IF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS MINIONS are correct, moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, will encourage talks between Abu Mazen and Israel.1
Liberals Wm. Jefferson Clinton – Hillary’s spouse and (in)famous for sex scandals2 – and then Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin (forced to resign because of an illegal foreign bank account3), opposed the bill signed “by an overwhelming bipartisan majority “ in Congress in 1995.
Every president since Clinton has rejected Congress’ will until President Trump took office.
WITH MUSLIMS CHARGING THE FENCE SEPARATING Gaza, and rioting in the streets in Israel, the leftists now can say “We told you so.”
To which realists reply: “Nothings new; they did it before the move; they did since 2005".”
There are at least three countries committed to relocating their embassies to Israel’s capital:4
- Czech Republic
Guatemala
Paraguay
MEANWHILE, Irish lawmakers promoted BDS against Israel’s entry in the Eurovision contest. Very mature, Ireland.5 In 2014 the Irish government considered recognizing “Palestine” as a country.
Embassy as obstacle to peace
Is the (re)location of the U.S. embassy – and soon other embassies – an obstacle to peace negotiations between the so-called “Palestinian Authority” (with or without Hamas in Gaza) and Israel.
No.
It is just another excuse for Abu Mazen and Hamas’ leader du jour to refuse to sit down with the Israelis.
There have been numerous opportunities to reach a true peace agreement; opportunities brokered by the west and by other Muslim nations. There are photos of Arafat shaking hands with leftist Rabin – once the hands separated, the hands of Arafat’s people were filled with rocks.
There was Oslo, but the terms were almost immediately broken by the “Palestinians.”
Is it because Israel balked at making a deal with the “Palestinians?”
Hardly. Both Labor and Likud governments have offered to meet “Palestinians,” face to face or separately via an “honest broker” suitable to both sides.
When leftist Labor controlled the government, Israel repeatedly caved to “Palestinian” demands only to find the “Palestinians” had additional demands.
Israel HAS a long lasting peace agreement with Egypt (inked in 1978) and another peace agreement with Jordan (signed in 1994). Although occasionally strained, the agreements still are honored by the former combatants.
Israel has had quiet business contacts with other Muslim countries in the area.
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 – 13 years ago ! – leaving hot houses, an airport, and complete infrastructure, all destroyed by the Gazans. (The airport was made unsuitable for commercial aviation by the Israeli Air Force in response to attacks on Israel from Gaza.)
According to many, most residents of Gaza are Egyptians (as was Yassar Arafat). Today, Gaza’s “leadership” is demanding the “right of return” to Israel for people who never lived in Israel. The population of Gaza is already is home; if they want to return to someplace, they should go to Egypt, but Egypt doesn’t want them – at least not their Hamas masters.
Hamas was attacking Israeli civilian communities long before the U.S. repurposed its consulate in Jerusalem to embassy status (and downgraded the embassy in Tel Aviv to consulate status).
The “Palestinians” in Judea and Samara have been bombing Israeli civilians for many years, long before there was serious talk of having the embassy in Israel’s capital.
- Apparently the only country in which the U.S. embassy is NOT located in the nation’s capital is The Netherlands (Holland); the embassy is situated in The Hague, the site of multiple international organizations in which the U.S. has membership or interests.
Is should be obvious to all humans with a breath of life in them that putting the U.S. embassy in Israel’s capital is NOT the cause of the “Palestinian’s” anger but simply another excuse to riot and cause destruction of others’ property.
Even Egypt has had enough
According to multiple sources6,
- Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was summoned urgently to Cairo Monday, where Egyptian officials severely admonished him over the terrorist group's insistence on instigating violent demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, Israel Hayom learned Tuesday.
In Monday's riots, which Hamas orchestrated over the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, some 40,000 Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli security forces near the border fence. Fifty-eight people were killed and 2,700 people were wounded in the riots.
The official said Egyptian officials were stunned by the high number of casualties and angered by information provided by Israel that proved Hamas was paying civilians, including children, to place themselves in harm's way by approaching the fence and clashing with IDF soldiers so as to allow Hamas operatives to blend into the crowd and try to carry out terrorist attacks.
It is unlikely that Egypt’s displeasure will be promulgated by the liberal media; more typically the media’s “take” is reflected in cartoonist Darrin Bell’s work below.
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/yajev4j2
2. http://tinyurl.com/y7lv269r
3. http://tinyurl.com/yd7z4bgu
4. http://tinyurl.com/yagea42b
5. http://tinyurl.com/y743d5hz
6. http://tinyurl.com/ya9ly3tq
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
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