NATO member nations always would promise,
indeed swear, that they would meet their military spending commitments, even as
they had no intention at all of doing so. Fine, said the Americans, since World
War II it has been the duty of the United States to lead and protect the West.
American presidents would lecture NATO nations about their promised obligations
and meanwhile expect public nods and private snickers. In the New York and
Washington corridor, the gospel was never to question the changing role or
funding of NATO but always to utter “NATO is the linchpin of the West.” This is
no no longer the case.
The Palestinians always have to remain
“refugees” in a way that similar displaced people who were also forced out of
their homeland — Prussians, Jews of the Middle East, or Volga Germans — no
longer have refugee status, after more than 70 years. The USA has now accepted
reality and quit funding the United Nations relief organization that supposedly
attends to “refugees” who in reality are a political tool deemed useful for
demonizing Israel around the world. The UNWRA self defined status of a refugee is not acknowledged in any other international agency.
Jerusalem has long been privately accepted as
both the historic and natural capital of Israel, (whether it be all Jerusalem
or only a part), and it’s now far more open and freer than it was prior to
1967. But we were not supposed to say that given fears of Palestinian anger, or
terrorist attacks, or inflaming the Middle East. Trump in his supposedly
reckless fashion simply moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and other nations
strangely are beginning to follow.
Even the BDS campaigners are now publicly being acknowledged as campaigning for the destruction of Israel rather than the human rights of the Palestinians.
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