{"id":281523,"date":"2016-11-28T22:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=281523"},"modified":"2016-11-30T01:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:22:42","slug":"trump-allies-w-israels-justice-minister-advocated-exterminating-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/trump-allies-w-israels-justice-minister-advocated-exterminating-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Allies w. Israel’s Justice Minister Who Advocated Exterminating Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Many news-reports indicate that President-Elect Donald Trump\u2019s Israel policy is in accord with that of his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, who allegedly allies himself with Israel\u2019s Jewish Home Party, which favors Israel’s absorbing both the West Bank and the Gaza strip and imposing upon Palestinians the full rule by Israel\u2019s government, regardless whether they accept it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish Home Party was co-founded by Ayelet Shaked, Netanyahu\u2019s Press Secretary, and by Naftali Bennett. Both Bennett and Shaked were elected to Israel\u2019s Knesset or parliament in 2013. Bennett was Netanyahu\u2019s Minister of Economy until 2015, when Netanyahu appointed him Minister of Education. During 2006-2008 Bennett had been Netanyahu\u2019s Chief of Staff. On 14 May 2015, Shaked started her service, appointed by Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel\u2019s Minister of Justice, equivalent to America\u2019s Attorney General, serving now in a different and much higher capacity than before, her former boss, Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 1 July 2014, Shaked had approvingly posted to her facebook page a statement by Uri Elitzer, who had previously served as Netanyahu\u2019s Press Secretary. Shaked said, in her facebook post, that his statement had been \u201cwritten 12 years ago\u201d but is \u201crelevant today as it was then\u201d (i.e., back in 2002). Elitzer\u2019s statement urged extermination of all Palestinians.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically (as shown at that link) it urged “what America did in Afghanistan, including bombs of populated localities, including the creation of\u00a0refugees of hundreds of thousands of people who fled the fighting.\u201d It urged that this be done in order to respond to \u201cbombings\u201d by Palestinians, and that, “All the enemy fighters and bleeding in the head. It\u2019s also the mothers of the martyrs, that send them\u00a0to hell with flowers and kisses. They need to follow them, there\u2019s nothing in it. They need to go, and\u00a0the physical house in which they raised the snake. Other small snakes grow more. \u2026 \u00a0The two houses need to be bombed from the air, to destroy and to kill. And we have to explain that from\u00a0now on, every home of a martyr. There is nothing right and probably not even that useful [in continuing those Palestinians]. Each\u00a0bomber should have known he was taking with him both his parents and his home and neighbors. \u2026 \u00a0The list cannot be focused. That\u2019s war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: Treat Palestinians like the residents of Dresden were treated by Churchill in World War II, and like the residents of Hiroshima and Nagazaki were treated by Truman to end WW II. \u201cThat\u2019s war,\u201d according to Elitzer, as approved by Shaked, who now is Israel\u2019s Minister of Justice, and who also co-founded and co-leads the political Party that Trump (or at least his son -in-law) is alleged to favor. It\u2019s war against not just some cites such as Dresden and Nagasaki had been, but wherever there is a bombing in Israel by a Palestinian.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli press<\/span><\/a> as well as Western press such as Britain\u2019s Reuters<\/span><\/a>, are presenting the Jewish Home Party\u2019s view as being the view that\u2019s also supported by Trump: the press are alleging that under Trump there will be no more of the prior U.S. position favoring a \u2019two-state solution\u2019 \u2014 a Jewish state beside a Palestinian state \u2014 but instead a final solution of the Palestinian problem for the Jewish state: a Jewish taking-over of all or most of the Palestinian areas. As Jonathan Cook put it<\/span><\/a>, \u201cMr Trump\u2019s advisers on the Israel-Palestine conflict are closer to settler leader Naftali Bennett, the education minister, than Mr Netanyahu. After Mr Trump\u2019s victory, Mr Bennett crowed: \u2018The era of a Palestinian state is over.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there has been no Trump statement yet regarding whether the U.S. policy will be to support Israel\u2019s exterminating Palestinians if any of them \u201cbomb\u201d Israel \u2014 the position that at least formerly was praised by Israel\u2019s Minister of Justice, and, before her, by Netanyahu\u2019s Press Secretary Elitzer. Perhaps U.S. President Trump will not agree with Shaked\u2019s expressed view that Elitzer\u2019s statement is \u201crelevant today as it was then\u201d \u2014 nor even that it ever had been \u2018relevant\u2019, not even back in 2002. However, if not, then there might be considerable disappointment within Israel\u2019s government, and especially within the political Party that is alleged to reflect most closely the Trump viewpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n

One wonders whether any of the Trumps knows that Israel is an enemy nation<\/span><\/a>? It\u2019s perhaps not as much of an enemy to the U.S. as Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a> and some other \u2018U.S. allies\u2019, but nonetheless it\u2019s an enemy to the U.S.<\/span><\/a> This has nothing to do with anti-Semitism (nor with anti-Islamism); it\u2019s just a historical fact<\/span><\/a> about those particular nations. Are all of the Trumps ignorant of that history (history proving<\/span><\/a> that such \u2018allies\u2019 perpetrated major and very bloody attacks upon the U.S., which still are covered-up and have never been acknowledged \u2014 much less been retributed)? If Donald Trump informs himself about it (such as by exploring the links presented here), will he fundamentally alter U.S. international relations accordingly?<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency<\/span><\/a>, Trump surrounds himself with conservative Zionist Jews. If that\u2019s true, then it would be seem to be extremely unlikely that Trump will be open-minded to get beyond the myths that have been controlling U.S. foreign policies, especially about Israel. Or: can a person surround himself with such fantasists and yet also, somehow, expose himself to the ugly realities that contradict their fantasies? If not, then would it even be possible for Trump to become a good President?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Many news-reports indicate that President-Elect Donald Trump\u2019s Israel policy is in accord with that of his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, who allegedly allies himself with Israel\u2019s Jewish Home Party, which favors Israel’s absorbing both the West Bank and the Gaza strip and imposing upon Palestinians the full rule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":281524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[1036,96,1035,535,67,847,92,6257,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-281523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-cover-up","10":"tag-daily-news","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-palestinians","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-trump","16":"tag-usa-news","17":"tag-warfare","18":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}