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Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel
Associated Press ^ | November 8, 2023 | Ellen Knickmeyer and Josef Federman

Posted on 11/08/2023 1:00:57 PM PST by Olog-hai

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for the Palestinian territories once Israel’s military campaign against Hamas winds down.

Blinken’s outline of what Americans think should come next for Gaza also serves as a check on the postwar scenarios floated by officials of Israel’s hard-right government and its supporters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement Monday that Israel’s military would likely maintain security control of Gaza for an “indefinite period” appears to have heightened U.S. concerns.

Any postwar governing plan for Gaza “must include Palestinian-led governance and Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,” Blinken told reporters in Japan. […]

Blinken reinforced the Biden administration’s rejections of any return of lasting direct Israeli control in Gaza, as well as of a proposal — promoted in a policy report by Israel’s intelligence ministry — to push Gaza’s Palestinian residents into neighboring Egypt.

“We’re very clear on no reoccupation, just as we’re very clear on no displacement of the Palestinian population,” Blinken said. “And, as we’ve said before, we need to see and get to, in effect, unity of governance when it comes to Gaza and the West Bank, and ultimately to a Palestinian state.” …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Gaza; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; blinken; fatah; gaza; hamas; islamicjihad; palestinians; rop; westbank
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To: Olog-hai

Since when does the U.S. think it has the right to tell Israel what it is going to do with its own land?


21 posted on 11/08/2023 1:22:34 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Olog-hai

Does Blinken hold dual citizenship with Israel, since I assume he is a Jew?


22 posted on 11/08/2023 1:28:01 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Olog-hai

More of the worn out foreign policies of the last 30 years of the 20th century. Never came close to working then, won’t now. But that’s Biden, out of step and out of date.


23 posted on 11/08/2023 1:30:50 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: Olog-hai
Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza

Gee, I thought Gaza already had a Palestinian-led government, namely Hamas, which chose to attack Israel on 10/7.

24 posted on 11/08/2023 1:57:51 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Olog-hai
Blinken been TOLD, keep the rest of these militant Palirats out of Saudi, Dubai, Egypt, Jordan, or will will cut the juice until we reach $150ppb.

Slimes threatening to pull the plug, knowing The White Hospice understands that much ... President Trump will ride renewing US domestic energy production -- alone -- to a landslide.

25 posted on 11/08/2023 2:02:16 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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26 posted on 11/08/2023 2:02:23 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Olog-hai

Two empires crumbled last century for messing with the God of Israel’s plans. The British who reneged on Balfour and tried to limit Jewish entry into the region under their control. And the Soviet Union, that voted for the creatiom of Israel but later prevented Jewish emigration to Israel. The U.S would do well to leave ‘the burdensome stone’ alone if it doesn’t want to suffer the same fate. Blinken and his U.S State department arab ass kissers can pound sand. ‘I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curseth thee’. Just as real as the law of gravity.


27 posted on 11/08/2023 2:03:30 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t they already try that 20 years ago?


28 posted on 11/08/2023 2:12:48 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: Olog-hai

Can the corridor between Ghaza and Judah and Samaria go through his living room?


29 posted on 11/08/2023 2:19:34 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Olog-hai

Blinken, it is time to shut up.

Nobody is listening to you.

Israel will end this.


30 posted on 11/08/2023 2:20:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Olog-hai

And they will want to pour money in which will be used to re-arm and the cycle repeats.


31 posted on 11/08/2023 2:25:45 PM PST by pas
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To: Eleutheria5

Sure, once we can create artificial wormholes.


32 posted on 11/08/2023 2:41:09 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Palestinian or Southern Syrian statehood already achieved - its called Jordan.

Thee is no such place called Palestine or people called Palestinians - that is all made up


33 posted on 11/08/2023 2:43:12 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Parmy

That I don’t know.

His family’s been into left-wing politics for decades; I can’t find what branch of the faith he practices, but safe to assume it isn’t Orthodox. His father Donald was Clinton’s ambassador to Hungary. Tony himself used to work for Obama of course. And there are strong ties between his family and Soros.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/where-blinken-stands-on-jewish-issues-from-immigration-to-israel/


34 posted on 11/08/2023 2:49:23 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PIF

No. Jordan was never “Palestine”; that was always Israel.


35 posted on 11/08/2023 2:50:30 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Even if the USA stays out of this, it won’t save itself. The time of trouble comes upon the whole earth.

It’s Jerusalem that’s named as the “burdensome stone” in the Bible, BTW.


36 posted on 11/08/2023 2:53:14 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nomorelurker
 
 
Well, that sort of leadership has been tried. Hasn't worked then, not gonna work now. Especially now, forward. Trying to force a previously failed strategy is nothing but bad faith.
 
 

37 posted on 11/08/2023 2:58:42 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Replace Palestine with Israel and say it out loud. Then ask Why can’t that happen? What do you think? You sound like the flip side of a Hamas record.


38 posted on 11/08/2023 3:11:43 PM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: Olog-hai

Blinken said this in Japan, where the US dropped two H bombs and then occupied the country for seven years between 1945-1952. Ironic.


39 posted on 11/08/2023 3:16:45 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I understand there’s video footage of the 10/7 massacre and the horrific brutality that followed. Maybe Blinken’s judgement would improve upon extensive review of the material.


40 posted on 11/08/2023 3:18:32 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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