Light 'em up.
Posted on 05/13/2018 8:13:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Monday’s opening of the U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem, cheered by Israelis as a historic validation, is seen by Palestinians as an in-your-face affirmation of pro-Israel bias by President Donald Trump and a new blow to dreams of statehood.
The festive inauguration helps harden Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ rejection of Washington as a future mediator in the conflict with Israel, likely ushering in a prolonged period of diplomatic vacuum in which other powers are unwilling or unable to step up as brokers.
Such paralysis and loss of hope have been major drivers of Palestinian unrest.
Underscoring the conflict’s volatility, thousands of Gaza residents plan to march Monday toward Israel’s border and possibly breach it in an attempt to break a decade-old blockade of their territory. Israel has vowed to stop any breach by force, raising the possibility of major bloodshed at a time when Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner preside over the embassy ceremony just 70 kilometers (45 miles) away. […]
It would be politically difficult for any Trump successor to move the embassy back to Tel Aviv, though the next administration could theoretically still try to broker talks on the future of Jerusalem, said Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group think tank. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
That’s why it’s the right thing to do.
I’m expecting riots - at the least (May 14 - the day (Israel time)).
I can’t expect the Muslim fanatics will let the day pass quietly.
It would be politically difficult for any Trump successor to move the embassy back to Tel Aviv, though the next administration could theoretically still try to broker talks on the future of Jerusalem, said Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group think tank. …
Nathan...a democrat administration would move it to GAZA!
“...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...”
President of what???
There has never before in history been a Palestine state, country, or nation...
Palestine is nothing more than a region...It is made up of immigrants from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, among other Middle Eastern countries...
It is nothing more than a region in the country of Israel...
Abbas and his merry band of terrorists are deeply ignorant people. They do not have the slightest clue about diplomacy, negotiation, or statehood. They are bloodthirsty zealots to a man.
I would have a positive bias toward Israel any day over the murderous terrorists called palis. What has their society ever accomplished other than destruction and murder? They malignancies on civil society everywhere .
Yeah, that's the thing.
Wars have consequences.
I sure hope so.
Palestinian? Should not encourage people in denial.
I wonder what handing out free water wings with a place to stash your PA passport would demonstrate?
How will the Democrats deal with Israel in the future?
Will they include a promise in their 2020 convention platform to move the U.S. embassy back to Tel Aviv?
If not, how will they appease the strongly anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian wing of their party?
If liberals and the liberal media decide to ignore Israel because it’s a bad campaign issue, how will the BDS movement survive?
Stay tuned.
I think they already knew that the US had a pro-Israel bias at least since 1967.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Pro-Israel bias? I should hope so!
Why should the Arab world’s rejects get a state of their own, handed to them on a silver platter, when all they have done is spread murder and terrorism? Seems anyone who has been a parent would know better than to reward bad behavior. The Palescumians have contributed NOTHING to the world whatsoever except death of innocent people. They don’t deserve a state except that of being dead.
And any “Palestinian” who dissents from the anti-Israel party line will be killed.
Light 'em up.
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