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Blinken to meet with Abbas in Ramallah as US envisions PA’s return to Gaza after war
2023-11-05
That’s like choosing Al Qaeda instead of ISIS.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
will meet with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
in Ramallah in what will be the top American diplomat’s first trip to the West Bank since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war, a Paleostinian official tells The Times of Israel.

Earlier this week, Blinken told a congressional hearing, "At some point, what would make the most sense would be for an effective and revitalized Paleostinian Authority to have governance and ultimately security responsibility for Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
The comments marked the first time the Biden administration publicly declared its desire for the PA to return to the Gaza Strip, after privately raising the idea with regional partners amid the Israel-Hamas war.
The PA couldn’t hold Gaza in 2007, and they are losing the West Bank to Hamas now. The odds of them keeping Gaza if it were given to them after Israel is done with it hover down in the low single digits.
Ramallah, for its part, has asserted it has no interest in returning to Gaza unless it is part of a diplomatic initiative that unites the enclave with the West Bank and revamps the grinding of the peace processor with Israel, an idea that would be supported by the Biden administration but have little backing in the current Israeli government.

Related: Blinken tells Jordan king US committed to working toward establishing Palestinian state
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  ^In all fairness choosing between the likes of Al Qaeda and ISIS is the essence of Realpolitic.
Posted by: Secret Master   2023-11-05 15:35  

#4  Where in Ramallah?
Get two birds.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-05 12:02  

#3  IMO post-war Gaza should not exist.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-11-05 06:49  

#2  Blinken tells Jordan king US committed to working toward establishing Palestinian state

Could be either NYC or Washington D.C. We will keep you advised as progress develops.

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-05 02:55  

#1  Still siding with Hamas? you are either antisemites or idiots, and most probably both
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-05 02:37  

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