Barbie and ken tell palestinians to "eat cake"

Photo: [Barbie and Ken] arrive for the controversial inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem, smilingly complacent as people are dying a stone's throw away. AFP/Getty

Kushner and wife are prime examples of Order of Canada recipient Albert Bandura's brilliant "Moral Disengagement" theory (How People Do Harm and Live With Themselves), briefly explained by him here. [YouTube 10:45]

These people are cardboard cutouts, capable only of assuming that everyone else is as shallow, narcissistic, and materialistic as they are!  They can be bought and so assume that the rest of us are crazy not to be.

Robert Fisk has made what may well be his most passionate speech on behalf of Palestinians, and I urge you to read it in its entirety: The 'ultimate deal' that Jared Kushner is proposing for Palestine would strip the people of all their dignity

Excerpts:

• After three Arab-Israeli wars, tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and millions of refugees, does Kushner really believe that the Palestinians will settle for cash?


• “I believe,” quoth Crown Prince Kushner this week, “that Palestinian people are less invested in the politicians’ talking points than they are in seeing how a deal will give them and their future generations new opportunities, more and better paying jobs and prospects for a better life.” Is Trump’s son-in-law – “adviser” on the Middle East, real estate developer and US investor – delusional?


• Did he not notice – ever – that the Palestinians who have protested and suffered and died and lost their lands for 70 years, have not been demonstrating in their streets for better roads, duty free zones or another airport?


• There is something strange, almost comical, about the photographs of America’s diplomatic “peacemakers” sitting around Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the West, we choose – with good moral reason – not to emphasise the religious or ethnic background of these men. But the Israelis do, philosopher Uri Avnery does, and Haaretz points it out: that all are Jewish – at least two of them enthusiastic supporters of the Israeli colonisation of Palestinian West Bank land, including the US ambassador to Israel who called the moderate J Street Jewish lobby group “worse than kapos”.

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A Palestinian demonstrator tries to put out a fire caused by objects dropped from Israeli drones during a protest against the US embassy move to Jerusalem and ahead of the 70th anniversary of Nakba, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip