Reports on President Trump’s long-anticipated Middle East peace plan have been making the rounds over the past few days, with the plan expected to be unveiled next week. Israeli TV Channel 13 is the latest to report on the matter.
According to the report, Israel will be getting everything they want in the plan, and the Palestinians seem to be offered very little, with US officials fully expecting the Palestinians to reject the proposal.
On the security front, the US would continue to endorse full Israeli military and security control over the entire occupied West Bank, including any possible future Palestinian state. The Palestinians, by contrast, even if they got a state, would not be allowed to ever have an army, to ever sign a military treaty, or to have any control over their own borders.
Other reports also suggest that the US plan is deliberately lopsided in Israel’s favor, and that is in keeping with what the administration has suggested would happen, arguing that there was no reason for the US to be impartial in offering such proposals.
Trump has intended to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top political rival Benny Gantz to visit the White House to unveil the plan. The Palestinian Authorities are not expected to attend, nor indeed is it clear if they’ve been invited. The US had reportedly want to invite some other Arab Foreign Ministers to the meeting, but has not found any who will attend.
First the definitions of words are massacred, like “peace” and “state”, laying the groundwork inexorably for the massacring of people.
The PA and Hamas will reject it, and Trump will respond with sanctions. All too predictable.
Is anyone surprised?
The trump peace train goes Tjew tjew!!!
And this demented clown is the “President of the United States” and the “Leader of the Free World”? Does he not realize that his reptilian son in law Jared Kushner, who is closely allied with the demonically evil Prime Minister of Israel, Binjamin Netanyahu is inviting ever more resentment and intense hatred of our country? Netanyahu will fight any war in the Middle East until the last American casualty and/or bullet, at OUR expense. In addition, word wide resentment and condemnation of the USA will increase once again and our citizens who are traveling or living abroad will face the consequences. Trump is obviously not fit to be President of our country because he does not protect our interest but the interests of a foreign country with DAILY financial support of $10 million, or: $36 BILLION over 10 years!! We can do better. Wake up!!!
Israel has always fought its own battles.
How many American soldiers did we send to help Israel in the 1948 war? ZERO!
How many American soldiers did we send to help Israel in the 1956 war? ZERO!
How many American soldiers did we send to help Israel in the 1967 war? ZERO!
How many American soldiers did we send to help Israel in the 1973 war? ZERO!
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How much moolah have we given Israel?
And how many times did we use our veto at the UN for Israel’s behalf?
The UN is prejudiced against Israel so I’m proud of my country for standing up to the world & vetoing those bigoted resolutions.
For example, the UN criticized only one country for its treatment of women. It was not Saudi Arabia where women were not allowed to drive. It was not Egypt or Iraq or Yemen where girls suffer from female genital mutilation. It was not Palestine or Jordan or Iran where women are subjected to honor killings. It was Israel – a country that has had a female prime minister & female fighter pilots.
The 10 worst countries for human rights are: Syria, Sudan, DR Congo, Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar, Yemen & Nigeria. So why are there more UN Resolutions against Israel, a liberal democracy, than against the 10 worst countries combined?
There is no boycott of China even though China invaded Tibet & transferred millions of Chinese settlers into Tibet.
There is no boycott of Turkey even though Turkey occupies part of Cyprus and Turkish settlers have moved into occupied Cyprus.
There is no boycott of Morocco which occupies part of Western Sahara.
Unlike China, Turkey and Morocco, the Israel’s occupation began because Israel was attacked. Also, unlike China, Turkey and Morocco, Israel offered to end the occupation if Palestinians would sign a peace treaty.
You didn’t answer my question. If the US had vetoed resolutions against those countries that you mentioned, then I would have asked how many resolutions the US had vetoed on behalf of those countries. Of course I wouldn’t have been responding to the original poster’s point about the $36 billion in US tax dollars over ten years because those countries you mentioned don’t receive that type of aid, if any.
What does Hamas want to do after it defeats Israel?
When the rocket attacks first began against Israel, a senior Hamas leader, Dr. Yunis Al-Astal, published an article in the Hamas journal, Al-Risala, where he compared Hamas’ al-Qassam rockets to the Manjaniq catapult which the Prophet Muhammad used against the Jews of Khaybar. The fall of Khaybar, he explained, opened the gates of the Byzantine Empire to Muslim conquest and was the first step towards the fall of Constantinople. Now, the fall of Israel, he said, would open the gates of Europe to Islam and lead to the fall of Rome.
Hamas MP and cleric Al-Astal proclaimed in 2008, “We will conquer Rome, and from there continue to conquer the two Americas and even Eastern Europe” (Al-Aqsa TV, April 11, 2008)
It’s in our interest to give Israel weapons so that Israeli soldiers will fight Hamas over there rather than needing to have American soldiers fight Hamas over here.
Nixon saved Israel’s a** in ’73.
how many troops or planes did Nixon send to Israel in 73 ?
I never said he sent troops or planes. He did do an airlift though.
From another poster:
Operation Nickel Grass was a strategic airlift operation conducted by the United States to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In a series of events that took place over 32 days, the U.S. Air Force’s Military Airlift Command shipped 22,325 tons of tanks, artillery, ammunition, and supplies in C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft between 14 October and 14 November 1973.[1][2]:88 The U.S. support helped ensure that Israel survived a coordinated and surprise attack from the Soviet-backed Arab Republic of Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic.
How many American sailors did Israel kill in 1967 .. 34… with 171 wounded. USS Liberty.
If you think that the attack on the USS Liberty was not friendly fire but was on purpose, what was the purpose?
To blame Egypt and drag the US into the war on the Israeli side. Also, the Israelis were concerned that the Liberty may have picked up radio transmissions from the IDF as they were executing hundreds of Egyptian prisoners.
It’s a complete farce. Stunning how many Americans still believe our foreign policy is conducted in our best interest without batting an eyelash.
About what you’d expect from a couple of gangster states.
Trump … The best president Israel has ever owned (for Israel anyways.. us Americans, not so much)..