“There is no way that there can be talks with the Americans. The peace process is finished. They have already pre-empted the outcome,” said Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi. “They cannot take us for granted.”
What brazen hypocrisy. Of course, the “Palestinians” have always been masters at that. When was the “peace process” ever anything but a means by which the “Palestinians” won concessions from the Israelis and Americans? When did they ever stop taking the Americans for granted? For years, they figured they could commit any jihad atrocity, and celebrate it by passing out candy on the streets, and knew that the Americans would not hold them accountable.
Now that may be ending, and not a moment too soon.
“Warnings intensify as Trump readies Jerusalem declaration,” Associated Press, December 6, 2017:
JERUSALEM (AP) — America’s friends and foes unleashed fierce criticism on Wednesday ahead of President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
While Israel welcomed the news, Palestinian officials declared the Mideast peace process “finished” and Turkey announced it would host a meeting of Islamic nations next week to give Muslim countries’ leaders an opportunity to coordinate a response. The Arab League scheduled an emergency meeting on Saturday.
The harsh global reaction cast questions about the feasibility of a brewing U.S. peace plan that is expected to be presented by the White House in the near future.
The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state and fear that Trump’s declaration essentially imposes on them a disastrous solution for one of the core issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“There is no way that there can be talks with the Americans. The peace process is finished. They have already pre-empted the outcome,” said Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi. “They cannot take us for granted.”
The U.S. decision “destroys the peace process,” added Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Top Palestinian officials were meeting Wednesday to plot their course forward….
Pope Francis said he was “profoundly concerned” and appealed that “everyone respects the status quo of the city.” China, which has good ties with Israel and the Palestinians, expressed concerns over “possible aggravation of regional tensions.” Russia, a key Mideast player, expressed its concern about a “possible deterioration.” Two leading Lebanese newspapers published front-page rebukes of Trump.
Britain’s Foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, who had already expressed concern about the U.S. decision, on Wednesday said it was now time for the Americans to present their peace plan for the region.
Trump’s Mideast team, led by his adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have spent months meeting with Israeli, Palestinian and Arab leaders. Details of their long awaited plan remain a mystery.
“Clearly this is a decision that makes it more important than ever that the long-awaited American proposals on the Middle East peace process are now brought forward,” Johnson told reporters in Brussels….
Elsewhere, however, reactions were skeptical, especially across the Muslim world. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the “whole world is against” Trump’s move, and the supreme leader of Iran, Israel’s staunchest enemy, condemned Trump.
The state TV’s website quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying that “the victory will ultimately be for the Islamic nation and Palestine.”
Iran does not recognize Israel, and supports anti-Israeli militant groups like Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas.
mortimer says
Several Western countries should simply agree to simultaneously recognize Jerusalem as the capital.
Life will go on. A few bombs will go off, Muslim terrorists will go to jail and there will be no war. Islam is very weak and Muslims haven’t the will or heart to fight.
They would rather earn a living in a suburb than die for a deranged Bedouin Robin Hood.
b.a. freeman says
islam is weak, but the ummah is growing stronger in the heart of the west, and the treasonous left ignore the danger because their leaders want society to collapse so that they can seize power. more and more, young muslim men are turning fundamentalist (salafi), and they are destroying us. when life throws a curve ball, folks tend to turn to the old-time religion of their youth. even when thoroughly westernized, as the chattanooga shooter, mohammod abdulazeez, was, that can be a really bad thing; had he been a christian, mr. abdulazeez might have begun serving in churches or soup kitchens to serve the poor, but his religion was islam, and he took a short-cut to jannah by killing infidels. my understanding is that he worked for the TVA for about 10 days, and was then fired. this would bring dishonor on the family (a capital offense under sharia), so he needed to redeem himself. according to sharia, he has redeemed himself.
yes, iife will go on,but a few million pious muslims will work themselves into a lather and start killing people who aren’t muslim, whether or not they had anything to do with the move. most muslims may not be jihadis, but their beliefs lean that way, and their religion is *definitely* that way. islam is more vile and poisonous than nazism or communism, and we in the west are just beginning to learn that.
R Russell says
So what’s new. The Arabs have reneged on all the peace talks to date. They don’t want peace. They want to exterminate the whole Israeli nation – as foretold in that old Book which also foretells divine intervention to stop that extermination taking place.
Angus says
“So what’s new. The Arabs have reneged on all the peace talks to date. They don’t want peace. They want to exterminate the whole Israeli nation”
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EXACTLY
They have never wanted peace and never will.
The sooner the rest of the Western world recognizes this the better.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
+1
The so-called peace process was a sequence of iterative attempts to whittle away Israeli land. The Mohammadans want the eradication of all Jews.
gravenimage says
All grimly true.
Custos Custodum says
For ORDINARY West-Jordanians,* Trump’s move is excellent news.
West-Jordanian families can now face the question of how they wish to live their own lives, and what kind of community they want to create. If they are smart, they will insist on a buy-out – dollars in return for moving to Jordan.
Without the distraction of the infernal “peace process,” youngsters no longer need to be raised as canon fodder for the demented wet dreams of a narrow and corrupt political elite.
*N.B.: The term “West Jordanian” Is historically accurate. Arab inhabitants of the “West Bank” were Jordanian citizens until 2000 before Jordan “withdrew” its citizenship from its citizens in furtherance of the pipe dream of a made-up “Palestinian” nation ruled by a small elite. Nobody thought or talked about a “Palestinian” nation before 1967.
Michael says
If Hanan Ashrawi doesn’t like Trump’s decision, then let her emigrate to Saudi Arabia where her ancestors came from.
gravenimage says
She is a nominal Christian whose parents embraced their persecutors.
Charles says
Anyone with a “working Brain” has known, all along, that PEACE was never a goal of this so called; process!
So this incredible and predictable “response” the spinkter of islam, was to be expected!
Of course, they have never needed an excuse to again start MURDERING the jewish, elderly, women, disabled and babies. Anyone not able to FIGHT BACK is always first target of the “Brave Soldier of allah(SATAN)”.
I am hopeful the forces of RIGHT may squash them flat, before many innocent civilians are murdered in their beds by the muslim pig excrement.
WorkingClassPost says
She needs to decide if she’s an Arab Muslim, or a Palestinian.
The Philistines (where the name comes from), were a coastal tribe of non-Arabic origin, probably an Aegean seafaring race.
So their rightful ‘capital’ belongs in Gaza – Jerusalem was always a Jewish/Israelite center.
DogOnPorch says
Alexander the Great finished-off what was left of the so-called Philistines after the Sieges of Tyre & Gaza.
WorkingClassPost says
Wasn’t that against the Phoenicians?
Anyway, hardly matters, it’s well away from Jerusalem.
DogOnPorch says
The Palestinian Cause is rooted in antisemitism. The founder of the cause, the Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini (Arafat’s uncle) joined Hitler and worked for the SS raising all-Muslim SS units in the Balkans.
Georg says
Pope Francis . . . “…appealed that “everyone respects the status quo of the city.”
He would.
WorkingClassPost says
He has long since chosen which side he is on.
Custos Custodum says
I don’t see why we should respect the status quo of the Papal Entity. (Vatican City.)
Let’s set up an international conference to discuss a solution to the Vatican Problem, perhaps along the lines of a Two State Solution.
In the interest of balance, stakeholders such as Turkey, Tunisia and Kosovo should be invited to contribute their views within the framework of a permanent international conference with offices in Lausanne.
As a precondition for further discussions, millions of descendants of Roman peasants who sold their land to the Papal Entity will need to be be given a Right of return and life-long compensation out of EU funds.
Leftist “Law Schools” can offer workshops and publish propaganda screeds on the status of Vatican territory in “international law,” and the UN can schedule weekly denunciations of alleged violation of “international law” by the Papal Entity and its evil supporters.
Dan says
The German population was about 70 million before WW2, and they said only 30% of Germans were actually Nazis. 21 million people then, and look at the mess THEY created, from a confined area of the world.
What’s the Muslim population? About 1.6 billion?
It takes only 1.3% of Muslims to make 21 million to absolutely hate Jews.
A Jihad watch article said 51% of Muslims support Sharia law.
Estimates say anywhere from 5% MINIMUM, to 15% and even higher, of Muslims are radical.
And 10 years ago I watched a major American major news channel state a poll, amongst Muslims that 1 in 4 Muslims said they would not report an Islamic terror plot if they knew about it.
So taking those numbers into account, we’re supposed to believe there ever was a “Peace Process”?
Give me a break.
All there’s ever been are “Diversionary Tactics.”
Jules says
Yikes is that a man or woman? This may be a case where a burka should be required.
warmac9999 says
There is no peace process. For the past 50 or so years, the whole thing has been a sham. The Palestinian leadership promotes anti-Israel and anti-American hatred because there is political power in doing so. If anything, Trump’s decision may destabilize this ugly game and lead to progress. If it doesn’t, then nothing is really lost.
Guest says
Peace? What peace? Palestine has not been peaceful In decades
Ray Jarman says
The Palestinian leaders seem to espouse Khrushchev’s theory of compromise of “What is yours, we will discuss and what is ours is ours.” The difference is that the Soviet Union never stated that it’s raison d’être is the destruction of the United States. The PLO has yet to renounce in writing the Cairo Accord in which the PLO’s stated purpose is to do just that, push the Jews into the sea and Hamas refuses to even discuss the possibility of a treaty with Israel.
Guy Forester says
Does anyone really care what this old wind bag has to say? This was an entirely predictable response. They should harness that blast of hot air and run some wind turbines and generate some electricity. At least that would be something useful from it.
b.a. freeman says
they could get some power for a short while, but the blast of bulls**t coming from her is toxic and corrosive, and no turbine could withstand that.
Guy Forester says
+1
LeftisruiningCanada says
What a great bunch of whining babies these people are.
Jim says
There never was a peace process. That’s just baloney from our stupid politicians who have absolutely no understanding of the Koran and hadiths. Islam doesn’t want peace until all are either (1) converted to Islam, (2) non-Islamic monotheists pay the jizya and submit to Sharia, or (3) those remaining “incorrigibles” are murdered. Peace will occur only when all the people of earth submit to the law of Islam. To Islamists the so-called “peace process” is just a stalling tactic to be used to put them in a better tactical position, like most truces are.
gravenimage says
“Palestinian” spox Hanan Ashrawi: “No way there can be talks with the Americans. Peace process is finished.”
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Yeah, ’cause these talks were so fruitful before this…sarc/off
nicholas tesdorf says
So the “Peace process is finished:. Excellent! Now we can get back to normal there the Arab States plot against Israeli, attack and get devastated again and again..
Edward Cline says
First of all, the so-called “peace process” has been little more than a “death” process for Israel, with constant knife,bomb,and car attacks in Israel.. The “Palestinians” yern to invade Israel, butcher Israelis, and seize everything: its skyscrapers,its hospitals, its wealth. The PA brutalizes “Palestinians” in Gaza and the West Bank. So, good, the “Peace Process” is finished. A small note,isn’t Hanan Ashrawi in violation of Sharia? She wears no hijab to cover her hideously coifed hair,, no burqa fo hide her ugly, sneering puss.
Carolyne says
She is actually one of the few reasons a burqa should be required.
ronyvo says
PEACE PROCESS?! Peace talks with the Palestinians?! Give me a break. This people understand ONLY one language FORCE.
Thanks to the LORD that the mighty Hanan is calling for no more talks. So, the Israelis can concentrate in dealing with them the proper way, and THEY KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH them.
Frank Anderson says
Jews can be pretty smart; Think of that every time you use a cell phone which was invented in Israel by a Jew. Thank you!
martin says
Hanan Ashrawi was on the bullcrap brainwashing channel in the uk and as usual lied, this time however she was so very confident of ther utter cowardice (it never calls muslims out when they lie).
The lies from her were far more obvious and blatant in their utter depravity – as is the cowardice and deceitfull treasonous nature of the bbc.
martin says
Boris johnson made a televised speech, whilst it contained some measure of, reason, overall he like the majority of those in power think they can rewrite the quran….
They dont actually think that of course, they just parrott the lies of lmuslim that its not mainstream islam, not the real islam etc etc – just parrotting the muslims warfare lies.
SEEMING TO BE OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT IS IN THE QURAN AND HADITH ETC, IE MAINSTREAM ISLAM.
With so much information being available now, is their any excuse for them being ignorant ot the evidence?
randall Rothschild says
Well, when your starting point is kill all the Jews I think the negotiations never started. A new Trump saying
, the squeaky wheel gets the back of the hand. The world is now a better place.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
we have been saying such peace processes are just waste of time. mad devil Trump has exposed that evil Zionist agenda of totalitarianism and expansionism contrary to UN resolutions. The only option for Muslims is military confrontation with evil United States and evil Zionist state of Israhell to liberate Qudus mosque from fascist Zionist control.
Carolyne says
Watch out! Ibrahim seems to be foaming at the mouth over this.
Frank Anderson says
Carolyne, I have never seen his/her posts when he/she was not foaming. I think he/she is playing the part of the bad guy in wrestling. You can’t have heroes if you don’t have villains. He/she is a joke doing nothing more than stirring up the audience with his play acting.
Carolyne says
One of the big time newsreaders at a major network, and I believe it was Peter Jennings, used to date this woman. Such a romantic attachment is hardly a reason for neutrality in reporting.