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US criticism of Israel reaches boiling point
inn ^ | 1/18/16 | Cynthia Blank

Posted on 01/18/2016 9:01:32 AM PST by Nachum

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro voiced a particularly sharp attack against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria on Monday, accusing Israeli authorities of holding them to different standards of law.

He expressed the unusually harsh criticism during a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv.

Shapiro condemned two brutal stabbing attacks on Sunday and Monday as "barbaric acts of terrorism," before launching into a critique of Israel's policies concerning the communities in Judea-Samaria.

"We are concerned and perplexed by Israel's strategy on settlements," Shapiro stated. "This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly expressed support for a negotiated settlement that would involve mutual recognition and separation."

"Yet separation will become more and more difficult if Israel continues to expand settlements," he asserted.

Shapiro then took issue with Israeli security forces, accusing them of being too lenient against extremist right-wing violence.

"Too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked," he charged, adding that "there is lack of thorough investigations… at times it seems Israel has two standards of adherence to rule of law in the West Bank - one for Jews and one for Palestinians."

Shapiro's comments come on the heels of a recent flood of castigations voiced by the US administration against the Israeli government.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boiling; criticism; danshapiro; dhimmitude; iran; israel; obama; palestinians; philistines; point; rop; samaria; settlements; shapiro; stateofpalestine
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He gives the straight muslim line.


21 posted on 01/18/2016 10:01:38 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Nachum

He will get a well paying job as spokesman and advisor to a muslim country once he leaves the State Dept.


22 posted on 01/18/2016 10:06:47 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
this administration is seething with Israeli and Jew hatred.
23 posted on 01/18/2016 10:08:05 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

this administration is seething with America hatred.


24 posted on 01/18/2016 10:20:22 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic

This administration is seething with Western Culture hatred.


25 posted on 01/18/2016 10:34:17 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: TexasRepublic

This administration is seething with hatred of Christianity.


26 posted on 01/18/2016 10:34:43 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Nachum

Undoubtedly. The useful ( self- hating) idiot Capo Otherwise O would’ve sent a Muslim brotherhood terrorist gangster to be “America’s ambassador” to Jerusalem


27 posted on 01/18/2016 10:45:39 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
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To: Nachum

As far as I am concerned, Shapiro can go to hell and take the Obama voting traitors with him.


28 posted on 01/18/2016 10:46:50 AM PST by sport
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To: Nachum

“Too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked,” he charged, adding that “there is lack of thorough investigations…

Ah yes, that they care about. But let’s let terrorist murdering muslims into our countries unchecked to rape, murder, and blow things up in the name of allah. But don’t you dare hurt those poor lil muzzies in your own land!


29 posted on 01/18/2016 11:28:18 AM PST by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Nachum

The Obama Regime’s ability to get it wrong such a large percentage of the time is uncanny.


30 posted on 01/18/2016 11:38:42 AM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: Nachum

Well said, Nachum.


31 posted on 01/18/2016 4:26:20 PM PST by golux
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To: Nachum
A perfect instance, by the way, to replace the generally perfect 'sycophantic' with boot-licking.
32 posted on 01/18/2016 4:27:39 PM PST by golux
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To: Nachum

Israel should kidnap Shapiro, and hold him incognito for a few years while threatening to wipe the Muslims and America off the face of the Earth. That would maybe get them to the negotiating table with us. Then after screwing America over for a few decades while doing EXACTLY what they pleased, they could start proxy wars in Central American countries while threatening to bomb DC off the map.


33 posted on 01/18/2016 9:08:38 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (Go Cruz GO, scare the RINO's to death)
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34 posted on 01/18/2016 9:11:35 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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36 posted on 01/19/2016 4:34:14 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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To: Nachum

“Shapiro then took issue with Israeli security forces, accusing them of being too lenient against extremist right-wing violence.

“Too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked,” he charged, adding that “there is lack of thorough investigations… at times it seems Israel has two standards of adherence to rule of law in the West Bank - one for Jews and one for Palestinians.”

Gosh. He’s right. They arrest teenage Jews and try to torture confessions from them, while they release Pali convicted terrorists when Hamas kidnaps IDF.

This guy has got sh!t for brains.


37 posted on 01/19/2016 2:31:43 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: musicman; MarvinStinson

Your cartoon in # 34 - right on mark!


38 posted on 01/24/2016 7:38:33 PM PST by Mr Apple
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