Posted on 12/23/2017 7:35:42 PM PST by Beave Meister
The White House has decided to quietly withdraw from all its ties with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas.
DEBKAfile’s exclusive sources report that the Trump administration has resolved to scrap all ties with the Palestinian leadership in retaliation for its campaign against US President Donald Trump and his Jerusalem policy. Several warnings to Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) of what was in store if he did not desist from castigating the US president fell on death ears.
Last week, two Arab crown princes, Saudi Muhammed bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Muhammed bin Zayed, summoned Abbas to their capitals and urged him strongly to back away from his attacks on President Trump. He got the same advice from the ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Al Thani, who conferred with Washington on the subject – all to no avail. The Trump administration has therefore set out an eight-point program of sanctions, which is first revealed here:
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I am firing an AK-47 into the air and ululating.
Metaphorically.
I hope this will take the sting out of Obunghole’s insults.
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>> “DEBKA crappola?” <<
Does not compute!
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Had my hopes up until I saw DEBKA which is never right about anything.
Never bite the hand that feeds you especially if it is an iron fist in a velvet glove and you have a glass jaw.
Game, Set, Match.
Palis are screwed blued and tattooed. Its done. Counted out. Checkmated.
Also about friggin time.
Good! It’s way past due. Just how long was America supposed to subsidize murder tunnels to Israel, life long pensions to families of suicide bombers, etc.?
Whatever happened to the 100,000 Chinese soldiers who DEBKA said were waiting for us in Afghanistan back in 2001?
IF true...more WINNING!
Brilliant idea. Seize all el Chapos assets too for the same purpose. You know they got the money man last week? They did. His assets alone can build the wall. Screws are being applied. The Mexi/Pali wall. MAGA
Where do they think we killed Ben Laden? And at least 28,796 militants have been reportedly killed so far (from January 2005 to 3 December 2017 in Pakistan). This figure was updated adding those counted by the South Asia Terrorism Portal but only concerned FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and not the whole regions of the country. Can someone tell me what they have to offer us with this track record?
rwood
Mohammed bin Salman told the Palestinian president that the US was ‘the only game in town’ when it came to the peace process
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) asked Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to back a US-sponsored peace plan for Israel-Palestine, officials told Middle East Eye.
Abbas was invited to Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday where he held talks with King Salman and MbS.
The invitation came shortly following a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul where Abbas announced that he would no longer accept the US as a broker in the peace process.
However, on Tuesday MbS told Abbas that the US was “the only game in town” with regards to the peace process.
“The US is the only one with real influence on Israel, it’s the only country that can put pressure on Israel in any peace process and no one else can do [that], neither EU, nor Russia or China,” MbS told Abbas, according to Palestinian officials with knowledge of the meeting.
MbS told Abbas in a previous visit early this month that the US was “preparing for a peace deal, and this deal might not look good at the beginning but at the end it will be good.”
The president will not accept any partial deal, and the only deal that can be accepted is the one based on the ‘67 borders
He also asked Abbas at the time to have the Palestinians in Lebanon align with the pro-Saudi camp and stay away from the pro-Iranian camp led by Hezbollah, the officials said.
“At some point bin Salman warned President Abbas that if he doesn’t do the job in Lebanon, there are others who can do it, pointing to Mohammed Dahlan,” one official told MEE, referring to the dissident Fatah politician.
‘Meaningful’ process
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan was widely criticised last month for proposing that the question of East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want for the capital of a future state, and the issue of returning refugees to be postponed until later negotiations.
In the most recent meeting with Abbas, MbS attempted to use “soft diplomacy” to try to persuade the Palestinian president to return the US-sponsored peace process and to receive US Vice President Mike Pence in his upcoming visit to the region.
The official said Abbas was clear to MbS that he is fully committed to any “meaningful” peace process.
“The president kept the door open, telling the crown prince, ‘if the US is willing to declare that a peace process is based on the two-state solution on the ‘67 boundaries - including East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine - we are ready to engage immediately, but if they want to drag us to the Israeli version of peace, we cannot’.”
The officials told MEE Abbas was aware of the new US peace plan but regarded it as a copy of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vision: a mini-state on half of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, without Jerusalem, refugees, borders and water.
“The president will not accept any partial deal, and the only deal that can be accepted is the one based on the 1967 borders,” one official said.
He said any “temporary partial deal, as the one being prepared by Trump’s team” would not be accepted.
ROFL!!!
Cue the leftist heads exploding in 3, 2, 1 ...
Bob Mitchell has this story earlier today. He is kind of connected, so I am inclined to believe it.
” no more monetary aid”
They owe us now, and payment is due.
Clearly they are unfamiliar with the term deaf ears.
https://explorer.usaid.gov/aid-dashboard.html
Takes forever to load but once you see it, holy sh!t batman.
how the heck would DEBKA know this?
If any of you are wondering what people have against Debka, it is that it is rumored to be a Mossad mouthpiece and occasionally dabbles in, shall we say, disinformation.
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