Leaked Pompeo tape adds to growing doubts over Trump’s ‘deal of century’ for Middle East
…from Russia Today, Moscow
[ Editor’s Note: None of the reporting on this, so far, asked the question that screams out. Why would Jewish leaders leak pessimistic statements like this? And to that we could add the age old question, why now?
With Pompeo’s negative statements on the record, even via a leak, it reflects that the Trump team is not four-square on the plan. Could Pompeo have engineered this leak caper to give himself cover for when the deal bombs? We know how Donald likes to tag a bad deal onto someone around him, anyone but himself.
And I am wondering what Mr. Kushner is thinking about it; and Bibi, when he is in the middle of another vote to break the deadlock on his forming a government.
I never thought for a moment that a Likud government could ever agree to a deal that was fair to the Palestinians. It’s just not in their DNA. You would sooner find them renouncing interfering in US elections … Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … June 06, 2019 –
The Middle East peace plan, brokered by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, has been in development for two years and is yet to be unveiled publicly.
However, scarce parts of the “deal of the century,” as Trump once dubbed it, that were leaked to the press cast doubts on whether it will succeed.
Pompeo reportedly acknowledged this sober fact last week while speaking to Jewish leaders in New York. He had said that he understands the “perception” of the plan as “a deal that only the Israelis could love,” the Washington Post wrote on Monday, citing a recording of the meeting.
Pompeo even admitted that some may deem the plan “unexecutable,” and “it may be rejected.”
Pompeo’s words hardly come as surprising, considering that the US-pushed plan allegedly allows Tel Aviv to establish control over Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which remain illegal under international law.
That is precisely what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised during his re-election campaign in April and what the Palestinians vehemently reject. “We will never accept that,”Palestinian envoy to Russia, Abdelhafiz Nofal, said last week.
Palestine’s foreign minister branded the plan “a surrender act.” The head of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, put it even more bluntly, saying that, “Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ will go to hell.”
On top of that, Palestinian officials announced that they will be skipping a US-sponsored event in Bahrain in June, where the economic part of the peace plan is expected to be revealed.
It is not just the Palestinians, however, who are giving Trump’s plan the cold shoulder. The EU has always been an ardent supporter of the two-state solution, with independent and sovereign Palestine.
Abandoning this formula will “bring greater chaos” to the region, as the EU foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, warned in April.
At the same time, Trump’s plan reportedly offers to split the West Bank between Palestine and Israel, with Israel keeping the whole of Jerusalem and Palestinians having no control over their borders. This has fueled concerns among Europeans that the plan is heavily skewed in favor of Tel Aviv and, therefore, is unlikely to work.
This message was eloquently conveyed by the French envoy to the US, Gerard Araud.
“It will be a proposal very close to what the Israelis want. Is it doomed to fail? I should say 99 percent yes, but 1 percent, you never forget the 1 percent,” he told the Atlantic last month.
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The US is sanctioning Iran for wanting a Nuclear Power Plant while turning a blind eye to Israel’s 300+ Nuclear Weapons ( No one really knows how many Nuclear Weapons Israel has because they refuse to be in the NPT and they refuse UN inspections!)
Why is the US sanctioning Iran and not Israel?
Excuse me, what is this problem and why do we expend so much energy on it ? If the place on the earth is peculiar, then how so, and can we show it today ?
Display tangible benefit.
If the plan calls for the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza to various undisclosed parts of the world, then it is a non-starter for Palestinians who are taking the diametrically opposite path of return to their stolen homelands. Kushner needs to be packed and transported as far away from the White House as possible.
Kushner doesn’t do a lot of interviews
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/03/jared-kushner-interview-security-fears-russia-approach
After Pompeo met Federica Mogherini in Bussels – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9Bvsn2goo – it seems he was so charmed, that he saw a different path to peace opening up (?)
An way, Pompeo seems to an honest sort of guy. In his own way of course, but considering his high positions honesty is less of a risk. Didn’t he admit a while ago that lying about serious things was quite common in his circles? (video)
However, since I don‘t know much about Pompeo, this is only a hunch I get from the snapshots we get through the news.
Since the 1% believe they have the right to control everything why should we think that nothing but what the .01% push will prevail. Life in a bubble. Live now my brothers and sisters to the fullest extent that you will!
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