Posted on 03/15/2010 12:33:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual""
Oren was speaking to Israeli consuls general in a conference call on Saturday night. Sunday, Netanyahu continued to consult with the forum of seven senior cabinet ministers over a list of demands that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made in a telephone conversation Friday.
Clinton harshly criticized the announcement last week of plans to expand the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in East Jerusalem while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Israel. Advertisement
Haaretz has learned that Clinton's list includes at least four steps the United States expects Netanyahu to carry out to restore confidence in bilateral relations and permit the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.
1. Investigate the process that led to the announcement of the Ramat Shlomo construction plans in the middle of Biden's visit. The Americans seek an official response from Israel on whether this was a bureaucratic mistake or a deliberate act carried out for political reasons. Already on Saturday night, Netanyahu announced the convening of a committee to look into the issue.
2. Reverse the decision by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee to approve construction of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo.
3. Make a substantial gesture toward the Palestinians enabling the renewal of peace talks. The Americans suggested that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners be released, that the Israel Defense Forces withdraw from additional areas of the West Bank and transfer them to Palestinian control, that the siege of the Gaza Strip be eased and further roadblocks in the West Bank be removed.
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And Hillary isn't too fond of you, either.
“You know, I am curious why every Israel thread has a comment like this. What is the point? Obama has a 4% popularity in Israel. He is overwhelmingly dispised there. So, why does American Jewry’s liberal slant get mentioned each time?”
Well said, but one does have to appreciate the irony of the left slant American Jews have...it just seems illogical as can be.
So the Muslims can kill bus loads of Israeli school children without fear of reprisal from the US, but Israel building homes on their own land is an act of war??? What a crazy world we live in...our country’s present admin being one of the more insane ones.
Much of it has been/is a step by step, and incremental, gradual erosion of what made our nation strong, prosperous, bastion of freedom, and liberty; and blessed. Much of it has gone on largely unnoticed, in our school curriculum,in the inundation of uncontrolled immigration, enlargement of welfare and entitlement programs. They have moved quickly during times of crisis, civil rights, etc. Once our rights began to written down, things that were always our free will rights began to not be rights anymore.
Two major things are the avenues traveled over and over. Get a bill that sounds good. IE child protection agencies for example. Soon it powers expand and keep on expanding until today they wield great power. Any legislation once began can ever expand and encroach on all kinds of unintended areas.
The second avenue is budgets. Same story ... it is an ever increasing need and demand for bigger and bigger budgets.
In the beginning when Obama wanted a health care bill on his desk before August 2009. He asked for even a slip of a bill. It didn't happen. In order to agree to one it had to have thousands of earmarks before the members of the Congress would turn a bill out as approved by the respective branch.
Horrific theft, Unconstitutional, bankrupting divisions of the National budget,ever escalating.
God help us, inn our day, in Jesus name, amen.
Simply plain old thumbing their collective noses at the people and what the people want, expect, demand, and are protesting to stop.
“WE are days away from the fundamental changing of America.”
Stimulus Bill, bank bailouts, AIG bailout, GMC acquisition and huge bailout,Loss of millioms of jobs. Many frivolous projects in Stimulus Bill and adding little of importance to the job market. Brainwashing our children. It is pervasive and evil. MO He told us. Wealth distribution, green power, national security force as well armed as our army,Cap and Trade, stop drilling, stop )kill) the coal industry, raise taxes,HEALTHCARE, HEALTHCARE, HEALTHCARE!!! U. N.. INTERNATIONAL LAW. U.N..world tax. ETC. ETC
It is all coming. Seize large tracts of land across America declared to be set aside for ??? parks? HA!
He did not say He intended to bankrupt and cause the fall of America ... Are you surprised that is what he is doing..
HE HAD A GREEK TEMPLE BUILT FOR HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH after the run off with Hillary. Egotist to the nth degree.
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