{"id":257038,"date":"2017-12-06T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257038"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:15:39","slug":"trump-keeps-his-promise-on-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/06\/trump-keeps-his-promise-on-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Keeps His Promise on Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Everybody\u2019s waiting on President Trump to show up at the microphones in the White House. He\u2019s gonna announce that the official position of the United States government is that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It\u2019s simply a recognition of what already is. The Israeli government is in Jerusalem and our embassy is in Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is the party town. If there is a party town in Israel, it\u2019s Tel Aviv, and our ambassador is there and our embassy is there.<\/p>\n

Whenever there are official government meetings in Israel, they have to travel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and stay in hotels, which are not as secure as the embassy. They\u2019re good, but they\u2019re not as secure. Now, something you may not know. Bill Clinton promised in his campaign to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He didn\u2019t do it. Barack Hussein O promised. George W. Bush promised. Donald Trump promised and Trump is actually going to keep the promise.<\/p>\n

\"\"For 20 years, every president has promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem as recognition that it\u2019s the capital. The reason this is a big deal — the short version of this — is that there are four quadrants in Jerusalem. There is the Arab sector, the Israeli sector… I mean, Jerusalem serves as a capital for a number of different peoples, and for the United States to come along and claim that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel is a major diplomatic step of recognition of the prominence of Israel, the Israeli government in Israel.<\/p>\n

There are many Arabs that live in Israel, many Arab citizens, and they live in Arab sectors of Jerusalem and in other parts of the country. I find when I tell them about what I learned after spending some time in Israel, that people are stunned at some of this basic fact because it\u2019s not commented on, certainly not reported. There\u2019s a large Arab population in Israel. The Israeli government provides all the services. The Israeli government provides the electricity, the power, the water, the air-conditioning in the heated areas, the warm areas, heat and so forth. It\u2019s quite an unusual arrangement.<\/p>\n

You would think that Israel is all Jewish and that every Arab in Israel hates Israel. But there are many Arabs inside Israel that like it, have no qualms. It\u2019s the Palestinians, the so-called Palestinians and Arabs outside of Israel that are really put off by this and angered by it. But Trump doing this… Our friends over at Conservative Review have a piece. “In Recognizing Jerusalem, Trump Shows America Is Leading Again.<\/a>” The point being that since Trump is actually going to do this — and this will involve moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel, which means our diplomats will have to travel back to Tel Aviv to party.<\/p>\n

Now they have to leave the party to go to Jerusalem to work. I\u2019m exaggerating a bit here. Jerusalem is where the Israeli government is, but our embassy\u2019s in Tel Aviv. So in recognizing the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, our embassy will move there and other nations in the world are following our lead now. Look, it\u2019s only common sense. But once again common sense has been overruled and trumped by diplomatic and Department of State concerns, and it actually is kind of a gutsy move.<\/p>\n

Even Il Papa, Pope Whatsisname… I\u2019m having a mental block. Pope… Not X. Pope Francis is opposed to this<\/a>. Pope Francis says, “No, you don\u2019t touch Jerusalem. Jerusalem\u2019s the capital of nowhere. Nobody gets to claim Jerusalem.” I got a couple of audio sound bites. Does the name Hanan Ashrawi ring a bell? She\u2019s the former girlfriend of Peter Jennings, the late Peter Jennings at ABC News. Peter Jennings used to be the ABC News foreign correspondent.<\/p>\n

He had the best-looking trench coat of a foreign correspondent I have ever seen. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been anybody that looked better in the official trench coat. You buy them at Burberry. You go to Burberry in London and there is a section of the store: Journalist Wear. So Peter Jennings, nobody looked better in one of these journalist trench coats. (interruption) They did. They named one the Peter Jennings model. You think I\u2019m making this up? I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when he was stationed over there, Peter was a ladies\u2019 man. He really was. Peter could have been James Bond if he wasn\u2019t such a big lib. But, anyway, one of his shall we say “female acquaintances,” Hanan Ashrawi, has been a spokeswoman for the PLO, for the Palestinian… Well, many different organizations. Right now, she is “committee member of the PLO executive committee.” Alisyn Camerota of CNN spoke with her today and said, “Palestinian leaders are calling for three days of rage. What does that look like?”<\/p>\n

\"\"ASHRAWI: This is the, uhhh — a popular movement. These are grassroots moves. We as Palestinian leadership are talking about taking more legal measures, more political measures. We are calling on the rest of the international community to recognize Palestine with its capital as Jerusalem. President Trump is not only encouraging violence; he is provoking violence. He is also provoking a religious war! He is provoking sectarianism. We are the voices of reason. We have tried to maintain a negotiated settlement. We have tried to, ehhh, legitimize peaceful revolutions to the conflict.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Are you kidding?<\/p>\n

ASHRAWI: And they want to go out and protest? It is a right to protest.<\/p>\n

RUSH: C\u2019mon, Hanan! You can\u2019t —<\/p>\n

ASHRAWI: They\u2019re not talking about violence or attacking anybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That went to the next page. I\u2019m sorry. I thought the transcript was over and she kept talking. Well, nothing unusual about that. But come on! What is this business, “We have tried to maintain a negotiated settlement; we are the voices of reason”? Every day is a day of rage for you guys, Hannan! Trump\u2019s not provoking anything here. What we have been doing for the last 50 years has been working how? Somebody tell me? (interruption) That\u2019s exactly right. Whatever we\u2019ve been doing the last 50 years hasn\u2019t been working, including not recognizing Jerusalem as the capital.<\/p>\n

We have been deferring to the Arafats and the Abbases and all of these people of the world. We\u2019ve been deferring In fact, back when Clinton was president, he was so desirous of being the president that finally presided over a legitimate Palestinian peace — which is not possible, folks, if words make it happen. Peace between the Israelis and Palestinians is simply not possible if it\u2019s negotiated. It\u2019s never been the case. It\u2019s not gonna be the case now. There\u2019s been never been a war won with words, except maybe a marriage here and there.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m talking about between states, nation states. No such thing. The negotiations happen after one side loses, and the winner tells the losers how it\u2019s gonna be, and the losers are forced to sign on to how it\u2019s gonna be. But other than that, words do not determine winners. So Clinton — desirous of becoming the president that oversaw legitimate Middle East peace — offered Yasser Arafat everything he had demanded, and Clinton was serious.<\/p>\n

\"\"This was not a negotiating technique. Bill Clinton was prepared to give the PLO everything it was asking for. What did Arafat do? He ran for the nearest falafel. He wanted no part of it, because peace is not what these people want. It would be like offering the Reverend Jackson everything he\u2019s demanding. He wouldn\u2019t take it. It\u2019d put him out of business. So negotiations aren\u2019t gonna work here. These people have been running around enraged every day. It\u2019s been 50 years of rage, and we\u2019ve been trying it the same way.<\/p>\n

Here comes the Trumpster, and he\u2019s putting a new way on this, trying a new way to see if we can\u2019t get closer to what people claim they really want, and that is Middle East peace. They went next at CNN and they asked Fareed Zakaria GPS — Fareed Zakaria Global Positioning Satellite. Last night on CNN, he spoke with Anderson Cooper. He said (paraphrased): Hey, Fareed, what do you think Trump acknowledging Jerusalem as the capital? What do you think that\u2019s really all about, using your expertise with global positioning satellites?<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: It makes no sense from a strategic point of view. I mean, if Jared Kushner is really trying to do the once-in-three-generation peace deal, why would he do this? I think what you\u2019re doing here is you\u2019re paying off or giving a favor or showing your loyalty to a group of people in the United States. What is the actual strategy here? What is the plan? How does this get us to peace? If somebody can explain to me how this move would get a peace deal, I would be willing to consider supporting it, but I don\u2019t even hear anyone making that argument.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. So you know what Fareed Zakaria GPS is really saying, “I think what you\u2019re doing here is you\u2019re paying off or giving a favor or, you know, showing your loyalty to a group of people in the U.S.” He\u2019s accusing people of paying off Jewish donors, supporters, and what have you, and Jared Kushner, who is Trump\u2019s son-in-law, is in that deal.<\/p>\n

But where Fareed gets it all wrong — you know, this is classic to me. “What is the actual strategy? What is the plan? How does this get us to peace?” Fareed, nothing in the last 50 years has gotten us any closer to peace! You know, in a real sense, this is one of the biggest wastes of time there\u2019s ever been, in terms of actually achieving a stated objective.<\/p>\n