Posted on 11/15/2013 8:35:22 AM PST by Rusty0604
Edited on 11/15/2013 9:36:20 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
(CNSNews.com) – Asserting that the United States views Jewish settlements as “illegitimate” does not amount to prejudging the outcome of negotiations aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday.
The U.S. has not recognized the legitimacy of settlements in the disputed territories “for decades,” she told a press briefing.
“Every administration in recent memory has said that the settlements are illegitimate,” Psaki added. “So it’s been a pretty consistent position for quite some time now.”
Some 520,000 Israelis – around seven percent of the total population – live in areas claimed by the Palestinians, including long-established suburbs of east, north and south Jerusalem.
Increasingly often in recent months, Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials have made the point about settlement illegitimacy.
Usually, they have attributed the term to “continued” settlement activity – implying active construction work in existing or new settlements. (President Obama used the same term in his 2009 speech in Cairo and again at the United Nations later that year, saying the U.S. “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”)
But at a meeting with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem last week Kerry dropped the modifier, saying only “we consider now and have always considered the settlements to be illegitimate.”
Asked Thursday about the significance of dropping the word “continued,” Psaki said it was just “an issue of semantics.”
A reporter disagreed. “If you talk about the illegitimacy only of continued settlements, that means that you take no position on existing settlements,” said the Associated Press’ Matt Lee.
“If you have in fact dropped the word ‘continued’ from in front of ‘settlement activity,’ whether you say it’s a policy change or not it has very broad implications. It would appear as though you are toughening your stance and saying that all Israeli settlements are illegitimate
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John Kerry your documents and qualifications are intelligent. You have been possibly charged with treason and you records were intelligently changed by President Carter. Repent!
So's 0bama.
Since when are Kerry & Jarrett
members of the Zoning Commission
in Jerusalem Israel ?
Ah. The US NAZI department, again.
When do these guys get their black and silver uniforms?
The toilet just flushed again.
Actually, the US Congress and America recognized Israeli sovereignty
AND Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel
until the DNC and Tyrant Obama deemed otherwise.
As long as Israel is owned by Israel, I’m thinking they have the authority to make their own laws...
“...The U.S. has not recognized the legitimacy of settlements in the disputed territories “for decades,” she told a press briefing...”
Since when is it the State department’s responsibility to say what is or is not legitimate in Israel?????
Obama is trying to force us into recognizing International law which isn't legitimate either...
Diplomats, floating their evil messages on papyrus back and forth across the oceans for their constituent slave masters.
> State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday. The U.S. has not recognized the legitimacy of settlements in the disputed territories “for decades,”
That’s just a flat-out, bald-faced LIE.
Thanks Rusty0604.
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Amongst the many points ignored by the administration and advocates of the "palestinians"
The binding document is the British Mandate, incorporated by the UN, which required Britian to settle Jews in the Jewish Homeland, what today is Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, and Jordan. Modified at San Remo to exclude Jordan which was gifted to the Hashemites of Saudi Arabia. Existing non Jewish residents are not to be disturbed, but the word Arab doesn't appear in the Mandate. Throughout British records of the Mandate period the word palestininian appears frequently. It refers to the Jews living in palestine, which is how they referred to the Jewish Homeland.
Jews move into "East" Jerusalem, Sudea and Sumaria, formerly Gaza and the Sinai, of their own free will. They are not "transferred". Nor have Arabs been transferred out of those lands, nor from Israel. The only transfers to have taken place were the forced transfer of Jews from Judea and Samaria by Jordan, and of Jews from Gaza from Israel. I suppose those could be war crimes.
The land is disputed, not occupied. There never has been an independent Arab state in what is referred to as palestine today. It was controlled by the British through the mandate period, part of Turkey for four centuries or so. Prior to that an assortment of Arab (from Arabia, not local) and Christian kingdoms. Before that, the Romans, before that it was Israel. With brief periods of occupation by Greeks and Babylonians.
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See post 17, illegitimate since they don’t like it. That’s been the American position for decades, both Democrat and Republican administrations have not liked Jews living where they choose. Illegal, that would be a hard case to make, though in most international venues “jury nullification” would doom Israel. The OJ effect.
Note 17 and 18. International law would come down on Israel's side, though they'd lose.
soebarkah’s tough on Israel, but shows his true pansy self when it comes to dealing with America’s real enemies.
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