PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just how close the leader of the Israeli puppet state is to President Trump the new leader of the US military-industrial bloc.
The Israeli media is agog with the news that the Trump transition team, led by his son-in-law Jared Kushner, contacted Netanyahu on Sunday to invite him to the ceremony which will be held on January 20th.
The Israeli Prime Minister congratulated Trump after he defeated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the November 8th election, while Trump immediately let it be known that he intended to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem, thereby declaring his 100% support for establishing a ‘Greater Israel’.
The report of an invitation comes amid renewed tensions between the outgoing US President Obama and Israel over the UN Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories. The UN Security Council voted 14-0 last week to pass Resolution 2334, which demanded an immediate end to Israel’s ‘illegal’ settlement activities.
The US Obama team decided to abstain – but not to veto the resolution – allowing it to be adopted, but signalling their less than 100% enthusiasm for the measure. The Obama posture angered Netanyahu who accused President Barack Obama and Secretary of State, John Kerry, of being behind the ‘shameful’ act of stabbing Israel’s territorial aims in the back.
The vote has also had its consequences for the UK. It voted for the resolution and helped to draw it up, effectively trying to ride both the Obama and Trump horses at the same time.
The British ambassador was in fact summoned before the Israeli government and hauled over the coals over May’s decision to vote for the resolution, despite the fact that in the previous fortnight she had declared her undying and proud support for the Balfour Declaration at a Tory Friends of Israel rally in London.
May has now humbled herself in front of both Trump and Netanyahu by attacking Kerry’s post vote speech, in which he said that the current Israeli government was the most right wing in years.
In the speech on Thursday, Kerry defended the decision, saying Israel’s policies put the two-state solution ‘in serious jeopardy’. May now regrets that the UK played any part in drawing up the critical motion, and then voted for it. Her attack on Kerry is being seen as the would be ‘Iron Lady’ mark2 humbling herself in front of Trump, and his Israeli puppet.
Trump said on Saturday: ‘We have to protect Israel. Israel, to me, is very, very important.’ Commenting on Kerry’s remarks, he said: ‘I disagree with what he has done with Israel.’ The president-elect has already vowed to change course after he takes office.
‘We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the US, but not anymore,’ Trump said in a series of tweets. ‘Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!’
For PM May life is now to be a lot simpler. When asked to jump to Trump’s command she will now simply have to enquire just how high she has to jump, for the common good of the US ruling class and Israel. Over half a million Israelis live in more than 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem al-Quds.
Yesterday, Israeli settlers started to establish new illegal outposts on private Palestinian land in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus. Israeli settlers brought mobile homes to the Ras al-Ein area in the eastern suburbs of Azmut. The new outpost is located just a few hundred meters away from the illegal Elon Moreh settlement.
Trump’s inauguration and the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem is going to see a massive new settlement drive launched. It will be met head on by the Palestinian revolution, supported by the peoples of the Middle East. Workers in the UK must give every support to this revolution. It will lead directly to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and to Muslims, Christians and Jews living peacefully side by side.
