Democrats sound alarm on West Bank under Trump administration

[Doc7505]

Democrats sound alarm on West Bank under Trump administration​

https://thehill.com/homenews/5011923-democrats-west-bank-palestinians-trump/

20 Nov 2024 ~~ By Mike Lillis


House Democrats are sounding early alarms that a second Trump administration will lead to a vast erosion of Palestinian rights and undermine efforts to bring peace to the volatile Middle East.
The lawmakers fear President-elect Trump’s staunchly pro-Israel sensibilities — combined with his cozy relationship with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — could not only pave the way for Israel to annex the West Bank, but also dash any chance of a two-state approach that’s viewed widely in Washington as the only viable path to a lasting peace in the region.
“Things look bleak for the Palestinian cause as President-elect Trump gears up to return to the White House,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said.
The Democrats are particularly wary that Trump has tapped former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) — who opposes the two-state solution and has denied the existence of the West Bank — to become U.S. ambassador to Israel next year. And they took notice when Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a real estate developer, lamented that the Palestinians in Gaza have not developed their “waterfront property,” which he appraised as potentially “very valuable.”
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Netanyahu is also opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state to coexist alongside Israel, and some members of his Cabinet have openly advocated for Israel to seize the West Bank in violation of international law.
Those positions put Israeli leaders at odds with U.S. presidents in both parties, stretching back decades. But Trump has a closer relationship to Netanyahu — and has been more sympathetic to the notion of adopting Israel’s priorities as a matter of U.S. policy.
In his first term, Trump took the extraordinary step of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s official state capital and moving the U.S. Embassy there — a controversial move that had been opposed by his White House predecessors of both parties. And in naming Huckabee as the top U.S. diplomat in the region, Trump appears to be pushing that agenda even further.
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In his interview with Arutz Sheva, Huckabee said “there is no such thing” as the West Bank, which he considers a fiction perpetrated by Israel’s enemies and the liberal media.
“I speak of Judea and Samaria. I tell people there is no ‘occupation,’” he said. “It is a land that is ‘occupied’ by the people who have had a rightful deed to the place for 3,500 years, since the time of Abraham.”
That argument mirrors the position of Netanyahu’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who is leading Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank and wants Israel to take permanent control of the territory.
“The Abraham Accords, and the idea of the Abraham Accords, were the first time [it was] put in writing that both the Israelis and the Arabs belong in the same land,” he said. “Arabs and Israelis belong in the same land finding a way to live together in peace.”

Commentary:
As far as a two state solution is concerned, neither the Muslims nor the Israeli's want or seek a that as an end.
After 21st of January, President Trump should cut the Gordon Knot and formally recognize the West Bank as Israeli
territory along with the Golan Heights.
Granted there will be a Hue and Cry for his head on a platter, but it will end the discussion and fighting.
The two state solution is as dead as Julius Caesar.
BTW, Huckabee is correct, the area is Judea and Samaria, not the “West Bank".
Regretfully, we are going to get 4 years of "Neo-Marxist Democrats sound alarm on ________" (fill in the blank). We don't care.

 

[pknopp]

Still none of our business.

 

[Thunk]

Ever notice all this gloom & doom prophesy from democrats never comes true?

Last time around Trump was going to start a trade war with china...a nuclear war with North Korea...A trade war with mexico & canada...and the list of garbage went on & on.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Piss on Democrats.

 

[1srelluc]

More like they will be sounding alarms out in the political wilderness.

 

[toobfreak]

Democrats sound alarm on West Bank under Trump administration​

Doc, I think it fair to say that for the next four years, the Left's entire party position on
everything about 20,000 times will be summed up in just THREE words:


Democrats sound alarm

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

House Democrats are sounding early alarms that a second Trump administration will lead to a vast erosion of Palestinian rights and undermine efforts to bring peace to the volatile Middle East.

That would be a shame, after all the peace under Biden.

 

[Doc7505]

Still none of our business.

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Then why has Joey B, been so involved in the situation since 7 Oct, 2023?
[QUOTE="Toddsterpatriot, post: 35816007, member: 29707"]
That would be a shame, after all the peace under Biden.
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I hope that was meant as tongue-in-cheek.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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Then why has Joey B, been so involved in the situation since 7 Oct, 2023?
[QUOTE="Toddsterpatriot, post: 35816007, member: 29707"]
That would be a shame, after all the peace under Biden.
[/QUOTE]
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I hope that was meant as tongue-in-cheek.

You bet.

 

[Thunk]

Piss on Democrats.

Tried that...they enjoyed it.