Daily Caller:
The Trump administration said Friday it will shut down the Palestinian Liberation Office (PLO) in Washington, D.C., unless the Palestinians get serious about peace talks with Israel.
The State Department has determined that the PLO has violated a law stating that the PLO cannot push for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Israelis. Violation of this law means that the State Department could force the PLO to close its mission, The Associated Press reports.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated in September that the Palestinians have called for the ICC to “open an investigation and to prosecute Israeli officials for their involvement in settlement activities and aggressions against our people.”
Why there’s a Palestinian Liberation Office in DC, to begin with it?
Send the PLO halfway home, then push em out of the back of an airplane. See how long they can tread water.
http://time.com/5030595/palestine-washington-plo-office/
FTA: “The United States allowed the PLO to open a mission in Washington in 1994, a move that required then-President Bill Clinton to waive a (1987) law that said the Palestinians couldn’t have an office. In 2011, under the Obama administration, the United States started letting the Palestinians fly their flag over the office, an upgrade to the status of their mission that the Palestinians hailed as historic.”
The 1987 law allowed for a presidential waiver, which must be renewed every 6 months. So again, Trump must act to allow them to stay; inaction on his part would oust them because Congress mandated it.
If you read further in that article (which, I know, Time), to keep the PLO office in place per the law the president has to explain why it should stay. So again, the law wants PLO out unless the president, every 6 months, explains why they should stay. And for the past 23 years the president has spent his time doing this.
Don’t talk about it, we all know what the PLO stands for.
Do it !
What they do is break laws, then expect people to let them get away with it because they are poor oppressed Palestinians. What a crock of crap that is.
Thank you, Left Coast Dan! So, Clinton took a dump, Bush smelt it and Obama sat on it. Trump needs to clean it up!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of sheetheads.
THERE IS NO PALESTINE
You mean the PHILISTINES? Yes, they have lived in and around that area for 1000s of years in mostly Jew-controlled lands. Are modern day arabs the descendants of the Philistines? Some would say no.
President Trump could make a condition of keeping an office is that the Palestinians have to change their focus from destroying Israel to going back to the 1947 UN mandate that created Israel that was put together with a view that the other lands would become the country of Palestine (or whatever). The hardliners and the surrounding Arab countries derailed that and attempted to destroy Israel right out of the blocks.
Anyway, the lands have been laid out, Israel will not allow a right of return (nor should they, why would you allow millions of people fed anti-Israeli propaganda for generations into your country) so go from there and start creating the conditions necessary to go to the UN and ask for recognition. That sure would be funny because for all of the UN’s sactimonious babble about a homeland I’ll bet most of them would piss their pants at the thought. Anyway, that’s what he ought to do.
They’ll just move into Barky’s basement with ValJar. Seeing as he gave them $220,000,000 on his last day in office, they can chip in for the rent.
Boot ’em!
For Duty and Humanity.
“Palestine” my ass.
You get better results when you hit the correct end the mule, something most all of our elite rulers seem incapable of understanding. It’s still a mule, but…
Palestinians developed and validated the tactic of terrorism, by discovering that most of our leaders are idiots who continuously reward bad behavior. Terrorist tactics were used before, but never with such huge success – no idiots like over-educated idiots, I guess.
Trumps courageous leadership is inspirational, I hope many follow his example – we need MANY MORE like him.
Boot’em.