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      Exactly Like Its Predecessors, Trump's Peace Plan Has Been Designed to Fail

      Exactly Like Its Predecessors, Trump's Peace Plan Has Been Designed to Fail

      The Palestinians may have refused this time to stumble into the trap set by the president and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, but they will find themselves the fall guys, whatever happens

      Jonathan Cook
      Jul 01, 2019

      Donald Trump's supposed "deal of the century," offering the Palestinians economic bribes in return for political submission, is the endgame of western peace-making, the real goal of which has been failure, not success.

      For decades, peace plans have made impossible demands of the Palestinians, forcing them to reject the terms on offer and thereby create a pretext for Israel to seize more of their homeland.

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      A Weakly Inflated Trial Balloon

      A Weakly Inflated Trial Balloon

      For President Trump the matter of Palestinian rights, has never been a priority or even a concern

      James Zogby
      Jan 22, 2019

      This week a well-known Israeli journalist revealed what he said were "new details about the Trump administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan." His report, he said, came from notes he had obtained from an American Jewish leader who had been part of a small group of community leaders briefed by a "senior Administration official" just two weeks earlier.

      Since I had heard about the briefing and anticipated the "expected leak," I began reading, preparing to be outraged. Instead I found my reaction to be somewhere between bored and amused by the content. At the same time, I was also alarmed, not so much by what was or wasn't in the "plan," but by what I suspected was the intent of the leak.

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      Flashback: Democrats' Arafat Complex

      Flashback: Democrats' Arafat Complex

      I've been looking at lists of 2020 prospects for Democratic hopefuls to unseat Donald Trump in 2020 and getting flashbacks to pre-internet antiquity when those same Tussaud Museum pieces wagged animatronically from cathode-ray tube TV sets with a relevance as presumed then as it is now: John Kerry, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and of course Hillary Clinton.

      Pierre Tristam
      Dec 22, 2018

      I've been looking at lists of 2020 prospects for Democratic hopefuls to unseat Donald Trump in 2020 and getting flashbacks to pre-internet antiquity when those same Tussaud Museum pieces wagged animatronically from cathode-ray tube TV sets with a relevance as presumed then as it is now: John Kerry, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren,Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and of course Hillary Clinton.

      The Democratic Party these days has a lot in common with Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader: it has a gift for self-destruction, even when handed victory. Clinton, Kerry and Biden all ran for president a combined five times between them, going back to 1988. It was a debacle every time.Thankfully that's not the complete list. There are almost three dozen names being thrown around, some of them very appealing, with more to come. But we keep hearing a lot about those six. They'd never make it to a nomination, and if they did they'd never win. Meanwhile they're cluttering up the field, making it more difficult for the next generation of Democrats-the less known, the better-to emerge. With self-centered saboteurs like that I'm not sure Donald Trump has much to worry about.

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