Posted on 12/05/2014 8:27:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For the first time in history, an American president is considering slapping sanctions on the state of Israel. The reason? Israel is building new housing on its own land.
The classified meetings were reportedly held several weeks ago and included officials from both the State Department and White House, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which first reported on the meetings.
The possibility of sanctioning Israel for its ongoing construction sends a signal that the Obama administration is willing to go further in its denunciations of Israel then any previous White House.
At the same time, the White House is vigorously pushing Congress against passing new sanctions on Iran.
When asked to address the reports Thursday afternoon, Harf declined to take a stance.
“I’m obviously not going to comment one way or another on reported internal deliberations,” she said. “We’ve made clear our position on settlement activity publicly and that hasn’t changed.”
When pressed to address whether the White House has reached a point at which it believes its harsh rhetoric against Israel is not enough, Harf again demurred, stating that she would not “address hypotheticals.”
A White House National Security Council (NSC) official also would not comment on the report when contacted Thursday by the Washington Free Beacon.
News of the supposed meeting leaked to the press though Israeli officials who were apparently apprised of the discussion.
Senior Israeli officials told Haaretz “that White House officials held a classified discussion a few weeks ago about the possibility of taking active measures against the settlements,” according to the report.
The discussion about levying sanctions on Israel reportedly began after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s October meeting at the White House and the subsequent battle between Washington and Jerusalem over settlement construction.
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It won't make any difference. To Leftist Jews, Leftism is at once their ethnicity and their religion, the same as with all Leftists.
Do you think the GOP will pick up a few Jewish votes?
Exactly. Radicalism is the religion of the left. It doesn’t matter if they’re Jews or otherwise.
You may be closer than you think Israel isn’t to be messed with by anyone.
If Obama attempts an unprecedented power grab on sanctions, it creates an interesting situation because economic sanctions involve prohibiting otherwise lawful trade or investment. Such an action automatically creates an injured party, or multiple injured parties, in both the U.S. and the sanctioned country. These parties would presumably have immediate recourse to the courts without interminable arguments over standing. In Obama's power grabs to date, standing has been a recurring hurdle for opponents. That would not be the case here.
I may object to Obama's actions on the DREAM Act, DOMA, Obamacare, and immigration, but my philosophical and policy disagreements may not get me very far in court. But if Obama tells me that I can't sell a paperclip to an Israeli because he's decisded he prefers Hamas to Likud, I have a dollars and cents injury, and I can be in court the next day.
A few.
“At the same time, the White House is vigorously pushing Congress against passing new sanctions on Iran.”
‘Nuff said.
come on all you American Jews,
Just keep voting dem ya fools.
Just keep supporting this anti Israel Clown you all voted for.
Makes NO sense.
That could be... interesting.
The pro Israel lobby used to be very strong (and I suspect still is). For a sitting US president to blow it off like this will be an interesting thing.
If you look closely at the picture in post #25 you can see that his pupils are quite dilated. I wonder what he's on...besides pure evil, that is.
Where are all our brave Congressmen and Senators? Is there any longer a point to their offices?
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There is a book which posits that whenevershalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
the US attempts put Israel in an untenable
position, YHvH directs a natural calamity to
strike the US. Think: Katrina, Kennebunkport
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