Pat DollardExcerpted from The Jerusalem Post: On the eve of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that will ultimately have to discuss security guarantees for Israel, US Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) told The Jerusalem Post that the deployment of US troops anywhere in the West Bank was very unlikely.
Hoyer, who led a delegation of 36 Democratic congressmen to Israel over the past week, said during an interview on Thursday that the issue was not raised in meetings the congressional group held either with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu or with PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat.
“I would doubt that the prime minister, the Palestinians or the United States are contemplating the deployment of US troops on the ground,” Hoyer said.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that a long-term Israeli security presence would be necessary in the Jordan Valley following a peace accord with the Palestinians.
The Palestinians have said this was a non-starter, but that they would be willing to entertain the notion of international troops, an idea Israel has rejected.
“The United States has clearly indicated it is prepared to play a significant role,” Hoyer said.
“But I don’t want to say at this juncture that I think that contemplates the deployment of US troops on the ground in the West Bank.”
The congressman said one of the major problems with deploying US troops would be that they themselves would become the targets of terrorist attacks.
This did not mean, Hoyer clarified, that the US would not be willing to play a role in the security issue, but that such a role was likely to stop well short of committing troops.
Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, left Israel on Sunday with the Democratic delegation, just as a large Republican delegation of 26 congressmen was arriving. The Republican group, which includes 25 of the 34 freshman Republican congressmen, will be lead by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia).
http://patdollard.com/2013/08/hoyer-unlikely-u-s-troops-will-be-deployed-to-west-bank/
If US troops get deployed there, they will have ‘Star of David’ targets on their backs, getting murdered by our so-called ally, Israel and then have that atrocity blamed on Palestinians.
AGREE WITH GREG.
ALLY ISRAEL.
There’s a special HOLE in the ground with FIRE we will put these pieces of shit into.
They call it’ one thing, we call it JUSTICE.