TRUMP WATCH: 4.13.19 - Stuck between a wall and hard heads

 

 Stuck between a wall and hard heads -

www.dailyjot.com

 

What is a leader supposed to do when detractors happen to be more interested in destroying you personally than doing what they were hired to do? Such is the case with the President. There is story after story about how the loyal "resistance," the coup-makers, are wanting Donald Trump's income tax returns and to continue a needless investigation into a phantom collusion scandal costing taxpayers millions. Meanwhile, the invasion of the United States at its southern border with Mexico continues because the coup-makers refuse to work with the President on securing America's borders. This is insurrection and seditious because it is putting all Americans at risk from crime, disease and more.

 

Neo-communist New York state legislators are slated to introduce a bill allowing the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return requested by leaders of the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Joint House-Senate Committee on Taxation. The New York Times reports that the bill's sponsor, State Senator Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), says it is "a safety valve for any attempt by the White House to block the Congress from doing this at the federal level." These people are more interested in obstructing government and personal vendettas than they are in doing what is best for the nation.

 

Meanwhile, the President is cleaning house in the Department of Homeland Security and Citizen and Immigration Services in an attempt to get stricter administrative control over border security. Yet, everything he does is frustrated by Democratic Party coup-makers in the courts and Congress. Trump has diminishing options to deal with the border crisis because of government insiders, court challenges, immigration laws, and Congressional democrats. For example, AP reports Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, "The purge of senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security is unprecedented and a threat to our national security." Feinstein is doing what most of the coup-makers do all the time: point out the obvious without admitting any responsibility for causing the problem.

 

The "resistance" blames Trump for a lack of leadership in enforcing border security, yet they use their positions to block building a wall and every other possible solution to the problem. Meantime, they focus their attention on Trump's personal taxes, promoting legislation that nationalizes elections, weakens voter identification laws, requires mandatory automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, no-fault absentee balloting and early voting, as well as forcing taxpayer subsidization of political campaigns, and regulating political speech-all designed to foment a socialist takeover of America. So the President is stuck between a wall and hard heads. Let us be mindful of Romans 12:21, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Either we engage or be overcome. Even though there is no wall, our backs are against it.

 

 

Of annexation and Trump's peace plan, what's next on the post-Israeli election agenda? - By Israel Kasnett -

https://www.jns.org/of-annexation-and-trumps-peace-plan-whats-next-on-the-post-israeli-election-agenda/

 

The questions now focus on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will follow through on his campaign pledge to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, as well as what his election win means for U.S. President Donald Trump's much-anticipated "deal of the century" to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Things move fast in the Middle East.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just declared victory for the fifth time, and now, as he gets busy building the next coalition for the 21st Knesset, much attention has shifted to the day after-based on what Netanyahu said the day before-in which he made the groundbreaking claim that he would move to begin annexing some of the disputed territories. The questions now focus on whether Netanyahu will follow through on his campaign pledge and what his election win means for U.S. President Donald Trump's much-anticipated "deal of the century" for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told JNS that a lot depends on domestic politics and what pressure the right-wing parties will place on Netanyahu.

 

He noted that Netanyahu said he may carry out such an annexation at a later stage and certainly did not mean immediately. "It all depends on what kind of freedom of action he has domestically, as well as in the international arena, and he will have to decide what areas are important in terms of security and in terms of Israeli consensus," said Inbar.

 

Ronni Shaked, senior correspondent and commentator on Palestinian Affairs for the Hebrew daily newspaper Yediot Achronot and a researcher at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute, seemed more concerned about the potential decision. He told JNS that "this will cause a lot of problems. The Palestinians will be very angry. For the Palestinian people living in the West Bank, not one will recognize it-no one in the world will recognize it."

 

Shaked also said he did not think that the United States would recognize an Israeli move to annex any part of the West Bank.

 

He said any effort by Netanyahu to annex parts of the territories would "risk the nation of Israel from a democratic Jewish point of view." He also warned of Israel losing its identity as a democracy-that it would be "marching towards becoming an apartheid state."

 

However, Inbar noted that "annexation of the West Bank or parts of the West Bank has been on the agenda of every Israeli government, including Labor-led governments because [they] want the settlement blocs as part of Israel."

 

So far, he observed, Netanyahu has been "very careful."

 

In terms of the Trump-administration peace plan, Inbar said Israel just doesn't know much yet.

 

"It will probably deviate from the Clinton parameters that everyone until now assumed would be the basis for a final settlement. It will move the goalposts," he said. "This is basically good for Israel. Any Israeli government will, of course, say yes, and any reservations it has will be registered. The Palestinians have already said no, and they will continue with their rejectionism."

 

Inbar added that "perhaps in another few months, the Americans will eventually realize that they cannot generate enough Arab pressure or even American pressure on the Palestinians" to convince them to accept a peace deal.

 

Inbar pointed to two main dynamics at play with regard to the above questions. The first is what will the American reaction be in response to Israel's annexation of any part of the territories? The second is who will replace Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, and what effect could this might have on future peacemaking prospects? These two dynamics will strongly shape future Israeli decisions on both annexation and peace.

 

"Time will tell. We will see," he concluded.

 

'It sends an important message'

 

Eugene Kontorovich, a scholar at Forum Kohelet and a professor at George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School, told JNS that "Netanyahu's promise to apply Israel civil law to Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria leaves out a lot of details-when, where and so forth. But it sends an important message."

 

He emphasized it was important to point out that "Netanyahu did not say 'annexation' because one cannot annex what already belongs to you. He speaks properly of more robustly applying Israeli sovereignty, which already exists."

 

Agreeing with Inbar that the Palestinians appear to uphold a policy of rejectionism, Kontorovich also noted that the Palestinians "are the only national independence movement to ever turn down an internationally backed offer of statehood in any part of the territory they claimed."

 

"Netanyahu's statements are a sign that Israel will not continue to hold the status of these communities in limbo for decades while the Palestinians say no," he said.

 

 

 

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