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I really wish that Trump would stay out of "Mideast negotiations". However well-intentioned, Israel ALWAYS comes out on the short end of the stick in these. Israel is not doing anything but defending itself against attacks. It is not taking any offensive moves against Muzzlimes unless it is payback for Muzzlime atrocities. Why on earth should it have to make any concessions to a made-up political tool like Palestinians, people who have, over and over again, thoroughly proved themselves to be duplicitous slime who never stick to treaties? Gush Etzion, for example, was attacked at the announcement of the formation of the State of Israel, and heinous atrocities, such as having limbs hacked off, were visited upon the Jewish residents. It was bought with Jewish blood. Why on EARTH should Israel wait to hear that Abbas "lets" them have it?

From Jewishhistory2015 blogspot: (a good description - I heard this told orally when I visited a museum of remembrance of this attack in Israel) On April 13, 1948, Arabs set mines in the road in the Sheik Jarrah area to block a convoy of 10 vehicles - trucks, buses and ambulances - carrying supplies, nurses, doctors, scientists, and patients to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus (photo at left). In the attack, 78 were killed and their bodies mutilated. Dozens are wounded. British soldiers delayed intervention in the attack for 6 hours while the killing continued. The hospital was cut off from Israel until it was relieved during the Six Day War.

The War of Independence The greatest Arab atrocity of the war occurred on May 13, 1948, at the Etzion Bloc settlements. Dozens of surrendering defenders, including some twenty women, were killed at Kfar Etzion just north of Hebron,. The Etzion Bloc had seen a previous massacre in January 1947 when a Haganah platoon of 35 soldiers sent to help them with medical supplies and ammunition was slaughtered by hundreds of Arab militants. Their stripped, mutilated bodies were found the next day by a British patrol.

The final battle for Gush Etzion took place between May 12-14, 1948. Massive, heavily armed enemy forces overran the Jewish positions. A handful of exhausted defenders, equipped only with light arms and very little ammunition could not withstand the attacking forces. On Thursday, May 13th, Kfar Etzion fell, its defenders killed, most of them slaughtered by Arab rioters after the collapse of the defense. Gush Etzion was destroyed in the aftermath - everything of value was removed, then the buildings were reduced to rubble. Hundreds of thousands of trees in the orchards - individually planted by the Jewish farmers - were uprooted.

I saw photos of steps of homes in Gush Etzion running with BLOOD, people with their arms hacked off by Arabs, stabbed and mutilated bodies, etc. My eyes were twin rivers of grief at the sight. And Trump wants Israel to grant ANYTHING to these scions of murderers?