Posted on 05/13/2018 4:51:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
Preparations are underway for the grand opening of the new United States embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. While the President won’t be able to attend as he prepares for his summit with North Korea, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have arrived to do the honors along with a number of other delegates. But not everyone is quite so thrilled with this development, particularly in some parts of the European Union. They were preparing to put forward a resolution condemning the embassy move, delivering a statement which was explicitly designed to “embarrass and isolate the Trump administration” ahead of the ceremony.
That nasty little poison pill fell apart this weekend, however, when three member nations blocked the resolution. The objection was led by Hungary, which was quickly joined by Romania and the Czech Republic. (Axios)
Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania, in coordination with Israel, today blocked a joint EU statement criticizing the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Israeli officials and European diplomats told me.
Behind the scenes: The initiative to publish the statement was led by France and several other EU member states. Israeli officials say the goal was to present to the U.S. a common position against the move by all 28 member states, and to embarrass and isolate the Trump administration ahead of Monday’s ceremony.
It turns out that the driving force behind the original resolution was French President Emmanuel Macron. Nice ally, eh? And it was only a few weeks ago that he was over here getting all touchy-feely with Trump amid speculation that he was playing some sort of flattery game to advance his position with the United States. So it’s perhaps not all that surprising that the revolt would be led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who has been no fan of the socialist bent of the European Union and frequently acted as a thorn in the side of Brussels.
It’s also unsurprising that the Czechs and the Romanians would join in with Orban on this. Both countries are currently reviewing plans to possibly move their embassies to Jerusalem as well. That put a bit of a damper on the three points listed in the resolution, which were as follows:
Here’s one question for Macron and the rest of the EU leaders who were prepared to go along with this insult. Why is it anyone’s business where the U.S. Embassy to Isreal is located except for the United States and Israel? The embassy can be wherever both countries mutually decide it should be. And trying to tell us where to locate our embassy looks rather embarrassing for Brussels when they can’t even enforce such an order on their own member nations. Perhpas minding your own business would be the better course of action here.
The second point is in conflict with the first point. LOL
>>The final status of Jerusalem should be negotiated and only determined through negotiations between the parties.-—<<
Nonsense. What parties?
Maybe we should move our French embassy to Berlin.
Since when has the winner of an armed conflict EVER unilaterally dictated terms to the loser?
Oh...
>>Aside from Macron, who were the other leaders who were prepared to “humiliate” our president?<<
I have a newsflash for those so-called leaders. Their attempt to humiliate the President would have failed because they don’t have the ability to humiliate him.
>>You have been negotiating for 70 years and nothing to show for it. Trump doesn’t waste his time negotiating, he is a doer something bureaucrats try everyday to avoid. Trying a line from the last guy, “I have a pen and a phone.” See how that works for you stupid.<<
Well done and truly said, Kozy!
Yep. And very few Muslims,
Unlike the other EU countries.
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Those three countries, as a group, lost a lot of their people to the Holocaust. After the war many of their remaining Jewish citizens emmigrated to the fledgling state of Israel, much the chagrin of the British who tried their best to prevent it. England put up a blockade to stop all arms and immigration to Israel. If not for the aforementioned three countries, particularly the Czech Republic, defying the blockade and smuggling arms and people into Israel, the little country would have almost certainly lost the 1949 war, and Israel would not exist today.
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with big trees?
A: So the German army can march in the shade.
The ‘65 changes favored the third world for sure, but Europe’s generous welfare also plays a role, not to mention the fact that most Western Euro’s don’t even reproduce nowadays.
The EU did this to themselves. They let too many muzzies in and now they are afraid that if they vote with the US, the muzzies will destroy the EU. Too freaking bad.
>>Gen. George S. Patton, not one to mince words ( kind of like our own Pres. Donald Trump), stated he’d rather face five regiments of Germans in front of him, than to have one regiment of French behind him!<<
Yes, I love that Patton quote but I haven’t seen it cited in quite a few years. Thanks for posting it.
I don’t think there is much of an argument on whether Macron received a kickback on the Iran “deal.” I think the argument is how much.
>> Ted Kennedy’s immigration law made it almost impossible for Europeans to be admitted.<<
That is one of the Left’s best kept secrets. And the flip side of that ignorant man’s immigration law is that millions of welfare types and immigrants from places referred to by President Trump as sh*tholes have flooded into our already disintegrating cities and made them even worse.
That seems a little bit severe. ...maybe just cut the visas in half.
Bfl
The Slavs are our true freinds
As per the koranimals' choice...
We have a long memory...
If we are going to cut their immigrants in half I have a chain saw to donate
it’s not deNAZIfication that’s needed, rather deCOMMUNIZATION.
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