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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 10:08 AM Dec 2016

PLO will revoke Israel recognition if US moves embassy, top official warns

The sole benefit to Trump winning, in this region, is full clarity as to where the Israelis, and where the US government, really stand when the chips are down.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/plo-will-revoke-israel-recognition-if-us-moves-embassy-top-official-warns/

If the incoming Trump administration moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, the PLO will revoke its recognition of Israel, the prospect of a two-state solution will be over, and any hope of Israeli-Palestinian peace in the future will vanish, the top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat warned on Monday.

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Erekat said he would immediately resign as the chief Palestinian negotiator, and that “the PLO will revoke its recognition of Israel” as well as all previously signed agreements with Israel.

Furthermore, said Erekat, all American embassies in the Arab world would be forced to close — not necessarily because Arab leaderships would want to close them, but because the infuriated public in the Arab world would not “allow” for the embassies to continue to operate.
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Explaining why he would immediately quit as Palestinian negotiator, Erekat said he would not want to “fool my people” that there were any prospects of peace, and that moving the embassy would mean that all those, like himself, who had believed in the possibility of a two-state solution had been wrong.

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Also in the call — which was moderated by the Wilson Center’s vice president Aaron David Miller and with a second speaker, The Times of Israel’s editor David Horovitz — Erekat noted that he held meetings last week in Washington with State Department officials, but failed to secure meetings he had sought with incoming Trump administration officials. “I don’t know any of them,” he said of Trump’s personnel.


Ripping off the bandage time. From there, the discussion turns to whether the path forward is (a) a binational state, (b) apartheid then a binational state, or (c) genocide.

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PLO will revoke Israel recognition if US moves embassy, top official warns (Original Post) geek tragedy Dec 2016 OP
So you agree with the PA's blackmail? They're threatening attacks.... shira Dec 2016 #1
Erekat should quit. Mosby Dec 2016 #2
The Trump administration hates Muslims and thinks liberal Jews are worse than Nazis collaborators geek tragedy Dec 2016 #3
Yes, pressuring the PA to make peace is bad. We get it. n/t shira Dec 2016 #4
What is wrong with sabbat hunter Dec 2016 #5
In a vacuum nothing really nt geek tragedy Dec 2016 #6
what about sabbat hunter Dec 2016 #7
Binational state or genocide? oberliner Dec 2016 #8
Being progressive doesn't mean one is bound by false hope nt geek tragedy Dec 2016 #9
Thinking that a binational state is possible is false hope oberliner Dec 2016 #10
Multinational state happened in South Africa geek tragedy Dec 2016 #11
Things are very bad in South Africa oberliner Dec 2016 #12
The Israelis are not seeking separation. geek tragedy Dec 2016 #13
How so? aranthus Dec 2016 #14
Zulus, etc nt geek tragedy Dec 2016 #15
 

shira

(30,109 posts)
1. So you agree with the PA's blackmail? They're threatening attacks....
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 10:44 AM
Dec 2016

....on US Embassies as well as tearing up Oslo.

And for what? Putting a US Embassy in West Jerusalem which would never become part of Palestine?

You support that bullshit?

Mosby

(17,494 posts)
2. Erekat should quit.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 10:46 AM
Dec 2016

He's lost all perspective, we are talking about a single building in West J'lem,

How does moving the embassy end the peace process anyway? Seems like Erekat just admitted that they have been bullshitting from the beginning, dividing J'lem has been the idea from before Oslo.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
3. The Trump administration hates Muslims and thinks liberal Jews are worse than Nazis collaborators
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 10:53 AM
Dec 2016

You expect Bibi to get caught being to the left of the US President, with his coalition partners demanding explicit apartheid?

That is politically impossible to maintain--
Trump administration is refusing to even meet with the Palestinians--whom they do not view as human beings.

Your opinion that Erekat should quit doesn't go far enough. The Palestinian Authority should be dissolved and Oslo declared null and void. Suspend all security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians, and force the IDF to provide security, with the Israeli taxpayers on the hook for providing for the needs of the occupied people.

On January 20th, the one-state solution process begins. And that beginning involves recognizing there's nothing to talk about.

Time for rightwing Israelis and their enablers in the USA to learn that their actions too have a price tag.

the Trump administration has already signaled that liberals in the USA will have to choose between adopting a rightwing ideology or being supportive of Israel.

sabbat hunter

(6,896 posts)
5. What is wrong with
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 04:47 PM
Dec 2016

moving the embassy to the western part of Jerusalem. Where the seat of Israeli government is at? Is is also well within the 'green line' of the 1949 armistice lines, which means even if Israel were to pull out of the entire West Bank, it still would be part of Israel.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
8. Binational state or genocide?
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 11:27 PM
Dec 2016

It is frightening that an ostensible progressive person believes those to be the only options.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. Thinking that a binational state is possible is false hope
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 12:33 AM
Dec 2016

Thinking the only alternative to it is genocide is ridiculous.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
11. Multinational state happened in South Africa
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 08:15 AM
Dec 2016

Certainly more plausible than Trump and his merry duo of Kahanists Greenblatt and Friedman preserving the possibility of the two-state solution.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
12. Things are very bad in South Africa
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 08:37 AM
Dec 2016

Certainly no one would hold that country up as any kind of a model.

A multi-national state is not going to happen. The parties themselves do not want it; they seek separation in the form of two independent states. Also, the international community overwhelmingly rejects the one state option and supports two states based on negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as the recent UNSC resolution demonstrates.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
13. The Israelis are not seeking separation.
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 12:23 PM
Dec 2016

The settlements project is designed to prevent separation.

I suspect we'll see the same arc as SA, first apartheid and then a multiethnic state.


That scenario certainly carries some risks for the Israelis, but that's their problem, a problem they chose for themselves.

In a way, Trump is a dash of reality. The USA is not going to save Israel for itself. We are its enabler, not its friend.

aranthus

(3,386 posts)
14. How so?
Mon Dec 26, 2016, 01:24 PM
Dec 2016

Multi-racial, yes, but multi-national? And as has already been stated, they have their problems.

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