Is there a better expression of Israel-America relations than an ultra right wing pseudo peace plan being released to distract from the Israeli Prime Minister getting indicted while the American President is mid impeachment
— Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) January 28, 2020
When he puts the idiot son-in-law in charge, you know the boss has no interest in a workable solution…
They get to ‘earn their way to dignity’, which for everyone else is inherent because they are human beings. https://t.co/irlFPUiYSD
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) January 29, 2020
Good thing Jared spent all those years working on a peace plan. https://t.co/vTiCRQiudK
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 28, 2020
JERUSALEM — The only immediate consequence of the Trump peace plan — and possibly all that will ever come of it — was the green light President Trump gave to Israel Tuesday to expand its territory by effectively annexing vast stretches of land it has long coveted on the West Bank.
On paper, the plan offers the Palestinians a state, at last, as well as a partial four-year settlement freeze while they mull it over.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not wait, saying that he would move Sunday to apply sovereignty over the strategically vital Jordan Valley and to all Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
The move would take in up to 30 percent of the occupied West Bank, and for the first time establish what Israeli leaders have coveted since capturing the territory in the 1967 Six Day War: a permanent eastern border for Israel along the Jordan River, recognized by the United States…
The green light from the White House outraged Israeli supporters of a more generous accommodation with the Palestinians and alarmed those who have warned that any annexation could set off renewed violence.
“It’s worse than any of us could anticipate,” said Nimrod Novik, a longtime peace negotiator and former aide to the Israeli leader Shimon Peres.
The Palestinians had no hand in the plan’s drafting, having cut all ties with the Trump administration after it recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But while they reacted with predictable anger, there was no threat of specific action and little to suggest that their relationship with Israel would fundamentally change…
Much more detail at the link.
well it got some people to stop fighting… https://t.co/0vOEyN7KZX
— YYZedd (@Zeddary) January 28, 2020
Jared Kushner to @camanpour: “It’s a big opportunity for the Palestinians. They have a perfect track record of blowing every opportunity they’ve had in their past, but perhaps maybe their leadership will..do what’s best to try to make the Palestinian people’s lives better”
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) January 28, 2020
Don’t laugh. Kushner was a slumlord, and that expertise is clearly evident in this plan. https://t.co/TWmGNVvWSC
— Ben Silverstein (@bensilverstein) January 29, 2020
Trump’s doomed Middle East peace plan has a proposal for resort development, because of course it does pic.twitter.com/Q2Q8ZPoSfq
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) January 28, 2020
This administration is such a disaster that he goes unnoticed sometimes, but Jared Kushner is highly underrated as a total dipshit https://t.co/3EdAd2XUk7
— Quintus Haterius (@QuintusHaterius) January 28, 2020
One shocking feature of Trump’s “American” plan is that Israel would carve out Israeli-Arab towns in the “Triangle” region, strip them of Israeli citizenship, and place them under Palestinian jurisdiction — something majorities oppose. Un-American Plan. https://t.co/eQNFzRLvdG pic.twitter.com/bn143hVSRr
— Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) January 28, 2020
Unlike other portions of the plan, which are unilateral diktats, this one says “subject to the agreement of the parties,” and since both sides will not agree to this, it’s pretty much a dead letter.
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 29, 2020
There are forces in Israel that want immediate annexation, but Netanyahu has been pretty clear about wanting to keep it at the level of occupation so that “apartheid” doesn’t stick. It’s a policy of deniability and blame shifting, and this is like an account renewal
— Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) January 28, 2020
Jerzy Russian
I am glad to see people still using the word “dipshit”. That was one of my favorite swear words growing up, back when mastodons roamed the Earth.
mrmoshpotato
@Jerzy Russian: It’s an underrated word. BTW, were there any dipshit mastodons?
mrmoshpotato
Dump’s Peace Plan: Fuck you Palestinians. I’m tremendous bigly at peace.
Do I got that right?
John Revolta
Boy, is it just me, or are we hearing an awful lot of this these last few years?
JWR
Anything Trump, and in this case along with his idiot son-in-law, turns to shit. And now he’s left that smear in the ME. (Does anyone else remember being tucked in at night with the prayer: “Pray for peace in the Middle East”? I sure as hell do, probably during the 6 Day War.) But to state the glaringly obvious, nothing good will come of this.
Redshift
As I posted on Twitter a couple of days ago, it’s a tribute to Jared’s nepotistic incompetence that it took him three years to write “do whatever you want and we’ll back you up, Bibi” on a piece of paper and stick it in a folder labeled “Peace Plan.”
NotMax
As good a plan as he is a president.
mrmoshpotato
@John Revolta:
Upchuck Todd will be able to honestly bothsides the shit out of this. Members of both sides think this is garbage.
Mary G
It was the “I read 25 books.on this” that dipshit gave as proof of his experience that got to me. Not up to linking, but Alexandra Petri has a great column in the WaPo saying she’s read 25 books on cardiac surgery and is ready to do your heart replacement now.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: What if you’ve read 25 issues of Spiderman?
Sloane Ranger
The most outrageous thing about this, and I admit it’s hard to decide, but it stood out so sharply to me was Kushner saying that this “plan” gave the Palestinians a chance to earn their way to “dignity “.
So arrogant, so patronising, so paternalistic, so racist – so disgusting.
Palestinians aren’t really human to him are they?
Dan B
@mrmoshpotato: If you read 30 Spiderman comics you can crawl up the wall with us. Errr, rather, you can join the rst of us us that have already been driven up the wall and over Adam’s looking glass@…
And speaking of “through the map”@. The Palestinian Prime Minister had maps that showed how Kushner’s plan would shrink Palestinian territory and carve it up into pieces, especially West Bank, that would create enclaves separated by strips of Israeli territory.
sukabi
@Redshift: it took 3 years because they were scoping out the locations for their resorts and paying off the local equivalent of the mob.
opiejeanne
@Mary G: From a Fish Called Wanda:
Otto: Apes don’t read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.
opiejeanne
And Trump really thinks this is going to get him that Nobel he’s been hankering for.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: Even if it does (it won’t), he still won’t have an Emmy.
Anne Laurie
Sure, he wants the Peace Prize, but IMO what’s really motivating him in the Middle East is getting Trump resorts built in all the really important Arab countries (i.e., the ones with lotsa rich people).
If not for the Talibangelicals’ ‘Rapture’ fantasies, I think the Saudis would already have succeeded in turning Trump against his buddy Bibi by offering him a sufficiently large baksheesh.
SFAW
Y’all are too damn cynical, and your libtard arrogance is something to behold. I look at it this way:
In a world where, every day, all manner of things seem disjointed, discombobulated, disconnected from the world I remember from “the before time” (i.e., pre-2016), there is one shining example of consistency which serves as a “rock of Gibraltar” for me: that there is NOTHING — no item, situation, or state/condition of humanity and the world — that this administration can’t/won’t damage, destroy, fuck up, or otherwise make worse for most of America and/or humanity. Whether by accident, or incompetence, or outright malice, their consistency is a guiding light through these turbulent times.
frosty
@John Revolta: Yes, it’s been going on fir awhile. I just ran across this Brad DeLong quote yesterday:
The salient fact of the George W. Bush administration is that it’s worse than you can imagine even accounting for the fact that it was worse than you could imagine.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: Thank you for your reassuring words, SFAW.
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
Glad to be of assistance. I’m here to serve.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato:
That’s pretty close. But it’s worse than that. I just listened to the Lawfare podcast about this, and one of their major points is that this “plan” gives Bibi everything he wants, as soon as this instant, or tomorrow.
Every settlement gets to stay as part of Israel. Every single one. So as soon as a minute from now, Israel gets everything they want immediately, and the Palestinians can may possibly get some of what they want, someday, but most likely not at all.
They also pointed out that with this plan Israeli citizenship will be revoked for all Palestinians, and likened the carveout of space and “sovereignty” for Palestinians to the reservations for Native Americans, with all the awfulness that that entails.
So disheartening.
chopper
what’s great is jared! the boy genius has been working on this for years.
chopper
@Redshift:
yeah, this is his magnum opus. smartest guy in the white house, everyone!
J R in WV
No surprise here… Jared married into a Racist family of shitwads, because it was familiar to him, and comfortable. Because he is a racist shitwad.
And now my spellcheck is telling me shitwad isn’t a word… Sad!
Uncle Cosmo
@opiejeanne: One founded by Alfred’s dain-bramaged nephew Ig, quite possibly. Not that Cheeto Benito would notice the difference – until the laughter started. Then he’d probably order Copenhagen nuked because he couldn’t even get the country right.
laura
@J R in WV: is too a word- and its apt.