The second event this week is the U.S, State Dept.’s extremely frank and harsh opposition to Abbas’ ploy to join the ICC.
State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday:
The United States does not believe that the state of Palestine qualifies as a sovereign state and does not recognize it as such and does not believe that it is eligible to accede to the Rome Statute.
But why does the US not oppose the Palestinian Authority being as member of UNESCO, a reporter asked?
Psaki explained, “Well, you know our view on their desire to not only become a state, which we certainly support, but their interest or efforts to accede to UN organizations, which we feel, of course, is counterproductive to the stated goal of achieving peace in the region. In terms of the legal implications, I’d have to look at each case and talk to our lawyers about it.”
The United States is not a member of the ICC, but Psaki said, “I think that people are interested in the view of the United States on this issue.”
Don’t misunderstand Psaki. Sec. of State John Kerry is not all of a sudden on the same page with Israel. He is not only not on the same page, but he also is reading from a different book.
He has only one thing in mind: The Peace Process. Abbas’ joining the ICC would break his illusion that the process still is relevant.
Psaki explained it this way:
I think the Secretary will never give up on the prospect of looking for an opportunity for the parties to make the necessary decisions to return to negotiations and ultimately come to an agreement on a two-state solution. Obviously, that needs to be up to the parties. There’s no questions [sic] there’s tensions [sic] between them at this point in time, to put it mildly. But he remains engaged with the Israelis and we remain closely engaged with the Palestinians as well, and I expect that will continue through the course of the coming months.”
And now it’s Sen. Paul’s turn to put Abbas’ diplomatic suicide tank in reverse.
The potential Republican party nominee for president in the 2016 elections is popular among Americans who want to stop massive foreign aid to the entire world, much of which has used the money for terror instead of turning itself into a democracy safe for Washington.
Sen. Paul on Tuesday introduced for a second time a bill to halt aid to the Palestinian Authority, a move that would cause wholesale unemployment in the State Dept.’s Middle East section.
His bill has the politically interesting title of the “Defend Israel by Defunding Palestinian Foreign Aid Act of 2015” and would leave the Palestinian Authority dry of American taxpayers’ money unless it stops its ICC shtick.
His bill last year called for an end to aid until the Palestinian Authority would agrees to recognize Israel and sign a cease-fire, which is impossible so long as Hamas is around. This time, Paul thinks the bill will pass.
It “hardly seems to me a good idea to give American taxpayer money to a country or an entity that is now saying that an ally of ours—that their soldiers need to be investigated for war crimes,” Paul told Fox News.
The fourth event that will turn sentiment against Abbas is Wednesday’s radical Islamic murder of 12 people in Paris.
The Palestinian Authority has nothing to do with the professional and military-style attacks, but the murders left Fence traumatized to the point that one official called it “France’s 9/11.”
France, proud of its liberalism, has been in contortions over the Muslim demographic revolution in the country and a series of Islamic terrorist attacks, such as the murder of seven people by an Al Qaeda terrorist in
