lands to be given too, creates its own problems when other Countries Annex. Just how will it make the claim that China cannot re-annex Taiwan, a country that China has always said was a Chinese province even before the Communist China existed, back when Japan first invaded in the late 1500s, also when the Dutch invaded as well and when the Japanese invaded again! The US allows other countries to Annex land, hell the US would loose most of its possessions if annexures were reversed. All its Pacific Possessions including Hawaii, the majority of Western US States, all annexed. Then the Indian Territories, we have seen recently that in many instances that the Indian Territories were never extinguished, and SCOTUS just ruled that was thus!
Israel has been annexing for 72-plus years. Thousands of dead Palestinians could attest to that, if only. . . .