‘The era of the Palestinian state is over’ — Israeli right celebrates Trump win

We will be keeping tabs here on the Israel/Palestine related news coming out of the staggering election results in the United States last night, with many updates to follow:

Rightwing Jewish leader Naftali Bennett, Israel’s education minister and head of the Jewish Home party, saw unequivocal meaning in the Trump victory:

Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country – a direct blow to our security and the justice of our cause.
This is the president-elect’s outlook as it appears in his platform, and that definitely should be our way. Salient, simple and clear. The era of the Palestinian state is over.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published big hopeful hugs statement:

“I congratulate Donald Trump on being elected the 45th President of the United States of America.

President-elect Trump is a true friend of the State of Israel, and I look forward to working with him to advance security, stability and peace in our region.

The ironclad bond between the United States and Israel is rooted in shared values, buttressed by shared interests and driven by a shared destiny.

I am confident that President-elect Trump and I will continue to strengthen the unique alliance between our two countries and bring it to ever greater heights.”

Yaacov Friedman, editor of the Jerusalem Post, reports:

Spoke to David Friedman, @realDonaldTrump’s Israel adviser. Says US-Israel relationship will completely change. Will be better than ever.

Friedman said that @realDonaldTrump plans to keep promise to move US embassy to #Jerusalem. Hostility b/w DC-Jerusalem will also end.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat also said he is confident this means that the U.S. will move its embassy to Jerusalem.

Yehuda Glick, a leader of the Jewish zealots who want to colonize one of the holy sites of Islam in Jerusalem, can’t wait for Trump to come to Jerusalem and have a vision:

Glick expressed hope that Trump would “ascend the Temple Mount and lead from the source of light and energy a dialogue of world reconciliation and peace.”

A Hebron settler leader says the era of bad feelings between the U.S. and Israel regarding the colonization of the West Bank is over. Yochai Damari:

I hope that this governmental turnover will also lead to a revolution in the attitude and practical actions of the United States toward the settlement movement in Judea and Samaria…

The difficult days of Obama are over for the settlement movement. If we work correctly, this could be the dawn of a new day for the settlements and for the entire State of Israel.

The view of opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog, as reported by New York Times’ Isabel Kershner:

Ofer Neiman provides a translation of Herzog’s statement:

Warm greetings to the president of the biggest strongest superpower of the world, Donald J. Trump!

The American democracy has voted today to place at its helm an American leader, who has taught the commentators and the skeptics that we are in a new era of change and the replacement of old ruling elites!

You have done the unexpected against all odds, polls and studies and the prophets of the old era.

I am convinced that the security and economic alliance with our strong and important ally will continue and be strengthened under your presidency.

Good luck to you, Donald J. Trump.

Ali Abunimah observes at Electronic Intifada that Clinton would have been an “anti-Palestinian extremist” as president, and panderer to her donors, and while no one is sure what Trump will do,

The Israeli counterparts of these vile American racists are celebrating Trump’s victory today.

Jewish Insider quotes several pro-Israel voices saying that President Obama will now do nothing to advance the so-called peace process at the United Nations. For instance centrist-setttler Zionist Yossi Klein Halevi:

“If Obama does go to the UN, it will be a fit of pique that will have no positive consequences. It would be Obama throwing a temper tantrum. If I were Obama waking up to the news today, the last thing on my mind would be the Palestinian issue. Obama is looking at the ruin of Obamacare, at a very shaky Iran deal, and some other of his key initiatives. If he goes to the UN, he will just be compounding his failure on the peace process.”

As for the Iran deal, which Trump has promised to rip up, the conventional wisdom is already forming that Trump will not be able to undo the deal, in its many international dimensions anyway. Aaron David Miller at Jewish Insider:

[A] Trump Administration will adopt a kind of if ‘it ain’t broke don’t try to fix it’ mentality to any relationship that isn’t in need of immediate attention. Relations post Obama are likely to improve as Trump’s hostility to the Iran nuclear deal increases and any pressure on Israel with respect to the Palestinian issue diminishes, Expect Netanyahu to come to the White House before Passover.

Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace issued a statement of solidarity with those who feel threatened by Trump.

Peter Beinart offered a related message at Haaretz, he doesn’t trust America:

As an American, a white one, I’ve always felt safe. I’ve always assumed my country would be stable… I’m not leaving America. It’s my country. I have to fight – every American Jew has to fight – to protect the American Muslims who right now must be terrified beyond belief… I still love America to my core. But I don’t trust it in the same way.

More to come.

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I guess all Clinton’s pandering to the pro-Israel lobby didn’t help her.

As horrible as she is, I’m sorry she lost, because of all the other issues, like climate change and health-care.

I don’t think Trump is capable of being more than a mouth-piece, but after all, in one of the debates, he presented a slightly more accurate idea of who was fighting who in Syria. Someone must have fed him that, because it’s clear he doesn’t know what he’s talking about in general.

While the Israeli right-wing may have an affinity for Trump just as the KKK, who knows what direction he’ll go?

In fact, I blame the Israeli lobby a good measure for the Democrat’s downfall. I think Obama has always been seen by them as not pro-Israel enough, and because the lobby has such a lock on the party insiders, they didn’t get behind him, or let him campaign for them in 2014. The consequence was they lost both houses, and Obama faced yet more obstructionism.

The distance between bibi’s government and the israel majority it represents and liberal Zionist American jews who voted with the minorities against trump will only increase as a result of the “hug”.

“Trump’s victory is a tremendous opportunity for Israel to immediately announce its intention to renege on the idea of establishing Palestine in the heart of the country – a direct blow to our security and the justice of our cause. This is the president-elect’s outlook as it appears in his platform, and that definitely should be our way. Salient, simple and clear. The era of the Palestinian state is over”

These crackpot Zionist settlers have been clapping and dancing their way towards a single Apartheid state for years now and with the Yahoo beholden to them will in the very near future realise their from The Med to the Jordan Biblical Paradise – yes those pesky smelly untermensch Palestinians will continue to be a nuisance but they will come up with some sort of Final Solution in due course etc. Not sure about the”Palestine in the heart of the country ” reference – perhaps they plan to build an artificial offshore island , round them all up into temporary ghettos and progressively ship them all there in cattle boats . That would be a revolutionary approach and hey they may even get Congressional support for several billion dollars more a year to finance it. And who knows what next ? Conquering and settling Biblical Mesopatamia perhaps ? All the while sticking up their middle finger to the world. The sky is the limit when you are batshit crazy.

It will be good to move past thinly gilded veil of a 2SS. Even with Trump’s victory, the majority of Americans will not support Israeli style apartheid. Hilary would have supported that mirage.

Doesn’t mean Trump won’t be any better – but it’ll advance the debate forward; Obama did his job on that basis (creating distance so that the debate can be possible) despite being ham-stringed in so many ways.

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