Posted on 07/20/2009 4:08:44 PM PDT by Nachum
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed Monday that a new housing development in east Jerusalem had been a topic of conversation last week during a meeting between senior US diplomats and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
Crowley said US opposition to construction in east Jerusalem and settlements in the West Bank had not changed.
"We have made our views known to Israel," he told reporters. "Our views are not new either: that this kind of construction is the type ... of issue that should be subject to permanent-status negotiations."
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The tit for tat continues.
Maybe the BOZerO Administration can offer the Pals low cost, Fannie Mae, TARP assisted mortgage loans so they can buy those properties in the Israeli settlements. Nothing the USA taxpayer can’t be gouged for the cause of ‘equality’. /sc
Thank God for hubris. It can’t come soon enought for me.
Israel should call for an end to building in occupied Maryland.
SHEESH...don’t give them any more ideas!!!
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed Monday that a new housing development in east Jerusalem had been a topic of conversation last week during a meeting between senior US diplomats and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
“As head of the Jewish Agency, you bear the obligation of declaiming the nation’s distress before the American administration - and no less importantly, before advisers to the current administration who are members of our own people,” wrote Schneller in the letter, which he sent Monday.
Schneller also drafted a second letter on Monday, this one directed at Jewish community leaders in the US, asking for their assistance in convincing the administration to back down from its opposition to the project in Sheikh Jarrah. In this letter, he drew parallels between Tisha Be’Av - a day of fast that falls next week commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples - and Obama’s demand.”
Good idea.
The area in question was once home to the Nazi Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin Husseini. Does Obama want to go on record making it Judenrein?
It is no accident that all of this is happening during the three weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av.
It never is, and neither was it a coincidence about the very public arrests in Brooklyn & New Jersey, especially when some happened to be Orthodox, who were set and sold out by a rat stoolie, who should have been in prison himself. The Feds staged (now under Obama's control) their media-alerted publicity stunt precisely as the month of Av got underway.
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