It’s difficult to say whether Ukraine or the “Palestinians” would suffer more from Trump’s re-election, as both are about to face serious setbacks to their national aspirations. In Ukraine, the President-elect poignantly rejected former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley because of their support for the Biden administration’s policy on Ukraine’s war with Russia. As to the two-state solution, so far Trump has been appointing declared enemies of the entire idea, including Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckaby who told reporters he would only use “Judea and Samaria” to refer to what is universally named “The West Bank.”
However, while Ukraine will persist as a sovereign nation, albeit minus two rogue districts, the “Palestinians” will likely (hopefully?) lose any realistic chance for independence. For Israel, this would mean the start of mobilization for new settlements, as well as a new policy of encouraging “voluntary emigration,” first from Gaza and later from the rest of the liberated territories.
No doubt, should the Trump administration pursue its promised campaign to roundup and expel more than ten million illegal migrants, Israel can expect at least a response of benign neglect, if not outright support for its own policy which, according to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, offers the PA Arabs to stay and accept the rule of a Jewish State, reject it and emigrate, or fight and die.
Haaretz pundit Hussein Ibish described Trump’s original, 2020 “Peace Plan of the Century” for the PA Arabs, saying, “Trump decided to treat them like obstreperous tenants who required forcible eviction from one of his New York properties. He decided to cut off their utilities, stop collecting the garbage, and essentially force them into capitulation.”
I looked up “obstreperous.” It means noisy and difficult to control.
On the money.
Here are Trump’s appointments we’ve already covered this week:
