Political Quotes

“Day by day we are learning more about the future Trump administration, and as the picture becomes clearer, usually the news is troubling. One of the most unsettling indications about the Trump administration and the Republican Party is the abandonment of a half century of bipartisan foreign policy regarding Israel and our commitment to a two- state solution. Israel has no greater friend in the world than the United States, but one of the ways to demonstrate friendship is to be clear when your friends are making mistakes. Settlement activity by Israel on the West Bank and the renewed destruction of Palestinian homes and confiscation of property are mistakes. The overwhelming majority of Israelis still favor a two-state solution, they just despair of it being possible. The steps the Netanyahu government is taking on that path make it more remote. Donald Trump and the Republican Party he dominated at the Republican Convention abandoned the two-state solution. For the first time in a half century, the bipartisan commitment to a two-state solution has been stripped from the Republican Party platform. This matters. Donald Trump has empowered two of the most extreme voices, who have emboldened and defended settlement activity and undercut the necessary two-state solution, to manage his policy advice on Israel. This should be disturbing for everyone concerned about Middle East peace. The world is a complicated and dangerous place.…”