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Could The Trump Presidency Prove To Be A Godsend For The Palestinian People?

By William Hanna, 27 December 2017. 
“Four score and
seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.”
President Abraham
Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address.
While
the idea of a U.S. president having the courage to defy the Jewish lobby and
promote the concept of justice and human rights for the Palestinian people may
initially appear as being preposterous, the possibility of it actually
unintentionally becoming a reality is not that far fetched considering Trump’s
“accomplishments” during his first year in office. He began his presidency by
immediately helping to establish a global consensus of opinion that he was an
illiterate, incompetent, insane, and inveterate liar with one mental health
professional at a Yale School of Medicine conference stating “we have an
ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump’s dangerous mental
illness.” (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/201704/shrinks-define-dangers-trump-presidency)
Setting
aside Trump’s apparent mental instability, there is also the question of
his propensity for racism as was confirmed by his travel ban “Protecting the
Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” — which despite its
implied concern for U.S. security — was in fact a blatant act of racial
discrimination against the Muslim-majority countries of Iraq, Syria, Iran,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Furthermore, subsequent to his becoming
President, Trump has surrounded himself with top advisers and cabinet officials
whose careers were checkered by accusations of racially biased conduct. (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-racism-examples_us_5991dcabe4b09071f69b9261)
Trump’s
manic predilection for conflict has had him escalating attacks not only against
immigrants, but also the media and the intelligence community with the most
significant escalation being in the so-called War on Terror — resulting in a
substantially increased U.S. commitment in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere — with
the probable consequence that the U.S. will be drawn deeper into some of the
world’s most intractable conflicts: conflicts that are mostly of its own
creation. (http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-secret-war-us-militarys-presence-middle-east-has-grown-33-percent-past-718089)
Another
potential conflict is now being posed by Trump’s itching desire to
“denuclearise” North Korea: a country which the U.S. has already subjected to
starvation, prevention from access to foreign finance and international trade,
strangulation of its economy with crippling economic sanctions, and the threat
of lethal missile systems and military bases
including a newly opened $11 billion base in South Korea.
  

U.S.
hegemony with its meddling in the affairs of other nations has been a
longstanding policy as is evident from the fact it is currently straddling the
world with some 800 military bases in over 70 countries and territories and in
more than a few of which on the basis of concocted intelligence — as was the
case with Iraq allegedly having weapons of mass destruction — it has waged
illegal wars and committed beyond belief depraved crimes against humanity. (http://www.mintpressnews.com/classified-evidence-us-soldiers-raped-boys-in-front-of-their-mothers/200160/)
Apart
from Trump’s threat of a pre-emptive strike against North Korea, his most
controversial provocation to date, however, has been the announcement of his
decision to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem thereby
recognising the latter as the capital of Israel and reversing seven decades of
U.S. policy. The status of Jerusalem — with its Muslim, Christian, and Jewish
holy sites — has been one of the biggest obstacles to reaching a peace
agreement between Israel and the Palestinian people whose land Israel has been
brutally and illegally expropriating with an arrogant impunity which the rest
of the world — either because of selfish indifference or the sheer terror of
being bullied with accusations of anti-Semitism — has unconscionably tolerated
without condemnation.  (https://dissidentvoice.org/2014/07/israels-modus-operandi-blackmail-bribery-and-bullying/)
Trump’s
outrageous Jerusalem decision — presaged by a pledge designed to win the Jewish
vote during his presidential campaign — has, however, served to finally focus
some long overdue global attention on the iniquity of the situation in
Palestine. Consequently an otherwise mostly somnolent Muslim world with regards
to the plight of Palestinians suddenly found its voice to denounce what it
viewed as a threat to Islamic holy sites; numerous and usually silent world
leaders expressed concern that the move could ignite new violence and bury any
hope for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and even a Jewish lobby-controlled
British government joined 13 other members of the UN Security Council to vote
in favour of a resolution — vetoed by a U.S. subservient to the Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — calling for Trump to rescind his declaration in a
move that showed the depth of global opposition to the move.  (http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/42-times-us-has-used-its-veto-power-against-un-resolutions-israel-942194703)
The UN
Security Council’s emphatic rejection of Trump’s declaration was then met by a
threat to the UN General Assembly by a fork-tongued Nikki Haley, the U.S.
ambassador to the international body forewarning that the U.S. “will be
taking names” of those who vote to condemn President Donald Trump’s unilateral
decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and pressure him to
rescind his declaration. Haley’s threat was subsequently reiterated by Trump in
one of his familiar raving loony rants.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_cEg5gVy0)
Notwithstanding
the menacing mobster nature of such threats, the UN General Assembly
uncharacteristically abandoned its usual spineless response to American-Israeli
high-handed bribery, blackmail, and bullying, and instead did “the right thing”
by delivering a humiliating blow to “American exceptionalism” and “God’s
chosen” by declaring Trump’s controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital “null and void.” (https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/12/21/un-vote-sinks-americas-world-role/)
Instead
of delivering on his promise to “Make America Great Again” Trump has so far
managed to do the exact opposite with many of his key policies being broadly
unpopular and causing America’s global standing to plummet. Significantly,
Israel and Russia — bearing in mind that the CIA, FBI, and NSA have jointly
stated with “high confidence” that the Russian
government conducted a sophisticated campaign to
influence 2016 presidential election — are the only countries where Trump’s
approval rating surpasses that of former President Obama. (https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/06/daily-chart-19)
Trump’s
current U.S. approval rating of around 30% reflects the fact that many
Americans — including quite a few of those who voted for him — are waking up to
the reality that theirs is dysfunctional, sick society governed by mostly
corrupt “Israel first” members of Congress who along with the present occupant
of the White House have seriously undermined U.S. influence on the world stage
and diminished global respect for a nation that still regards itself as a
superpower with formidable clout in foreign policy: a  foreign policy
which — particularly with regards to the Middle East — is to a greater extent
closely in step with, and determined by Israel through its congressional
stooges who are also responsible for overseeing implementation of the
ideologies of militarism, brutality, and racism that the U.S. shares with
Israel. (http://www.countercurrents.org/hanna200814.htm)
While
the current reality of America’s decline and Trump’s dangerous foreign policy
buffoonery may not directly or immediately advance the cause of the Palestinian
people, they could nonetheless serve to place U.S. foreign policy under greater
global scrutiny and condemnation; serve to focus the world’s attention on
Trump’s Jerusalem decision as being a step that transcends current global
acceptance of Israel’s illegal occupation; and serve to alert the American
people that it is time for their government stop spending hundreds of billions
of dollars on overseas military adventurism — including unconditional financial
and political support for the Apartheid state of Israel — and instead start
addressing some of the most pressing problems at home. (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48501.htm)
A
further decline in American power and influence coupled with rising resentment
amongst the American people could force the quislings on Capitol Hill to
realign their political priorities with the needs of  “We the People”
rather than those of the predacious “Chosen People.” In the event of that
happening, Israel might be obliged to curb its arrogant oppression and
displacement of the Palestinian people who despite Israeli claims to the
contrary, DO EXIST! But irrespective of what the future holds, the rest
of the world must in the meantime not underestimate Judaism’s determination to
achieve its longterm objective of building a “Third Temple” on the Old City’s
Temple Mount irrespective of the cost to everyone else: an objective which can
only culminate in disaster for the region, if not the entire world.
William Hanna is a freelance writer with
published books the Hiramic Brotherhood of the Third Temple, The Tragedy of
Palestine and its Children,
and Hiramic Brotherhood: Ezekiel’s Temple
Prophesy
which is also due to be published in Arabic, Chinese,
French,  Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Book
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