Obama Drops Key Clause in Jerusalem Embassy Memo

The Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2009 | Watercooler Blog

[Abakumov]

Late on Friday The Washington Times' Christian Bourge obtained a copy of Presidential Determination 2009-19, latest in a series of pro forma memos to the Secretary of State entitled "Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act."

[BP2]

And then there's Hillary with the "I don't recall" line she used back with the Whitewater scandal.

You would think that Jews in Israel would have a problem with this sudden shift (actually, if you look at the reader comment with this article, they are incredulous about this):

'Israel, Bush administration had no agreement over settlements'

'Israel, Bush administration had no agreement over settlements'

Jun. 6, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared late Friday that she was unaware of any agreement between her country's previous administration and Israel concerning the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

"I do not recall any agreement between Israel and George Bush's… previous government, according to which Israel will be authorized to extend the construction of settlements in the West Bank," Clinton said at a news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the State Department.

"There is no memory of any informal and oral agreements. If they did occur, which of course people say they did, they did not become part of the official position of the United States government.

"And there are contrary documents that suggest that they were not to be viewed as in any way contradicting the obligations that Israel undertook pursuant to the road map." she added. "And those obligations are very clear."

On Thursday President Barack Obama clarified his administration's policy towards the settlements in his address to the Muslim world in Cairo, stating that "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements… it is time for these settlements to stop."

Soon after Obama's speech, a senior administration official told The Jerusalem Post that Washington feels "an arrangement that works" can be hammered out with Israel on the settlement issue.

"There's a professional, constructive dialogue on this issue," the official said. "We have differences, but believe we can find an arrangement that works."

[dixiechick2000]

I've been through all of the posts, but didn't see the article posted in it's entirity. Is there something wrong with that?

"By Kerry Picket on June 5, 2009 into Water Cooler SubscribeThe Washington Times' James Robbins writes:

Late on Friday The Washington Times' Christian Bourge obtained a copy of Presidential Determination 2009-19, latest in a series of pro forma memos to the Secretary of State entitled "Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act." This determination is a legally required waiver under said act to continue to delay the May 31, 1999 deadline for moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Nearly identical memos like this have been issued every six months for the last decade. Standard procedure, no big deal, right? Well in the Bush years the memo contained the sentence,

"My Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem."

The Obama team has edited that passage out. This explains the Friday evening release. Congress should revisit the Jerusalem Embassy Act and remove the loophole that has allowed this charade to continue for ten years. Meanwhile the president should explain exactly what his policy is on this issue, and why he is not committed to beginning the process of moving the embassy."

Okay...I await my banning for posting it in full. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

“My Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.”

The Obama team has edited that passage out. This explains the Friday evening release. Congress should revisit the Jerusalem Embassy Act and remove the loophole that has allowed this charade to continue for ten years. Meanwhile the president should explain exactly what his policy is on this issue, and why he is not committed to beginning the process of moving the embassy.”

[killjoy]

I support Israel.

I support the US.

[Fresh Wind]

Thanks to those who voted for this devil.

And special thanks to all the Jews who voted for him. Of all people, they should have known better.

[dixiechick2000]

My experience is that the locals are libs.

I guess there is no love lost.

Sad...

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Thanks to those who voted for this devil."

Thank You Satan 1:50

Whom does he really work for?

[MestaMachine]

... so what's the point of having a policy goal in their that you don't intend to enact?

The Congress passed a resolution and the Bush administration recognized Jerusalem as the undisputed Eternal Capitol of Israel. That was HIS policy.
The pals want Jerusalem as their capitol.
Israel says never.
0 says never say never.
And he will do whatever it takes to try and force Israel to give the muslims what they want.

[MestaMachine]

[C210N]

Americans Jews who are also liberals, are liberals first, Jews second.

This Jew can show an example from the reverse. I'm a conservative because of views on life, constitution, republic, 2nd Amendment, work ethic, free markets, and others. If Republicans were for all that... AND for the Pali's while the 'Rats were for Israel, I'd still be a conservative and vote Republican.

But, then back to reality... the conservative list I started above dovetails with being a strong supporter of Israel, so no need to have to choose.

[monocle]

Obama identifies more with his African heritage than his American heritage. A number of African-Americans embrace or tacitly support the Nation of Islam. The Nation of Islam is unequivocally anti-semitic and other blacks are anti-semitic because they perceive Jewish people as their economic oppressors. I think Obama secretly,and perhaps unknowingly, harbors all of these prejudices.

[Quix]

. . .

Or incremental skulduggery.

As horrible as JFK was . . . he did have a veneer of white-washed pseudo-class.

Johnson, Carter, Klintoons, OThuga . . . Z-last-class goons from hell.

Folks one would be ashamed to have seen cleaning their cesspools.

[Quix]

Tooooo true.

Alice, rabbit hole and the Red Queen

begin to look sane and mundane

after this mess.

[Quix]

My sense . . . and that of most folks I respect . . . is . . .

that the die is cast.

Even massive spiritual revival will only benefit individuals and local regions.

Too high a percentage of the nation as a whole—particularly certain regions have too repeatedly chosen hell’s values.

[Quix]

One almost begins to think that . . .

mass insanity somehow became chic.

[Quix]

No.

I don’t think the little horn has surfaced on the world stage,

. . . yet.

. . . . though is probably getting suited up back-stage.

OThuga is a stalking horse; forerunner; trial-balloon; stand-in to help in calibrating the mass hypnosis and other manipulation technologies and methodologies.

[MestaMachine]

Obama identifies more with his African heritage than his American heritage.

Obama does not identify with his African heritage and would not know his American heritage if it bit him on both ears.
He identifies with his Indonesian, muslim upbringing. He was schooled as an Imam. He is neither black nor white. He is a muslim, a "believer" in his heart.

[Quix]

And . . .

to get away with as many horrific ‘law’ changes as possible in preparation . . . laying the ground-work for coming traumas and horrors.

. . . setting up and triggering as many as he can get away with.

. . . and maybe some he can’t get away with . . . if they have chosen him to be a sacrificial stooge . . . at some point.

[Quix]

They are . . . reportedly . . . merely large groups of

useful idiots . . .

supposedly the inner sanctum of the oligarchy has long sought to exterminate all those groups . . . off the face of the earth . . . in due course . . . after their usefulness is past and the wholesale population reduction is brazenly and overtly in full force . . . that’s where some of the reported designer plagues come in . . . tied to racial etc. DNA markers.

Who knows what the truth is. Would fit the schemes and values of the oligarchy.

[Quix]

Oh, he’s part of the oligarchy that will produce the Biblical main actors on the world stage . . .

he’s just a lower ranked puppet preparing the way, imho.