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Monday, January 29, 2018

Jerusalem


Trump's idea of how to negotiate a Middle East "peace" plan is P.O.P. -- Piss Off Palestine.  First, move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to disputed ground in Jerusalem.  Then reduce what little aid we send to the Palestinians and threaten to cut it off completely if they don't "come to the table" and do everything Bibi's way.  Good luck with that strategy, Mr. Stable Genius.

Our fake president might want to read a bit of history.  Jerusalem has been a bone of religious contention for about a thousand years.
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From "Jerusalem," part of the Trigger Warning collection, by Neil Gaiman

Tourist:  "I suppose you must be looking forward to them sorting all this out.  Er . . . the Palestinian situation.  The politics."

Guide:  "It doesn't matter to Jerusalem.  The people come.  The people believe.  Then they kill each other, to prove that God loves them."

Tourist:  "Well, how would you fix it?"

Guide:  "Sometimes I think it would be best if it were bombed -- bombed back to a radioactive desert.  Then who would want it?  But then I think, they would come here and collect radioactive dust that might contain atoms of the Dome of the Rock, or of the Temple, or a wall that Jesus leaned against on his way to the cross.  People would fight over who owns a poisonous desert, if that desert was Jerusalem."



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