Trump Administration Reiterates US Backing of Israel’s Illegal Gaza Blockade

Trump Administration Reiterates US Backing of Israel’s Illegal Gaza Blockade
foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/07/20/trump-administration-reiterates-us-backing-of-israels-illegal-gaza-blockade/

The US has long supported Israel's illegal Gaza blockade, a policy of collectively punishing the civilian population of Gaza for living under Hamas's rule.

By Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 20, 2018

Key members of the team chosen by US President Donald Trump to revive the effectively defunct “peace process” have written an op-ed in the Washington Post backing Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, special representative Jason Greenblatt, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman penned the column, published in the Post on July 19, which blames Hamas for “needlessly prolonging the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

The Trump team pointed out that 53 percent of the people residing in Gaza live below the poverty line, and 49 percent of Gazans are unemployed — consequences of the crippling illegal blockade Israel has imposed on Gaza since shortly after Hamas won legislative elections in 2006.

Without mentioning the blockade, the team argued that Hamas was solely to blame for its consequences, thus effectively endorsing Israel’s policy of collectively punishing the entire civilian population for living under Hamas’s rule.

The collective punishment of civilian populations is a violation of international law and amounts to a war crime.

The Trump team suggested that in order for Gazans’ suffering to come to an end — meaning for Israel’s illegal blockade to end — the Hamas government must either be replaced or acquiesce to Israel and the US’s demands within the framework of the US-led so-called “peace process”.

The US has long demanded that Hamas recognize the state of Israel, abide by the Oslo Accords and other agreements under the “peace process”, and renounce violence.

The US does not demand that Israel recognize the state of Palestine, cease its perpetual violations of the prior agreements as well as international law, or renounce violence, which it routinely resorts to in order to suppress the Palestinians struggling to gain their freedom.

The “peace process” has been sold to the public as a means to achieve peace, but in reality is the means by which Israel and the US have long blocked implementation of the two-state solution.

This solution is premised in international law and calls for Israel to fully withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories, envisioning a viable independent state of Palestine alongside Israel and a just solution for Palestinian refugees.

Israel has rejected the two-state solution since its inception, favoring persistent military occupation of the West Bank in order to facilitate its illegal colonization project.

Israel invaded and occupied the West Bank during the June 1967 war and has ever since been illegally building Jewish settlements there. US government officials have often rhetorically opposed the settlements, but in actual deed have supported their construction, despite the fact that they violate international law.

Israel’s expansion of Jewish settlements also violates the Oslo Accords — the same agreement consecutive US executive administrations have demanded that Hamas uphold.

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Whereas the two-state solution is premised in international law, the framework for the Oslo “peace process” is premised on a rejection of the applicability of international law toward a resolution. Instead, under this process, the Palestinians must negotiate with their occupier over how much of their own land they will be permitted to exercise some measure of sovereignty over.

This US insistence on rejecting international law was even more loudly pronounced when Trump declared in December 2017 that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel and that the US would move its embassy there.

Under international law, all of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are “occupied Palestinian territories”.

Most of the world has already recognized Palestine as a state, as has the United Nations organization since November 2012.

The UN Security Council, of which the US is a permanent member, has also forbidden member nations from establishing their embassies in Jerusalem due to Israel’s illegal measures to annex occupied East Jerusalem. Under international law, these measures are null and void, and the US embassy move, too, is a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 478 of 1980, the resolution that forbade member states from establishing Israel embassies in Jerusalem due to fact that Israel’s illegal annexation measures prejudice the rights of the Palestinians.

Trump’s declaration about Jerusalem effectively sealed the fate of the “peace process” as defunct. While he has assembled a team to try to restart the process, so far, it has gone nowhere, and there is little prospect of a revival given how Trump’s action undermined the perception of credibility his predecessor, Barack Obama, had striven hard to maintain with respect to the “peace process”.

While rhetorically expressing support for a Palestinian state, the Obama administration, too, backed Israel’s criminal policies with financial, military, and diplomatic support.

Prior to Obama, the Bush administration, too, lent US backing to Israel’s criminal policies against the Palestinians. After Hamas legitimately won elections in 2006, taking over control of the Palestinian legislature, the US conspired with Israel and Fatah, the party of the illegitimate president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government.

Abbas’s legal term as president expired in 2009, but he has remained in office, with US and Israeli approval, as a result of his largely successful coup against Hamas. The PA itself was established under the Oslo Accords essentially to serve as Israel’s collaborator in enforcing its occupation regime.

The result of the US-backed coup attempt in 2007 was a civil conflict in Gaza and the expulsion of Fatah by Hamas. Whereas the legitimately elected Hamas government remained as governing authority in Gaza, Abbas illegally replaced the Hamas Prime Minister, Ismael Haniyeh, with Salaam Fayyad.

After the failure of the US-backed coup to overthrow the Hamas government in Gaza, Israel responded by escalating its blockade policy, in place since the 1967 war, by closing land crossings and implementing a virtual siege of the Strip, strictly limiting the movement of goods and people into and out of the territory.

In November 2008, the US embassy in Tel Aviv cabled Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to explain how the goal of Israel’s blockade policy was “to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis” — which the Israeli government has defined as nothing short of outright starvation of the population.

Israel’s purpose, the cable reiterated, was “to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse”.

By blaming Hamas for the consequences of Israel’s illegal blockade, the Trump administration is communicating to the Israeli government that it has the full support of the US government for its collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza.

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What did he meant by this?

Don't be a nigger.

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Has Trump gone as far as forcing his daughter to make little (((kids))) to create an alibi for himself in order to deceive (((them))) ?

He's probably trying to take out the 911 truth

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Where's it at now, -213.88?

Anons will defend Trump.
A man who is married to a slav,
who married his daugther to a jew,
a man who is praised in israel,
a man under whom white unemployment stayed the same.

It's just so fucking based that trumpstein is leading the march for total jewish control

Why is the subtle pretence that Ivanka is only a jew through a personal decision to convert and not biology from her jewish mother still being perpetuated on Zig Forums?

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jew detected

Here's a novel idea, what if the mudshits are violent subhuman scum who deserve all the evil that befalls them?

Why is this conflict even relevant to us in the first place? Do the reasons extend beyond US dollars going to support Israel? What's with all this kvetching about (((international law)))? The kikes conquered palestine, the means through which this was accomplished may not have been fair (or just) but at the end of the day might is right.
The mudshits regularly target kike civvies, that they haven't all been exterminated/deported yet is if anything a display of incredible magnanimity by the kikes.

We have a right to an ethnostate in the land we've conquered, so do the kikes.

The kikes never conquered anything.
The land was given to them.

Imagine if Zig Forums had just one mod that wasn't jewish, how much cleaner the air here would be without the astroturfing kikes destroying each and every topic with their retardation…

The "Trump administration" can give all the moral support they want to Israel, so long as we're not sending troops and whatnot, who gives a fuck?

Proof? Our bank accounts are going to grow with the tax reform.

Trump is just luring Israel into his trap. 5D yugioh

Jews do not even have a right to breathe, kike. You are subhuman and we will not rest until every last trace of your genes have been wiped out.

If this was anyone else as president besides Trump, you'd be pretty angry.

Absolutely based

>(((Kushner))), (((Greenblatt))), and (((Friedman)))

Well he appointed/welcomed them all into his family

The real question is, if the U.S. shut the fuck up for once, how long would it take Russia, Syria, and Iran to destroy Isreal? Considering they could obtain more forces as they advance (the native palestinians), I'd say quite quickly.

Not really. So long as it doesn't impact anything here, I don't care. Words don't amount to much. When they start using our money and our people, that's another story.

It's just 148888D chess

This is how TRS and the "alt-right" think, that if they praise the jews killing muslism the jews in turn will allow them to have a country.
This tripe, this asinine notion of "nationalism for everybody! :D" needs to stop, yesterday. The jews don't give a single shit about you, none of them do, there is no fuck to give to or about any goy, anywhere.

So what you're saying is, Trump is defying the will of the ZOG empire by eliminating all of their fake enemy puppet states and islamic golems.
THAT'S FUCKING GREAT

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Because you've done a really bad job of demonstrating any proof - beyond vague assertions - of her mother being a kike.

Nobody posts this other than kampfy and redditors

She was world famous before you were even born you fucking retarded MAGApede spastic

Why all MAGApede spastics must die for the good of humanity part #234,995 of a series of 6,000,000

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