Barkat: Jerusalem Freeze Would be Illegal

inn ^ | 4/29/10 | Maayana Miskin

[Nachum]

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is in Washington this week to meet with senior United States officials. In a news conference held during his tour, Barkat took a firm stance on the Obama administration's pressure to stop building houses for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, saying a construction freeze would be “illegal”.

“There's no freeze... We're going to build, and we're not going to stop it,” Barkat told reporters. “It is illegal to stop it.”

[John O]

It's the Jewish capital. Why wouldn't the Israeli's build there?

[SJackson]

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That's true, illegal under Israeli law, as well as the British Mandate, modified by San Remo, which was incorporated by the UN for anyone who cares for that institution. Jews get to live anywhere in what is today Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.

[SunkenCiv]

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat... took a firm stance on the Obama administration's pressure to stop building houses for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, saying a construction freeze would be "illegal". "There's no freeze... We're going to build, and we're not going to stop it," Barkat told reporters. "It is illegal to stop it."

Thanks Nachum. Get ready, all, for Obama to try to sell damnesty for illegals by claiming that it's consistent with the so-called right of return demanded by the Arab Muzzie terrorist groups.