Team still considering whether to release the plan before Israel's election in March
ed note--please take a good look at the pic above. It is the emblem of the State of Israel showing the Menorah, and SPECIFICALLY that Menorah said within Judaic religious lore to have been lit after Judaic terrorists calling themselves the Maccabees initiated their own particular brand of 'conversion by the sword' jihad during the time of Greek presence in the Levant, first by mass-murdering fellow Jews who were friendly towards the Greeks and then by attempting to drive any and all Greek (western) influence out of the region.
The importance of the Jewish state in choosing the Maccabee-Menorah as its national symbol is important for several reasons--
1. Because the founders of the Jewish state (as well as those running its affairs today) considered their struggle over the last 100+ years of driving out 'the other' from the region and re-creating that theocracy destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD to be a re-creation of what they believe their terrorist Maccabee forefathers did in milleniae past.
This is important for several reasons, the first being that NO ONE should believe for a micro-moment that Israel is in any shape, manner or form a 'western style democracy' as it is billed as being. The very notion of a 'democratic' (Greco-Roman) Jewish state is anathema to the teachings and precepts of Judaism as specifically laid out within the pages of both the Torah and it's 'new and improved' version, the Talmud, to say nothing of Judaism's incessant war against Hellenism and Romanism since each made their presence known in the Middle East thousands of years ago. Israel playing the seductress by making noises about being a 'Western ally' in the Arab/Muslim Middle East is merely a ruse aimed at pandering to the West in order to garner (pilfer) more money, political support and parasitic access to the economic machinery of the West. Rest assured that as soon as the tic has had its fill however, the world (what remains of it) will see the tic climb off the back of the dead dog in search of a new host.
Now, glancing again at the image above, please note those two blue lines to the right and left of the Maccabee-Menorah. While they are said to represent olive leaves and Israel's 'yearning for peace', they also bear a striking resemblance to the 2 blue lines found in the Israeli flag--
--which represent the 2 rivers, Nile and Euphrates, which the Torah specifically outlines as the 'borders' of the Jewish state, to wit--
'On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi (river) of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates'—Genesis 15:18-21
'Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory shall extend from the Arabian desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea...'--Deuteronomy 11:24
...As well as many, many other 'prophecies' and 'commandments' indicating that the Jewish state was not/is not/never will be limited in intention to be merely some tiny sliver of real estate as it exists today, but rather a SPRAWLING landmass encompassing not only historic Palestine, but as well, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Northern Saudi Arabia, and part of Turkey.
And therefore, anyone, and ESPECIALLY a 'Greco Roman' leader such as DJT, POTUS pushing forth any 'peace deal' that aims to contain the boundaries of the Jewish state to anything less than those boundaries mandated by both the mind and mouth of 'Yahweh' as explicitly laid out within the pages of the Torah are, to put it in legal terms, 'null and void'.
This is one of the primary reasons--albeit never mentioned explicitly within the millions of words being used as Molotov cocktails in attempting to burn down the Trump White House--for the entire 'impeachment' process--Trump's insistence upon containing Israel within her present boundaries and forbidding her from gobbling up as much as a micro-hectare of any additional real estate and thus further embroiling the United States in more and more wars of Israel's making.
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The entire US peace team – Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook – are headed to Israel and expected to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, The Jerusalem Post has confirmed.
Axios first reported on Sunday that Kushner is expected to arrive in Israel to take part in the international holocaust forum and to meet Netanyahu and Gantz. Now, special representative for international negotiation Berkowitz and special representative for Iran Hook, who is also part of the peace team, are expected to join him as well.
It is not clear if there are any other meetings planned, as the three would arrive in Israel while dozens of foreign leaders are visiting the country. The team also expected to attend the economic forum in Davos on Tuesday, as the group discusses with world leaders the possible move.
The administration is seriously considering releasing the peace plan before Israel's election in March. The team is aware that a decision should be taken in the upcoming days to avoid rolling out the document too close to the elections in Israel.
The team also considers the Senate impeachment trial that is currently underway. It is hard to imagine a scenario in which the team reveals the plan before the trial is over.
It is the second time in the last couple of weeks that a representative of the peace team visit Israel. On January 7, Avi Berkowitz, assistant to US President Donald Trump and special representative for international negotiations, together with Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, met with Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence to discuss the Trump administration's peace plan. The two also met later with Gantz. The visit has marked Berkowitz's first trip to Israel since he formally succeeded Jason Greenblatt in November.
The US peace team originally planned to roll out the political part of the plan last summer but decided to wait until a new government in Israel was sworn in. Since then, Israel has been experiencing an unprecedented political deadlock, and now faces a third round of elections.
The peace team is, therefore, facing a decision between two difficult choices. The first is releasing the plan despite the political stalemate in Israel, which could hurt the prospects of its success. The second is to wait until Israel elections in March, which could result in a deadlock yet again. In that case, it might be too late to release the plan so close to the US presidential elections in November.
Prior to Kushner's arrival in Israel, he will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where US President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver a feature address on Tuesday.
On Monday the European Union's foreign ministers held a pre-scheduled meeting in Brussels where they discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the peace process, which has been frozen for the last six years. The EU is at odds with the US over a resolution to conflict, as it supports a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines. While the US has been clear that it seeks a different type of resolutions in its Deal of the Century.
