By
Jonathan Cook
February 07, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
Maybe
something good will come out of the Trump
plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East
peace process to its logical conclusion,
Donald Trump has made crystal clear
something that was supposed to have been
obscured: that no US administration has ever
really seen peace as the objective of its
“peacemaking”.
The current White
House is no exception – it has just been far more
incompetent at concealing its joint strategy with
the Israelis. But that is what happens when a
glorified used-car salesman, Donald Trump, and his
sidekick son-in-law, the schoolboy-cum-businessman
Jared Kushner, try selling us the “deal of the
century”. Neither, it seems, has the political or
diplomatic guile normally associated with those who
rise to high office in Washington.
During an interview with
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week, Kushner dismally
failed to cloak the fact that his “peace” plan was
designed with one goal only: to screw the
Palestinians over.
The real aim is so
transparent that even Zakaria couldn’t stop himself
from pointing it out. In CNN’s words, he noted that
“no Arab country currently satisfies the
requirements Palestinians are being expected to meet
in the next four years – including ensuring freedom
of press, free and fair elections, respect for human
rights for its citizens, and an independent
judiciary.”
