Pompeo hammers final nail into coffin of Palestinian statehood, humanity

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is depressed. Palestinians aren’t buying his Mideast Peace Plan, ‘Vision For Peace’. Pompeo, just back from his Mideast visit, claims the Palestinian leaders are ungrateful. "If you look at the Vision for Peace we laid down, it clearly demarcated a brighter future for the Palestinian people, and yet the Palestinian leadership refused to even negotiate on its basis. That's unfortunate for the Palestinian people." Pompeo’s ‘brighter future’ for Palestinians includes end to a possible Palestinian state, inexorable Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land; indeed an endless future of statelessness, stolen resources and a struggle for survival against human rights abuses. If that’s what a ‘brighter future’ is, I’d hate to see the opposite.

When Trump and Pompeo’s Vision of Peace was announced, Palestinian leaders denounced it as the ‘Fraud of the Century’ to counter Pompeo's hyperbolic ‘Deal of the Century’. They refused to acquiesce in their bleak future in which they were excluded from the negotiations. Pompeo responded by withdrawing over $200 million in aid the desperately poor and dispossessed Palestinians require to survive. Pompeo is punishing the Palestinian leaders, claiming Palestinians overwhelmingly support the end of statehood dreams, tho the latest poll has Palestinian support for Pompeo’s plan at 6%.

Evangelical Pompeo, a church deacon who teaches Sunday School, sure has an odd way of showing his Christian concern for this fellow man. Then again, we learned all we need to know about his penchant to wreak havoc on the world stage from his 2005 quote during a church talk: “Politics is a never ending struggle….until the rapture”.

Come January 20, the American people will rapture Pompeo out of office.