John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Jared Kushner's Palestine 'Peace' Plan Is the Lie of the Century”
Hanan Ashrawi's comment about the “peace plan” has it right.
In summary form, she said: Lift the siege, quit stealing our resources, allow Palestinians freedom of movement and control of their borders and airspace and waters, and then watch them build a vibrant, prosperous economy as a free people.
And never to be forgotten are Kushner's earlier words about Palestinians not being ready to govern themselves.
He displayed a totally colonial attitude, resembling something from the heyday of 19th century imperialism. Arrogant and patronizing.
But, in a sense, Kushner’s ugly words were fitting, too, because, in so many ways, Israel is a colony of the United States, a very special one with extraordinary privileges, but still a colony.
Floated by huge subsidies to serve as America's pied-a-terre in the Middle East.
And the locals are not really welcome, except when serving as low-cost household help.
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Response to a comment about how creepy Kushner looks:
Jared Kushner is indeed a rather creepy type, cold, generally unsmiling.
And definitely effete-looking. Almost elfin in some photos.
But what other kind of person could be married to Ivanka?
She's a character right out of Dostoevsky, a madwoman who has no sense of her own madness, and she just keeps imposing it on others as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
A woman with the abilities and attitudes of a small store clerk who believes she should be listened to by some of the world's leading intellectual and political figures and frequently butts-in on their deliberations just to tell them so.
And someone who looks in a mirror every few minutes because there is no one else she so admires.
That last being a quality very much shared with her disturbed and disturbing father.
