Christians as illegitimate.
Ironic, considering:
Posted on 02/21/2011 5:04:11 AM PST by SJackson
As if UN ambassador Susan Rice’s tongue-lashing of Israel at the Security Council on Friday wasn’t enough, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also had some choice words in an interview to ABC’s Christiane Amanpour shortly before the Security Council vote.
“I think it is absolutely clear to say,” Clinton enunciated,
number one, that it’s been American policy for many years that settlements were illegitimate and it is the continuing goal and highest priority of the Obama administration to keep working toward a two-state solution with both Israelis and Palestinians.
“Illegitimate” is supposed to be just short of “illegal” while still being, of course, a very strong condemnation.
It’s an idiom for which the secretary of state is already well known. Last March, when the Obama administration publicly skewered Israel over plans for Jewish housing in Jerusalem, Clinton called the plans a “deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the [U.S.-Israeli] relationship” that “had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process.”
And in May 2009 she was even more emphatic, saying that Obama “wants to see a stop to settlements—not some settlements, not outposts, not ‘natural growth’ exceptions.” The clear implication was that even babies should not be born in Israeli West Bank communities, or perhaps should be relocated immediately thereafter.
Official Israel had little choice, of course, but to praise the U.S. veto of Friday’s Palestinian-initiated Security Council resolution on settlements—led by a statement from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office that “Israel deeply appreciates the decision.” A veto accompanied by abusive language from the UN ambassador and the secretary of state is, no doubt, better than no veto. But to say that it is a lesser evil is not to excuse it.
The Israeli communities in the West Bank—or Judea and Samaria, locus of much of the Bible, and cradle of the Jewish people and of the Judeo-Christian component of Western civilization—now comprise about 300,000 inhabitants. If one adds to these the 200,000 Jewish Israelis now living in northern, eastern, and southern parts of Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem, that the Obama administration also consistently calls “settlements,” the total comes to about half a million.
Is all this illegitimate? Of course not—not according to that earlier Security Council Resolution, 242 of 1967, which sets the basis for Arab-Israeli diplomatic processes and never mentions settlements; nor according to the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords, which leave settlements as an issue for final-status negotiations and in no way proscribe them.
Nor were settlements illegitimate according to Eugene V. Rostow, the late legal scholar who helped draft Resolution 242 and, in 1991, asserted in the New Republic that Israel’s right to settle the West Bank is “unassailable” and that “the Jews have the same right to settle there as they have to settle in Haifa.” Nor according to Stephen M. Schwebel, the international-law expert who wrote in 1970 that
As between Israel, acting defensively in 1948 and 1967, on the one hand, and her Arab neighbors, acting aggressively, in 1948 and 1967, on the other, Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem….
And what of the implications of the U.S. secretary of state publicly branding communities comprising half a million people as “illegitimate”? They’re clearly very negative, at a time when Israel is subject to a worldwide delegitimization campaign that seeks to drum home big lies about it being a “rogue,” “apartheid” state that consistently flouts international law and deserves “BDS” (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) if not violent attack.
And from what does Clinton’s “illegitimate” calumny stem? It stems from a bowing and scraping before the Palestine Authority’s demand, representative of Arab and Islamic supremacism, that Judea, Samaria, and the most historical parts of Jerusalem be Judenfrei, and the claim that this is somehow a condition for “peace.”
But Jews will keep living in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, and those with an elemental sense of justice, and an honest awareness of the facts, will see it as a good thing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/21/hillary-slams-settlements%e2%80%94again/
“settlements illegitimate”
Are there any other non-enemy countries that the State department deigns to decide what they should do with their land?
No? Then WFT?
Hillary doesn’t criticize any nation on earth, unless it’s one that is fighting against our enemies.
With that regard, she is Obama in drag.
The southwest USA would be occupied by her standards. The 13 Colonies would probably be occupied by her standards.
We need lessons in “legitimacy” from an administration that thought it was legitimate to:
a) enact the largest piece of social legislation since Medicare on a pure party-line vote over the persistently-stated opposition of the American public;
b) use the POTUS to try and “sell” this legislation to a skeptical public after its passage, using a string of repeatedly stated lies to do so; and
c) continue implementing said piece of legislation even after a federal judge has declared it unconstitutional in its entirety?
It would be nice for America to have a President and administration with America’s best interest at heart.
We must relentlessly defund and stall their agenda, without compromise!
Then, nominate strong conservatives, to throw Obama out in 2012.
Is not Israel a sovereign nation? Have not there been battles over land for the past 4,000 years in that area? Hillary has been in office for two years and she knows what Israel should do in a micro managed manner? Does she not know that there already is a Palestinian state called Jordan? Is she anti Semitic, along with President Obama, and former President Carter? Does she, as a woman, really have the stature to represent the USA in Arab nations, given the place of women in their culture?
There is no such thing as a two-state solution. Jordan already exists.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
..................
Agreed. Its none of our business what Israel does within its own borders. Hillary and Barry need to sit down and STFU about it. If I was Bibi Netanyahu those are the exact words I would use on those 2 glorious cretins.
Is all this illegitimate? Of course not -- not according to that earlier Security Council Resolution, 242 of 1967, which sets the basis for Arab-Israeli diplomatic processes and never mentions settlements; nor according to the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords, which leave settlements as an issue for final-status negotiations and in no way proscribe them.
hillary is in a position of power she surely cannot handle. What has she done anyway? She comes on TV and says things like: “We caution...We encourage...We this we that and does nothing. This job is her downfall. She’ll never be President of these United States. I think it will be a long time before ANY democrap will be President. Obama and his lack of leadership and caring for every other country except our own has sort of sealed that deal in my opinion. I think this job was given to hillereee to keep her busy and out of the country a lot. She’s supposed to be the smartest woman in the world and yet she couldn’t see what was happening?????? It must be really something to be a legend in your own mind. God get us through this next two years and then let us put in a real leader of this great country who will once again put us back in a positiion of strength where no one will EVER perceive us as WEAK again as was stated today or yesterday by that clerci or whatever he is. He is right. We ARE WEAK right now. Peace through Strength is one of our greatest mottos...you cannot lead through weakness as obama is doing now.
Where doe she live? Injuns arise.
It’s 3:00 am .
The phone is ringing.
None of the Bozo’s in the administration are competent enough to answer it .
Hitlery needs to sit down and shut up.
(if there was ever any doubt in anyone’s mind that she is just as evil as her boss she just proved it)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.