Biden Piggybacks Trump’s Middle East Madness
From what I gather, Donald Trump feels that the Washington establishment and the American news media have not given him sufficient credit, if any at all, for advancing U.S. policy promoting Israel while he was POTUS. Trump has a point.
The enterprising Mr. Trump took double-talking U.S. policies toward Israel and elevated them from de facto to de jure status. His successor, Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden, has opportunistically piggybacked on what the much-denounced Trump accomplished with his pronunciamentos and a stroke of the pen.
Item. What Trump did was to drop recognition of Tel Aviv as the capital of Zion. Benjamin Netanyahu wanted the U.S. embassy moved to Jerusalem and for the U.S. to officially recognize Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv, as the capital of “the Jewish state”. Trump grandstandingly complied.
East Jerusalem had been captured from the Arabs in 1967 and was soon annexed. The Palestinians had hopes that East Jerusalem might be the capital of their future rump state as part of the so-called “two-state” solution. Alas, the “peace process” on this central question ended at the turn of the century when the Camp David summit blew up.
Item. What Trump did was to recognize the Israeli annexation (1981) of the Syrian Golan Heights. Washington now regards it as part of Israel proper. This Syrian territory, like Jerusalem, was captured in the 1967 war. Naturally, Syria wants the Golan back. No one aside from Washington and Tel Aviv considers the Golan Heights to be part of Israel.
Item. What Trump did was to pull the plug (2018) on Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran known officially as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—which deal normalized U.S. and European relations with Iran and purportedly stopped Iran from making a nuclear bomb.
[Please note: Obama conveniently failed to disclose at the time that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons, even through that was the entire premise of the protracted negotiations. Iran’s supreme leaders had outlawed such weapons on religious grounds. There was no actual danger, then or now.]
Nuclear-armed Israel—complete with advanced German
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