Posted on 05/23/2011 5:00:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The United States State Department is standing behind the wording of an official statement that implied that Jerusalem including its western parts - is not a part of Israel. Against the backdrop of President Barack Obama's speech calling on Israel to return to the 1949 Armistice lines, the statement's implications appear more alarming. The May 18 statement was cited in a Weekly Standard column by Eliot Abrams, a former foreign policy advisor for presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Abrams wrote:
In what country is the Knesset? [I]t seems that this question has stumped the State Department. It does not know or will not say what country the Knesset is in, norone must assumedoes it know what country the Prime Ministers Office, the Israel Museum, or especially the Western Wall are in.
He quotes a remarkable press release from the State Department about the travels of Deputy Secretary James Steinberg, which says:
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank [our emphasis, ed.] May 18-19, 2011. In Israel, Deputy Secretary Steinberg met with Israeli academic and student leaders....
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I suppose the poor benighted Israelis believed they were hosting Steinberg in their country when he visited government offices, Abrams wrote sarcastically. But he knew better. What makes this especially egregious is that Israeli government officeswhere Mr. Steinberg would have had his official meetingsare actually in west Jerusalem, the portion Israel controlled even before 1967. Yet the Clinton State Department is apparently unwilling to call even that portion of the city Israel.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Well, don’t most devout fundamentalist Muslims believe that? Why should he be different?
It all depends on where the teleprompter places it!
Maybe it is something he learned in Indonesia as a child.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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According to the fill in on Mark Levin’s radio show today the city of Jerusalem isn’t mentioned a single time in the Koran, so any supposed claims the Muslims have to it as a holy site are extremely limited, at best.
Just give them Obama......please
They are trying to take Jerusalem away from the Jews and Israel..... probably in retaliation for Netanyahu standing up to them.
The fools in Washington are tempting G-D.
that never works out well - I’m waiting for a well-placed lightening strike in the middle of a sunny day - on live tv
That would do nicely....and certainly make my day.
One did hit the WH about a month or 2 ago......there was a picture of it on one of the Israeli sites. If I remembered correctly, it happened when he refused to use the term “G-D”.........
He is so arrogant and filled with hubris, that he does not even see what any of this means.
Dear Leader - playing with fire and not only he will get burned but we will end up getting burned. Ask Joplin Missouri !
The United States State Department is standing behind the wording of an official statement that implied that Jerusalem -- including its western parts -- is not a part of Israel... a "remarkable" press release from the State Department about the travels of Deputy Secretary James Steinberg, which says: 'Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg visits Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank [our emphasis, ed.] May 18-19, 2011.'
Well, if it did happen, I don’t think anyone would have anything negative to say about it - it would be more a matter of - ooooooh, did you see that?
O’Bozo can’t name the capital of Israel but he can recite The Islamic call to prayer in perfect Arabic.
I bet he knows the capital cities of all 57 Islamic states.
Torah Observant Jews have prayed 3 times a day for thousands of years. In those prayers, Jerusalem is mentioned 12 times.
The Muslims do not really want the land- they just do not want Jews living there, let alone having any Jews alive. The Koran clearly commands them to kill us.
Now, what does that say about the kind of person Obama is?
I don’t know about Mark Levin, but Sura 17, Banai Israel, mentions Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, and prophesies the return of the Jews there after it was destroyed twice, and that it will be rebuilt a third and final time. See http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/28575/allah-is-a-zionist/
Exactly........and the volcanic ash that put a damper on his trip to Ireland........
Every time someone does something to Israel.....something bad happens....
Sure. It’d make a great Minaret, and the Capitol is just the right shape for the Mosque.
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