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Obama Opposes New Pro-Israel Measures, Will Not Follow Provisions to Help Jewish State
Free Beacon ^ | 2/15/16 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 02/25/2016 10:51:27 AM PST by Nachum

President Barack Obama has announced in a rare statement that he will not follow newly passed measures aimed at boosting the Israeli economy and strengthening ties between the United States and the Jewish state, according to a statement issued by the president.

Obama stated that while he would sign the new trade resolution, portions of which focus on combatting economic boycotts of Israel, he would not enforce certain pro-Israel provisions that order the United States to stop partnering with countries that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to isolate Israel.

The president’s rejection of these provisions comes two weeks after the White House issued a separate statement expressing support for every provision of the trade bill except for those focusing on strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship.

The Obama administration has repeatedly opposed efforts to fight the BDS movement over the past several months, with several senior officials expressing support for European efforts to explicitly label Jewish-made products produced in disputed areas of Israel.

Obama claimed in the statement that his administration does not back the BDS movement. However, he will not uphold parts of the new trade legislation that seek to combat the BDS-backed labeling of Jewish goods, which the Israeli government has described as anti-Semitic.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bds; davidcameron; israel; israelbds; obama; obamaantiisrael; obamanation; scotland; scotlandyet; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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Letting his inner Israel-Hate come out...
1 posted on 02/25/2016 10:51:27 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 02/25/2016 10:52:29 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Is this a presidential prerogative, or is he yet again breaking the law?


3 posted on 02/25/2016 10:53:23 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Nachum
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS.

I guess they don't want to call it BDSM.
4 posted on 02/25/2016 10:57:16 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: Nachum

Jooz Bad ! - Muslims Good !


5 posted on 02/25/2016 10:59:37 AM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: Nachum

He’s not even pretending anymore.


6 posted on 02/25/2016 11:00:58 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: Nachum
Obama claimed in the statement that his administration does not back the BDS movement. However, he will not uphold parts of the new trade legislation that seek to combat the BDS-backed labeling of Jewish goods, which the Israeli government has described as anti-Semitic.

To my fellow Jewish FReepers:

Send this article to ALL of your relatives who are liberals, who voted for this abomination, and who are thinking of voting for Hillary or Bernie Sanders. Let them know that THIS is the face of modern Leftism - to SAY the right thing regarding Jews and Israel, but to LIE, AND THEN ACTUALLY DO THE WRONG THING.

They may not listen, or pay attention, but that is their problem - at least you will have done the right thing in your eyes, and in G-d's.

7 posted on 02/25/2016 11:01:37 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Nachum

He’s right, we should concentrate on supporting countries with better civil rights records. You know, like Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Iran.


8 posted on 02/25/2016 11:01:46 AM PST by thorvaldr
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Folks, if you're reading this, you know what needs to happen.
It doesn't take a big contribution. Pick your comfort level and
please join me to help put the FReepathon to rest. Thank you.

9 posted on 02/25/2016 11:03:46 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Nachum

So, once again, Obama gets to enforce what HE thinks should be the law.


10 posted on 02/25/2016 11:06:09 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: mrsmel

His perogative?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k


11 posted on 02/25/2016 11:06:17 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse,

Genesis 12:3


12 posted on 02/25/2016 11:10:20 AM PST by InkStone (Omni Vivum Ex Surfboard)
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To: Ancesthntr
Send this article to ALL of your relatives who are liberals, who voted for this abomination,

All the liberals I know are anti-Israel.

13 posted on 02/25/2016 11:22:16 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Nachum

How can he sign a law, say upfront which sections he will ignore, and not be impeached?

Silly, rhetorical question.


14 posted on 02/25/2016 11:39:54 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: InkStone
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.

When?

15 posted on 02/25/2016 11:50:02 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Nachum

so he plans on signing into law a bill then not fallowing the law.


16 posted on 02/25/2016 12:13:26 PM PST by PCPOET7
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To: Nachum

What an Asp!

(Psalm 140:3)


17 posted on 02/25/2016 12:18:59 PM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: Nachum

It’s not his decision anymore is it. But it’s a very good topic to nail Hillary - and Sanders - on


18 posted on 02/25/2016 2:48:11 PM PST by blueplum
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To: Nachum

So what’s the news here? Obama is a Muslim. He supports the moozies. He supports, and always has the Socialists, the Euro Socialists, so what’s the news here?

S.S.D.D.


19 posted on 02/25/2016 3:53:36 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Nachum; All
CAIR Vows to Save US from 'the Trumps, the Cruzs, the Pamela Gellers, the Robert Spencers'

".......... More importantly, [Jacob] Bender here repeats the common and hysterical claim that "Muslims are the new Jews," which has been answered many times - as often as it has been asserted. Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong, Leftist "journalist" Jeffrey Goldberg, Iranian front group Board member Reza Aslan, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison, Nicholas Kristof, and Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy, among many others, have repeated it. The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.

And in 2014, Bill Maher noted: "Jews weren't oppressing anybody. There weren't 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn't do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren't 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay." Indeed, and no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims now; there is no individual or group remotely comparable to the National Socialists in any genuine sense.

The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero: "'Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,' Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like."

The purpose of this claim is to intimidate people into thinking that criticism of Islamic supremacism leads to the concentration camps, and thus there must be no criticism of Islamic supremacism. The unstated assumption is that if one group was unjustly accused of plotting subversion and violence, and was viciously persecuted and massacred on the basis of those false accusations, then any group accused of plotting subversion and violence must be innocent, and any such accusation must be in service of preparing for their subversion and massacre. It is simply a method to foreclose on any criticism of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism."...............

20 posted on 02/25/2016 11:43:06 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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