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David Singer: Trump Must Confirm Bush-Congress Commitments To Israel

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/11/david-singer-trump-must-confirm-bush.html

By Daphne Anson

 

Here is the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer.

He writes: 
 

Donald Trump’s stunning presidential victory coupled with the Republican Party retaining control of the Congress presents Trump with the opportunity to restore America’s tarnished reputation and integrity by affirming he will honour the commitments made to Israel by President Bush in his letter dated 14 April 2004  overwhelmingly endorsed by the then Congress by 502 votes to 12.

Those Bush-Congress commitments were seriously undermined by President Obama and his two Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry just one of many American disastrous policy failures in the Middle East during Obama’s term of office.

The Bush-Congress Commitments were crucial to:

* Israel’s unilateral, unconditional and complete disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and

* Israel’s agreement to resume negotiations with the Palestinian Authority as publicly declared by Israel’s then prime minister Ehud Olmert at the international conference called by President Bush in Annapolis in 2007.

 “In the course of the negotiations, we will use previous agreements as a point of departure. U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, the road map, and the letter of President Bush to the prime minister of Israel dated April 14, 2004.”

Israel has expressed concern that President Obama and current Secretary of State John Kerry might be planning to further undercut the following Bush Commitment at the United Nations or in the international arena during the period leading up to Trump and the new Congress being installed into power on 20 January 2017.

Israel has

“… the United States remains committed to my vision and to its implementation as described in the roadmap. The United States will do its utmost to prevent any attempt by anyone to impose any other plan”

Obama and Kerry have not leapt to defend Israel’s refusal to take part in an international conference currently being planned by France in December designed to depart from the clear negotiating guidelines laid down in the Bush Roadmap and Bush’s 2004 letter as subsequently clarified at the Annapolis Conference.

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