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Op-ed: 

Israel v. Hamas and the U.N. 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is this authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.  

As I write this article today Sunday, March 9th, it seems that the second phase of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire talks will go forward...at least for now...as Israel will send a delegation to Doha, Qatar on Monday in an attempt to move forward the ceasefire talks and the hostage exchange negotiations. And while Hamas is still saying that they will not release any more hostages until a permanent ceasefire is in place, Gaza is on the brink of running out of aid, as the Houthis threat to resume its naval operations against Israel if Israel did not lift its blockage of aid has apparently gone nowhere

And part of Israel's decision to attend these newest talks could well be courtesy of a letter that 56 (thankfully) former hostages recently sent to Benjamin Netanyahu calling for him to carry out the ceasefire deal if only “to ensure that the release” of all remaining hostages and the return of Israel's dead “happens all at once.” And while their hearts are obviously in the right place, the fact remains that Hamas can never be trusted to hold to any deals made. And while I do understand where the former hostages are coming from and the pain and heartache they must feel, after seeing what happened to the Bibas family I firmly believe that Netanyahu must be cautious as to why Hamas leaders suddenly see that “indicators are positive regarding the start of negotiations for the second phase.”

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, as I've said many times before, is trying to save his beloved nation...the world's only Jewish nation...from those wishing her to be erased from the map, while Hamas still continues to use the current plight of the Palestinian now refugees as yet another conduit by which Israel and Jew hatred...antisemitism as its known...continues to spread worldwide, including here at home, especially on college campuses.

And while Israel and Netanyahu do have the full support of President Trump and most Americans in removing Hamas in its entirety, the fact remains whether those already released accept it as fact or not, Hamas will never willingly give up either its arms or control of Gaza even for peace. Why so...because the word “peace” is simply not in Hamas' vocabulary as peace for Hamas, especially on their terms, equates in the end to anything but peace for Israel

In other words, if a “permanent ceasefire” agreement were to be reached and the hostages and bodies were returned, it would only be a mere matter of time before what's left of Hamas regroups and initiates a repeat of October 7th. Remember, Hamas has gained many new and and angry members...courtesy of the mismatched number of prisoners Israel had to release in exchange for each hostage held...thus leaving Hamas being able to “replace” what were, thanks to Israel, their dwindling numbers. Also, remember that it's the actual physicality of war itself that helps drive Hamas' Jewish blood lust forward which allows them to remain in some semblance of power in Gaza, however limited said power might be.

So if diplomacy and happy endings were to end the war, if all the remaining hostages and the bodies of the Jewish dead were returned to Israel in one last swap, Hamas by default would lose not only what they perceive to be some semblance of control in Gaza and in the political discourse, but those they answer to in Iran would see this as a humiliated defeat at the hands of both the “little and great Satan.” Simply, the hostages and the bodies are all Hamas has left to bargain with and, in my opinion, the hostages alone are the sole assurance of their...Hamas'...survival, especially since, thanks to President Trump, Israel now has in its arsenal bombs that can probably level Gaza and what's left of Hamas in one fell swoop.

And it's for the above stated reasons that I do believe Hamas will not...no matter their willingness to resume ceasefire talks...give into any of Netanyahu's or even President Trump's  demands and threats. Why so... because a caged animal will always fight to the bitter end for they have nothing, except everything, to lose if they do not. And besides, I think Benjamin Netanyahu has already decided, no matter how it might appear on the surface, that the only way to assure Israel's lasting survival lies not just in removing Hamas, but in removing Iran as well, for in no way will he allow the “head of the snake” to reorganize, refund, and rearm Hamas for yet another “Black Saturday.”

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to be faced with tough decisions that have to be made no matter Hamas' now pretty sounding words, and the Israeli people must stand united behind their prime minister no matter what he decides to do or not do. However, and quite unfortunately, that seems not to be the case regarding the few hostages still being held by Hamas, for we see too many putting the wants and needs of a few ahead of the wants and needs of the many. And while Netanyahu seems to stand alone at times in the court of public opinion he is not alone for the actions of Hamas have also rekindled in way too many the hate that is the hallmark of “antisemitism,” the very thing that tends to unite all of the Jewish faith together in their battle of good vs. evil.

So while one would think the civilized world would stand united with the Jewish State against the “savages” that are Hamas, we sadly do not see that happening on the scale that we should. In fact, the world's antisemitic sorts relish in growing their numbers while pushing forward the narrative that “October 7th” was not the fault of Hamas, but that Israel brought the carnage upon herself due to what they considered to be the “plight” of the Palestinians in Gaza. But the word “plight” is subjective in nature for not only did the Palestinians vote Hamas into power, but they did so knowing that terrorism was Hamas' means of not only controlling the populace, but in helping to spread the cancer that is “antisemitism” itself.

And it's “antisemitism” in all its veiled guises that has been embraced not just by misguided and misinformed individuals, but by the very organization that is supposed to be both the world's peacekeeper and its conscious as well. And here I'm talking about the United Nations (U.N.), the very organization birthed in the hopes of world peace, who instead became the instigators of much of today's “antisemitic” rhetoric

In fact, it's my opinion that few, if any, other important organizations has done more to keep Israel and Jewish hatred ongoing than has the U.N., and only now has it become apparent that their “antisemitic” nature has always been on display for all to see most especially in regards to October 7th. And while in the immediate aftermath of what has now become known as “Black Saturday,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did condemn the Hamas attack in the “strongest terms,” yet soon thereafter he was saying that the attacks didn’t happen in a “vacuum.” And to that I say, the only “vacuum” that existed was the one created by the U.N. in their covering up the truth.

And while one can easily google a full list of the U.N.s anti-Israel actions, here are but two of literally hundreds of resolutions, censures, and warnings they have issued to Israel over the years.

First, just a few weeks ago during what was supposed to be an open “Interactive Dialogue” regarding the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) consideration of High Commissioner Volker Türk’s report on "the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the obligation to ensure both accountability and justice,”...one Anne Bayefsky, Holocaust Director of the “Touro Institute on Human Rights,” submitted a video statement for consideration...a video that the U.N. rules required viewing before it could be shown...a video no one at the time of said viewing objected to. However, when publicly shown at the U.N...and within what seemed like mere seconds...that very video was cut off because Jürg Lauber...Switzerland's permanent U.N. ambassador, and the man elected to preside over the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2025...declared that American Anne Bayefsky had used what he called “inappropriate and disrespectful language” in her video presentation no matter that said words were not objected to when the the video was viewed beforehand.

So what exactly did she say that was so “inappropriate and disrespectful” that it caused such an uproar? Simply, Anne Bayefsky stated the truth that, “The world now knows Palestinian savages murdered 9-month-old baby Kfir.” 

 

And so these few words of proven truth is what Jürg Lauber, deemed “inappropriate and disrespectful”...but murdering a 9-month old baby is okay in Lauber's mind because the baby was just a Jew. But don't dare call the the baby's murderers “savages,” no matter that only “savages” would murder a defenseless baby with their bare hands and then defile and mutilate the baby's tiny body...the very thing Lauber and the world knows well to be truth. Personally though, I think “savages” overall is a bit too kind a word...I think these murdering monsters...I think Hamas and all who support them or cover for them...should officially be deemed to be nothing but “pieces of human garbage.” And to that I add it's now way past time to throw out the garbage, including the garbage that is Jürg Lauber and the United Nations as well...as in maybe it's also time for us and Israel to leave the United Nations.

And yet another key example of the U.N's embracing “antisemitic” actions against Israel occurred in June 2024, when U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his “Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict,” (CAAC) listed the “Israeli armed and security forces” as being guilty of “grave violations affecting children in conflict.” And while this annual report did list Hamas as a “terrorist organization,” the report itself was lopsided in that it primarily focused on what the U.N. deemed to be Israel's infractions regarding Gaza, while barely saying a word about the “savagery” committed by Hamas against Israeli children on October 7th or in its aftermath. In fact, we now find so-called “human rights experts” condemning Israel for almost any and everything going on in the region while saying barely a word about the atrocities still being committed by Hamas or the fact that the vast majority of Palestinian children in Gaza are indoctrinated, almost since birth, to hate Jews and Israel, thus becoming Hamas' future terrorists in training and waiting.

So knowing this, what was our response to this report? Simply, while we did reaffirm our commitment to the CAAC's agenda, and we did demand increased compliance with international law and child protection norms while stressing the importance of monitoring, reporting, and responding to “grave violations against children,” we failed to mention the happenings of October 7th or Hamas' actions taken since then. But to be fair, this response was issued during the Biden administration's tenure, it will be quite interesting to see the Trump administration's response to the upcoming 2025 report, which I guarantee you will not have us whitewashing the situation or the actions of Hamas.

And know these are but two examples of the 229 resolutions and/or condemnations, to date, leveled against Israel since March 5, 1949...the day the Jewish State of Israel was recognized as a sovereign nation by the U.N. Just 229 examples of the U.N. showing overt “antisemitic” actions against not only Israel, but against those of the Jewish faith as well. 

229 examples easily found online including the U.N.'s actions taken in September 2024, when Secretary-General Guterres' notified Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan that Israel was being added to its infamous so-called “List of Shame.”And why...because as per the U.N., Israel does not now nor have they taken adequate measures to improve the protection of children during what they call the Palestinian “conflict,” while completely ignoring the atrocities Hamas has committed against Israeli children...Israeli babies.

And to me, and here it's just my opinion, but at times it seems like the U.N. is trying to help finish the job Hiltler started. Harsh I know, but the U.N. has done nothing to help curb their seeming love-fest with some of the world's most dangerous “actors,” the trend towards anti-Israel rhetoric, nor the “antisemitic” discourse now gripping the world...a great deal of it of their own doing,

And so to Benjamin Netanyahu I say “stand strong” for Israel will survive because God himself has deemed it so. Case closed.

Copyright © 2025 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed:

A Mockery x Two

By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

...But again, the problem with this is that said little dictatorial kingdoms are going out over the very public internet highway, and here is where a legal line might indeed have been crossed. And this is something that, I believe, must be looked into by those who know the intricacies of communication law, for I'm not sure if a private company like Facebook has the law on its side in regards to working with the Biden administration to help censor opposing viewpoints on what is and will remain a public internet venue.

But always remember that it's not up to the government to decide what is or is not truth nor should social media platforms be determining right or wrong speech. And it's especially grievous when these two entities join together...as has now been admitted to...and use the public internet highway to basically make a mockery of “We the People's” First Amendment right to free speech...

 

Read entire article here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2021/07/op-ed-mockery-x-two-by-diane-sori.html

Op-ed:

A Mockery x Two

By Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

 

“At some level the question of what speech should be acceptable and what is harmful needs to be defined by regulation.” 

- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, 2019

It's hard to believe that here in our beloved America, George Orwell's classic novel, “1984,” has now truly come to life. “Big Brother” style government censorship of the public discourse is no longer being hidden what with Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki, just a few short weeks ago, holding a presser and freely admitting that the flow of information on key social media sites is being censored "for our own good"...censored she said because the White House does not want what they deem “misinformation” to be making the internet rounds.

“Misinformation” of what is actually truth...truth the White House knows does not and will not play well with their Socialist/Marxist agenda. Suppression of not only our First Amendment right to free speech but suppression of our personal thoughts it seems, and it's all in an effort to coerce adoption of the Biden administration's...or should I say the Obama administration's...anti-American polices. Inconvenient truths now appearing at an inconvenient time...a time when “We the People” are bearing witness to a steep rise in inflation; when illegals crossing our southern border are reaching record high numbers; a time when forensic audits are beginning to show that voter fraud did rule the 2020 election; and a time when the China virus sees an uptick in numbers...and uptick where the blame is being placed on those of us wise enough not to be “jabbed” instead of where it rightfully belongs, as in the Chinese lab where said virus was created and then released from. 

 

And dare we forget the administration's suppressing of the truth regarding a certain someone in the administration...as in one Dr. Anthony Fauci...whose blood stained hands are all over this China virus mess.

So with Biden's administration actually having given itself the power to censor our words, know that the very act of censorship itself is the first step towards dictatorship. And while many social media sites, key of which is Facebook, are and have been working for years with the Democrats to censor our conservative voices, know that the concept of censorship as per the First Amendment clearly states that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” In other words, the government is forbidden, amongst other things, from impinging on the free-speech rights of both private entities and “We the People.” But this, unfortunately, means that a private entity, like Facebook, can legally on their own decide that someone is trying to pass along what they deem to be false or “misinformation,” and then not to allow that individual the use of their platform to spread their thoughts or to access their platform's other users.

But whether Facebook be a private or a public entity, it's important to remember that Facebook is traded on the N.Y. Stock Exchange which means their shares are open to the public for purchase, therefore they are bound to abide by the Exchange's rules regarding censorship as well...which I believe they have not. And this also leads me to believe that Facebook is and has been practicing censorship at the bidding of the Biden administration no matter that the administration now claims they are just “suggesting” that platform(s) like Facebook ban those who spread Covid-19 misinformation and are not actually “demanding” that said platform(s) do so...which surely would violate one's First Amendment rights.

But the truth is that it's way more than just Covid-19 so-called “misinformation” that Facebook and other social media platforms are censoring. In fact, it's now anyone's words that do not promote the Democrat-Socialist agenda...as in words not supporting open borders; words not supporting BLM, reparations or Critical Race Theory; words not promoting the climate change nonsense; or words that are not anti-white, not pro-abortion or words that do not believe there are 57 genders from which to choose. Even innocuous political viewpoints that don't march in lockstep with the socialist left sees Facebook fact checkers labeling said posts as “misinformation” and/or “extremism,” and therefore again must be removed "for our own good." And to Mark Zuckerberg in regards to his call for regulations on “harmful” speech, I say the last thing this country needs is you telling our lawmakers that what needs to be done is placing even more regulations on our Constitutionally given right to free speech.

And let's not forget that the blocking of opposing viewpoints is done with one having little to no recourse for review. In other words, social media sites like Facebook have already become their own little dictatorial kingdoms deciding what is or is not acceptable speech, and are now doing so for the Obama controlled Biden administration as well. But again, the problem with this is that said little dictatorial kingdoms are going out over the very public internet highway, and here is where a legal line might indeed have been crossed. And this is something that, I believe, must be looked into by those who know the intricacies of communication law, for I'm not sure if a private company like Facebook has the law on its side in regards to working with the Biden administration to help censor opposing viewpoints on what is and will remain a public internet venue.

But always remember that it's not up to the government to decide what is or is not truth nor should social media platforms be determining right or wrong speech. And it's especially grievous when these two entities join together...as has now been admitted to...and use the public internet highway to basically make a mockery of “We the People's” First Amendment right to free speech.

And yet another mockery that recently came to light saw the Biden administration inviting supposed U.N. experts on racism and human rights to visit the U.S. to observe, publicly confront the treatment of minorities in America, and then to “help combat systemic racial injustice and inequality especially against people of African descent in the context of law enforcement”...U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's words not mine.

And what a joke this is as said U.N. experts, known as “Special Rapporteurs,” are tasked with the job of reporting back to the world body if issues are found regarding what's called “contemporary forms of racism and minority issues.” Appointed by members of the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council...with today's 15 appointed “Special Rapporteurs” coming from the countries of Bolivia, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, France, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan...isn't it more than a bit disconcerting that these member nations include some of the most flagrant violators of human rights...as in but not limited to China, Cuba, Pakistan, and the Russian Federation.

And besides, the United Nations...what I like to refer to as the "Useless Nations"...needs to butt out of America's business...hear that Biden...for racism in America today is, in my opinion, the result of but four things. First, it's the direct result of Barack HUSSEIN Obama's deliberately stirring the pot of what was then a simmering down pot of racial discontentment, and done simply to push forward his plan to “fundamentally change” America from within. Second, racism was falsely shoved in our faces when the likes of BLM took over and dictated what would and would not be the racial discourse. 

Third, the nonsense known as Critical Race Theory...a theory whose prime goal is to teach hate...also teaches folks who were never racists before how and why to become racists now. And reason number four sees demands for reparations by black folks who were never slaves be given to them by white folks who were never slave owners. Claiming this as a means by which white America can address the legacies of slavery, colonial rule, and racial discrimination, to that I say slavery happened, blacks were freed, and it's time to get over yourselves and move on to bigger, better, and more worthy matters...like take responsibility for your own actions and get yourselves off the government gravy train. 

Today, I most vehemently believe that black Americans are owed nothing for our debt to you was paid in full with the over 360,000 Union lives lost in the quest to set your ancestors...not you who are alive today...free.

Let the United Nations. and its “Rapporteurs” think on all that for awhile and then move on to monitoring countries who truly discriminate against minorities...countries who are overt human rights violators as well. China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba quickly come to mind and should for the U.N. too.

So while the Biden administration continues to claim that it is deeply “dedicated to addressing racial injustice and inequities at home and abroad,” I say our beloved country would be better served by moving on from this Democrat and media generated faux racist nonsense and address, let's say, what is a real crisis...as in the crisis at our southern border...and the U.N. be damned.

Copyright © 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

                                                        

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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

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