President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged Israel to stop settlement construction in the West Bank on the same day the Israelis rejected that demand.
... In strong language, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had said Wednesday that Obama wants a halt to all settlement construction, including "natural growth." Israel uses that term for new housing and other construction that it says will accommodate the growth of families living in existing settlements.
Israeli spokesman Mark Regev responded Thursday by saying some construction would go on.
... Israelis will be anxiously watching Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo, where he will deliver a message to the Muslim world to try to repair relations that frayed badly under the Bush administration. Obama will also visit Saudi Arabia before he goes to Egypt.
"I want to use the occasion to deliver a broader message about how the United States can change for the better its relationship with the Muslim world," Obama said of his Egypt speech. "That will require, I think, a recognition on both the part of the United States as well as many majority Muslim countries about each other, a better sense of understanding, and I think possibilities to achieve common ground."
OBAMA: SACRIFICING ISRAEL FOR A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSLIMS.
SOME MIGHT SAY: AS IT WAS WRITTEN.
So almost the whole world wants to put more pressure on Israel, now even the US gov. But you still refuse to see that they have any responsibility!?
ReplyDeleteGet your act together and face the reality.
the whole world put pressure on Czechoslovakia to give hitler the sudatenland.
ReplyDeleteyou are an anti-semitic asshole.
yes: anti-semitic: when you hold jews to a different standard than all other peoples you are an antisemite.
by rights, israel could hjave annexed the territory it won. and expelled arabs.
as the victors did to the losers in 1946 in europe. to the tune of tens of millions.
more recently, the eu/un/use partitioned yugoslavia and serbia by ethnicity and called it good.
but JOOOOZE can't even think about doing do this without being called racist.
the idea that ANY OUTSIDE nation can dictate terms which are by rights BILATERAL and should negotiated bilaterally is evil.
arabs have started every war and israel has won every war yet is treated as the evil loser.
no matter how many nations say israel is bad, that doesn't and can't make it so.
what is right is right.
it isn;t always expedient or popular, but it still right.
Not really sure if this is the case, but if so, here is my theory. We hold Israel to different standards than its neighbours because we see it as an industrialized democracy. This is not the case with the surrounding countries as you know.
ReplyDeleteIt is like adults and children, we have higher expectations on adults. To children we need to speak in a different way, otherwise they might get grouchy, and we dont want that. But of course there are limits and so on, this only goes to some extend.
Hm, not so clear maybe, but hopefully you get my point. Israel is treated as other western democracies.
NONSENSE.
ReplyDeleteSaw this headline today over at Jihad Watch: "Netanyahu on the Obama White House: "What the hell do they want from me?"
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Obama should shut up and leave Israel to make their own choices not the disastrous ones he's made for this country. God Bless and protect Israel.
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