By Ted Belman
The US “encourages” Israel to avoid unilateral steps that “exacerbate tensions and make it difficult to preserve the viability of a two-state solution,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday.
He went on to say “We intend to provide assistance that will benefit all Palestinians, including refugees. We are in the process of determining how to move forward on resuming all forms of that assistance consistent with US law,” and he also indicated that the Biden administration wants to craft a peace deal with Saudi Arabia and take the credit for it. Pompeo said it was in the bag.
Biden, no doubt will screw it up.
Read about it on Israel Hayom.
@ Ted Belman:
The reason that the rebirth of the State of Israel (a Jewish state, however imperfect it is at this point) is such a big problem for the whole world is RELIGIOUS, not economic or political.
This is why Israel is the ONLY country in the world which has to defend and justify its right to exist (which is totally ridiculous and unacceptable if you think of it).
You can hardly notice Israel on the map in a sea of 20-some Arab countries, if it were any other country, no one would care to even think of it.
If the world accepts that Israel has been reborn as a Jewish state and leaves it be, – WHOSE PROPHESIES WILL HAVE COME TRUE?
THEIRS OR OURS?
They cannot let it happen.
Your reasoning boils down to the conclusion that a number of Arab states who signed the Abraham Accords have betrayed Islam and their Muslim brothers “suffering under the iron heel of Zionist infidels, etc.” for the sake of deriving a profit from their relationship with the infidel state who they have accepted as their legitimate equal partner.
To me this is sort of like saying that the Pope would convert to Judaism if offered enough cash.
Excuse me, but I am not THIS cynical.
Jabotinsky wrote a whole essay on the issue (Arabs vs. Jews), BTW.
@ Michael S:
“Biden plans”
You vastly exaggerate the power of the US president to make and implement independent decisions.
BTW, it wasn’t Biden who issued this warning but the US State Department which has been always pro-Arab.
Yes, Biden signs his executive orders but he doesn’t compose them or implement them.
Even in absolute monarchies (and the US is still a republic) the power of the monarch is curtailed somewhat, and the fact is that no one can rule a whole country on his own, regardless of how much people like to fantasize about all sorts of great rulers, fuehrers, devils incarnate, etc.
Your statement that Biden is hard at work destroying the US makes no sense – what would he rule then after he “destroys” it?
You can question American policies but their aim is always the same regardless of who is at the helm – maybe these aims have become self-destructive – who knows?
@ Reader:
I ignored it because Jordan’s position is well known and of no consequence. Jordan is our enemy.
@ Reader:
Biden is hard at work, destorying the US. What makes anyone think he doesn’t plan even worse for Israel?
@ Ted Belman:
I think your explanation is too complicated.and for some reason you ignored the link that I posted that supports my reasoning.
The Arabs haven’t stopped talking about the two-state (Final) solution before, during, or after the Abraham Accords, and the US have been pushing for it.and for weakening Israel for decades.
Both the US and the Arabs know that an Arab state in Judea and Samaria makes Israel 10 miles wide in the center or so and indefensible.
Are they just being incompetent or playful and teasing Israel and the “Palestinians”?
I don’t think so.
How does their desire to take over Israel’s territory and kick the Jews out or make them into Dhimmi population in the wholly Muslim area conflict with the Abraham Accords?
They can always find an excuse to break them.
Reader Said:
On the contrary. The Palestinians were an albatross around their necks and they were thrilled to jettison them. regardless of the fact that they carried on the pretense of Palestinian state. That was window dressing only to make the change of course go down better for those Arabs in their communities that would be shocked by the abandonment of the three no’s.
The Arab countries never cared about the Palestinians. They used them as an excuse to justify their fighting with Israel. Now that they are aligning with Israel there is no need to keep carrying the Palestinians. Just the opposite. Their cause is is an impediment to their own interests.
Reader Said:
My comment below on this “highlight”, was meant for Ted -as it’s content shows. And, by the way, I give A-Women Schumer an extre “r” for his “award-winning” mention of the Capitol disturbance, (which is all it really was…. a minor scuffle)..
No other Senate leader has ever given us so much to be mirthful over-even, unintentionally (because he was so “excited” at the opportunity of smearing Trump with even more specious accusations.)
@ Ted Belman:
Ted Belman Said:
I think we are all agreed that Biden really doesn’t know to any depth what he is doing. And that more and more prominent in the Dem Party are avowed Jew Haters, who have far more influence there than their intellecual accomplishments warrant.
And we muat’s forget “jews” like “Capitol Errection Schumer” and his triumphant major ahievement, “A-Women”
I heard today that they have successfully banned many of Dr. Seuss’ books for kids.
Reader Said:
This statement contradicts, or at least implies a contradiction in your precious statement below,
( where you say “regardless of the “Palestinians”, which really says that they are not important to the Gulf States…and I would include Saudia in that, as they all must stick together with Israel, to handle Iran).
So perhaps your legal mind may come up wirh an answer for me.
@ Ted Belman:
The Arabs were thrilled with the Abraham Accords and felt that they ensure the two-state solution.
The “Palestinians”, of course, kept playing hard to get.
The US is doubling up on the effort to complete the creation of the “Palestinian” state while being aware that it will make Israel indefensible.
The Abraham Accords do not contradict these efforts by the US.
“Jordan’s FM to Ashkenazi: Normalization cannot replace ‘two-state solution’
Jordanian Foreign Minister to Israeli counterpart: There is no alternative to a two-state solution as a route to a just and comprehensive peace”.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/297809
Israel and the Gulf States have worked out have agreed to make peace regardless of the Palestinian cause. Saudi Arabia will soon come out of the closet but rest assured they are in agreement with the Abrahamic Accords. Morocco and Sudan are on board and Indonesia is being groomed.
So why doesn’t Biden leave well enough alone. What is his dog in this fight. By supporting the Palestinians, he is in effect supporting the resistance, supporting the war mongers and rejecting the peacemakers.
@ Per Ardua:
Ad Astra, which he has in his bonnet.. There’s no point talking about “Biden this” and “Biden that”, as we know that the words may be coming from his mouth, but the thought comes from his puppet masters. And maybe he has no idea as to what others are saying-in his name..
We’ve all seen the videos of him automatically signing EOs one after the other, without looking at them, not even looking at their contents..
“Does Biden, or any Democrat, including their Jewish leaders (who refuse to condemn anti-Semitism), ever tell Arab countries to not take unilateral steps?”
Of course not, because there are 7 million beleaguered Jews in the Middle East and what? a quarter billion Arabs (possessing loads of petroleum)?
So who is more important to the US? And what might the Arabs say to the US when it gives them unwanted advice?
@ Per Ardua:
“What about Biden’s unilateral steps?”
Haven’t you heard “What is permitted to Jupiter (Zeus) is not permitted to the oxen (the mortals)”?
Ignore Biden and Bliken and act in favor of one’s own self interest. The USA has no self interest in the Palestinians. If there is one, someone please explain it to me here. No one does except the Palestinians and they keep making the wrong decisions. It is imperialistic and colonial to try to tell foreign adults what to do when there is no self interest in the dictating power. Wipe the Palestinians off the map and nothing changes. Arab Muslims do not care about the 40mm Ueigurs nor the 1.4mm Rohengas, so what’s their squabble about the Palestinians? Antisemitism!!! Forget the USA’s empty gestures and posturing.
In other words, “wait for us to figure how to break our own laws.”
What about Biden’s unilateral steps?
unfortunately the American people elected a filthy demented Alzheimer diseased TREASONOUS America hating Marxist pervert, whose sole purpose in the next four years will be to destroy America.
Does Biden, or any Democrat, including their Jewish leaders (who refuse to condemn anti-Semitism), ever tell Arab countries to not take unilateral steps? I don’t recall that they do, but I’m open to being corrected. If I am correct then what does Biden’s warning, which echoed a large number of Obama’s warnings, mean?
Certainly, Biden and his social justice weasels (whoops, warriors) colleagues are now providing support and encouragement to the Palestinian Arabs. Yet the Palestinian Arabs are committed to destroying Israel and killing all the Jews who live there. Does that mean America’s Democratic liberals are supporting genocide? What else can it mean?