Blackmailing, pure and simple

Thank you Mr. Trump for your very special Christmas gift to the People of Palestine during this blessed season.  As much as you wished to deliver to your constituency your promise about Jerusalem, you have no right to do that in the first place.  There is something called international law Mr. Trump, and UN resolutions.  You cannot flout them and continue to  shield Israel for violating them as well.

Your country stood alone at the UN Security Vote refusing your announcement that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.   And today we heard you loud and clear and we heard the US  representative at the UN, Nikki Haley threatening the countries who will vote against the USA in today’s General Assembly.  This is blackmail Mr. Trump, pure and simple.  You are not giving us charity, neither is it your personal money.    The money you are giving to the Palestinian Authority as well as to Jordan  is money that you owe them for hindering the end of the occupation, and the implementation of UN resolutions regarding the Palestinian rights, mainly resolution 194 that gives them the right to return to Palestine.  Palestine should never have been partitioned, and once again it was this blackmail policy that the American administration used at the UN session on November 29, 1947 to force countries to vote for the partition of Palestine.  Let me remind you Mr. Trump that the American aid that goes to Israel is far more than any other country, and is unconditional without a word about Human rights, or International law.

Wake up Mr. Trump, and study the history properly and the history of oppressed people.  They will never give up, until justice prevails.  I seize the opportunity to remind you of the famous quotation by Martin Luther King Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”   It is only justice that will bring about peace Mr. Trump. The Palestinians  have already made a number of concessions, and accepted a relative justice.  But  by now it is a well known fact that the peace process was simply a process to help Israel implement new realities on the ground.  And to add insult to injury the Palestinians are  now being blamed for refusing to resume peace talks.  The US administration  Mr. Trump has never been  an honest peace broker, and your recent statement on Jerusalem simply confirmed this fact and put a lid on the so called peace process.    

As you celebrate Christmas, I hope you will be thinking of all those young people who have been killed,  injured or imprisoned as a result of your rash statement which you claim to benefit the peace process.  If this is the overture of your peace plan, may God have mercy on the whole region. 

Human vs. Natural Disaster

I am sure those of you who have been following my blog have been

wondering whether I was going to post something during this week .  I

actually hesitated for a long while about reacting  to the

irresponsible statement by the president of the USA regarding

Jerusalem.  Not only  was it irresponsible, the logic behind it that

it was going to promote peace seems a very lopsided logic.  Can  the

whole world be so stupid to buy such a statement?  Well the meeting

of the Security Council, the day after his statement, proved that they

are not.    Any way I could not help but make an analogy between the

natural disaster of fires along Southern California and the human

disaster that Mr. Trump has caused.  He put the  region on fire, just

as the flames did to that beautiful region of the USA.  The only

difference is that he deliberately chose the time and method to

inflict the disaster which was cruel and without any thought of the

repercussions,  whereas the people of Southern Californian  had no

choice.

On Jim Wall’s column Laurie Salameh writes that Mr. Trump has stolen

our  Christmas. For the Palestinians and for the people of Southern

California Christmas has certainly been stolen.  I can just see the

many families who have been displaced and who lost their homes during

the fires, which is a very familiar scene to us as Palestinians.

Every day the occupation forces leave some families out on the streets

after blowing up their homes.  Another daily human disaster.

No Mr. Trump you are not going to deprive us of our Christmas.  After

all Christ himself was born in Palestine and the Christmas tree which

was lit in Bethlehem, the city of his birth,  will be lit again.  But

we are concerned for  our young people who will be the victims of the

brutality of the Israeli army.  It is their  presence that provokes

those young men and women, who have every right to protest such a

grave injustice which you Mr. Trump have inflicted on a whole nation.