Posted on 01/26/2017 5:37:40 AM PST by SJackson
Senior Palestinian official: No official reassurances from US that it will not move the US embassy in Israel.
The United States has not formally told Palestinian leadership of any plans not to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
The comment came in response to a report Wednesday morning in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a pan-Arab newspaper, that the White House had informed Palestinian leadership that US President Donald Trump no longer planned to move the US’s diplomatic headquarters in Israel “at this stage.”
“We have not received reassurances in writing or orally from the US that it does not plan to move the embassy,” Wasel Abu Yousif, a PLO Executive Committee member, told The Jerusalem Post.
Abu Yousif clarified that the Palestinian leadership believes that Trump is actively reconsidering the possibility of relocating the embassy.
“We believe that Trump is reviewing his election promise to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem,” Abu Yousif stated.
“Both Trump not mentioning the embassy in his inauguration speech, as [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu had expected, and the White House press secretary’s statements over the past couple of days indicate that the American president is reconsidering his position on the embassy.”
Trump told an Israeli reporter on Thursday that he plans to follow through with his promise to move the embassy.
“Of course, I remember what I said about Jerusalem...
You know that I am not a person who breaks promises,” Trump had said in response to a question about moving the embassy.
Nonetheless, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday that “no decision” has been made yet regarding the relocation of the embassy.
“If it were already a decision, then we wouldn’t be going through a process,” Spicer said in his first press briefing.
Spicer also declined to commit the administration to moving the embassy by the end of Trump’s term, four years from now. “His team is going to continue to consult with stakeholders as we get there,” he said.
Abu Yousif added: “The international community, including Russia, the Vatican, Jordan and many other countries, has made clear that moving the embassy is unacceptable,” Abu Yousif stated.
“We believe that Trump is reacting to the international community’s positions, which make clear the grave consequences that moving the embassy would have for us and the world.”
Ammar Hijazi, a PA Foreign Ministry official, told the Post he also believes that Trump is distancing himself from his campaign promise.
“I think that Trump is backing away from his campaign rhetoric now that he has assumed the responsibilities of the presidency and is confronting its reality,” said Hijazi, who formerly served as a Palestinian diplomat at the United Nations. “We saw a similar scenario when Netanyahu said he opposed the two-state solution before his election and then backtracked the day after he won.”
Prior to the 2015 Israeli election, Netanyahu had told an Israeli news outlet that a Palestinian state would not happen on his watch. Two days after being reelected prime minister, however, Netanyahu backtracked on his statement, telling MSNBC, an American news network, that he supports the twostate solution.
Meanwhile, Israeli leaders have been encouraging the relocation of the embassy since Trump’s election in early November. Netanyahu told reporters in Azerbaijan in December that a move to Jerusalem would be “great.”
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said on Wednesday said he does not expect the embassy will be moved immediately.
“I assume this issue will be debated in the US for some time. We know the issue is always an internal disagreement between Congress, which demanded in legislation that the State Department move the embassy, and the various administrations that promised what they promised but then pulled back.”
He added, however, that he has “no doubt” the final decision will be different from preceding administrations. “It may be creative, maybe a piecemeal [move],” Hanegbi said.
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Why would the Palestinians be high on a list of those to be personally advised of a move? They're served by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. Been there for about 150 years. In Jerusalem.
Someone misspelled “Paleostinian” in the title.
September 7, 2016.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR.
According to Channel 1’s foreign news editor Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, revealed that Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983.
The documents — obtained by Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez — purportedly show that Abbas, code-named Krotov (mole), was involved with the Soviets while Mikhail Bogdanov, today Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the Middle East. was stationed in Damascus.
Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, who both claimed a willingness to meet while decrying the other for allegedly refusing. ..."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/soviet-documents-said-to-reveal-abbas-was-kgb-agent-in-syria/
Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about $200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the same....
I was given the KGB's "personal file" on Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom him as the future PLO leader. First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
The KGB's disinformation department then went to work on Arafat's four-page tract called "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), turning it into a 48-page monthly magazine for the Palestinian terrorist organization al-Fatah. Arafat had headed al-Fatah since 1957. The KGB distributed it throughout the Arab world and in West Germany, which in those days played host to many Palestinian students....
Arafat was an important undercover operative for the KGB. Right after the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli war, Moscow got him appointed to chairman of the PLO. Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Soviet puppet, proposed the appointment. In 1969 the KGB asked Arafat to declare war on American "imperial-Zionism" during the first summit of the Black Terrorist International, a neo-Fascist pro-Palestine organization financed by the KGB and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. It appealed to him so much, Arafat later claimed to have invented the imperial-Zionist battle cry. But in fact, "imperial-Zionism" was a Moscow invention, a modern adaptation of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and long a favorite tool of Russian intelligence to foment ethnic hatred. The KGB always regarded anti-Semitism plus anti-imperialism as a rich source of anti-Americanism....
In March 1978 I secretly brought Arafat to Bucharest for final instructions on how to behave in Washington. "You simply have to keep on pretending that you'll break with terrorism and that you'll recognize Israel -- over, and over, and over," Ceausescu told him for the umpteenth time....
Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. The author of "Red Horizons" (Regnery, 1987), he is finishing a book on the origins of current anti-Americanism.
Source: Wall Street Journal (September 24, 2003)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yasser-arafat-s-kgb-connections
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From the Wall Street Journal...
The KGB's Man
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Sept. 22, 2003
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an "obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Watch Trump, oh stupid “Palistinians”.
He’s not a Muslim, so he might even tell the truth occasionally.
The murderous, anti-civilization palis should have no control over where the USA puts its embassy. No soup for you, palis.
Since the Palestine Muslims protest by killing Jews, I am glad they feel Trump is waffling, it may save lives right up to when he starts construction in Talpoit.
Just to clarity the Am Cons in J-rue actually is in the Israeli zone of infulence and safety - the United States should move it to pali-land but we all know that can never happen with the violence emminating from the W.B. and Gaza. However, were Trump to move the Consulate into the W.B. it would sent yet another clear singal... but knowing the termites would put a bomb or terrorist shops all around the property would expose it to the periodic warfare forced on Israel.
“We believe that Trump is reacting to the international community’s positions, which make clear the grave consequences that moving the embassy would have for us and the world.”
Reacting... in the same way he reacted to Obama's character assaults at the 2011 correspondence dinner: by winning.
Obama himself mocked President Trump by laughing at a giant screen image of a Trump White House. The man's name is a prophecy. The losers haven't figured that out yet. Mida k'neged mida. That *is* what a trump is.
It's like the comedian who authored President Trump's very own Dr. Seuss success book.
"Now here are some frogs
I do not like at all.
We must kick these frogs out
And then build a wall."
I like the idea of delaying the move until the 50 year celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem this summer. :)
The Jewish Press agrees with you!
http://www.jewishpress.com/cartoons/mida-kneged-mida/
SJackson, now that things are really going to be on the move you will be very busy with the ping list.
Should be the ribbon cutting ceremony at the same time. Reunification of JerUSAlem.
50 years, 50 states, 50 gates of understanding.
Speaking of times and dates, Ascension Day falls out this year on May 25th, which is Iyar 29, one day after Jerusalem Day.
Conversation on Ascension Day:
Acts 1
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Interesting patterns show up in Hebrew there.
In Samaria (בשמרון) = 598
In Jerusalem (בירושלים) = 598
MAGA:
Make America Great Again
Make Ariel Great Again
America (אמריקה) 356 + Ariel (אריאל) 242 = 598
Family trees joined:
13 = one (אחד) = love (אהבה)
26 = YHVH (יהוה)
46 = 23 x 2 chromosomes
52 = son (בן)
598 = 46 x 13 = 23 x 26
598(2) = 46 x 26 = 23 x 52
Math. It's everywhere.
The 50th gate is the "golden" gate. The one with the double arches. What's in a name?
I could go on..
Indeed! Thanks, I thought this 50th year celebration of the reunification might be important, but no clue about the multiple patterns you've pointed out.
And what are the chances Trump’s signature acronym is a Hebrew word?
I don't know. But here's something funny. Remember this from the church sermon:
"Nehemiah had his own share of critics. Two of his chief antagonists were named Sanballat and Tobiah. They were the mainstream media of their day. They continued to hound and heckle Nehemiah and spread false rumors while he and the Israelites were building the wall."
http://time.com/4641208/donald-trump-robert-jeffress-st-john-episcopal-inauguration/
Check:
Neh 2.10. When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it displeased them greatly that a man had come seeking the welfare of the people of Israel:
Here's the Hebrew, hope the formatting works:
וישמע סנבלט החרני וטוביה העב*ד* העמני וירע להם רעה *ג*דלה אשר־בא אדם לבקש *ט*ובה לבני ישראל׃
It always pays to take a closer look at verses that are brought to our attention because you never know what you might find.
DJT (דגט) is in there at a skip of 16 (I marked with asterixes), located on the words the servant, great, and good (underlined).
The gematria of DJT (דגט) = 16. The stuff that just sits there..
Matt. 24#45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
to give them their food at the proper time
Adam (אדם) 45:
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
It's seems an eternity since we've had someone working OUR garden. Feels great! :)
And it’s not a fake WH photo-op garden built upon toxic soil.
School children can finally eat normally again. While the ex-FLOTUS whined about food deserts, she was busy creating them.
I think this wandered far off the thread topic, oops. :)
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