Joel P. Pollack:
President-elect Donald J. Trump hinted on Friday, via Twitter, that “things will be different after Jan. 20” at the United Nations.
He was reacting to President Barack Obama’s decision to betray Israel and to allow an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council to pass. The resolution regards all Israeli settlement — including East Jerusalem, the Old City, and Hebron — as illegal. It was a sneak attack by lame-duck Obama. Here is what Trump may have in mind as a response.
1. Signing a congressional declaration that the UN Security Council resolution is not United States policy. Congress could quickly pass, and President Trump would sign, a declaration that the previous administration had no mandate to allow the UN Security Council resolution to pass. The declaration could affirm prior U.S. policy that some areas in the West Bank will always be under Israeli control — or it could even leave the status of the West Bank open to potential Israeli annexation.
2. Immediately move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The Trump transition team has been hinting that moving the U.S. embassy would be a high priority. Now there is absolutely no reason to delay. The entire case against moving the embassy had been that the U.S. should not take unilateral action outside negotiations between the two parties. But Obama just undermined his own argument by unilaterally taking the Palestinians’ side over settlements. Moving the embassy is now a no-brainer.
3. Cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority. President Obama kept U.S. taxpayer dollars flowing to the Palestinians even though the Palestinian Authority has continued to support terrorists and incite hatred against Israelis and Jews. By pushing for unilateral measures at the UN, the Palestinian leadership has also thrown away the bilateral premise of whatever remained of the peace process. They have never faced consequences for their hostility to peace. They should face them now.
Defund the UN, and revoke their lease.
Let them move to Geneva and fend for themselves.
It is time for them to take all their spies and go.
Stop paying foreign aid to the nations which sponsor this Palestinian argle-bargle.
Turtle Bay would make a nice site for the Israeli Embassy, a suggestion which I read today.
@mathman: The really odd thing to me is that Jews almost always support the Dimocrats, who always seem to cut their throats. One day they are going to realize that the Dims are not their friends.
@RedTeam:
They are self hating Jews. In this case it is party before faith. The Nazi Jews of the Third Reich were no different that the Democrat Jews of today……
President Trump should issue an EO canceling all US monies going toward all countries widely considered to be Muslim enemies of Israel after his inauguration in addition to stop all funding to the UN.
A giant F/U to obama…..