President Donald Trump has unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Let me summarize:
Blah blah blah two state solution blah blah blah land for peace blah blah blah settlement building freeze blah blah blah $50 billion in aid.
What, too cynical? So is the plan. In one way it (like all the previous Middle East peace plans) is a serious plan, in that if the Palestinians accepted and implemented it, it would bring enduring peace and an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The cynical part is that there’s no way in hell the kill-crazy death cults in charge of Gaza and the West Bank will ever agree to it.
And indeed, it’s worse than previous peace plans they rejected, including the 2008 Olmert plan where they got 94% of the West Bank and got compensated with another 6% elsewhere. But that’s what happens when you spend the last 12 years sucking, Israel completes a strong security barrier, and the entire Middle East landscape falls out from underneath your feet. Most of the other Arab countries are tired of the Palestinian bullshit, and Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and the Saudis have been dropping hints they should take the deal, or at least start negotiating based on it.
I suspect President Trump offered it as a win-win-win situation, which is to say he wins no matter what the Palestinians do. If they take it, great! He brought peace to the Middle East! If they don’t, he can say he made a serious proposal, backed by Israel and supported by other Arab countries. (And he know Democrats will call him an evil racist trying to screw their pet Palestinians no matter what.) And if the Palestinians don’t take the deal but use it as a starting point, he’s provided Israel with a very strong opening position.
Further, he got signoff on the deal both of the aspirants to the Israel PM seat, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz…
Sorry, wrong Gantz
…which would insulate him from charges of favoring Netanyahu if Democrats weren’t so reflexively hostile to Israel.
Palestinians reacted to the proposal in the traditional way: By burning stuff.
Palestinians violently riot as they react to peace deal today pic.twitter.com/78lxmbONTZ
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 28, 2020
This peace proposal will be rejected by Palestinians because it’s a peace proposal, and it doesn’t achieve their “river to the sea” goal of the complete eradication of Israel. Other Arab countries will not backing the proposal will make noises about “returning to the 1967 borders,” which is about as likely as the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire.
No matter how good Donald Trump’s persuasive skills may be, this peace plan won’t succeed because the Palestinians are led by crazy and/or corrupt scumbags, who will never make peace as long they continue getting paid not to.
The Middle East peace process is all process and no peace.
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Hamas, Israel, Jihad, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Middle East Peace Process, Palestinians
American Presidents have been offering “Peace Plans” since the late 70’s at least (probably longer, but that’s the earliest I recall). They never work.
We don’t need Middle Eastern oil anymore, and Israel is strong enough to protect herself. We have no dog in this fight. Time to tell all parties involve to sort their own sh*t.
LOL at the text in the bottom right:
I have to wonder why Trump waded into this in the first place. Doesn’t seem like a winning issue to step into. Plus, when I see maps like these … yeah, it’s not a great look.
https://twitter.com/SUBHANULLAHHHH/status/1222483736522043392
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1222228237759086593
https://twitter.com/Kimmer4444/status/1222279495631228931
I admit I’m lukewarm to Palestinians, and have little regard for their leaders. I don’t know what a good solution looks like, but I don’t think this is it.
There are winning outcomes for Trump even if the plan has no chance of winning agreement.
For example, the continuing Palestinians lovefest will further alienate the Democratic Party’s shrinking base of Jewish supporters…
Good point. Makes some good opportunities for The Squad to loudly say something stupid.