Trump couldn’t wait until Netanyahu joined him in Washington on Monday, and his calculated move right before the election could cause Israel serious damage

ed note–as we like to say here often, BY ALL MEANS, all the experts out there now ‘losing themselves in the moment’ over Trump’s tweet this afternoon, PAY NO MIND WHATSOEVER to glaringly important pieces such as this.

Now, for those who do maintain an open mind and flexible perspective on the more often than not complicated and even convoluted nature of politics where Judea, Inc plays a very heavy hand, please note the following on the part of our unesteemed Hebraic author–

1. That NO ONE who pays an ounce of attention to the maneuvers which Trump has made with regards to Israel even before taking office should have been in the least bit surprised that he made this decision, which, at this moment, was nothing more than a tweet. No Executive Order, not him sending an official request to Congress to write up the necessary legislation that would change official US policy on the issue of the Golan for the last 50 years, just a tweet that had the desired effect–Jews all over the world and especially in the Levantine Lunatic asylum singing Trump’s praises as the ‘greatest friend’ that Israel has ever had.

…And all of this taking place right before–

1. A VERY beleaguered Netanyahu comes to DC for the AIPAC conference, at which time he is also supposed to meet with Trump, 

and–

2. Just a few weeks prior to Trump unveiling his ‘Ultimate Peace Deal’ which the right-wingers in Israel (who not so coincidentally are the ones now reacting with orgasmic fervor over Trump’s tweet) are going to be the toughest to bring on board.

Now, from our unesteemed Hebraic author–

‘There is near-complete consensus among Israelis on both the left and right today that under no circumstances should Israel relinquish its control over the strategic Golan Heights, and certainly not following eight years of war within Syria, during which Iran and Hezbollah have entrenched their presence on Israel’s northern border.’

Which means that Trump has just won for himself the favor of both the lefties and righties in Israel just prior to his upcoming peace deal and all it took was a simple tweet.

Nexto–

‘Trump’s gesture is empty — just as his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was. It won’t change the status of the Golan Heights with regards to international law, and with the exception of a few client-states in Latin America, no other country is going to follow suit.’

Again, a simple tweet that has sent millions of Jews (and who knows how many ‘experts’ out there) into fits of hot and heavy emotionalism and all it took was a Twitter account to do it.

Nexto–

‘On the reverse side, Trump’s statement is also likely to cause Israel diplomatic damage by focusing international attention on the Golan Heights, when there was absolutely no pressure on Israel to end its 51-year presence there anyway. Trump’s tweet does not obligate the next president, and a reversal by a future U.S. administration would do more damage to Israel than the good that would come from Trump’s recognition.’

Imagine, after a very heated meeting in the Oval Office where Trump makes clear his intention to move forward with his UPD and dangling over Netanyahu’s head the possibility that he will be forced by circumstances ‘beyond his control’ to announce that he has had a change of heart over the GH if Netanyahu does not give him his personal assurance of cooperation and then Netanyahu coming home to an already ‘animated’ election season where his enemies will be able to make the claim that Trump’s decision to reconsider his original statement was/is all Netanyahu’s fault.

In other words, many, many more layers to all of this than the made-to-order/stock answer which far too many experts offer for all questions these days related to Trump that he is ‘owned by the Jews’.

But, as we like to say here from time to time, by all means, all yuuz experts out there, pay absolutely no mind to glaringly important pieces such as this in getting a better understanding as to what it may all mean. 

Haaretz

Since no one is even trying to pretend any longer that Donald Trump isn’t intervening in Israel’s election on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s behalf, the only question left to ask following the U.S. president’s announcement that “it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights” concerns the timing.

Why now? Since Netanyahu is flying to Washington next week anyway, surely it would have made more sense for Trump to make the announcement standing by his side in the White House.

You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to speculate that the timing is no coincidence. For a possible reason as to why Trump didn’t wait for Netanyahu to arrive in Washington before lobbing this diplomatic bombshell, check out Netanyahu’s pale and worried features at the press conference on Wednesday when he stated that Iran has obtained embarrassing material from Benny Gantz’s phone.

Netanyahu is petrified that the new revelations on his trading in shares in his cousin’s company, which netted him $4.3 million and may have a connection with the company’s dealings with the German shipyard from which Israel purchases its submarines, could dominate the last stage of the election campaign.

That’s why he so blatantly abused his position as the minister in charge of Israel’s intelligence services to claim he knew what Iran had on Gantz. He desperately needs to grab back the news agenda.

But the Gantz phone-hacking story, which leaked to the media last Thursday evening, has proved a damp squib. There is no credible evidence, except for the word of a panicking prime minister, that whoever hacked his phone, even assuming it was the Iranians, has anything to blackmail Gantz with.

So the next best thing is to get a friend with 59 million followers on Twitter to create a distraction. Conveniently, this happened just before the agenda-setting prime-time news shows on Israeli television.

And how useful that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is currently in Israel anyway and has just visited the Western Wall, accompanied by Netanyahu — another diplomatic first as previously, senior U.S. officials, including Trump during his visit in May 2017, refrained from doing so together with Israeli politicians to avoid the impression that they were prejudging the final status of East Jerusalem.

A recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights is also the perfect political gesture as far as Netanyahu is concerned. The Golan isn’t the West Bank, and certainly not Gaza. There is near-complete consensus among Israelis today on both the left and the right that under no circumstances should Israel relinquish its control over the strategic Golan Heights. Certainly not following eight years of war within Syria, during which Iran and Hezbollah have entrenched their presence on Israel’s northern border. Netanyahu’s political rivals have absolutely no choice but to praise Trump for helping the Likud campaign; anything else would be unpatriotic.

They can’t even point out the basic fact that Trump’s gesture is empty — just as his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was. It won’t change the status of the Golan Heights in international law, and with the exception of a few client-states in Latin America, no other country is going to follow suit.

On the reverse side, Trump’s statement is also likely to cause Israel diplomatic damage by focusing international attention on the Golan Heights, when there was absolutely no pressure on Israel to end its 51-year presence there anyway. Trump’s tweet does not obligate the next president, and a reversal by a future U.S. administration would do more damage to Israel than the good that would come from Trump’s recognition.

But none of that matters when all Netanyahu is fighting for is his political survival and possibly his very freedom, and he will use every possible advantage he can muster.

In 1981, Israel passed the Golan Law, unilaterally extending its sovereignty over the Golan Heights. A furious President Ronald Reagan responded by suspending the strategic alliance memorandum that had just been signed between the United States and Israel. The no less furious Prime Minister Menachem Begin hit back, shouting at U.S. Ambassador Sam Lewis: “Are we a vassal state? Are we a banana republic? Are we 14-year-old boys who have to have our knuckles slapped if we misbehave?”

In 2019, the United States is treating Israel as a vassal state and a banana republic by flagrantly interfering in its election. This time, though, the Israeli prime minister won’t be complaining.