Trump has the remarkable ability to strip adversaries of their diplomatic pretenses

Melanie  Phillips:
Apparently insulted by repeated slights from Britain’s political class and populace, President Donald Trump has decided to cancel his proposed visit there.

Desperate to rescue the all-important post-Brexit US trade deal that might now be in jeopardy, Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to “clear the air” with the president at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week.

Good luck with that one. Mrs. May herself has contributed to the hysteria about Trump’s fitness for office by publicly condemning some of his tweets. Rather more to the point, however, her government voted at the UN to reject his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

That was astounding in two ways. First, Britain thus refused to defend America’s right to decide its own foreign policy against the UN’s wholly improper interference.

Second, Britain failed to stand up for Zionism and Judaism against the lie which underpins the century-old attempt to exterminate the national home of the Jewish people – that the Jews have no rights in Jerusalem at all because the “Palestinians” are the true inheritors of the city and the land.

The starkest proof that the “Palestinians” are driven by frenzied prejudice against Israel and the Jewish people was provided in the deranged rant last weekend by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel, he claimed, was a “colonialist project that had nothing to do with Judaism.”

The Land of Israel is, of course, absolutely central to Judaism, and the Jews are the only people for whom Israel was ever their national homeland. Far from the two-state solution which the West chooses to believe Abbas supports, he was saying the Jews aren’t entitled to be in Israel at all.

Obscenely, he claimed the Jews of Europe chose to remain in their home countries during the Holocaust rather than emigrate.

Having denied the Nazi genocide, he then lied about the 850,000 Jews who were driven out of Arab lands after 1948, claiming the Israelis forced them to leave for Israel.

Abbas thus outed himself as a virulent antisemite, unhinged conspiracy theorist and paranoid Holocaust denier.
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There is much more.

Palestinian supporters in teh UN should hide their faces in shame if they were not so shamelessly bigoted.  Those who opposed Trump's statement of the obvious are "bitterly clinging" to their own obliviousness.  Abbas and Hamas have put themselves in a bind as their beggar entity is running out of people willing to subsidize their terror operations.

Historically their claims are unsupportable.  Their claims are based almost solely on their religious and ethnic bigotry.  There ties to Iran have made them unlikely to get much support from the Arab states.  They are in serious trouble and Abbas's rant further exposes their irrational "leaders."

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