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America, the laughingstock

Canada Free Press: The United States has a credibility problem. Put plainly, aside from Israel, no one in the Middle East appears to take the Americans seriously.

Let’s start with the Palestinians.

In the wake of last month’s unity deal concluded between US-backed Fatah and Iran-backed Hamas, US President Donald Trump’s special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt announced, “Any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to nonviolence, recognize the State of Israel, accept previous agreements and obligations between the parties – including to disarm terrorists – and commit to peaceful negotiations.”

On Wednesday, the unity deal passed its first test of implementation.

Hamas permitted the US-funded, Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority to take charge of Gaza’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt. In exchange the PA is renewing its monthly payments to Hamas – underwritten by US taxpayers to the tune of nearly $500 million a year.

Greenblatt’s statement was stomped on by Fatah leaders. They have spent the better part of the past month attacking Britain for issuing the Balfour Declaration, which facilitated the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel a hundred years ago.

Clearly, the US’s “moderate” Fatah faction isn’t willing to recognize Israel. As for the terrorists from Hamas, they also spit in Greenblatt’s face.

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7 Comments on America, the laughingstock

  1. I like Canadians, but they desperately need supplemental Testosterone shots. Sum Ting Wong to devolve from hearty pioneers to Trudeau-voting apartment dwellers in just a few generations.

    Once all America’s more pressing problems are solved, let’s offer them Statehood.
    It’s the least we can do for all the maple syrup, and the “Northwest Passage” song.

    Then we declare the whole place a US National Park. The former “Canadians” can get great paying careers as US Park Rangers, or they can move to Florida’s scenic Gulf Coast and get to work on those accents.

  2. Don’t assume that because it says CANADA Free Press, that it’s a Lefty web-site. LOL. CFP is a right wing web-site, and has nothing to do with political correctness, the Lefty Canadian government, or it’s supporters.

    Many of their contributors (like Caroline Glick) are NOT even Canadian. (Glick’s an American born Israeli and her articles can usually be found at Front Page Magazine.)

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