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    US puts Palestinians on notice: DC office may be shuttered

    The Trump administration put the Palestinians on notice Friday that it will shutter their office in Washington unless they’ve entered serious peace talks with Israel, U.S. officials said, potentially giving President Donald Trump more leverage as he seeks an elusive Mideast peace deal. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has determined that the Palestinians ran afoul of an obscure provision in a U.S. law that says the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission must close if the Palestinians try to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against Palestinians. A State Department official said that in September, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas crossed that line by calling on the ICC to investigate and prosecute Israelis.
    But the law leaves the president a way out, so Tillerson’s declaration doesn’t necessarily mean the office will close.
    Trump now has 90 days to consider whether the Palestinians are in “direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.” If Trump determines they are, the Palestinians can keep the office. The official said it was unclear whether the U.S. might close the office before the 90-day period expires, but said the mission remains open at least for now.
    Even if the office closes, the U.S. said it wasn’t cutting off relations with the Palestinians and was still focused on “a comprehensive peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians.” The State Department official said in an email that “this measure should in no way be seen as a signal that the U.S. is backing off those efforts.” The official wasn’t authorized to be identified by name and requested anonymity.
    The PLO office and the Israeli Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    More at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11...shuttered.html
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    The Palestinians threatened on Saturday to suspend all communication with the United States if the Trump administration follows through with plans to close their diplomatic office in Washington. The potential rupture in relations threatens to undermine President Donald Trump's bid for Mideast peace — a mission he has handed his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the U.S. decision was "very unfortunate and unacceptable," and accused Washington of bowing to pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government "at a time when we are trying to cooperate to achieve the ultimate deal."
    In a video statement on social media, Erekat said: "We will put on hold all our communications with this American administration."
    There was no immediate reaction from the Trump administration. Netanyahu's office said the closure was "a matter of U.S. law."
    U.S. officials had insisted before Erekat's statement that the move wasn't aimed at increasing leverage over the Palestinians, but merely the unavoidable consequence of U.S. law.
    Cutting off ties would carry great risks for the Palestinians. It could antagonize an administration they already suspect is biased toward Israel and cut put millions of dollars of critical U.S. aid in jeopardy.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adm...-politics.html
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    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

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    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
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    Two and two don't seem to add up here... is the Trump no longer "Nazi"/"anti-semitic" as he was often portrayed as in media in recent past?

    Or he can be both "pro-Israel" and "Nazi"/"anti-semitic" at the same time?



    Anti-Semitism is no longer an undertone of Trump’s campaign. It’s the melody.
    By Dana Milbank
    November 7, 2016

    In the final hours, the mask came off.

    Donald Trump and his surrogates have been playing footsie with American neo-Nazis for months: tweeting their memes, retweeting their messages, appearing on their radio shows. After an Oct. 13 speech in which Trump warned that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty” and that “a global power structure” is conspiring against ordinary Americans, the Anti-Defamation League urged Trump to “avoid rhetoric and tropes that historically have been used against Jews.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2d1_story.html



    US election: Clinton says Trump tweet 'anti-Semitic'


    • 5 July 2016



    Image copyright Mic Image caption One report said the picture had been previously posted on an Internet forum and on Twitter US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says a tweet from rival Donald Trump featuring a six-pointed star was "blatantly anti-Semitic".
    The tweet included a shape resembling the Star of David and stacks of money, with text describing Mrs Clinton as "Most corrupt candidate ever!"
    http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36710783






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    By Aaron Kalman
    25 April 2013











    It seems unlikely that Trump could be intimidated using tactics that some pro-Israeli supporters were accused of using when Obama was in the WH:



    Obama firmly opposed Israeli settlements before Andrew Adler threat scandal
    2009 Obama Redline
    U.S.-Israeli relationship takes new direction
    JERUSALEM Tue Jun 2, 2009
    "The president doesn't want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank," an Israeli political source, briefed by Netanyahu aides, quoted U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell telling an Israeli delegation that met him in London last week.

    Publisher of the ‘Atlanta Jewish Times’ suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama
    Adam Horowitz on January 20, 2012
    John Cook reports at Gawker:
    Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama. Either way, problem solved!
    Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here):

    Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.
    Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?
    Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?
    You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.






    Israel plans largest WB settlement expansion in 30 years ; Surprising Obama response

    Aug. 31, 2014








    What explains this apparent major shift away from being "anti-semitic"?

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    ZIONAZI

    Z-I-O-N-A-Z-I

    $#@! you Trump.

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    OTOH, could Israel be trying to cash in on its so called "insurance policy" through Ksuhner?

    Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: Israel’s insurance policy

    Ivanka Trump: I am excited to continue our trip in Israel
    JPOST
    May 22, 2017





    Kushner, Ivanka Trump top Jerusalem Post list of world's 'most influential Jews'

    By Joe Concha - 10/06/17

    Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were named "the world's most influential Jews" in the Jerusalem Post's 2017 top-50 list.
    "The ultimate Jewish power couple" is the way the newspaper describes the daughter and son-in-law of President Trump.
    Both serve as senior advisers to the president.

    Kushner and Ivanka Trump were named by the Post ahead of "Wonder Woman" actress Gal Gadot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/media/35...fluential-jews



    Palestinians disappointed after 'tense' meeting with Kushner: report

    By Brandon Carter - 06/24/17

    President Trump will reportedly receive a report about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process following a "tense" meeting between White House senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and leaders about the issue.

    The London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat reports that Kushner's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “tense,” according to a translation from the Jerusalem Post, and Abbas was reportedly furious at Kushner relaying the demands of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
    Israeli newspaper Haaretz also reports that Palestinian officials were “greatly disappointed” by their meeting with Kushner and Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.
    "They sounded like Netanyahu's advisers and not like fair arbiters," a senior Palestinian official told the newspaper. "They started presenting Netanyahu's issues and then we asked to hear from them clear stances regarding the core issues of the conflict." http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...rocess-reports


    Settlers from Kushner family-funded community attack 3 Israeli grandmothers

    April 21, 2017

    Israeli settlers from the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar throw stones during clashes with Palestinians from the village of Asira al-Qibiliya, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus on May 19, 2012. (Photo: Wagdi Eshtayah/APA Images)
    Violence / Detentions — West Bank / Jerusalem

    Haaretz 20 Apr — We, three women in our 60s and 70s, wanted to see the settlement reality for ourselves. We got a smaller but bitter taste of the violence and hatred Palestinians in the area experience as routine — During Passover, I traveled to the West Bank with two other women, all of us members of Machsom Watch, an Israeli human rights group. Our goal was to visit two Palestinian villages: in one, Kafr a-Dik, settlers had recently cut down some olive trees; in the other, Urif, residents had tried to work in their olive groves, but, even though they had arranged this with the army, settlers stopped them from doing so. We wanted to see with out own eyes, rather than reading about, the places where all this had happened. Both villages are less than 10 kilometers east of the Green Line, about 30 miles from either Tel Aviv or JerusalemSo we proceded to Urif, a few kilometers northeast. There we met Adel, a young field worker for B’tselem, a human rights organization that works in partnership with Machsom Watch for these tours, and drove to the outskirts of the village, whose lands border the infamously hardline settlement of Yitzhar. Besides Adel, we were three women in our 60s and 70s. Together we walked up a gentle slope covered with low shrubs and wildflowers to the edge of a ridge overlooking an olive grove below. On the opposite ridge stood the homes of Yitzhar, whose radical yeshiva is a beneficiary of the Kushner family’s charitable donations. We stood there for about 10 minutes, while Adel told us what had happened in the grove about a week before, when Palestinian farmers arrived there by prior arrangement with the IDF. Settlers had come down and threatened them, a clash ensued, the army fired tear gas and the farmers were forced to leave.

    http://mondoweiss.net/2017/04/settlers-community-grandmothers/






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    Palestinian Authority cuts ties with U.S. after office closed

    https://www.upi.com/https:/www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/11/22/Palestinian-Authority-cuts-ties-with-US-after-office-closed/5101511366817/
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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