Giuliani says US should abandon two-state solution

By Michael Wilner, JPOST

United States should give up on a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Saturday night.

The former mayor addressed the Israeli American Council (IAC)– promising to remain apolitical– after four intense days of debate prep with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. His first debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is scheduled for Monday night.

“You can make peace between the two of them, but you can’t treat them the same,” said Giuliani, condemning moral equivalence between the two parties. The US, he said, should “reject the whole notion of a two-state solution in Israel.”

Rudy Giuliani speaking at the IAC

Giuliani has been a close adviser to the GOP nominee for several months. Trump’s two top Israel aides, Jason Greenblatt and David Friedman, have also advised the candidate to abandon hopes of two states for two peoples living peacefully side by side.

That position– geared toward two states– is publicly embraced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who reiterated this hope for a peaceful resolution to the decades-old conflict earlier this week at the UN General Assembly.

“It’s not in the interest of Israel to have a terrorist state on its border,” Giuliani concluded, adding: “It would not be the interests of my country to create a new haven for terrorists.”

Giuliani also took the opportunity to slam the nuclear deal reached with Iran last year.

“The ayatollah is insane. The people around him are insane,” Giuliani said, calling them “suicidal homicidal maniacs.”

September 25, 2016 | 3 Comments »

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  1. David Said:

    “The ayatollah is insane. The people around him are insane,”

    It is very dangerous to consider your enemy as “insane” never belittle the enemy.

  2. That’s awesome! And, Here’s another awesome qualification:

    “New Black Panther Party[edit]
    After being stripped of his position as NOI spokesman, Muhammad became the national chairman of the New Black Panther Party. On May 21, 1997, he delivered a heated speech at San Francisco State University in which he criticized Jews, whites, Catholics and homosexuals.
    In 1998, Muhammad organized the “Million Youth March” in New York City which attracted an estimated 6,000 participants. The march was controversial from its inception as New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani denied the organizers a permit, calling it a hate march. A court ruled that the event could go on but scaled back its duration and size. At the conclusion of the rally, just as Muhammad appeared on the stage to speak, the demonstration was interrupted by a low-flying police helicopter. Muhammad alleges that was the signal for more than 3,000 police in riot gear, including some mounted on horseback, to come in and disperse the crowd. In response, Muhammad exhorted the rally participants to attack the oncoming police, to beat them with rails, and to shoot them with their own guns. Dozens were arrested, and 30 officers and five civilians were injured.[6][7] Mayor Giuliani said that the march turned out to be precisely what he predicted, “filled with hatred, horrible, awful, vicious, anti-Semitic and other anti-white rhetoric, as well as exhortations to kill people, murder people…the speeches given today should not occur [at] any place.”[6] In subsequent activism, Muhammad convened a second march in 1999.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdul_Muhammad

    and:

    The article uses the euphemistic description, “criticised.” please read:

    “Black-Jewish Relations:
    Khalid Abdul Muhammad – In His Own Words”

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Khalid.html

    among the gems:

    “Baltimore, MD, February 19, 1994”

    “I called them [Jews] bloodsuckers. I’m not going to change that. Our lessons talk about the bloodsuckers of the poor in the supreme wisdom of the Nation of Islam. It’s that old no-good Jew, that old imposter Jew, that old hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, Johnny-come-lately perpetrating a fraud, just crawled out of the caves and hills of Europe, so-called damn Jew. . . and I feel everything I’m saying up here is kosher.” – Khalid Mohammad.

    Go, Giuliani!

  3. “The ayatollah is insane. The people around him are insane,” Giuliani said, calling them “suicidal homicidal maniacs.”

    Ya think???