Palestine’s UN envoy promised to make life “miserable” for the White House if it transfers the US Embassy to Jerusalem, following Donald Trump’s remarks suggesting an appeasement to Israel’s land claims in the West Bank.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, said in Washington on Friday that the move would represent a blatant defiance of Palestine’s rights over occupied Jerusalem. Palestinians would fire back, he said, according to Haaretz.
Mansour, a US-educated diplomat, stressed the possible transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem – partially occupied by the Israelis – would be regarded as a belligerent act towards Palestine. “If they do that, nobody should blame us for unleashing all of the weapons that we have in the UN to defend ourselves and we have a lot of weapons in the UN,” he said.
The Palestinian envoy asserted that he “can make their [the US] lives miserable every day with precipitating a veto on my admission as a member state,” however noting that appealing to the UN Security Council is an unlikely option due to Washington’s right to veto.
The modern dispute over Jerusalem dates back to the 1947 UN partition plan that stipulated the creation of two independent states for both Palestinians and Jews. Jerusalem, a symbolic city for Christians, Muslims, and Judaists, was to be given special international status. The plan turned turned into wishful thinking after Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War with Arab states, declaring all of the city a unified capital in 1980.
Previous White House administrations never favored recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but the shock results of the US elections have fanned speculations that things might change dramatically.
In the middle of his election campaign in September, Trump said Jerusalem has been “the eternal capital of the Jewish people for over 3,000 years,” promising to accept it “as the undivided capital of the state of Israel” if he is elected.
Later on Sunday, Trump told the New York Times he is determined to reach “the ultimate deal” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “and do it for humanity’s sake.” Nevertheless, his staff made it clear that opposing the Israelis’ settlements in the occupied West Bank is no longer a White House priority.
Speaking shortly after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, David Friedman, his Israel affairs adviser, told the Jerusalem Post “there is every intention” to keep the campaign promise and move the US Embassy to the city.
In the years to come, there “would be a stark departure from the long-time American stance that Israeli construction in areas captured in the 1967 Six-Day War makes it more difficult to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians,” Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s chief legal officer and a top executive at the Trump Organization, commented on Israel’s Army Radio.
Trump’s victory was welcomed by the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this week the President-elect “is a true friend of the state of Israel,” adding that “over the years, you’ve expressed your support consistently, and I deeply appreciate it.”
Some members of Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet claimed that a new, openly pro-Israel policy in Washington is only a matter of time. Naftali Bennett, Education Minister and head of the Bayit Yehudi party, asserted that the era of two-state solution is over.
“Trump’s victory,” he stated, “is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state… which would hurt our security and just cause. This is the position of the president-elect, as written in his platform, and it should be our policy, plain and simple.”
Critics of Trump’s presidency argue that he surrounded himself with advisers having strong pro-Israel leanings, which would inevitably bury hopes for the conflict to be solved.
Mansour, however, said he still believes there is a room for maneuver. “Many candidates gave the same election promise but didn’t implement it because what you do when you are campaigning is one thing but when you have to deal with the legal thing it is something else,” he said.
When (not “if”) the U.S. embassy is moved to Jerusalem, a reinforced platoon of Marines should be the minimum security detachment included.
Do you support the move?
What are you saying? You’re pro-Israel? If so, you’re on the wrong site, dude.
I’m on Yahweh’s side.
He’s on Israel’s side.
“For thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you (Jerusalem), for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.'” (Zechariah 2:8)
You serve a foreign king. You are a traitor to your country and your people, and one day you will face justice for your crimes.
Bible verses aside, Judas was one of Yahweh’s chosen also, wasn’t he?
“He’s on Israel’s side.”
Spoken like a TRUE ‘JUDEO CHRISTIAN’!!!
Idiot! You obviously know NOTHING of what the Bible REALLY says about the stinking jews! Probably sucking up every lie that 501(c)(3) pastor of yours spews.
God blessed the Israel of the HEBREWS, NOT THE jEWS!!! TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE ENTIRELY!
Most here already know the difference. Since you’re ignorance on this subject is apparent, try educating yourself on reality for a change…
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And try explaining THIS: HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY THE GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE?????????????????????????????????????????????????
“Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” Matt. 27:25 KJ.
That was the jEWS who made that statement, NOT THE HEBREWS! They are those who SET THEMSELVES AGAINST CHRIST!
These are the scum-of-the-Earth, filthy PARASITES you’re defending.
Seems I can’t post what I want to post on this string…
I’m getting this…………..”Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!”
And I sure don’t see it.
Probably a glitch in the Matrix. It will more than likely show up later.
Hal Apeeno,
Yeah, that happens when they don’t like what you are saying.
I was trying to give Radar some homework 🙂
I am persistent!
Who Is Esau-Edom?
by Charles Weisman
It’s a book, Radar.
It can be found in pdf or text for free, Radar.
Find and read it Radar.
I think you can take Hillary’s advise on that without second thoughts.
Tad misleading headline there.
From the article: “unleashing all of the weapons that we have in the UN to defend ourselves”
One would almost think that the headline was written by an iSraeli to give iSrael more victim status since the Palestinians “Attack” with weapons, the last part being created in your mind based on the headline.
They don’t have to know what you are thinking, they make you react with your thoughts in kneejerks without thinking. Or how did Podesta say it in a business as usual way. Create the framework of the discussion.
“Palestine will ‘unleash all weapons’ on US if Trump moves embassy to Jerusalem – UN envoy”
Uh oh. Looks like the Palestinians are going to be throwing rocks by the bucket full. Maybe they have some catapults they can use for the bigger rocks.
Ooh. I know. Slingshots! All they need is some rubber bands and a couple of sticks and…oh wait. They don’t have any rubber bands or sticks.
Just rocks.
lol. I’m just now listening to The Word From The Trenches on the archive player and JD just said the Palestinians aren’t allowed to own slingshots.
lol. There are no coincidences. Like minds thinking alike.
There will be no “David and Goliath” myths started here!” “Slingshots are outlawed. Rocks are contraband. Sticks will get you 20! “Are you sure you’ve handed over every fork and knife?” Rope is illegal, pottery is a dangerous weapon, sunscreen will kill ya, and mosquito dope is good for you, here, have some more! Well, I’m steppin’ out to burn one, what a hypocrite, huh!
Sorry, I don’t base my foreign policy opinions on a book of fairy tales. Jeruselum is disputed and divided. Making it the capital of Israehell is just another thumb in the eye to the original inhabitants. You know, the real “semites” who’ve lived there for hundreds and hundreds of years? It’s a travesty that a bunch of converted Jews from the Caucasus region of eastern Europe can use the freaking bible and the HoloHoax to scam gullible Scofield-Bible-believing Christians into supporting these parasites.