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The administration's move to close the PLO office isn't directly connected to the White House's opposition to the International Criminal Court (ICC), however, the administration is trying to make it seem like it is connected.
This weekend is Rosh Hashana, the "Head of the Jewish New Year, and the Trump administration is talking about the holiday and the ICC in order to piss off the Palestinians, and boy, is it ever working.
On Monday, the State Department said that the administration is closing down the PLO office in Washington because the Palestinians are avoiding dealing with the peace agreement with Israel. In fact, there's a provision in a U.S. law that says the PLO mission must close if the peace process does not go forward.
National Security Adviser John Bolton made it emphatically clear that the U.S. will not recognize the ICC and it has been effectively "dead" to us. The Palestinians are trying to use the ICC to prosecute Israel for war crimes, evidently because they are not allowing the Palestinians to kill them without a fight.
The Trump administration is attempting to connect the two and pressure the Palestinians to have direct talks with Israel. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the two situations "consistent."
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said that "This is yet another affirmation of the Trump administration's policy to collectively punish the Palestinian people." [Rockets, fire balloons, Molotov cocktails and knife attacks to follow.]
For decades, the U.S. policy toward the region has been to position itself as a neutral party, although we've always had close ties with Israel. The U.S. has been willing to call out both sides when they take steps viewed as bellicose or contrary to the pursuit of peace. President Obama would even go so far as to blame Israel for all the problems in the region as he reminds us how the Islamic call to prayer from the mosque was the most beautiful sound he has ever heard.
The U.S. doesn't recognize Palestinian territories as an independent state, but the U.N. General Assembly with its Islamic anti-Zionist majority, overwhelmingly voted in 2012 to recognize Palestine as a "non-member observer state."
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Closing the PLO mission will likely create stronger Palestinians' opposition to the Trump peace plan now being stitched together by Trump's Middle East mavens, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Jason Greenblatt.
The Palestinian leadership is openly hostile to any proposal by the Trump administration due to their pro-Israel bias. [By 'pro-Israel bias' the PLO means the desire not to see Israel destroyed by Hamas or any other Islamic country.]
In another strong move, the State Department announced that the US is ending its years of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees--mainly because the money mostly goes to fund families of terrorists who died in the cause of jihad. The Palestinians have even used money meant for education for the same funding purpose. The administration said the money they cut went to "high priority projects elsewhere."
PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi called the U.S. policy "blackmail" that "once again seeks to punish the Palestinian people as a whole who are already victims of the ruthless Israeli military occupation."
Dr. Ashrawi speaks as if we owe those morons the money as he portrays his terrorist organization as 'victims' rather than 'victimizers.' When Hamassholes throw Molotov cocktails at IDF troops, they aren't going to stand by and do nothing.
That's what President Obama did.
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