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The Election of Donald Trump has sent shock
waves throughout the US and the world. The Democrats are still licking their
wounds of defeat and will have to do a lot of rethinking in order to regain
power in the future elections. Their choice of Hillary Clinton as a candidate
was flawed from the start. She had made many mistakes in the past and Donald
Trump fought an aggressive campaign against her that was cruel and it worked. During the campaign he even appealed to Russia to search for
Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. Many US voters had
enough of the way President Obama had handled the international Islamist terror
issues as well as the the Islamist terror attacks in the US.
There are so many stories in the press about the
Trump-Putin connection and the Russian cyber attacks on the US
to ensure that Trump would be elected. Even “The Guardian” had reported that Russia had interfered to
help Trump win the elections. Still there is no smoke
without a fire and these reports may have some credibility. If this is the
case, the future for democracy in the US will be compromised. Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S.presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Trump is a well respected
ally of Putin. Both are well respected allies of Netanyahu. Putin is an ally of
Iran as well as Bashar al Assad of Syria that Putin is propping up. Both are
responsible for the massive Holocaust in Aleppo, where over 400 000 men, women and children have been slaughtered
in cold blood and their
city destroyed thanks to Putin and Assad. Iran wishes to destroy Israel with
Putin's armaments. There is also a strong possibility that Trump will ease or even remove US sanctions against Russia.
Another rather interesting
phenomenon, post election-wise, is the bizarre unity between neo-Nazi groups
and the alt-right that have supported Trump’s election for president. Even
Israel’s Netanyahu Government Coalition has joined this strange group of
bedfellows in supporting Trump. It is an unwanted paradox that the Israeli
Government in its support of the US Ambassador-elect for Israel, David
Friedman, who is very supportive of the Israeli settlement enterprise, and
accuses J Street of being worse than “kapos”. The euphoria of the Trump
election has surpassed all logic. Those who do not feel well disposed towards
supporting Trump are ostracized and viewed as traitors against Israel. What
about the American neo-Nazis, who also supported Trump?
No matter which way one
looks at it, the Two State Solution to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict is not
going to occur. It never occurred under previous American presidents and it
will certainly not occur under the Trump presidency. Trump has been blunt about his opposition to the Two-State
Solution and has made no bones about it. The incoming US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has
a record of supporting the settlement policies of the Netanyahu Government and
he and Trump have pledged support for moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. It remains to be seen if this pledge will
become a reality, despite the threats of the eternal Palestinian negotiator
with Israel, Saeb Erakat. The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 is not against this move. After all it was the US Congress
that passed this law.
President-Elect Donald
Trump is definitely going to raise many eyebrows in his attitude towards
Israel. He will be a very different kind of president to any president
that the US has ever had. We have to wait and see what team of advisors he will
appoint and whether they will adopt a policy of pragmatism towards the
conflict. The Palestinian leaders will not succumb to any form of peace
negotiations as in the past so nothing will really change in their hate
rhetoric towards Israel whether the American Embassy moves to Jerusalem or not.
President-elect Donald
Trump is very unpredictable. We have no idea as to how he will handle the
presidency and if he will override his advisers. One thing for sure, we will
remain in the dark for a while as far as US foreign policy towards the Middle
East and Israel is concerned and whether he will keep his pledges to his
voters. It seems that Israel will have almost free reign in establishing new settlements in the occupied West Bank if we take Donald Trump's election campaign pledges at face value.
No one knows for sure whether President-elect Trump will in fact enact many of the sweeping changes to immigration policy, cyber security and environmental protection laws that he promised during the campaign — but his cabinet selections so far are not doing much to disabuse people of that notion. There is also nepotism in his selection
of advisers. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said that his son-in-law
Jared Kushner could help make peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Speaking to the New York
Times in New York, Trump said he "would love to be the one who made peace
with Israel and the Palestinians," adding that it would be a "great
achievement," according to a reporter's tweets.
Trump requested top secret
security clearance for Kushner, according to an NBC News report. The request
for clearance was unprecedented and would allow Kushner to sit in on Trump's
presidential daily brief, despite not being an official member of the White
House staff. What criteria does Jared Kushner have for helping to get the peace
process between Israel and the Palestinians back on track apart from being
Trump’s son-in-law?
It is very difficult to
jump to conclusions as to what kind of president Trump will be. If we view his
presidential campaign and his pledges, we have much to be concerned.
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