The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
April 26, 2020
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank....
Trump not only misinforms Americans about facts, but he is also going forward with other extreme measures in foreign policy.
The idea that 30 percent of the West Bank will be annexed by Israel came to the forefront of Trump's continuing rage against Palestine as the SARS-Cov-2 was beginning it's spread in November of last year.
November 19, 2019
By David Ignasius
One more timber of the United States’ bipartisan (click here) foreign policy collapsed this week when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reversed a 41-year State Department legal judgment that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank were “inconsistent with international law.”
Pompeo promoted this change in policy as a pragmatic acceptance of fact. “What we’ve done today is we have recognized the reality on the ground,” he said Monday. He argued that the United States could help solve the Palestinian problem by “taking away this impediment, this idea that somehow there was going to be a legal resolution.”...
This is the beginning of the end of the two-state solution. Unless there has been a large shift in the American Jewish Community, a year ago Jewish Americans had not abandoned the two-state solution for Israel.
There is an occasional poll that will state the American Jewish community accepts the decision to annex Palestine.
When it comes to the two-state solution (click here) and the American Jewish community, the old joke about “two Jews, three synagogues” simply doesn’t apply.
The alphabet soup of organizations comprising the so-called American Jewish establishment – from the muscular pro-Israel AIPAC to the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street, through the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, the policy arms of the Reform and Conservative movements, the Jewish Federations of North America and the rest – are all in lockstep agreement that a two-state solution is a declared goal to securing a Jewish and democratic state....
Opinions in the USA can be seen as shifting with resignation as noted by J-Street.
...The contours of a two-state solution are well known. (click here) President Clinton outlined the parameters in 2000, and progress on this basis was made in Taba in 2001 and under Israeli Prime Minister Olmert in 2008. Various initiatives have spelled out the principles and even the details.
Unfortunately, time and political-will in the region are in short supply and it appears to many observers that the window of opportunity for achieving a two-state solution is rapidly closing. While majorities of both the Israeli and Palestinian populations continue to support a two-state solution, ongoing developments, entrenched and expanding settlements, and a growing movement in some Palestinian and international circles for a one-state outcome suggest that the trajectory is trending against the two-state option, thereby threatening Israel’s future.
Lastly, growing radicalization in the region makes achieving a two-state solution evermore challenging. We no longer have the luxury of waiting for a riper time to pursue peace; now is that time.
It has been a long-held belief that a two-state solution was vital to maintaining Israel as a sovereign state. Since the rise of radical groups like Daesh, Israel is seeing expansion as a solution to any threat. This move to take 30 percent of the West Bank is due to the recently formed government in Israel under Prime Minister Netanyahu in response to SARS-CoV-2. The move against Palestine will come by July 1st. The movement of this extremist agenda in Israel began when the USA built a new embassy in Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has kissed the Trump ring by naming a street and an unbuilt community after the American President.
I think it is unclear to the extent Russia will seek to prevent such steps by Israel as it continues the support of an Assad government in Syria. That is escalated by Hezbollah in Lebanon. I don't believe those that support a free Palestine will accept the new extremism by Israel. There is not wide-ranging support for Israel's aggression regarding the West Bank and until that occurs Israel may be surprised when confronting the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Israel expects no resistance from the PA in the West Bank, but, I doubt it will be easy and without military escalation.
I have no doubt Israel will be experiencing increased terrorism within it's borders with such views of Palestine. With outside and inside violence to these measures regarding the West Bank, will Israel survive it's extremism under this newly formed government?
