Posted on 03/25/2015 10:12:00 AM PDT by Star Traveler
JNS.org – President Barack Obama said at a news conference on Tuesday that the US is considering the possibility of supporting the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state through the United Nations as part of his administration’s ongoing re-evaluation of relations with Israel.
Late last year, the US voted against a Palestinian-initiated resolution in the UN Security Council that called for a Palestinian state with borders based on the pre-1967 lines. The measure garnered eight affirmative votes among the 15-member Security Council, falling just one short of the nine votes it needed to pass.
Obama on Tuesday continued his recent criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the aftermath of the latter’s re-election, saying, “Netanyahu, in the election run-up, stated that a Palestinian state would not occur while he was prime minister. And I took him at his word that that’s what he meant.” Obama made similar comments in an interview with The Huffington Post that was published last weekend, despite the fact that Netanyahu has reaffirmed his support for a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes a Jewish state.
“Afterwards, he (Netanyahu) pointed out that he didn’t say ‘never,’ but that there would be a series of conditions in which a Palestinian state could potentially be created,” Obama said Tuesday. “But, of course, the conditions were such that they would be impossible to meet any time soon.”
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This present situation is Obama LYING about Netanyahu (who hasn't changed since 2009) in order to have a CONTRIVED EXCUSE to make a MAJOR POLICY CHANGE for the USA.
In the past, both Israel and the USA have supported a Two-State Solution by way of "NEGOTIATIONS" between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. NOW ... Obama wants to abandon the USA's long-standing policy, and have the Two-State Solution "by DECLARATION" ... which means that nothing will be required of the Palestinian Authority, and they would not be required to sign off on the fact that all problems are solved, as they would have to in the Final Status Negotiations!
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained, after the election, that he did not abandon Bar-Ilan and/or the TWO-STATE SOLUTION!!
Obama is making up several issues ... which are really “non-issues” ... and are for only making “political hay”! Obama wanted to get rid of Ambassador Dermer, because of the arrangements made through him (with the Speaker of the House) to have Netanyahu give a speech to a Joint Session of Congress. That really fired up the political opposition to the Iran agreement that Obama is trying to push through, and therefore Obama was looking for some “payback” ... namely “get rid of Dermer”!
And in regards to the other issue, and Obama accusing Netanyahu of being against a TWO-STATE SOLUTION ... that’s just an outright lie from Obama.
Obama is making this out to be REAL BIG ISSUE and is throwing a Temper Tantrum over it, even though he knows it’s TOTALLY FALSE and it’s a LIE that he’s telling the American public. Obama is hoping the FOOLS in America will believe him and not Netanyahu, when Netanyahu says he STILL supports a Two-State Solution, per Bar-Ilan.
The reason why Obama is making this out to be a big issue, is that he wants to “use it” to abandon Israel in the United Nations (by refusing to block UN Security Council Resolutions against Israel) and in the future by implementing sanctions against Israel.
As Obama knows very well, and as Netanyahu has made clear repeatedly after the election ... Netanyahu has not abandoned his Bar-Ilan policy speech regarding his support for the Two-State Solution.
Obama is trying to take a misunderstood campaign blurb and turn into a major policy reversal. It’s no such thing and Obama knows it!
This is what I said regarding what the Liberal press and Obama are doing ...
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This a FALSE statement from the press and from Obama. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has REPEATEDLY sought to correct the mistaken impression that he does not support a TWO-STATE SOLUTION.
He does support it and he says that he has maintained that same support ... going back to his Bar-Ilan speech, when Obama first got into office. He says his position in support of the Two-State Solution has not changed since then.
What it is ... is that the liberal press and Obama want to hammer on Netanyahu no matter what ... and they’ve picked up on a LIE that Netanyahu does not support the Two-State Solution.
Here’s Netanyahu’s support for a Two-State Solution from what he has been referring to in the last several days to COUNTER THIS LIE!
Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University [Relates to Netanyahu’s Re-election]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3270248/posts
Who is he trying to kid?
That is THE PLAN and has been all along.
That’s why he has been trying to create an open confrontation with Israel since he was inaugurated in 2009..
The Republicans had better do something to stop the Moslem Marxist.
The enabling EXEMPT made the undocumented Obama
(or what his real name is) King of the Americas.
Did they make him King of Israel, too?
Id suggest arresting him and trying him for Treason...for starters!!
The Republicans will do something when they are personally threatened. In other words, don’t hold your breath.
Well, he’s within the foreign policy powers that he has to make this “change of policy” happen ... and it is a MAJOR CHANGE ... which is to change the TWO-STATE SOLUTION from being accomplished “by negotiations” ... versus ... being accomplished “by declaration”.
Keep in mind that the policy for the last TWENTY YEARS, from the Oslo Accords forward to now, and with both Israel and the USA ... has been that the Palestinian State would be formed BY NEGOTIATIONS (between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in Final Status Negotiations).
SO ... by Obama refusing to block the DECLARATION at the United Nations Security Council ... this is changing US Policy that has been in effect for the last 20 years!!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Worst case Israel can withdraw to unilaterally determined defensible borders and see how the new state does. While defending her citizenry.
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The Bible is quite clear. Those who curse Israel will be cursed and those who bless it will be bless. So America elected a anti-semitic guy who has been looking for an excuse to go after Israel just like his Moslem brothers. So America unless you turn away and repent from this direction your nation will be taken out by the Holy One.
Freegards
LEX
Please Lord, let our next President be an adult.
I think this is how Obama operates. He has had great success with creating issues out of non-issues and then “fixing” the “problem” ie exactly whatever result he wanted from the start.
The problem is the vast majority of supporters don’t see any gain from this.
As in ObamaCare there were millions to be made. As well as the moochers got even more “freebies”
Bottom line Obama comes across looking like a nut and actually making lib supporters scratch their heads.
The ‘Republicans’ never will, they are next to worthless.
We already know from the Bible that ALL NATIONS (including the USA) will go against Israel and thus ALL NATIONS in the world will be judged. That final world judgement will be accomplished during the Tribulation and is outlined in the Book of Revelation.
By that time, it will be too late to undo UN Securoty Council decision recognizing the creation of a Palestinian State (this being done by “declaration” instead of “negotiations”, which is the preferred way).
And that sets up the pathway to condemnations and future sanctions against Israel.
That’s kinda late now ... but he will be out of office on January 20, 2017!
Considering.....yeah riiiiight. This has been the plan all along.
Islamists will do what islamists will do.
I firmly believe that war and economic collapse are coming.
Paraphrase....
To the Egyptian: I am a muslim.
Let me get health care done, and then I’ll show you how to deal with Israel.
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