Posted on 03/18/2010 3:27:49 PM PDT by Never A Dull Moment
President Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton turned down their initial proposals for easing the upset and laid down three pre-conditions for restoring normal relations with Jerusalem:
1. The Netanyahu government must extend the 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction to include East Jerusalem; 2. When the moratorium runs out in September, it must be renewed for the duration of peace negotiations with the Palestinians; 3. Israeli must make more concessions to the Palestinian Authority and its chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The Israeli government was informed that until those conditions were met, its ministers would not be received in Washington by high-level American officials - a virtual boycott, which downgrades the normal diplomatic, strategic and security exchanges between the two administrations to the level of senators and the special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
Netanyahu tried offering the Obama administration a number of compromise proposals, such as the suspension of construction in East Jerusalem and the city's outlying Jewish suburbs until September, but they were rejected, as was an offer to prohibit further Jewish purchases of land and buildings in Jerusalem's Arab districts during peace negotiations.
Obama and Clinton made it clear they would brook no departures from their three demands, which Israel is required to treat as an ultimatum.
Neither party to the difference has mentioned the US administration's fourth condition for resuming normal relations: an Israeli commitment to refrain from attacking Iran's nuclear program without prior US consent.
Because that commitment has not been offered, administration officials are continuing to hammer Israel in every possible arena. Indeed, the gloves are now off in earnest for insinuations that Israel's settlement policy is the root-cause of Iran's drive for a nuclear bomb and of the conflicts endangering American lives in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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You said “Zero has not only jumped overboard, he has tied an anchor around his neck before jumping. Come on November!!”
No, he has tied the anchor around our necks.
Agreed . . . not yet.
I believe it is when the AC sets his image up in the Holy of Holies.
Quix I agree with everything you said except for the pink slip. It will take a lot more than a pink slip to rid America of this thug. Tyrants are never removed peacefully unless God intervens and removes them. If O’Thuga keeps up with his treatment of Isreal that is exactly what could happen. CO
. . . Agreed . . .
unless . . .
he was put in power to be taken down as a scapegoat at a critical point.
Thanks for the ping!
US troops ordered to defend Islamofacists against Jews trying to survive...
Clintoon did the same thing against the Bosnian Christian Serbs.
Israel
If you do not challenge this now. Stand up, make or break the liberals in the US with money from Arab PetroStates will slowly strangle Israel.
The American People are still with you..in spite of the best efforts and propaganda by Socialists like the Liberal Jews in the United States and the Islamofacist Supporters.
But you Israel must stand up and fight this now.
Your Politicians need to stand strong against this political blackmail.. and your conservative Rabbis need to come out swinging first and foremost against Liberal Jews here in the US who in no small part made this dreadful circumstance possible.
W
Sad, but true.
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