The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for seeking statehood outside of a formal agreement with Israel, per U.S. law.
Breitbart (h/t Nita) This week and last week, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada all announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York City. President Trump has called that recognition a “reward for terror,” and has threatened to retaliate by punishing Canada in trade negotiations. Now, his administration is sanctioning the Palestinians as well.
It has been American policy for decades, enshrined in the Middle East Peace Commitments Act and other laws, that Palestinians must honor agreements to negotiate with Israel, and not pursue unilateral actions.
However, the Palestinian Authority has repeatedly broken its agreements by trying to isolate Israel through international institutions, and by seeking unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood through those same institutions.
A State Department press release said:
The result of barring visas to Palestinian officials is that they will not be able to attend the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, where the declaration of statehood was expected.
The Trump administration has invoked these laws before to sanction the Palestinians. In 2018, the first Trump administration closed the PLO’s offices in Washington for taking Israel to the ICC at The Hague.
Heres a novel idea… Close down the UN building in Manhattan and move them over to Geneva and let the Swiss pay for their Offices as Switzerland always likes to be thought of as a neutral country.
The NYC Building can be turned into mega rich Apartments.
The USA can pay the exact same amount as The Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, Japan, China etc and then we can all be happy about equality…
Why is a country that does not exist and never has existed as an actual country has a Seat in the UN where actual countries are represented..
How much does those PA thugs pay for that Seat I wonder….
I used to live a block away from the UN and there were assholes filling the streets around it and protesting one stupid cause or another every other weekend.
with allies in the UN like these who needs enemy’s let us hope the U S is never beholden to these kind of friends , I say we put Trump in for a third term let them choke on that .
“with allies in the UN like these who needs enemy’s let us hope the U S is never beholden to these kind of friends , ”
What a typical American response.The UN doesn’t exist to be ALLIES to anyone. Quite the opposite. While the USA pays the most to sustain that abomination, it’s not supposed to be an allied by its own Charter. Your founding “father’s” (likely Jefferson, perhaps Washington) spoke of foreign entanglements. Trump sure fucked that up.
“I say we put Trump in for a third term let them choke on that ”
Your constitutional law doesn’t allow for it. While a forth term might have worked for FDR who served four terms, the same law no longer exists. Trump could literally be hung as a seditious traitor for trying such a thing…
I hate to confess this but we Canadians do follow American politics… along the genre of Maury Povich of Jerry Springer. It’s like getting a shitty repetative song stuck in your head.
It isn’t Trump who is looking for a third term. It’s some of his supporters who want it.
IMHO Trump technically is on his third term. He won 2020 and Biden usurped it. I also think Biden’s term was Obama’s third term via the backdoor. The world watches astonished.
Yes, I agree that Biden was Obama’s 3rd term. Whether Trump won or lost in 2020 is irrelevant. It gave him 4 years to plan his strategy for getting a lot more done than he would have in consecutive terms.
As a Canadian who would have voted Trump simply to keep the cackling word salad whore Kamala out of office, I would be having a Caveat Emptor buyers remorse moment right about now. YouTube is REPLETE with videos showing how American farmers are going into bankruptcy because ICE scared away their crop pickers. The Latino breaking his back bending over all day is NOT the “Tren de Aragua” gangbangers America needs to deport. Trump stabbed his rural base in the back. Moreover American tourism is dead. JFK, Dulles-Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Disney Land, Florida are all up shit creek without a paddle. Your tangerine toddler in the Whitehouse has alienated America from the rest of the world. Threatening Greenland, Panama and Canadian sovereignty doesn’t help American image. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico was over-the-top.
If “schadenfreude” had a ticker on the NYSE even DJT would traitoriously invest.
He doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself.
Youtube is not exactly a reliable source. Anyone can publish anything on it. Fact is, according to the Labor Department, tens of thousands of jobs that used to be filled by illegals, are now being filled by Americans and legal immigrants. Surely, you aren’t relying solely on the Trump-hating far left media for your information? There isn’t anything they won’t claim if they think it will hurt Trump.
Obviously, you don’t understand how very successful businessmen do business. Many years ago, Trump authored the book “The Art of the Deal” You should read it and then you’ll understand how he does business, even Presidential business. Look at all the successful trade deals and Investments in America that Trump has achieved with several different countries in just a month or two. With many more to come.
OMG! 🙄 With your NY savvy, media knowledge and advertising background of selling people shit they really don’t need I nominate you to replace Karoline Leavitt once she succumbs to her stressful job and quits.
Thank you!
I am well aware of the U N charter as I well remember Europe down on their knees begging the U.S to become their allies only to be backstabbed in trade and recognizing it’s contribution to save their ass by loyalty guts and bullets , say again who needs who to survive pick your allies carefully you will be berried among them … don’t need no schooling from no mouthy Canadian liberal on what’s constitutional south of your imaginary border . Trumps third term depends when we get tired of winning ! he will be there if we need him he is red blood America First to his death .
I would like to point out not all Canadians believe in this persons sense of superiority when it comes to politics. Canadians have nothing to feel superior about after electing the likes of Carney. Did you vote for him or are you from Toronto?
Speak for yourself!
It takes guts to say “NO” to Moslames no matter who does it.
Long live President Trump. He’s kinda screwing us (Indians) right now with a 25 percent tariff + penalties. 😄
The U.S. is the biggest market for Indian exporters. And that 25 is going to pinch very hard.
But hoping these are temporary issues and a long-term, mutually beneficial trade deal can happen later.
In the mean while, please continue sticking it to the Moslames. It’s worth watching their reaction that their fake Palestine cause has no takers.
Aallllahu Snackbar.
That’s how Trump makes deals. He’ll drop that number once India negotiated with him
Palestine should be established in Londonstan or Paristan
Have them arrested, the moment they debark the plane and set foot on U.S. soil, without a visa!
How’s ’bout we up that a notch. Ban EVERY pallyswine from our shores. Death penalty for any and all violators.
Alley-hoo-ackburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr