Op-ed:
On Trump's Middle East Peace Plan
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American
Political Radio
“It is only reasonable that I also have to do a lot for the
Palestinians, or it just wouldn’t be fair.”
- President Donald
Trump on his recently released Middle East Peace Plan
Last week President Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu standing by his side, unveiled his long awaited Middle East
Peace Plan. And while there are good intentioned aspects to this
plan...a plan mainly brokered by Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared
Kushner...there is one aspect that I personally will never agree
with, that being Israel giving up even one inch of its precious land
in order to attain peace. And while this plan is a hoped for
pathway...a jumping off point if you will...to a Two-State Solution,
the only saving grace in my eyes is that under the leadership of
Mahmoud Abbas the Palestinians will not go along with this plan thus
exposing to the world the Palestinian leader's true want...as in of
all of Israel...a Jew-less Israel...and nothing less. Was what would be a tenuous peace at best President Trump's media marketed “Deal of the Century's”
true objective...possibly...or was this Trump's calling the Palestinian leader's bluff...something that seems more likely. I'll get into that in a bit.
Surrounded by 22 Arab nations...a few now Israel's friend, most still
Israel's foe...giving up either God-given land or land garnered as
the fairly gotten spoils of war is not now nor is it ever a wise
idea. And while our president is trying to be fair in regards to a
people who've been playing the victim card since being invented by
Yasser Arafat in the 1960's to further his PLO cause...those very
people have found an ally in Jordan's King Abdullah who under Trump's
plan would become the Palestinians caretaker of sorts...which is akin
to the wolf guarding the hen house. Why so...because it's King
Abudllah himself who could have ended this conflict years ago by
welcoming back into Jordan the very people who hold his country's
citizenship and passports. Even his own father, the late King
Hussein, admitted there were no Palestinians, there were only
temporarily displaced Jordanians.
Was President Trump aware of this...I don't know. But Jared Kushner
most likely was but decided to take a gamble with fingers crossed for
luck I suppose...a bad judgment call if nothing else or is there a
method to this madness. And madness it is for trading land for peace
has been proven throughout history not to work out in the long run,
and I do not believe it will work out now even with certain caveats
being placed upon the land Israel would be turning over...land that
will more than double the Palestinian territory and provide for a
Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. In fact, President Trump
stated that we would open an embassy there when a Palestinian State
is officially declared.
A Palestinian State...how those words do not sit well...for I believe
such a state has no right to exist for it would be a state born to placate a
basically non-existent people. And besides, on November 29, 1947, the U.N. passed a resolution regarding British called Palestine stating that said land was to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews... the Arabs turned it down and thus Israel... the Jewish State of Israel...was born.
And know that for better or worse such a Palestinian State is this plan's
hoped for ultimate goal...or is it...for creating a nation for a
made-up people...a people born of hate for the Jewish people coupled
with a misguided want for the Jewish homeland... is not what one would
think is a good thing. And while under this plan, as it's currently written,
Israel would remain in control of security for both the Jordan Valley
and the newly designated Palestinian lands, at least for the foreseeable future, know the land that Israel would be giving up is now being
propagandized as but a swap...a swap for Israel remaining in
sovereign control of its own rightful and legally existing settlements
already in the West Bank. But even that comes with caveats of sorts
for at the same time Israel gives up their land they're also facing a
four-year ban on new construction on the very land they have
sovereign control over. So not kosher in my opinion.
Yet the fact remains that no matter how said swap is packaged and
sold, what's being downplayed is Israel's basically surrendering East
Jerusalem for as per the plan it would become the capital of a
Palestinian State. And this specifically includes the part of East
Jerusalem made up of Abu Dis, Kafr Akab and half of Shuafa, thus
seeing Jerusalem... which Israel assumed complete administrative
control of after the Six-Day War...being divided instead of both the
East and West sections remaining both part of the whole and the
Jewish State's capital alone. Remember, the plan's saying that
Jerusalem remains Israel's undivided capital simply means West
Jerusalem does.
This is
"the last opportunity they will ever have," so said
President Trump...I say this is the so-called Palestinians last opportunity to
force and secure a division in a city that must never be divided.
Jerusalem as a
divided city...no matter the deals good intentions...actually harkens back to Israel's founding when in 1948, biblical Jerusalem
was divided in two. And while Israel, as per U.N. mandate, was given control of the western section of Jerusalem and held said control from
1949 to 1967, Jordan was given control of Jerusalem's eastern
section...the very section that includes the sacred old walled city
containing both sacred Jewish and Christian holy sites. But when
Israel finally re-annexed East Jerusalem back into Jerusalem proper
after their winning the Six Day War, Israel said Jerusalem would
never be divided again. But this “Deal of the Century” does just
that using the old U.N. boundaries to acquiesce to the U.N.'s demand
for a Two-State Solution...to make East Jerusalem the capital of a non-existent people's state.
And besides East Jerusalem, Israel is giving away the non-Israeli
settlement areas in the a fore mentioned West Bank as well as the Gaza
Strip and areas to its south, with those would be Palestinian lands
being connected by a series of tunnels and bridges. But I say tunnels
and bridges that would afford easy access for terrorists and other
unsavory sorts to enter Israel proper no matter how said access
points were reinforced or guarded.
And even with President Trump stating that acceptance of the plan
would lead to $50 billion in new commercial investment in now what
would be Palestine and that if “executed well” it could create
one million new Palestinian jobs, being overlooked is the fact that
this plan also gives the Palestinians time to meet the criteria for
autonomy...criteria including their formally recognizing Israel as
the Jewish State as well as their denouncing terrorism... basically
giving these people a four-year time frame to start acting like
civilized men. But how can those who have for generations been indoctrinated from birth into a culture of Jew-hatred suddenly change
their mindset in but four-years...simply they cannot thus leading me
to believe that this plan was but a time buyer until either Mahmoud
Abbas or King Abdullah is gone, at which time the so-called
Palestinians could return to their rightful homeland...Jordan.
So, was this plan designed to fail in order to expose the truth about
the so-called Palestinian people? I believe it was for why else would
the plan have been preemptively rejected by Palestinian
leaders...why else would Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat say
the plan was but
“copied and pasted” steps that Netanyahu wanted
to see implemented, adding that,
“It's about annexation, it's about
apartheid.” Why else indeed. Again the answer lies within the very words
of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who immediately dismissed
President Trump's plan as a
“conspiracy” calling it
“dead on arrival,”
and that it was
“impossible for any Palestinian, Arab, Muslim or
Christian child to accept” a Palestinian state without all...both
East and West...of Jerusalem as its capital. Makes me wonder just when did
Mahmoud Abbas became the Christians spokesman...ever so sarcastically
said.
Now consider this
point as well...a spokesman for United Nations Secretary General António Guterres
said the U.N. position regarding Trump's Peace Plan was that it
defied numerous Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
“The
United Nations remains committed to supporting Palestinians and
Israelis to resolve the conflict on the basis of United Nations
resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements and realizing
the vision of two states - Israel and Palestine - living side by side
in peace and security within recognized borders, on the basis of the
pre-1967 lines,” were his actual words said. Notice the last four words
“the pre-1967 lines”...as in before the Six-Day War
...again shows that the U.N. sides with the Palestinians and wants Israel returned
to its former what would be easily compromised borders.
In fact, United Nations
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, one Nickolay
Mladenov, said that Israeli annexation of any part of the West Bank
would end the possibility of resuming Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations toward a peace deal, once again harkening back to Israel's
pre-'67 borders.
Both President Trump and Jared Kushner had
to know this would be the U.N.'s reaction beforehand as the U.N. has
never vacillated from either position. And both had to know that the Palestinian reaction to their plan would as unusual be violence and disrespect.
And while Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE... countries no longer
Israel's foes...all issued statements welcoming Trump's plan as a
starting point to peace, all their statements had certain telltale
words which can best be summed up with the Saudi's words. “The
Kingdom reiterates its support for all efforts aimed at reaching a
just and comprehensive resolution to the Palestinian cause” and “to
move forward the peace process to reach an agreement that achieves
legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.” Missing from here and
the others statements is what about the rights of the Israeli
people to live as they alone see fit...to do as they alone wish to do
in their God-given ancestral homeland.
And even with
Egypt saying it will go along with the plan if it's adopted, I bet
they're not too happy with even more Palestinians living along their
border...a border with the Sinai Peninsula where Egypt has enough
problems with parts of it now being a terrorist stronghold...they
sure don't need Hamas supporting Palestinians adding to their
problems.
So what was the reaction in Israel herself to a plan that while it
supposedly sees Israel getting
“overriding security responsibility and control
over entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea”
as per U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Freidman, it still places
Israel’s identity as both a Jewish and democratic state in jeopardy
for it gives what are a made-up people not only Gaza and the majority
of the West Bank, but East Jerusalem as its capital as well. Simply,
Trump's plan was greeting with a politically mixed reaction at best
what with the Palestinian leadership, as previously stated, wanting
no part of a plan they claim was both drawn up unilaterally and
negates their belief that the Palestinians have the
“inalienable
right to self-determination,” while Israeli's from both Netanyahu's
Likud Party and Gantz's Blue and White Party are at least happy with
the fact that the White House took the
“unusual step” of getting
a sign-off and plan approval from Benny Gantz before being publicly
revealed, thus avoiding Trump's plan being seen as a political
maneuver to aid his friend Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming March
election.
But for me Joel Rosenberg, co-founder of the Alliance for the Peace
of Jerusalem, might have revealed Trump's plan's true intentions with
his words,
“Seeing three Arab Gulf leaders at the ceremony, he
(Trump) just might have succeeded in threading the needle.” I guess
“threading the needle” is better than not threading it at all
especially since set-in-stone benchmark conditions must be met by the
Palestinians if said plan has even an inkling of a chance of
succeeding. But if giving these made-up people East Jerusalem as its
capital is its true objective then this particular plan remains
a
"no go" to me.
Sorry BiBi, sorry President Trump, if and only if this is the plan's true goal...and while I will always support and stand by you both...I cannot abide surrendering any part of Israel's ancestral land ...especially surrendering to those wish were all Jews dead. But if this plan indeed was designed to show the world that the Palestinians are not really serious nor interested in peace...than it was a gamble worth taking. After all, it's well known that leopards never
change their spots...I doubt a non-existent people would do so as
well
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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