Great to hear Sisi didn't show up to kiss the ring in the public square. WaPo said he made a donation of $10m in CASH late in 2016 to the Orange King - so they’re even now, and now is a good time to agree with Jimmy Carter that Israel never held their part of Camp David Accords / Egypt-Israel peace treaty (Sadat-Begin). Cancel it so we can all revisit the Oslo Accords (Arafat-Rabin), the only (?) peace agreement that actually Involved Palestinians.
Alon, can you work out if "Palestine's Mandela" Marwan Barghouti will be released? This would bring hope of a real political solution. China hosted Palestinian leaders to help form consensus. Are they active in stepping into the vacuum? I think i read Jordan gets $1.5bn and Egypt $1.7bn from the US annually which is peanuts compared to the $600bn Saudi has promised to invest in the US. Will they step up? And what about the offshore gas fields allocated to Gaza? Is that driving the ethnic cleansing? The UN voted last year to affirm Palestinian rights to natural resources .... so move them out then "drill baby drill"?
Again, I think what you are asserting sounds like it has a good chance of being correct, and it seems like a more hopeful situation than I thought could happen. Thank you for sharing your insight and giving us some hope for less disastrous results.
You are indeed an optimist. I hope you're right; I fear you're wrong. I don't hope you're right about the renewal of the genocidal killing. Sadly, I think you have nailed that part correctly.
Credit to ya for pointing out how Sisi refused to come to bow to Trump <i>(or his visit was rebuffed by the U.S. because it was likely he would not cave)</i>. You're the first commenter I saw today who highlighted that. How good is your speed with that?!? -- I hear it first on your video, even before I get it from faster-paced sources such as Twaater. Even Magnier, who's on top of things, did not have that in his latest Twaats. I note that al Arabiya had it as a news item, and "Sprinter Observer" on Twaater (a voluminous source of information) was also right across it. But I look at you every day before I scan them. Coz you're better-looking!
"Sprinter" was scathing about cucKing Abdallah, Twaating:
<i>"The King of Jordan's strange behavior at a meeting with Trump has become the subject of media attention! King!!!!! Jordan to Trump: 'You can bring stability and peace to the Middle East. I truly believe that despite all the challenges in the region, I finally see a person who can get us to the finish line and bring stability to all of us.' <b>We have just witnessed, live on air, the open, disgusting and repulsive humiliation of an entire people, as well as the shameful self-abasement of the king and supreme commander of a country located in a region with a thousand-year history.</b>"</i>
It's racist and "looks-ist" of me to write this, but Abdallah's face reminds me of a baby capuchin monkey. Round, soft, seemingly semi-formed. A perfect puppet! Good on him for accepting 2,000 hurt children for treatment, even though the Ziociders will not let them return to their homes. I hope that is not the proverbial "camel's nose inside the tent" to a flood of forced refugees. I also saw a quote from Syria's Jolani saying:
Jolani: Trump's Gaza plan is a serious crime that will ultimately fail
"<i>'I believe that no force can expel people from their land. Many countries have tried to do this and they have all failed, especially during the recent war in Gaza over the past year and a half,' said Al Jolani , noting that Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza and take over the Gaza Strip is 'a serious crime that will ultimately fail.'</i>"
When a terrorist Israeli-symp head-chopper is acting more righteous than Abdallah, that's a stain of shame on the puny king. Perhaps the Syrian regime WILL resist being the dumping ground for nazIsrael's ethnic cleansing. Although Jolani can always be "Diem-ed" <i>(reference to a South Vietnamese leader knocked off by Amerikan assassins when he was not cooperative enough in ratcheting up the war there in the early 1960s, for those who are not history mavens.)</i> Uncooperative mooks are easily replaced.
Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal,former ambassador to UK and US, on Amanpour and Co. recently, expected not only his country but the entire Arab and even Muslim world to reject Trrump's 'mad' plan.
Great to hear Sisi didn't show up to kiss the ring in the public square. WaPo said he made a donation of $10m in CASH late in 2016 to the Orange King - so they’re even now, and now is a good time to agree with Jimmy Carter that Israel never held their part of Camp David Accords / Egypt-Israel peace treaty (Sadat-Begin). Cancel it so we can all revisit the Oslo Accords (Arafat-Rabin), the only (?) peace agreement that actually Involved Palestinians.
Alon, can you work out if "Palestine's Mandela" Marwan Barghouti will be released? This would bring hope of a real political solution. China hosted Palestinian leaders to help form consensus. Are they active in stepping into the vacuum? I think i read Jordan gets $1.5bn and Egypt $1.7bn from the US annually which is peanuts compared to the $600bn Saudi has promised to invest in the US. Will they step up? And what about the offshore gas fields allocated to Gaza? Is that driving the ethnic cleansing? The UN voted last year to affirm Palestinian rights to natural resources .... so move them out then "drill baby drill"?
Again, I think what you are asserting sounds like it has a good chance of being correct, and it seems like a more hopeful situation than I thought could happen. Thank you for sharing your insight and giving us some hope for less disastrous results.
You are indeed an optimist. I hope you're right; I fear you're wrong. I don't hope you're right about the renewal of the genocidal killing. Sadly, I think you have nailed that part correctly.
Credit to ya for pointing out how Sisi refused to come to bow to Trump <i>(or his visit was rebuffed by the U.S. because it was likely he would not cave)</i>. You're the first commenter I saw today who highlighted that. How good is your speed with that?!? -- I hear it first on your video, even before I get it from faster-paced sources such as Twaater. Even Magnier, who's on top of things, did not have that in his latest Twaats. I note that al Arabiya had it as a news item, and "Sprinter Observer" on Twaater (a voluminous source of information) was also right across it. But I look at you every day before I scan them. Coz you're better-looking!
"Sprinter" was scathing about cucKing Abdallah, Twaating:
<i>"The King of Jordan's strange behavior at a meeting with Trump has become the subject of media attention! King!!!!! Jordan to Trump: 'You can bring stability and peace to the Middle East. I truly believe that despite all the challenges in the region, I finally see a person who can get us to the finish line and bring stability to all of us.' <b>We have just witnessed, live on air, the open, disgusting and repulsive humiliation of an entire people, as well as the shameful self-abasement of the king and supreme commander of a country located in a region with a thousand-year history.</b>"</i>
It's racist and "looks-ist" of me to write this, but Abdallah's face reminds me of a baby capuchin monkey. Round, soft, seemingly semi-formed. A perfect puppet! Good on him for accepting 2,000 hurt children for treatment, even though the Ziociders will not let them return to their homes. I hope that is not the proverbial "camel's nose inside the tent" to a flood of forced refugees. I also saw a quote from Syria's Jolani saying:
Jolani: Trump's Gaza plan is a serious crime that will ultimately fail
"<i>'I believe that no force can expel people from their land. Many countries have tried to do this and they have all failed, especially during the recent war in Gaza over the past year and a half,' said Al Jolani , noting that Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza and take over the Gaza Strip is 'a serious crime that will ultimately fail.'</i>"
When a terrorist Israeli-symp head-chopper is acting more righteous than Abdallah, that's a stain of shame on the puny king. Perhaps the Syrian regime WILL resist being the dumping ground for nazIsrael's ethnic cleansing. Although Jolani can always be "Diem-ed" <i>(reference to a South Vietnamese leader knocked off by Amerikan assassins when he was not cooperative enough in ratcheting up the war there in the early 1960s, for those who are not history mavens.)</i> Uncooperative mooks are easily replaced.
So there's no way of using HTML in Substack comments to make some text bold or italic, I see...
Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal,former ambassador to UK and US, on Amanpour and Co. recently, expected not only his country but the entire Arab and even Muslim world to reject Trrump's 'mad' plan.
This is good news, maybe we'll see some actual opposition from the Arab world