Posted on 12/27/2016 6:23:43 PM PST by Cheerio
JERUSALEM — Undeterred by a resounding defeat at the United Nations, Israel’s government said Monday that it would move ahead with thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem and warned nations against further action, declaring that Israel does not “turn the other cheek.”
Just a few days after the United Nations Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements, Jerusalem’s municipal government signaled that it would not back down: The city intends to approve 600 housing units in the predominantly Palestinian eastern section of town on Wednesday in what a top official called a first installment on 5,600 new homes.
The defiant posture reflected a bristling anger among Israel’s pro-settlement political leaders, who not only blamed the United States for failing to block the Council resolution, but also claimed to have secret intelligence showing that President Obama’s team had orchestrated it. American officials strongly denied the claim, but the sides seem poised for more weeks of conflict until Mr. Obama hands over the presidency to Donald J. Trump.
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tonight one of the Fox guy’s response to Kerry’s upcoming “peace in Israel/Pali “ statement....
“Kerry is irrelevant..Syria, Hamas, Allepo, Russia, China, Africa, Isis.....Go away Kerry!”
They should start an Obama-Kerry Housing Project and solicit money here. Raise the money in a week to build it!
A fitting legacy for Zero and Lurch.
Not only does any sovereign state require UN or Obama/Kerry permission to build homes for its people,
but it should not even consider asking for their permission.
Neither is it any of Obama/Kerry’s (or the UN/s) damned business...
Israel has incurred a severe housing shortage in the last 7 or 8 years, delaying constructions in order to appease Obama. This has been a miserably-failed policy, and I respectfully submit an exceptionally immoral one as hundreds of thousands of (mostly young) Israeli families have been hurt, had had their housing dreams postponed ...
Obama/Kerry/Soros are headed straight to Obama’s Moslem Hell. (and..Yes, it includes lots of hot flames....praise the Lord!)
Hopefully Trump will impound all funds for the U.N., pull us out of the U. N. and kick the U. N. and embassies out.
F the UN.
Give the UN money to Israel to build homes
I mean the nerve. /s
F the UN, and F the Kenyan!
That’s right!
Israel doesn’t need the approval of the Upper West Side!
Israel should have never given up the lands they won back in ‘67.
What’s left of Euopean Jewry will need more housing in Israel now that France and UK have made it clear that they are solidly anti-Jewish.
Push out the west bank Arabs, make it part of Israel and build it up. Land for Peace is the way—but take their land! Its a war—one side must win, and one side lose. Next blow up the dome of the rock and on the site—re-build the Temple of Solomon! ALL ISLAMIC PEOPLE KICKED OUT OF ISRAEL—Burn all mosques. No more Mr. Nice Guy! Nice guys finish last.
Obama and Kerry thought that if they backed Israel in a corner, she would roll over - they are about to find out what a fighter does when put against the ropes....
Don't forget they gave back the West Bank after they acquired it as a spoil of war.
They should start an Obama-Kerry Housing Project and solicit money here. Raise the money in a week to build it!
A fitting legacy for Zero and Lurch.
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Great idea. Where can I send my donation?
Hopefully Trump will impound all funds for the U.N., pull us out of the U. N. and kick the U. N. . . . out.
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Agree 100%, and the sooner the better. And after he does that he should form a new defense organization of countries that wish to be our allies on terms established by the President.
All other countries should then be disqualified for future economic and military support. Time for a major realignment of the good guys and the bad guys.
Israel should have never given up the lands they won back in ‘67.
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Exactly right, and hopefully they will never make such a stupid mistake again.
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