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Matt Duss @mattduss: This ultraprivileged little child who has never earned a thing in his life (Original Post) BeckyDem Jan 2020 OP
A vulture capitalist earn-out C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #1
+1 BeckyDem Jan 2020 #2
Who cares? Mopar151 Jan 2020 #3
Yep. Trumps main goal. BeckyDem Jan 2020 #4
Just so people understand the relationship here. From Vox: BeckyDem Jan 2020 #5
Harretz. BeckyDem Jan 2020 #6

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
5. Just so people understand the relationship here. From Vox:
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:41 AM
Jan 2020

It’s an astounding thing for Kushner to say. Israel restrains itself from extending its settlements into the West Bank unless it feels it has tacit American approval. Kushner’s plan and his statements will likely serve as a green light to Israeli leadership to expand those settlements. They may explain why Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants a vote on Sunday to annex 30 percent of the West Bank.

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21112558/kushner-peace-plan-israel-palestine-settlements-cnn-jazeera

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
6. Harretz.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:54 AM
Jan 2020

The fact that the Trump Peace Plan stands in complete contrast to all previous plans is not necessarily a bad thing. However, if it represents the interests of only one side of the conflict, then it is bad, and it does not have any chance of being accepted.

Every successful peace agreement is a compromise that required each side to give up on demands that were perceived in the past as necessary and vital. They were never achieved by dictation or surrender. In a fair agreement, both sides leave with half (or less) of their desired outcomes. That is not the situation here.

This plan is the wet dream of Israelis located in the center and rightward on the political map. However, its presentation, and all the more so, its implementation, will be one bridge too far, and will not serve Israeli goals. There are several reasons for this.

( excerpt ) The release of Trump’s peace plan at the present time is a blatantly political maneuver. It was concocted in coordination between Trump and Netanyahu, in order to assist the Israeli prime minister’s reelection. The release of the plan just before the elections is a direct intervention in Israel’s domestic politics, intended to embarrass Netanyahu’s only real challenger, Benny Gantz by putting him in a situation where he cannot come out against the plan. If Netanyahu intervened in the domestic politics of the United States when he spoke in Congress in 2015 two weeks before the U.S. elections, Trump has now repaid him.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-sorry-jared-this-time-it-s-not-the-palestinians-who-ve-screwed-up-it-s-you-1.8467901

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