Discussing Liberally Salt Lake City

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Traditionally, each month’s “Reference Materials” section includes, inter alia, book reviews from -

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post

Both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have shirked their duty.

HOWEVER, in addition to the New York Times review, there is included in this section a 5/1/2024 e-mail sent to Stuart Eizenstat with Cc’s to the other participants in our weekly Harvard Law School Class of 1967 Zoom Chat.

The reasons for including the e-mail are –

(1) I was respectfully suggesting that Stuart stop his constantly repeating THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE that the United Nations in 1947 stole Palestinian land and gave it to the Jews – rather than the truth that the U.N. simply tabulated who owned what as a result of the Arab Empire and Ottoman Empire policy for more than 1,000 years that everyone including Jews were welcome to purchase land; and

(2) I was respectfully suggesting that Stuart stop pushing a “two state solution” for the Israel/Palestinian conflict since THREE PREVIOUS “TWO STATE SOLUTION” ATTEMPTS HAVE FAILED due to the Palestinian refusal to this day to recognize Israel’s right to exist; and

(3) I had also been respectfully suggesting in an earlier 1/3/2024 e-mail to Stuart (Cc’s to our weekly Zoom Chat HLS classmates) that he address the Peace Plan enunciated by Ron Dermer and Benjamin Netanyahu immediately after Gaza’s 7 October 2023 massacre of Israelis.

The Dermer/Netanyahu Peace Plan is to destroy Hamas and proceed to occupy Gaza for years thereafter, similarly to the way the U.S. occupied Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for many years to transform German/Japanese society so that today, Germany and Japan have for nearly 8 decades, been two of America’s most loyal allies.

[After all, since 1948 Palestinians have been “brain washed” since their cradles.]

Ron Dermer was the Israeli Ambassador to the United States 2013-2021 and since 2022 has been the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and, as such, served in Netanyahu’s War Cabinet until it was dissolved 6/17/2024 while remaining a close adviser since then.

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My copy of “The Art of Diplomacy” has not arrived yet from Amazon, so I do not know whether it follows any of my suggestions.

Respectfully submitted,

John Karls
7/19/2024

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7/24/2024 Addendum

Today there was posted in this section a transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 7/24/2024 Speech to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress.

It includes the Netanyahu/Dermer Peace Plan to destroy Hamas and proceed to occupy Gaza for years thereafter, similarly to the way the U.S. occupied Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for many years to transform German/Japanese society so that today, Germany and Japan have for nearly 8 decades, been two of America’s most loyal allies.

That portion of the speech was interrupted 5 times by applause.

That portion can be found by scrolling down in the transcript to the Peace Plan which is bounded by two rows of asterisks.

Respectfully submitted,

John Karls
7/24/2024