Posted on 01/31/2024 8:33:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Biden White House intends to pursue a policy of recognizing a Palestinian state at the end of the Israel-Hamas War without the participation of the Israeli government. Along with bilateral recognition, the Biden White House contemplates urging other states to do the same and permitting that Palestinian state to join the United Nations. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says the United Kingdom will do the same to bring about "irreversible progress to a two-state solution."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on January 21, "I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan - and this is contrary to a Palestinian state." While the Palestinians, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad are driving away in that Cadillac El Dorado, the set of steak knives that will be offered to Netanyahu after this public repudiation will be "normalized" relations with Saudi Arabia.
- The Biden administration is linking possible normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia to the creation of a pathway for the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of its post-war strategy. This initiative is based on the administration's efforts prior to Oct. 7 to negotiate a mega-deal with Saudi Arabia that included a peace agreement between the kingdom and Israel.
- Saudi officials have publicly and privately made clear since Oct. 7 that any potential normalization agreement with Israel would be conditioned on the creation of an "irrevocable" pathway towards a Palestinian state.
Allegedly, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is favoring a "demilitarized" state because that worked so well in Gaza.
In what has sort of become a metaphor for all of Joe Biden's foreign policy decisions, the Biden regime doesn't seem to know what its policy is. While Blinken's people were leaking that a policy rethinking was underway, the National Security Council was caught with its jaw hanging down.
- A White House National Security Council spokesperson said it "has been longstanding U.S. policy that any recognition of a Palestinian state must come through direct negotiations between the parties rather than through unilateral recognition at the UN. That policy has not changed."
- The State Department declined to comment.
There are three sticking points. First, the boundaries of this new terrorist empire have to be set. No one knows what that would look like. Second, the obvious impact of what will be an Iranian-controlled terror state bordering Israel that could have mutual defense treaties with other nations hostile to Israel and UN representation doesn't seem to have been considered. Third, everyone appears to be assuming away the high probability that Israel will refuse to accept this terror state.
If this happens, it effectively kills Trump's Abraham Accords by bringing Palestinian demands back to the center of Middle East geopolitics. It will be nearly impossible for any Arab nation to continue relations with Israel if Israel refuses to accept the strategy of rolling bilateral recognition agreements that the White House envisages.
Unless this is derailed, we have effectively abandoned our tacit alliance with Israel and handed a massive strategic victory to the country that will control the government in this new state.
Yeh...Let’s remember...Palestinians are Muslims...through and through....and support Hamas...
like children planning mischief before bedtime
More Joe Biden nation wrecking....both here and abroad.
That will lose them literally all the lefist New York Jewish money and votes.
The other thing is that if Palestine is an official state, then Israel conducting war on them after that state attacked them unprovoked is legitimate. Whoops.
One thing I didn’t think would happen after his anti-jab, anti-lockdown speeches (along with Van Morrison) is Eric Clapton going out of his way to sympathize with the Palestinians and Gazans. Mainly for children endangered by non-pacifist Israelis who survived the massacres by Hamas.
He had a guitar painted in the PLO flag colors and played it.
I’m off the Clapton train.
https://www.instagram.com/robinmonotti/p/C0oTKkDtYTS/?hl=en
Exactly, written all over it.
Several times here people like me have noted that many American Jews have little or no interest in the State of Israel. When Exodus with Paul Newman and the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston were in theaters, it was a different story.
Pew Research in 2020:
Caring about Israel is “essential” to what being Jewish means to 45% of U.S. Jewish adults, and an additional 37% say it is “important, but not essential,” according to a new Pew Research Center.
2024:
Articles say a certain percentage gathered in sympathy for the murdered Israelis after Oct.7th, feeling close to fellow Jews there for the first time in decades.
Globalist Tony Blair also wants the UK to recognize Palestine as a state... in the middle of a war!!!
This will not end in a stalemate like 2006 did...
Israel and Lebanon (Hezbollah) are prepping for a war neither wants, but many fear it’s becoming inevitable
‘Prepare for the worst’ recommends gov’t letter due to potential crisis in the north
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784613
A document warning of an extreme war scenario in the North and recommending preparations for several days of electricity blackout circulated among Justice Ministry employees on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the National Emergency Authority urged all government ministries to develop plans for a week-long blackout, anticipating a large-scale exercise said to occur in mid-February. Similar letters were also sent to directors of geriatric institutions.
This is not going to end well for us.
Just in time for the April eclipse that completes a crosshair mark on the Madrid fault line!
Oh boy this will be fun!... NOT!
Trial balloon to pressure Israel to get out of Gaza. Congress will oppose as will the majority of the country. Go ahead Joe, make my day.
This is Abomination.
God will not tolerate such.
Yeah, me as well.
Very sad to learn of this. Guess all the drugs addled his brain.
Insane leftists.
It will be stillborn..
On a one on one basis, yes, you are correct. But in the current situation, there’s a great deal of peer pressure in that clique to at least appear to support Israel. If only to virtue signal, that class will temporarily turn away from financial support of the Dems and likely will stay home in the election. They won’t vote Republican, but that doesn’t matter. They only have to not vote for the Dem.
My guess is that it’s propaganda from the Biden administration to try to control how Israel is eradicating Gaza of Hamas. Biden & his cronies would prefer half-measures from Israel but Israel will have none of that.
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