It was just three months into his presidency when Donald Trump declared with confidence, “I want to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians. There is no reason there’s not peace between Israel and the Palestinians – none whatsoever.” There are, of course, all kinds of things standing in the way of peace, though the president didn’t appear to recognize them.
Jason Greenblatt is leaving as President Donald Trump’s envoy for brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, senior officials told NBC News on Thursday. I suspect these names aren’t too familiar to most Americans, so it’s worth taking a moment to unpack these borderline-comical personnel shifts.
MaddowBlog 'Middle East peace initiative' Given the decades long failure to reach a lasting peaceful set of compromises, the best realistic outcome may be what we see now, limited skirmishes and occasional flare ups...
MaddowBlog The Christian Zionists are in love with Israel!
MaddowBlog Wachel!!! The jobs report?
MaddowBlog Jarred smells trumps money. He has no business being there in the first place. No prior experience. No credentials Zero. Should not have a security clearance. He is playing Trump like a fiddler.
MaddowBlog Was there ever a realistic peace plan? I doubt it. I know how to get it started. And that would be for Israel to return all of the settlement land, with buildings, to the Palestinian people. Bibi would probably have a heart attack at the thought.
MaddowBlog The problem with Israel and the people who are calling themselves Palestinians is a case where neither side can see the line that separates the two of them. Palestine doesn’t really exist anymore it was replaced by Israel over 70 years ago. Palestinians need to get over it.
MaddowBlog Trump and Kushners plan is to run the Palestines off their land. Kushners family is buying settlements and stealing their land. He is not going to make peace but war. He thinks they will get tired of dying fighting for their land. I got news for people. ISREAL is stealing land!