The appointment of an inexperienced 30 year old as the new US Middle East peace envoy speaks volumes about the Trump administration’s reckless approach to the peace process.
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Avi Berkowitz, an assistant to Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and Trump’s son-in-law, takes over from Jason Greenblatt, formerly Trump’s real estate lawyer, who quit Friday. Berkowitz graduated from Harvard Law School in 2016 and has no previous foreign policy experience.
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It’s not as if Kushner, considered one of the chief architects of the mysterious ‘deal of the century’, was any more qualified.
###The appointment of Avi Berkowitz, above, seems to be one of the most ludicrous moves this US administration has made towards the Middle East peace process.
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His background was in real estate, not foreign policy.
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Indeed, Palestinians have long complained that the US was never serious about solving the Middle East issue and giving them their promised state.
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The Trump administration, however, has been the most pro-Israeli to date. In fact, Kushner, Greenblatt, Berkowitz and the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman are all considered staunch Zionists.
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But the appointment of Berkowitz seems to be one of the most ludicrous moves this administration has made towards the so-called peace process. His main duties as White House administrative assistant were “logistics, like getting coffee and coordinating meetings”.
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Can leaders of stature with a wealth of experience and gravitas be expected to meet him? If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was alive today he would probably scoff at the appointment and refuse to meet him.
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This all, however, could be a moot point. The peace plan has yet to be revealed and is expected to be immensely biased in favour of the Israelis.
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Details of the plan have been kept secret largely because they will be met with absolute anger and rejection by the Palestinians.
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It’s unclear why the administration keeps holding back but what is evident from the two years under Trump is that the construction of illegal Jewish colonies on Palestinian land has skyrocketed.
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Trump also carried out the unprecedented move of relocating the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem, effectively recognising Israel’s illegal occupation of Jerusalem.
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A year later, the US recognised Israel’s occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
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All of these moves are calculated and meant to lay the groundwork for annexing more Palestinian land by Israel.
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What all of this points to is that the Middle East peace process has been reduced to a joke, and more of a sideshow to distract from Zionist ambitions to change the realities on the ground and ultimately annex all land it has occupied from the Arabs.
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