12-17-2016, 03:31 AM
Bankruptcy Lawyer David Friedman will be US Ambassador to Israel--someone ready apparently to out Netanyhu Netanyahu.
http://time.com/4605223/donald-trump-israel-david-friedman/
For the last three years Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who leads Israel, has sent signal after signal that he’s done with peace talks, or ever pulling Israeli troops out of the West Bank. Sometimes these signals were verbal—in the 2015 election campaign, Netanyahu declared flat out that there would be no Palestinian state. More recently the signals arrived in the form of diplomats—men who, like Friedman, had no prior experience in the subtle arts of statecraft, but whose biographies and attitudes said a great deal.
“There has never been a two-state solution,” Friedman wrote in August, “only a two-state narrative.” And if it was that was a narrative in which moderate Palestinians invested pretty much everything, a story in which almost the entire world continues to believe, the crystalline signal from both Trump Tower and Jerusalem is that it’s all over now. The President-elect has clarified his position. Gone is the talk of brokering peace in the biggest deal ever, proving his bona fides as a dealmaker by being “sort of a neutral guy” or “honest broker,” as Trump himself put it in the campaign. With Friedman, he has cast his lot with Israel’s expansionist right-wingers, whose impulses decades of U.S. policy has tried to control, or at least balance, not least in order to keep hope alive among a Palestinian population sinking deeper and deeper into despair.
http://time.com/4566802/president-donald-trump-israel-benjamin-netanyahu/
Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country,” said Naftali Bennett, the leader of the pro-settler Habayit Hayehudi party, and Education Minister in Netanyahu’s coalition government. “This is the president-elect’s outlook as it appears in his platform, and that definitely should be our way. Salient, simple and clear. The era of the Palestinian state is over.
I don't see what good could come of this appointment. It seems to signal a determination that henceforward, the US will let Israel do what it wants with the West Bank and Gaza. No interest in peace whatsoever. Settlements to continue. Palestinians SOL.
I.e., instability, terrorism, a far worse mess awaiting the adults when they eventually get back in power in both Israel and the US.
http://time.com/4605223/donald-trump-israel-david-friedman/
For the last three years Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who leads Israel, has sent signal after signal that he’s done with peace talks, or ever pulling Israeli troops out of the West Bank. Sometimes these signals were verbal—in the 2015 election campaign, Netanyahu declared flat out that there would be no Palestinian state. More recently the signals arrived in the form of diplomats—men who, like Friedman, had no prior experience in the subtle arts of statecraft, but whose biographies and attitudes said a great deal.
“There has never been a two-state solution,” Friedman wrote in August, “only a two-state narrative.” And if it was that was a narrative in which moderate Palestinians invested pretty much everything, a story in which almost the entire world continues to believe, the crystalline signal from both Trump Tower and Jerusalem is that it’s all over now. The President-elect has clarified his position. Gone is the talk of brokering peace in the biggest deal ever, proving his bona fides as a dealmaker by being “sort of a neutral guy” or “honest broker,” as Trump himself put it in the campaign. With Friedman, he has cast his lot with Israel’s expansionist right-wingers, whose impulses decades of U.S. policy has tried to control, or at least balance, not least in order to keep hope alive among a Palestinian population sinking deeper and deeper into despair.
http://time.com/4566802/president-donald-trump-israel-benjamin-netanyahu/
Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country,” said Naftali Bennett, the leader of the pro-settler Habayit Hayehudi party, and Education Minister in Netanyahu’s coalition government. “This is the president-elect’s outlook as it appears in his platform, and that definitely should be our way. Salient, simple and clear. The era of the Palestinian state is over.
I don't see what good could come of this appointment. It seems to signal a determination that henceforward, the US will let Israel do what it wants with the West Bank and Gaza. No interest in peace whatsoever. Settlements to continue. Palestinians SOL.
I.e., instability, terrorism, a far worse mess awaiting the adults when they eventually get back in power in both Israel and the US.
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