05-15-2018, 09:40 AM
(05-15-2018, 09:34 AM)GMDino Wrote: And I agree beyond the people shot for throwing rocks my biggest problem is that Trump moving the embassy and all that went with it they have effectively tipped the situation to where I can not see any kind of agreements/peace/negotiation.
Yeah, this is the sentiment from just about the entire Palestinian side. The U.S. moving the embassy to Jerusalem, calling it the capital of Israel, and saying it is in Israel, all point to the U.S. not being a fair arbiter of any peace process in the region. They already had the feeling of it with the close relationship Israel and the U.S. have shared over the decades, but this move has drawn a lot of ire. According to the NYT reporter in Gaza I was listening to, he was saying the rhetoric during the protests was almost exclusively against the U.S. Not even anti-Israeli, just anti-U.S. That is not a good sign moving forward.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
