IF TRUMP HAD BEEN PRESIDENT ON DECEMBER 7, 1941

I suppose the December 8, 1941 headlines, under a Trump Presidency, would have read something like this:

TRUMP FAMILY GETS PERMIT FOR 3 HOTELS IN TOKYO

EMPEROR HIROHITO APOLOGIZES FOR MISTAKENLY USING U.S. PACIFIC FLEET FOR TARGET PRACTICE AT PEARL HARBOR

TRUMP SAYS ITS TIME TO MOVE ON  

ONE STATE, TWO STATE SOLUTIONS

 John Kerry's impassioned plea to keep alive the 2 state solution, to which all American President, since 1947, have backed, and Netanyahu's self-serving rationalizations for thievery, as rebuttal,  notwithstanding, the most cogent argument that I heard was that of a pundit who said that Israel had already made it a de facto single state, and that the issue between Israelis and Palestinians now was that of civil rights including the right to vote, for the Palestinians.

She compared the situation to that of South Africa where eventually the situation was eventually resolved in favor of those seeking suffrage.

If the pundit is correct, and it is too late, Bibi, once again, will be proven one of Israel's shrewdest men, but also one who was least wise.

OBAMA CLAIMS HE WOULD HAVE WON A THIRD TERM

I wish President Obama would avoid hypotheticals which Trump could grab upon to make claims.  There is nothing like a claim that cannot be fact checked, where Trump does not shine.

Even though simple mathematics would justify Obama's remark, as to his electability for a third term if the law permitted, since Obama
who not only had a high approval rate among the electorate, would have easily garnered Hillary's votes which gave her a 2.8 million more votes than Trump obtained, plus those of voters who wavered because of her emails.  A Trump claim to the contrary costs him nothing and can't be disproven to boot. 

WILL THERE BE ENOUGH HATRED TO GO AROUND?

Netanyahu is rallying the Israeli people against Obama for not vetoing a resolution before the U.N. Security Council.  The hate directed against Obama is not for an affirmative vote but for an abstention.  In the meantime, all of the remaining Permanent Members of the Security Council, France, U.K. , Russia and China, voted for the resolution.  To be fair, will Netanyahu be able to muster enough hatred to go around?

DISOBEDIENT PET POODLES

Israeli Prime Ministers are accustomed to keeping American Presidents as their pet poodles.  Pets that are expected to be loyal and obedient despite how badly they are treated by their owners.

It is small wonder that Netanyahu is livid that he has a disobedient pet poodle on his hands, in Barack Obama, who refused a direct order to veto an item before the Security Council.

Probably, even more troubling to him is that the incoming President

is, himself, the pet poodle of another President and will have to check first with him before doing anything for Bibi.

DONALD'S 'TRUMP' CARD

Donald Trump holds a card which in a single stroke change the present partisan attitude, in Washington, and might start a healing process the nation sorely needs.  

If he were to renominate Merrick Garland, Obama's nominee for Scalia's seat, to the Supreme Court, there could be a sea change. Garland had support from both sides of the aisle before Repub- licans decided to politicize the nomination process. 

Additionally, his nomination may be the only way for Trump to actually have one of his nominees even get a vote through the Senate, unless Republicans go nuclear which could have extreme consequences, for them, 2 years hence.  

WHY DIDN'T PUTIN VETO THE U.N. RESOLUTION?

The question that should be asked is not why Trump and Netanyahu did not ask Putin to veto the U.N. resolution but why did he turn them down?  His reported reply was, "Do you think I'm crazy enough to have both of the largest Muslim sects unite against me?  What do you think I have Donald for?"