Posted on 07/21/2009 11:33:43 AM PDT by AJKauf
For those wondering what President Obama meant when he reportedly told American Jewish leaders that Israel needs to “engage in serious self-reflection,” the answer wasn’t long in coming.
Tensions have now emerged over building homes for Jews — not in large West Bank settlements, but in East Jerusalem, which was annexed by Israel in 1967 and ever since has been part of a united Jerusalem in which Jews, Christians, and Muslims live and worship freely.
On Thursday, someone in the State Department — responding to pressure from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — told Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren that the Obama administration wanted Israel to put a halt to a housing project in East Jerusalem. The plan is to build 20 apartments in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The site is near Mount Scopus (home to the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital) and Israel’s national police headquarters, has been in private hands since it was bought by U.S. millionaire Irving Moskowitz in 1985, and was a border police station from 1987 to 2002.
It was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government that reportedly decided to go public with the matter, as a way of conveying that when it comes to construction, Jerusalem is a red line....
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At the moment, Zero and his administration is acting to protect both Hamas and the Iranian nuclear program.
Who’s side are they on? I guess I know the anser to that question.
Obama sides with evil, always.
So I guess this means that O is increasing our standing with world leaders then, right?
ping
When, oh when will American Jews start calling Zero out on this crap???
Israel must survive and it might have to go it alone as Obama is no friend of Israel or the Jews. Obama is a friend of the Saudi’s and Islam. When is somebody going to investigate the campaign finance fraud and the money from overseas.
Where is the passion of the American people. Have we become the passive nation and the new falling empire?
Not to mention Chavez and his crony Zelaya.
One of these days obama is going to go too far and destroy his support among liberal Jewish voters in this country.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Sorry. I broke myself up with that one.
When do we get our own Bibi?
When do we get our own Bibi?
“When do we get our own Bibi?”
She’s in Alaska at the moment.
Jesse Jackson warned Zionists would no longer be in the driver seat.
ali Hussein embraces the Rat Boy Holocaust Denier but bullies Bibi--
Twenty years in Wright's anti-Jew hate factory.
Jews for Obama are akin to those who climb into the polar bear surround because they're being beckoned.
The real Jews have made their statement: FUBO. The American Jews are getting close to not deserving to be associated with the Israelis.
Yeah, right. Bada-bing!
Never! Most of them are two if not three generations removed from the holocaust, if their roots are even in Nazi occupied Europe. Most are more taken with their liberalism and the superiority they feel from being liberal then they ever were with Judaism.
News for Obama: the Israelis don't recognize him as their Messiah. Christians neither.
Lesson for Obama: "How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
“When, oh when will American Jews start calling Zero out on this crap???”
Never. At least not in the foreseeable future. Just as the black community will never call the welfare state what it is. They’re too committed at this point.
Come on Tanker get real.
American Jews overwhelmingly supported this anti Israel socialist baboso.
American Jews give lots of money to liberal Jewish causes BUT,
to actually support Israel?
Obammy is a mooselimb and is actively against Israel.
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