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Obama raises possibility of allowing U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood
la times ^ | june 2, 2015 | CHRISTI PARSONSĀ ANDĀ MICHAEL A. MEMOLI

Posted on 06/03/2015 1:28:34 PM PDT by lowbridge

President Obama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the U.S. will allow a United Nations vote on issues related to the Palestinians if the two sides make no meaningful movement toward peace.

In an interview with an Israeli television station, Obama noted that his administration has “up until this point” quashed such efforts at the U.N. while insisting that the Israelis and Palestinians must negotiate a resolution. But he said it is a challenge for the U.S. to keep demanding that the Palestinians negotiate in good faith if no one believes the Israelis are doing the same.

“How do we move off what appears right now to be a hopeless situation and move it back towards a hopeful situation?” Obama asked in the interview. “That will require more than just words. That will require some actions. And that’s going to be hard work, though, because right now I think there’s not a lot of confidence in the process.”

The comment was the latest sign that Obama has concluded that the U.S. must rethink its stance on the Mideast peace process if it is to maintain credibility in the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; obama; palestine; unitednations

1 posted on 06/03/2015 1:28:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

But he said it is a challenge for the U.S. to keep demanding that the Israelis negotiate in good faith if no one believes the palestinians are doing the same.

There fixed it with just a slight change.


2 posted on 06/03/2015 1:31:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: lowbridge
You can bet on it.

The angry little boi is still mad Bibi spoke to Congress and won reelection.

3 posted on 06/03/2015 1:45:55 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: lowbridge

And if the islamonazi- in - chief gets his wet- dream United Nazis vote against Israel -— so what? It will just be About the 1,069th such vote. Will make no real difference... Other then to further embarrass America. How very very sad USA even allowed him into the country — but to let an Enrmy of America “ Occupy “ the WH is a tragedy Pray for America!


4 posted on 06/03/2015 1:52:06 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.")
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To: lowbridge

Obama is an anti-American, anti-Semitic Muslim....without a doubt.


5 posted on 06/03/2015 2:12:12 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: lowbridge

Suppose the vote goes through. Is the UN going to mount a full war and invasion of Israel to make it stick?

Bwahahaha, never happen. The windbags would not want their bluff called.


6 posted on 06/03/2015 2:15:21 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: House Atreides

I have no doubt.


7 posted on 06/03/2015 2:41:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
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To: lowbridge

perhaps by endangering Israel, he is endangering his and his families lives in the same moment


8 posted on 06/03/2015 2:44:42 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: lowbridge

He’s an AZZ. No surprise!


9 posted on 06/03/2015 2:45:31 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: lowbridge

Impeach, indict, arrest, convict and incarcerate.....


10 posted on 06/03/2015 2:48:30 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
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To: lowbridge

Could it possibly be just a coincidence that just as Obama, America’s most anti-Semitic president in history, was beginning to make public threats about stabbing Israel in the back at the U.N., John Kerry, America’s most zealous advocate for dismantling Israel, should have had a freak bicycle accident that will put him out of commission indefinitely? It seems more like a miracle.

By the time John Kerry can navigate without a cane, the 2016 presidential campaign will have gained enough momentum that Hillary Clinton or any of the other Democratic hopefuls will be in no position to antagonize their Jewish-American supporters by joining Obama in approving an historical act of treachery by the U.S. against Israel at the U.N.

Another miracle seems to be that two serious freak accidents have put two Democratic leaders — Harry Reid and John Kerry — virtually out of commission within only a few months of each other. But, of course, they won’t leave their jobs, they’ll just continue to undermine the Democratic party.

The Angel in the Whirlwind seems to be working overtime to help America.


11 posted on 06/03/2015 3:00:07 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: lowbridge

The”Palestinians” have had ample opportunity over the past sixty-some years to form a viable government, yet that has never happened. They continue to sabotage themselves with endless internecine warfare between factions, pausing from that only long enough to attempt another (fruitless) assault on the territorial integrity of Israel. Each time they have been overly bold, they have been sent home in shame and left to licking their wounds, then getting back to factional strife. Since the “Palestinians” have absolutely no unifying characteristic other than to drive all the Jews into the sea, there is little else with which they could EVER form a viable government, much less run a nation that is made up of nothing more than battling tribes and universal distrust.

Any form of democracy is at total odds with Shari’ah law, and that is the code they seem to want to keep as their standard (though it is doubtful that any consistency of application of Shari’ah law could ever be established).

Chaos reigns, and shall continue to do so for as long as the rag-tag squatters continue to occupy this territory.


12 posted on 06/03/2015 3:23:35 PM PDT by alloysteel ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..." Ronald Reagan)
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13 posted on 06/03/2015 3:49:43 PM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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To: lowbridge

bttt


14 posted on 06/04/2015 12:53:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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