Courtesy of the New York Times:'Jerusalem is Israel's capital' - US President Donald Trump announces, overturning decades of official US policy https://t.co/HoqKpCq3Dv pic.twitter.com/zGhdvdX5NU— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 6, 2017
President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City.
“Today we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” Mr. Trump said from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. “This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.”
The president cast his decision as a break with decades of failed policy on Jerusalem, which the United States, along with virtually every other nation in the world, has declined to recognize as the capital since Israel’s founding in 1948. That policy, he said, brought us “no closer to a lasting peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.”
“It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result,” Mr. Trump declared.
Recognizing Jerusalem, he added, was “a long overdue step to advance the peace process.”
Yeah, I don't think Donald Trump understands what the word "peace" means, because this is not how you go about attaining it.
Courtesy of Al Jazeera:
Mahmoud Abbas has lambasted the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, saying the Palestinian leadership refuses to acknowledge President Donald Trump's contentious move.
Calling Jerusalem the "eternal capital of the State of Palestine", the president of the Palestinian Authority said on Wednesday the US could no longer be a mediator in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
His comments were in response to an earlier announcement by Trump during which he said the US was formally recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and would begin the process of moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to the city.
"This is a reward to Israel," Abbas said in a televised address, adding that Trump's move encouraged Israel's "continuing occupation" of the Palestinian territories.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian leaders called for three days of rage against the move.
Boy that sounds peaceful, doesn't it?
There was also this:
Trump had said earlier that he had the support of Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, but according to news reports there is NOBODY on the Arab side who is cool with this, or anybody else for that matter.President Abbas just ordered his Palestinian team located in Washington DC to come home, saying that the United States has “withdrawn” from it’s role in the peace process. Abbas considers this to be the end of America acting as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 6, 2017
Courtesy of the BBC:
The US decision comes despite vocal opposition in the Muslim world, even among US allies.
On Tuesday Saudi Arabia's King Salman had said that the move "would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims, all over the world".
Demonstrations have already taken place in Gaza and outside the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said it was "a moment of great anxiety". "There is no alternative to the two-state solution. There is no Plan B," he said.
In other reaction:
Prime Minister Theresa May said she disagreed with the US decision, which was "unhelpful in terms of prospects for peace in the region"
French President Emmanuel Macron said France did not support the move and called for calm
EU chief diplomat Federica Mogherini voiced "serious concern"
Boy color me confused.
Here I thought that Trump was just focused on trying to start a nuclear war with North Korea, but it appears the tiny fingered multitasker is also going to try and create a conflagration in the Middle East as well.
What was it that Michael Caine said in that Batman movie?
“...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
I think Vladimir Putin and the deplorables have placed such a man into the White House.
When in the Hell is the impeachment process going to begin against this guy? It's taking forever! Donald Trump is an idgit and embarrassment to our country.
ReplyDeleteUm, Never? 2/3 of Senate needs to vote to impeach and even if they managed to find the votes in the House the Senate is rather firmly GOP so impeachment isn't going to be a thing.
DeleteSlurring his words too! Something is obviously wrong w/him - health wise, mentally and/or on drugs of some kind.
ReplyDeletePence is not looking too happy.
DeleteFor sure! We need a law, drug test for US prez and public office holders Ryan.
DeleteHe's in the sundowning phase of his dementia and it's not pretty. He will serve out his term, just a Reagan did in the throes of Alzheimers, but hopefully in 2020 we get someone better.
DeleteI heard a lot of snorting.which he does when he LIES!
DeleteDry mouth
DeleteHas anyone found United shu shu on the map :)
DeleteBad dentures. His poly grip was failing. Probably because of all the McDonalds special sauce.
DeleteAnother SNL skit just wrote itself.
DeleteTo expand on a comment I read on another website:
ReplyDeleteSteve Bannon wants the world to burn
Trump wants credit for lighting the match
This is NOT a good time for Tillerson to be decimating the State Department and getting rid of all the experienced, SANE diplomats!
The US can now rename capitols at our will?
ReplyDeleteDAYUM aren't we cool.
Not exactly.
DeleteThis was actually passed in 1995 by the 104th congress, look up "Jerusalem Embassy Act", it also calls for recognizing Jerusalem to be the capitol of Israel. The law was left unimplemented by the last three Presidents.
Not saying it is right or wrong or good or bad, but Trump didn't come up with this, he just followed it thru.
his bottom teeth came out when he was talking. I did not know he had dentures. Funny as hell. So he slurred his words trying to suck the teeth back in. I would never make fun of anyone else in that situation, but he deserves it.
ReplyDeleteI'll make fun of him with his fancy dentures because I actually know some seniors on fixed incomes that couldn't afford dentures even if they sold their car.
DeleteJust another rich guy thing.
I'll have to take you at your word as I can't willingly allow myself to listen to this anti american racist fuk ... now listening to him screaming, crying and kicking as he's being drug away in handcuffs, I'd definitely allow myself that - probably play it on an endless loop ..
Deletetruth be told I wish the same fate on drumph as mussolini's, exactly the same ..
Come on people, do you know how hard it is to fit dentures for a butt hole mouth !
Delete8:20 hahaha
DeleteNot dentures, unless that's the new way to spell cocaine.
DeleteGreat more war for israel, except for the 1% they will see record gains on their portfolios. We are so FUCKED!!
ReplyDeleteArms dealers. Cheney. Shrug
Deletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/shadow-world-the-war-documentary-the-us-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see
DeleteWhy not let's send some more American's over to the middle east for israel's gain. The last 4500+ was not enough dead American soldiers was not enough for israel.
ReplyDeleteWatch them reinstitute the draft.
DeleteI bet sheldon adelson finally called in that favor for all the money he gave to t-RUMP's campaign. Our democracy is a fucking sham, if you have deep pockets you can finance a stooge to get your agenda thru. Dual national citizens should not be allowed into U.S govt or lobby on behalf of foriegn govts. But it is ok when israel influences politics over here. We are such simple goyim, and they fully take advantage
DeleteWell whose insurance policy did Sarah take over to get her "dill" as she brags ?
DeleteIsn't that biz dissolved and the CEO was the same? Hmmm.
7:34 WTF are you talking about?
DeleteSounds like Sarah scamming.
DeleteShe had to have learned it.
She's too stupid to do it. ;)
I believe t-RUMP was picked to destroy America as a world power. The Muslim world is in unrest because of israel being given land in an occupied territory called Palestine, they also decided the land that was given was not enough so they started a war and took more land from the Palestinians whose land they where in in the first place. Now israel has like 90% and are trying to take what would be the capital of Palestine. They have every right to be pissed at israel and America. Because we aided israel in this fucked up apertheid land theft, by all of our abstaining U.N. General assembly votes against sanctioning israel when they build jewish only settlements on Palestinian land outside of their borders. We are compicit by letting israel do whatever the fuck they want while giving them billions yearly, and then giving surrounding Muslim countries billions just to play nice with israel. We are so FUCKED!!
DeleteThrow barrels of holy water on that liar, perform exorcism quick!!! Evil gets uglier everyday. Communism is very bad and has no place in this world.
ReplyDeleteCommunism?
DeleteShitgibbon- flings feces just for the pleasure of stinking up the place. Yep, that's The Rump.
ReplyDeleteEven Russia is against this.
ReplyDeleteSome shit on TV said that now all of the countries in the world will fall in line and join the U.S. in recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel just like they recognize Paris as the capitol of France and Berlin the capitol of Germany. (That last was not a very good analogy, since the capitol has been Aachen, Frankfurt, Berlin, Bonn and now Berlin again.)
No, they are not going to fall in line.
If Trump eventually moves the embassy to Jerusalem it will be the only one there. The rest of the world will keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.
So good luck with that.
Can't wait to see how Jared is going to bargain peace in the middle east now. Sucks to be you, Jared.
It was the French kings, starting in the late Middle Ages, who made Paris the capital of France by expanding the size of their realm through the centuries. No foreign power had anything to do with it.
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Was this clip edited? Because once again his thought process was incomplete.
ReplyDeleteSaid something like maintain the status quo known as temple mount and Al ..sharif.
What in the hell does that mean other than riots,violence and more suicide bombings?
Happy Hanukkah Bibi.
By the way what happened to the promise that the US was going to stay out of other countries business?
I am expecting a rise in US terror attacks,thanks trump the moron!
Is there anything left that he hasn't destroyed?
ReplyDeleteHoly shee-ite!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, seems we cannot get him impeached in time, since even if Congress were agreeable to that, it would potentially take years (or until the end of his term). In the meantime, he keeps on burning everything that the US has been working for, and keeps on destroying everything in sight. Even Mueller by now is no help.
IOW: we are f_cked, unless he gets a massive heart attack.
To Muslims all over the world, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is not idea of Americans, it is the brainchild of Donald Trump. If you want to retaliate for this decision then remember to go after the guy who also wants to ban Muslims from America. Please do not attack innocent American civilians and military personnel.
ReplyDeleteYes, some unknown targets are not going to produce any results.
Delete“Today we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” Mr. Trump said
ReplyDeleteWHO IS "WE"?
"We" is Trump and his family.
Remember that when "they" travel to the Middle East.
Remember that when you see the name Trump on businesses in your country.
Gryphen, I think Trump is trying to change the subject any way he can. Stir a little more insanity in North Korea, add in a big insult in the Middle East, turn up the heat everywhere, season it all with "sexual harassment" history in the US and no one will be interested in the vicious GOP tax bill or the Russian investigation. Those are the only consequences Trump can see of his actions. The fact that Fox News will tout him as the "greatest" world leader of all time and that Steve Bannon's dream of complete chaos will come true will add more spice.
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Darth Cheney is planning a false flag somewhere in th US. This Jerusalem announcement serve as the catalyst for a false flag attack. Then the fucking retard amerikkkans will get all patrioticked up. Attention off russia then.Dominioinss think this will speed up the rapture.
ReplyDeleteWe are frogs being slowly boiled.
SHAME on the adults , if there are any in DC.
We are screwed.
Get out if you can.
Uh hu.. and?
DeletePlease note:
ReplyDeleteAntipsychotics and Alzheimer medications cause dry mouth. Drumpf all of a sudden these past three weeks is slurring words from dry mouth,
Whic is worse? Antipsychotics or anti Alzheimers lol?
Again fuck those who know and sit by without blowing the whistle.
Trump and Ted Nugent must have the same bad denture maker.
ReplyDeleteRenewed violence is erupting in the Middle East cuz Dotard Donnie Two poops had to fulfill his promises to the Koch brothers. God help us all. So when American lives are lost over this, will Fox News begin rerunning its Benghazi ‘special?’
ReplyDeleteThe concept of the USA being "an honest broker" in the Israel land-grab problem was a farce at the best of times.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anwar_Sadat
DeleteREAL TRUTH
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The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America’s shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O’Donnell’s master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time.
Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch with Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party’s incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage.
Suddenly Nixon was the frontrunner, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party’s right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today.'
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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-cnn-puts-together-a-hilarious-supercut-of-trump-sniffling-and-slurring-through-speeches/
ReplyDeleteSnuffenoughofthis