Amid the U.S. mainstream media’s hyping of Russia-gate, there has been much less attention given to what some call “Israel-gate,” evidence that Israel was wielding much more behind-the-scenes influence, reports Dennis J Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein President Trump’s decision…Read more →
The silence from Iraqi Kurdistan this week over the American president’s decision to relocate the US embassy to the divided city of Jerusalem was deafening.
The diplomatic hush was only amplified as, one by one, all of the neighbors of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government vociferously condemned the move.
It’s a silence that could come back to haunt Iraqi Kurdish decision makers in the longer term.
Regional opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision was not entirely on religious grounds.
Commentator, Jake Morphonios, says that President Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a provocative move toward war with Iran, and a proxy war with Russia and China. He supports this claim by reviewing the ancient history of that land contrasted with the relatively recent claims by the Israeli state. Many people believe that Jerusalem has been the capital of the kingdom of Israel for 3,000 years, but biblical records show that Jerusalem has been the capital for less than 150 years.
He may have small hands, but US President Donald Trump appears to have a big foot. And with his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, he has shoved it squarely up the part of conventional international Middle East peacemaking diplomacy that never sees the sun. So far, so good, you might think. Decades of international peacemaking efforts have, after all, failed,[Read More...]
You do not have to be an insider, a foreign policy expert, or a political pundit to realize that the Unholy Trinity, the new axis of evil – United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia – are preparing joint military actions against Iran and Hezbollah. The Spanish colloquial word, Ojo, meaning eye, expresses it all – careful – be on watch[Read More...]
The Jerusalem story is the centerpiece of news this week. Donald Trump and Mike Pence, an evangelical, in favor of moving the embassy and Rex Tillerson and John Mattis opposed in their discussion prior to the announcement. That State and Defense departments both found the move detrimental to U.S. interests underlines how politics trump sound policy. Mr. Trump is[Read More...]
American Muslim civil advocacy groups Thursday (Dec 7) vehemently opposed President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. They were of the view that Trump’s announcement serves no one’s interest but undermines the Middle East peace process couple with inflaming anti-U.S. sentiment across the globe. On Wednesday,[Read More...]
“The near-universal opposition to Trump’s decision by much of the military, intelligence, and foreign policy establishment is not out of concern for the fate of the Palestinians or international law. Rather, they fear that effectively recognizing exclusive Israel control over the third holiest city in Islam will provoke a backlash throughout the Islamic world. Reactionary clerics and other Islamist[Read More...]
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Here’s what an Early Day Motion, tabled by several prominent British MPs in the House of Commons, says about Trump’s statement on Jerusalem:
