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  • Pompeo opens up about Trump peace plan in closed-door meeting

    "Could be in the end, folks will say 'It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t particularly work for me,’ that is, ‘it’s got two good things and nine bad things, I’m out,'" Pompeo said in the meeting.
    "He was not in any way confident that the process would lead to a successful conclusion," said one of the attendees under condition of anonymity.
    Addressing questions of whether there was an effort to bring the Palestinians on board, Pompeo explained that "everyone will find something to hate about the proposal” but that everyone, including the Palestinians, “will find something that they say that’s something to build upon,”
    https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Po...meeting-591415

  • #2
    Also...
    Exclusive: Kushner uncertain Palestinians are capable of governing themselves

    https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-...4e559cab8.html

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    • #3
      Very interesting article

      Kushner also said in the interview that he believes the Palestinians "should have self-determination." Barak told me he takes this as a signal that the White House plans to propose a two-state solution. Barak said it's the first time Kushner has said so this clearly.

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      • #4
        Kushner: "I'm not here to be trusted" by Palestinian leaders

        https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-...8611fe421.html

        "Axios on HBO" asked Jared Kushner, who hasn't had official talks with the Palestinian leadership in more than a year, whether he understands why the Palestinians don't trust him. (Since taking office, President Trump has moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, slashed all U.S. aid to the Palestinians and shuttered the Palestinian diplomatic office in Washington.)

        Kushner replied: "I'm not here to be trusted" and that he thinks the Palestinian people — if not their leaders — will not "judge anything based on trusting me," but instead will judge the Trump peace plan "based on the facts and then make a determination: Do they think this will allow them to have a pathway to a better life or not?"
        Asked how he knows what the Palestinian people want given he's "not exactly walking on the streets of Ramallah every day," Kushner implied he's having lots of private conversations with regular Palestinians that people don't know about.

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        • #5
          Just a couple of side notes...

          Trump: Israeli politics ‘messed up,’ country needs to ‘get their act together’

          US president says he is ‘not happy’ with Netanyahu’s inability to form a government, move to new elections will likely further delay his peace plan
          https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-...-act-together/



          The religious right Netanyahu is dependant on...(Why there is a battle going on in Israel)

          Country should go back to ‘days of King David,’ because religious law is ‘far superior’ to the current legal system, URWP co-leader claims

          The Israeli justice system should adhere to religious Jewish law, MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP) has insisted, doubling down on his position despite drawing rebuke, and asserting that the country should aspire to run itself as “in the days of King David.”
          https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotri...low-torah-law/

          Israel will be governed as in days of King David and King Solomon

          https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sm...Solomon-591439

          Back to the days of kings. Theocracy.
          Last edited by SAT; 06-03-2019, 10:01 AM.

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          • #6
            Netanyahu rejects MK’s call to run Israel according to Jewish religious law

            Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pushed back against comments by his hardline political ally and aspiring justice minister Bezalel Smotrich, who had called for the Israeli justice system to adhere to Jewish religious law.
            “The State of Israel will not be a halacha [Jewish religious law] state,” Netanyahu tweeted, amid an uproar over Smotrich’s remarks.
            https://www.timesofisrael.com/netany...religious-law/

            like I say, the problem is Netanyahu is dependant on these very people.

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            • #7
              In coalition talks, PM accepted Haredi demand for gender segregated public areas

              During the failed coalition talks last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to an ultra-Orthodox demand to allow for gender segregation in public spaces, the Kan public broadcaster reported on Monday.
              A leaked draft of the Likud’s agreement with the Haredi United Torah Judaism party stated that “within 90 days the government will amend the law in such a way that it will be permissible to provide public services, public study sessions and public events in which men and women are separated. This separation will not constitute discrimination according to the law.”
              https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-coa...-public-areas/

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              • #8
                This article of an interview done today confirms the first article as the only thing he wants to clarify is....

                Pompeo clarifies comments that peace plan could be seen as biased toward Israel

                “I can see how someone might be concerned that a plan that this administration put forward might, without knowing the true facts of what is contained in the plan, they might perceive that it was going to be fundamentally one-sided,” Pompeo told Sinclair. “And I was articulating that there because it’s just simply not true.”
                https://www.timesofisrael.com/pompeo...toward-israel/

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                • #9
                  hmmm I wonder who did that one.

                  Palestinians angry as PA cabinet revealed to have given itself secret pay raise

                  Newly revealed documents show Abbas in 2017 approved 67% salary hike and lavish bonuses while West Bank economy struggled, further undermining leadership’s image
                  and the timing...

                  They were kept quiet for the past two years, but news of the decision leaked this week in a series of documents posted anonymously to social media.
                  The revelations have rocked the West Bank, where the cash-strapped cabinet has been forced to slash the salaries of its employees because of a financial crisis. Coming during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a time of high expenses for struggling families, the report renewed outrage among Palestinians who have long seen their leadership as out of touch and rife with corruption.

                  “The cabinet members behaved as if the government is their private shop and they can take as much as they want without being held accountable,” said political commentator Ehab Jareri.
                  https://www.timesofisrael.com/palest...ret-pay-raise/

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                  • #10
                    and today.....


                    Pompeo: Unimaginable Israel will agree to a peace plan that compromises security


                    https://www.jpost.com/American-Polit...ecurity-591600


                    yak yak yak Jared Kushner even went to the EU to discuss it with them.

                    https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...-with-eu-chief

                    It doesn't sound like they are slowing down but speeding up.

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