Trump Recognises Jerusalem: The Zionist End-Game Begins
“APOCALYPSE IN THE VALLEY OF AMARGEDDON”. The Daily Blog editor, Martyn Bradbury, certainly displays a gift for evocative language! On the subject of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, however, I believe Martyn’s evocation of the apocalypse is premature. Trump’s decision is less a sign that Armageddon is imminent, and more a signal that the Zionists’ end-game is about to begin.
By announcing the United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Trump has sent two very important messages to the extreme Zionist elements in Israeli society. The first message is brutally simple: the so-called “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead. The second, to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, is that, as the political logic of the two-state solution’s demise is followed to its inevitable and brutal conclusion, the United States has got Israel’s back. Not just at the UN Security Council, but everywhere Israel needs American support.
The political logic of the two-state solution’s demise is inextricably bound up with the relentless colonisation of the West Bank by extreme Zionist “settlers”. Essentially, the so-called “settlements” were planted on the West Bank in order to render the formation of a viable Palestinian state impossible. The larger those settlements grow, the tighter the hands of Israeli politicians are bound. The political cost of dismantling the settlements has risen so high that no sensible Israeli any longer believes that a Palestinian state is achievable.
This leaves the Israeli authorities with two options. They can either continue to act as an army of occupation on the West Bank of the Jordan River: controlling every aspect of the Palestinian people’s lives, while Zionist settlements metastasise into every corner of Palestine’s shrinking body. Or, they could simply transform the West Bank into a Palestinian Free Zone.
This latter option has lain dormant in Zionism from its very inception. No matter how eloquently the partisans of a Jewish homeland reassured their Arab neighbours that they had nothing to fear from a future State of Israel, the brute logic of Zionism argued against the longevity of any such attempt at cultural and religious cohabitation. Sooner or later, the sheer impossibility of the two communities, Jewish and Arab, rubbing along together in peaceful coexistence would become apparent. And when that happened, one of those communities would have to go.
Ethnically cleansing the West Bank would, of course, be a gross violation of international law. It would constitute a crime against humanity on a scale not seen since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide and, more recently, the expulsion of the Rohingya people from Myanmar.
Protected by Donald Trump and the American veto in the UN Security Council, however, Israel is unlikely to much care what the world thinks or does. When all is said and done, isn’t its fifty-year occupation of the West Bank a blatant contravention of international law? And, haven’t Israel’s repeated incursions into Lebanon, and its brutal bombing of the civilian population of Gaza, occasioned many crimes against humanity?
If a decision to expel the Palestinians from the West Bank is taken by the Israeli authorities, it would undoubtedly provoke fury in the Arab world. So great is Israel’s military power, however, that launching any kind of meaningful retaliation against such forced expulsions would risk a potentially devastating Israeli counter-strike.
Some of the most extreme Zionists might even welcome an Arab attack. What better justification for levelling the Al-Aqsa Mosque and laying the foundation-stone for the Third Temple?
Certainly, the rebuilding of “Solomon’s Temple” and the expansion of the State of Israel to the full extent of its biblical boundaries would be welcomed by the tens-of-thousands of so-called “Christian-Zionists” (and fervent Trump supporters) living in the United States. In their eyes, such developments would constitute proof-positive that the “End Times” had well and truly begun.
“Apocalypse in the Valley of Armageddon” would only be the beginning.
Lebanon government calling for a new intifada.
2 Israeli F15’s strike targets in Westbank with in the last half hour.
Toxic wast is now being dumped in Westbank.
When the Middle East oil stops flowing into Isreal. God have mercy on there soles.
What about if the Arab world united and retaliated ..not with military might,.. but with economic strategies.
Like for instance de dollarising. Refusing US dollar payments for oil
The demand for US dollars would radically diminish, and the US would no longer be able to endlessly print money to offset their trillions of dollars in debt
Trump’s move could turn out to revive the notion of Pan-Arabism
Saudi are allied with the USA, who are allied with Israel. The petrodollar will be protected at any and all costs and powerful Saudis won’t back Pan-Arabism. For one thing that would undermine their campaign in Yemen.
Jerusalem is a holy site to ALL muslims
It could very well trump.. heheh..convenient alliances with the US and Israel
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-israel-jerusalem-iran-turkey-sunni-shia-palestine-uprising-a8099801.html
Chris, the Jews did once have a history of meek acquiescence, and that didn’t work well for them. They learned a lesson.
“meek acquiescence”? Hardly. Their current extreme position is nothing to do with learning “a lesson”. It is a strategically thought out approach based on ideological and religious beliefs.
Yes, they learnt so well from the horrors that the Nazis imposed on them, they’re inflicting the same atrocities on the Palestinians now.
And now they’re wreaking their vengeance on Palestinians? The oppressed have indeed become the oppressors.
Yes they have learnt from being oppressed to being an oppressor.
“Palestinian Free Zone.”
Shouldn’t that be Palestinian-free zone?
Quite a different meaning
To Tom Gartner, careful with language. Judaism , whether religious or secular, is not the same as Zionism. Many many Jews oppose Zionism, a cruel colonial project that originated in Eastern Europe.
To Chris, not sure what you mean by the “US has got Israel’s back”. Reports I’ve read suggest that Sheldon Adelson, Trump’s casino-baron multi-billionaire patron, who has often said that Israel is his one and only interest, ordered Trump to make the announcement re Jerusalem. Netanyahu is convinced that he (and his friend Adelson) have the US Government in their pockets. When he addresses Congress he gets standing ovations.
One other point Chris, the so-called 2-State solution died decades ago, with the Oslo agreement.
Through conventional warfare, you’re right, Chris.
But non-State “actors” would be the biggest threat to Israel and the more they alienate and anger people, the greater the threat that at some point a “terrorist” group would undertake an attack that would rival (or exceed) September 11.
If Israel is determined to live permanently under a siege mentality, fearing every shadow, jumping at every sudden move – this is the right way to go about it.
If I were a tourist considering holidaying in the Middle East, Israel would forever be off my itinerary.
What Fisk has to say
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/israel-donald-trump-jerusalem-capital-us-recognise-tel-aviv-muslim-palestinian-arab-middle-east-a8093081.html
Interesting, Francesca. And as usual from Robert Fisk – insightful.
Yes, Chris is right with his assessment of the situation, that we now have with Jerusalem’s status, after Trump’s blunt and ideologically, driven, pro Israel decision, to move the US’ embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He openly stated, that Jerusalem is the rightful capital of Israel, thus creating a situation, that is in contradiction and contravention of UN resolutions and international law.
It appears, Trump considers it quite correct, to have the once upon a time victim of ethnic cleansing and extermination do something similar to what their ancestors suffered, to the Palestinians, who have lived for centuries on the land that is now Israel, and occupied by Israel, those who are not Jews, who are Arabs, and Muslims or Christians.
That ‘Final Solution’ was not always meant to lead to the Holocaust, as we know it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
But in the end, due to lack of options, to get ‘rid of’ the Jews in Europe without spilling too much blood, they did what they did.
I am not saying the state of Israel and its institutions will do the same, but I do not rule out, that the present day Palestinians, if they do not accept their lot to live in a patchwork of ghettos, on the land that is their own, and serve as casual and temporary servant workers for Israel and its business sector, may well feel the pressures to leave their remnants of land they live on, so to make it available to the future Zionists, who have their plan, to re-establish Greater Israel, including the occupied territories, Gaza and even Jordan and some other lands.
It will happen, as the Zionists have for too long held power in Israel, that is Likud and its smaller allies, and they will not rest, to silence the alternative forces and voices, such like critical media, to complete their plans.
Perhaps they will come up with a solution that involves putting substances in the water, that may render the Palestinians infertile, of sorts?
New forms of fascism are in the development before our eyes, in many places, watch this space, it will also be attempted here.
Indeed, Marc. Giles MacDonogh described Nazi plans to ship Jews to Madagascar and Palestine in his book, “1938: Hitler’s Gamble”. But because of British and Arab resistance, the plan never went ahead. (Though there was unofficial Jewish migration to Palestine by privately-hired boats. In being supplied Exit Visas from Germany, the Nazis exacted a heavy “tax” on emigrants. As one high-ranking Nazi official said at the time, “the Jews can go, but their money stays”.)
Just another tribal disagreement. Best we stay out of it.