Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has called for the US to fund the Israeli annexation of the West Bank in a book that was released on Tuesday, which is titled One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Friedman, who was ambassador from 2017 to 2021, wrote in the book that Israel needs financial assistance “to assert and maintain its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria,” using the biblical name for the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
He suggested the next Republican administration could work with Congress to redirect $1 billion meant to provide aid to Palestinians. “The easiest bucket to tap into and reposition is that of the United States,” he wrote.
Friedman said the US should support the Israeli annexation of the West Bank “based first and foremost on biblical prophecies and values.” He told Forward that he hopes to share his annexation plan with former President Trump at “an appropriate time.”
While he was in office, Trump unveiled a so-called “peace plan” that would have seen Israel annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, a long, narrow valley along the West Bank’s border with Jordan. The proposal was dead on arrival since it was a non-starter for the Palestinians.
Miriam Adelson, the wife of the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson, has reportedly pledged $100 million to spend on Trump’s 2024 campaign, and she is expected to press him to support the Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Friedman’s book was released one week after Israel launched its largest attack on the West Bank since 2002. Israeli officials say the operation will escalate and that the territory is being treated as the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza.
How about NO…
No mercy on Israel
Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
You forgot the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico to the Falls of Niagra.
They already control those. I would add Canada and to its northern territory plus Alaska.
Greenland is mentioned in the Bible. I mean, if one squints and looks at the text sideways, reads between the lines then ignores the lines.
I did that! I hear it also mentions Australia and Brunei, but those are just some wild guesses
https://truth-saves.com/the-bible
The map shown at the top of the linked site – shows the narrow oval where everything in the bible takes place. Almost as if the writers didn’t know about places or animals outside of there…
Might as well say the whole world except Grönland, Wester Sahara, and Antarktika.
No that not enough so therefore you're antisemitic jew hater who denies the holocaust and thinks Hitler was right.
More like, "Greater Israel, from the Seine to the Dez and Kā'run"
(The Kez and Kārun are in Iran)
Share the plan with Trump? Dude! The plan already has Trump's $emen all over it.
NA please try to show some class….:( make a point without being gross.
Sometimes accuracy is gross.
No hypocracy
GROSS…??????????????? How about OBSCENE???
16,000 murdered children What DO YOU want to call that…????????? Maybe an ATROCITY, WAR-CRIME, AN UNFATHOMABLE & UNFORGIVABLE BREACH OF DECENCY: WHEN WAS GENOCIDE EVER ACCEPTABLE ACCEPT IN THE DISTANT PAST & ONLY FOR OPPORTUNISTS DEVOID OF ANY TRACE OF HUMANITY, The question thus becums what is the just punishment for those responsible for 30,000 murders of innocent women and children??? They do not seem to be concerned or apologetic!!!!!!! OR SHOULD WE FORGIVE & FORGET?????? NO!!! LET THE MONSTERS OFF WOULD LEAD FUTURE SUCH ILK TO USE GENOCIDE OF THE INNOCENT AS A NORMAL TOOL OF STATECRAFT!!! IT'S NOT THE SORT OV BEHAVIOR ANY SANE SOCIETY IS APT TO ENCOURAGE!!!!! I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR WHAT PUNISHMENT ANTIWAR FOLKS HERE DEEM JUST & APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT.!!!! With so many of the murdered innocents belonging to two of the largest faith groups on the planet it would seem at some point there will be many who will be determined to bring the butchers to justice or as Bush & Chainey would say "Bring justice to the butchers"
it is genocide, but USA doesn’t care, because Palestinians are animals, so we are taught. Don’t look for the bought off DC Ghouls to do anything. Israel owns 90% or more of them.
Your Trump would not only be a disaster for us in Ukraine but also a disaster for our friends in Palestine and Gaza
Why support the victim if you can support the aggressor? Classic american foreign policy since the end of WW2.
How was he ever the "US envoy"??? He clearly was the Israeli envoy
Same thing, don'cha know?
When Israel becomes the 51st state before your Puerto Rico, he'll be the Governor and Lieutenant Governer of Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Province.
A foretaste of what you can expect from a Trump Presidency…
Trump is far better than the "Knee Pads" and Walz administration will offer up.
Trump isn't "far better" than anyone.
“anyone”,,I agree, Gabbard, ViVek or RFK far better than Trump.
As are anyone on our ballot other than the cackling bitch. And he'd be equally as bad as her as soon as he allowed Israel to continue on.
RFKjr. DOESN''T THINK ISREAL is an APARTHEID STATE!!!!! EVEN THOUGH PALESTINIAN KIDS GET TRIED IN MILITARY COURT UNDER MILITARY LAW!!! BUT ADULT JEWS GO TO CIVILIAN COURT UNDER CIVIL LAW!! JEWS CAN TRAVWL FREELY, BUT PALESTINIANS CANNOT & NEED A PERMIT TO LEAVE WHERE THEY LIVE, OR TO VISIT OTHER COUNTRIES!!!!! THERE IS NO JUSTICE AND THOSE IN GAZA HAVE ALMOST WAY TO GET OUT TO ESCAPE IT'S GENOCIDAL HORRORS
Pointless thought experiment:
I was trying to think who Trump might be “far better than”. My first thought: Lindsey Graham. Imagine that mess as president. I think Trump is probably better than Nikki Hayley, but not by far. He’s probably far better than Bolton and Cheney, I’m not sure anyone matches their murderous instincts except maybe Hillary.
I can't put "far" in front of better no matter who I compare him to. I could handle "better" but that's more about those he is being compared to than him actually being worth a pinch of shit.
Bolton is far more insane than Trump though. Maybe insane is the wrong word. Far more unabashedly psychopathic.
I still have a hard time with "far more". He did hire Bolton and unless he was living under a rock, he had to know what he was getting.
True.
The Walrus sucked at everything.
Hall & Oates has made statements elsewhere suggesting The Donald's pet Project 2025 will benefit Jay's desire for White Christian Nationalist supremacy.
oh I weep for Ameriqa
Almost all of the DC Ghouls are bought off and traitors to the citizens of the USA, as all POTUS has been since JFK.
USA on an "Express Elevator To Hell", constant war for Empire and Resources and to do the bidding of Israel, Worship at the altar of infanticide, and strung out on Porn and drugs. 🙁
"Exceptional" for sure. LOL! While I am at it, if you have dual citizenship, that means Dual Loyalty, and you get murdered in another country that you have that dual citizenship with, that is on YOU, so don't come sobbing to that other country, no tears for you. 🙂 I am referring to the recent "supposed" killing of the USA dual citizens by Hamas and the so called "justice Department" putting out murder warrants on the Hamas leaders still alive. Maybe that "Department" should put out murder warrants against Boi' Bushy for his mass murder in Iraq built on his Lies!!
Not all of your presidents since JFK were bad… you had Reagen and Bush's 1st term
We don't mention the 2nd, I'm told by some American friends
It’s happening right now, only with tranquilizers for the public, unless they need a beating.
To the author Friedman,,A.M.F.! 🙁
As if the rest of the middle east would not react to an Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Most of the Arab, Muslim nations have shown themselves to be rather cowardly when it comes to the Palestinians. What goes around usually comes around….
With precious exceptions, the Lebanese and the Yemeni it seems rather impossible to escape that conclusion. Maybe they are thinking long term and see the power dynamics morph into their favor over time. That would be uncharacteristically sensible, but who knows the times they are a changing on multiple fronts.
Egypt would throw more words than bullets and the Saudi prince would whine about his happy people liking him 1% less
Friedman said the US should support the Israeli annexation of the West Bank “based first and foremost on biblical prophecies and values.”
Why not base it on Grimms Fairy Tales? Same thing.
Yeah, but the Grimm Bros didn’t deed a piece of land to the right people, so … no good.
Also we have evidence that James and Ben Grimm were real people, not anonymous authors receiving attribution by Church tradition.
If he really said that I would spit in his face and P### on his grave.
Jay Hall please try to show some class….:( make a point without being gross
Dammit you got here first on this one.
Sounds about as helpful as "Germany Must Perish!" the 104-page book written by Theodore N. Kaufman in 1941 in which he advocated the forced sterilization of the German people and the dismemberment of Germany after the War.
"Friedman said the US should support the Israeli annexation of the West Bank “based first and foremost on biblical prophecies and values.""
Wasn't sure HOW much of a complete f**king idiot Friedman was, until I hit this quote.
I'm Jewish and all, but "biblican phophecy" my ass.
He's right! Israel owning the West Bank and Gaza is just what he said… "biblical prophecy"
And it comes to the issue of self-fulfilment of “prophecies”.
JFK prophecised that America would put a man on the Moon before the end of the ’60s.
And then tens of thousands of people devoted YEARS to accomplish this goal. WEIRD.
Does this mean JFK foretold the future ? S**t no ! Or else he’d’ve said “It’s too breezy in Dallas today, let’s put the top up.”
Biblical “prophecies” are either so vague as to be worthless, OR were goals that could be accomplished by the tens of thousands of people AWARE of the “prophecy” and actively working to realise it.
A kind of Observer Effect.
Yeah
If prophecy was true then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wouldn’t have denied the oppurtinity to bomb the concentration camps or Yanukovych would have moved to Russia when he was a teenager or the Russians would have never let Putin take power or Netanyahu would be taken out in a (bloodless) coup
Friedman is a bankruptcy lawyer. Figures that he advocates for wars, "aid" and other government spending that is leading the US toward the bankruptcy cliff.
Did anyone ever really doubt that, despite his title of US Ambassador, Friedman worked solely to advance Israeli interests only? And how is it exactly that his expressed desire to take money from desperately hurting US taxpayers to give to his preferred country that enjoys a higher standard of living than we do cannot be seen for the treason that it is?
When you guys annex Israel he's gunning for the job of governor
We hafta applaud the willingness
Indict Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, for complicity in genocide in violation of US law, Section 1091 of Title 18, United States Code. The penalties include the death penalty, under that US law. Therefore, bail is not available once he's charged.
That would send the message that we need to send.
Get with the program man. He's American, and Americans are exempt from horrible things.
If Hitler was born in America and did the Holocaust there, it would be whitewashed as "The Unforced Removal of Our Dear Jewish Friends and Families From Their Non-Native Land"
Friedman should go sit in a corner and never be heard from again.
Disgusting
As the election approaches, any discussion inevitably devolves into a contest over which criminal lunatic is better.
David Friedman and Miriam Adelson should go to the ICC and spend the rest of their lives rotting there along with Trump, Biden, Harris, Walz, Vance and other warmongers.
Miriam is donating $100,000,000 to Donald Trump's re-election bid. She has more money than all of us here combined and could use it to help needy people and the environment.
DONIE BOY!!!!! Isn't the slaughter of the women & kids bad enough of a war crime, do you really want the whole world to hate us….???????
He's too friendly with Orbán
And Pütin Göring
It's the logical and sensible result of 80+ years of systematic Palestinian rejectionism. They don't want peace. They don't want to negotiate. They claim falsely that all of Israel belongs to them when they didn't even exist as a concept before 1967. They believe only in violence, killing and murder. They have been given no less than nine official chances to negotiate peace and rejected them all. And with October 7, they have finally hammered the last nail in their own coffin. Enough is enough. Now they must go. Friedman's suggestion is the only option possible. There are 22 other Arab states with immense empty territories and if that is not enough there are 30+ more Muslim countries where they can go, but go they must. The fact that none of these countries want them says a lot and is a problem, but it's now their problem, not Israel's any more.