Posted on 05/02/2010 2:39:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
US [Alleged] President Barack Obama made clear in a recent letter to the Palestinians that he views Israel as the obstacle to peace and will approach further peace efforts from that point of view, according to senior Palestinian Authority officials.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat confirmed for the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency that such a letter was sent, and that in it Obama "clarified the US stance on the peace process and Israel's intransigence on the issue of settlements."
Erekat said that the letter contained several assurances to the Palestinians, but refused to go into detail.
A day earlier, London newspaper The Guardian reported on what one of those assurances may be - a proposal to start backing official UN condemnation of any and all Israeli "settlement activity."
Washington has traditionally used its veto power to block any UN resolutions that would put Israel in a difficult position vis-à-vis allowing Jews to build on their ancestral and biblical lands. If the US were to stop vetoing such resolutions, which would likely result in an increase in condemnation, Israel could be forced to implement an unofficial Jewish building freeze across the board and for an unlimited amount of time.
That report would seem to fit with the more vague account of assurances another Palestinian official said the letter contained.
PA secretary general Tayeb Abdel Rahim on Sunday told reporters that the letter made the usual commitments to an independent Palestinian state with territorial continuity. Rahim also said that Obama promised to start publicly assigning blame to those he sees holding up peace and to force Israel into indefinitely extending its temporary settlement freeze.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implemented the 10-month freeze at the behest of Washington in order to test the Palestinians' readiness to return to the negotiating table. When it was first announced last November, US officials praised Netanyahu for taking "unprecedented" steps for peace. Now that it is clear the Palestinians are not going to respond in kind, the Obama administration appears to be blaming Netanyahu for not having done enough.
“There needs to be a list of Jews that touted Obama. Start with Kimmel And Silverman.”
Satan has many minions and in many places.
Hussein follows the Fallen One.
This is “Alice in Wonderland” meets “1984”. It’s hard to believe we have fallen so far, so fast...
Besides wanting to build houses in their capital exactly what ‘crime’ has Israel committed that is holding up anything? This is BS.
It’s never smart to choose evil. It just seems that way to the short-sighted.
“Names! I want names!” (using my best 1950’s communist search voice or the Chinese guy in the Seinfeld episode)
My understanding is that "the apple of his eye" is literally the pupil.
Poking God in the eye is not very smart.
This man definitely is AN antichrist, the ONLY thing that keeps me from thinking he’s THE one is us. A lot of folks really can’t stand this man, yet in the Bible it says everyone will be lead astray and worship the AC right?
God Bless Israel
FUBO
Sigh.. If your choice is taking 10 punches to the gut or 20, are you going to say 20 just for the heck of it?
Be an adult about it, it helps.
“He doesn’t have an inkling of who he is messing with”
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Universally true WRT this mendacious mouse brain.
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Oh please, King 0bama.
Please, for the love of God (or in your case Lenin maybe?), please come out publicly with this statement.
If the Israeli’s have anything in writing that they could leak about this that will work.
If he made these point public, we could kick his Marxist azz.
And just in time for the elections in November!
**Think McCain would’ve been doing this?**
McLAME had his SHAMNESTY... we’d all be forced to speak SPANISH.
As for Mullah Obama, he can KMA too!!
The Obama regime does not speak for me.
I was talking only military and Israel. On those subjects, McCain is better for sure.
FUBO! nuff said!
I’m a free American. I don’t willingly let people punch me in the gut.
**I was talking only military and Israel. On those subjects, McCain is better for sure.**
AFter watching McLAME for the previous 8 years, I could not honestly TRUST HIM with that, either...
If is wasn’t for PALIN... I would have stayed home!! my local Scumsuckers were all unopposed.
My apologies but you said the magic word!
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