Posted on 02/25/2010 9:28:21 AM PST by Never A Dull Moment
The Obama administration criticized Israel for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as Israeli national heritage sites.
The criticism came as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she hopes long-stalled peace talks between Israelis and the Palestinians will resume. Clinton told a congressional committee that groundwork is being laid to restart the talks with the help of US envoy George Mitchell.
Toner said US displeasure with the designations of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the flash point town of Hebron and the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel in Bethlehem had been conveyed to senior Israeli officials by American diplomats.
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He got elected because we're top-heavy with ignoramuses, not antisemites. If the fools had paid attention and were able to wrap their minds around what he actually stands for, he would have lost by margins that would have made McGovern look respectable.
Remember when Israel was an ally?
Then can we reverse all the ‘heritage sites’ that Clinton created when he was in ofice with the complicity of Bruse Babbitt???? Please??
Democrats have no incentive to quit their trashing of all things Israel. They have figured out that most gullible American Jews will still vote for them, no matter what abuse they heap on the Jewish state.
“Obama slams Israel over designating heritage sites”
I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED! That a U.S. President named BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA (mm-mm-mm) would take sides AGAINST ISRAEL!
That was the red jihadist strategy all along...
Sadly - liberal American Jews (70+%) voted for the Islamo-marxist and most still love him. Ditto liberal Catholics, African Americans, and other loons.
It is sad, but liberal Jews and liberal Catholics are really just secular leftists. Their holy book is the Manifesto, not the Bible.
Thankfully, 65% of the country is still standing by Israel, in spite of the Islamo-marxist’s best efforts.
I noticed that, too.
Sounds like Jewish heritage to me.
Arabs are clearly related to Abraham, but they have no connection to Rachel worth mentioning.
Hebron is the second holiest site in Judaism.
I think Israel should claim Medina, where Jews used to live and were slaughtered, as a National Heritage site.
This administration is destroying our nation, and now they want to spread their poison to Israel? To Obama, all the world should be his throne. Including the Holy Land.
True. However, Arabs don't regard descendants of Rachael as having any inheritance, so desecrating her tomb as that of an illegitimate claimant would be regarded meritorious. They regard Ishmael as the line of inheritance. Needless to say, the stridency of the their paranoia betrays the claim they extend as manufactured.
The point is, given that Arabs routinely destroy such sites even though they claim direct descent and inheritance from Avraham, they are in no way to be trusted with any such irreplaceable treasures.
You mean Uhbama and Imindeedajerk?
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That is not a Jewish view. Jews do not make that distinction. Who was taken out of Egypt - Jews or Hebrews?
Where is the proof that Arabs are Ishmalites?
Where is your support for that statement?
How do you know?
Further if you believe Arabs are Ishmaelites, Abraham threw Ishmael out and disinherited him.
Are you Muslim?
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