{"id":288657,"date":"2017-01-05T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-blessing-in-disguise\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:01:54","slug":"a-blessing-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-blessing-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blessing in Disguise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as President-elect Trump has appointed an extremist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/david-friedman-trump-controversial-pick-for-us-ambassador-to-israel-2016-12\">David Friedman<\/a>, as the next US Ambassador to Israel who intends to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/09\/israel-donald-trump-netanyahu-jerusalem\">relocate the US Embassy<\/a> from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and who supports the expansion of illegal colonies that have already sliced up the envisaged Palestinian state into South Africa-like Bantustans.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it must be odd, if not altogether provocative, to suggest that a Trump presidency could be the <em>coup de grace<\/em> that Palestinians and, in fact, the entire Middle East needs to liberate themselves from the weight of an overbearing, arrogant and futile American foreign policy that has extended for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Unmistakably, a Donald Trump presidency is clearly terrible for Palestinians in the short term. The man does not even attempt to show a degree of impartiality or an iota of balance as he approaches the Middle East\u2019s most protracted and delicate conflict.<\/p>\n<p>According to the seemingly infinite stream of his tweets, Trump is counting the days to when he can show Israeli leaders how pro-Israel his administration will be. Shortly after the United States abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 that condemned Israel\u2019s illegal settlements on December 23, the President-elect tweeted, &#8220;As to the U.N., things will be different after January 20th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump took to Twitter once&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/01\/a-blessing-in-disguise\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as President-elect Trump has appointed an extremist, David Friedman, as the next US Ambassador to Israel who intends to relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}