Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Capital -- Jerusalem?

Trump, in the middle of his own financial volcano ready to blow, decides to create one more explosive policy as if he does not have enough on his plate threatening his presidency.  Maybe it is why he decided to throw a nuclear bomb into the arena of Israeli, Palestinian and Middle East peace threatening to tear its fragile status asunder.  He says he will declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and ultimately (we know not when) he will move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as he campaign promised.  As one says in Yiddish: now that's huzpah (nerve)!

As a Jewish woman whose politics has been hewn out of the embers of the Holocaust that saw the near extinction of the Jews of Europe, my philosophy of humanitarian politics was born.  This latest political belch of Trump is, without a doubt, the most dangerous policy he could create besides dropping a bomb on North Korea, a distinct possibility too. Trump has an aversion to logic and no understanding of both international and national politics.  He understands zero history of the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter.   Even his own advisors do not want him to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel because they know how inflammatory it would be.

Declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel is Bannon's influence on Trump and plays into Trumpian tactics throughout his ugly life.  The goal is to create as much chaos as possible both here and around the world.  Trump declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel will get that accomplished. The Middle East will blow up and Jews will be killed in Israel and beyond. Innocents of every stripe will face death and that includes Palestinians as well whom we all should care about.  We are of one race -- homo sapiens -- the human race.  We should act like the human big brain beings that we are and that 200,000 years of an evolutionary miracle has been bestowed upon us.

Even if diplomacy between these warring Palestinian and Israeli tribes is difficult it is the only path outside of eternal war we have.  No one, whatever one's political bent, should want eternal war!

For your reading pleasure and to better understand how difficult the peace process between Palestinian and Jew has been I paste below a link to a chronology of the torturous attempts to create peace between Palestinian and Jew since the 1967 Arab/Israeli war.  We know hostilities go even further back than that spreading throughout the entire Middle East.  We all should know Trump is trying to  dismember, entirely, a fragile cessation of hostilities that has itself erupted into violence many times.  Trump's impolitic move will put the icing on a tinderbox cake ready to explode given the right conditions. Trump is such a condition.  

Trump is a malevolent and fatal cancer spreading throughout our nation influencing right wing extremist politics here, throughout western Europe and the world.  This stage 4 cancer needs to be electorally eliminated from our body politic before it, in fact, kills democracy and our entire nation with it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11103745

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