Posted on 08/14/2010 4:46:07 PM PDT by cruise_missile
JERUSALEM Israeli officials said Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years.
Competing Israeli and Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem were feeding tensions in the holy city, where Arabs and Jews maintain an uneasy coexistence and sometimes clash. Police were out in large numbers in the volatile Old City in expectation of renewed clashes.
Top U.S. officials have lined up in recent days to condemn the Israeli plan to build 1,600 apartments in east Jerusalem, the sector of the holy city that the Palestinians claim for their future capital.
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Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Israelis overwhelmingly do NOT trust the boy king and see through him. Now, American Jews are a different story.
I think his approval rating in Israel was around 11%.
That is the change I can believe in.
This has got to hurt his polls. At least with the non-Jihadists.
Obama is all for tolerance...Now is the time to rebuild the Holy Temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem!
“I just hope this contradiction is going to be apparent to some of the talk show people. I think there is a lot of political mileage here.”
You and me both, this is a big item and should be hammered on every day.
So he supported the mosque, but he did not support that mosque, which is really called damage control from screaming Dems running in Nov. Gibs wouldn't even want to take on.
Blame it on Obama's Vacation Lag.
This is more than hypocrisy. Could Obama be going mad?
Wow! You just made the hair stand up on the back of my head!. This may finally be the trigger! A lot has been happening the last little while (Iran and it's nuke). Now that this is related to a Mosque. Israel may feel the connection is justified for them for their Temple. I had to show my family your post. HA! GREAT CONNECTION AND POINT!!! -Thanks
A definite breakdown in politics.
This was a meltdown on Yahoo news. Greater than 40,000 posts.
A definite breakdown in politics.
This was a meltdown on Yahoo news. Greater than 40,000 posts.
What just amazes me is not just how stupid 52% of our population to have voted for this Muslim Community Organizer, but that now many of these same people are claiming they had "no idea" that this is how Barack Hussein Obama would turn out.
Can we be (for once) honest in this country?
Barack Hussein Obama is a MUSLIM, who spits on the victims of 911, and hates Jews.
Is this REALLY so hard for the country to understand now?
You shut the Hell up! And get the Hell out of Palestine!
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All my jewish friends voted FOR obama...every single one.
And what about you Westsiders, Riverside Drive residents and Upper Eastsiders? Do you still support this slithering reptile
You know they do and will continue to do so.
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