Posted on 04/27/2011 5:36:24 AM PDT by SJackson
Meeting with Kay Granger comes week before Netanyahu goes to Europe to lobby against PA move to pursue unilateral statehood at UN.
As both Israel and the Palestinian Authority step up lobbying efforts regarding the possible PA bid for statehood at the UN in September, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet a top US congresswoman Wednesday who threatened that the US would reduce aid to the PA if it went ahead with the move.
Representative Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas, said in a recent Jerusalem Post interview that such a Palestinian move would be a “very serious step” that would affect US aid to the PA and could also “affect our funding at the UN.”
Jerusalem Post interview that such a Palestinian move would be a "very serious step" that would affect US aid to the PA and could also "affect our funding at the UN."
Granger, chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee overseeing foreign aid, is part of a visiting Congressional delegation that is headed by Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and includes four other Republican senators and one Democrat – Maria Cantwell from Washington.
In addition to discussing the diplomatic process with the Palestinians and the possibility that the Palestinians will seek a unilateral declaration in September, Netanyahu is also expected during his meeting with the US lawmakers to discuss the rapid changes in the region, including the situation in Syria.
So far, Jerusalem – carefully watching the situation in Syria – has remained publicly pretty mum on the developments there.
Netanyahu will take Israel’s efforts to keep Europe from supporting recognition of a Palestinian state to London and Paris next week, where he will make Israel’s case to British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Netanyahu will meet for the first time as prime minister with Cameron next Wednesday, and the following day he is scheduled to meet Sarkozy.
Both Israel and the PA are intensively courting Britain, France and Germany, since those countries are looked to as the leaders in setting the EU’s foreign policy.
Whether Europe supports or opposes a Palestinian resolution at the UN will to a large extent determine the resolution’s significance, as the Palestinians are eager to get the resolution passed in the General Assembly by the world’s democracies, and not only by the automatic majority of Islamic and developing countries it commands in that body.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was in Paris last week and reportedly received mixed signals from Sarkozy over the idea. He is scheduled to go to Berlin on May 5.
Earlier this month, following a meeting with Netanyahu in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out against a unilateral declaration of statehood and in favor of an agreedupon solution. The US has also made its position against such a move well known.
Regarding Netanyahu’s visit to Britain and France, The Israel Project released a poll last week showing that while both Israel and the Palestinians are viewed coolly in Britain and France, Israel scores slightly higher than the Palestinians among the French public, while the situation is reversed in Britain.
Asked to rate their feelings toward Israel and the Palestinians, in Britain 19 percent of the UK public said they had warm feelings for Israel, compared with 31% for the Palestinians.
Thirty-one percent of the British public said they had cool feelings toward Israel, and 25% toward the Palestinians.
In France, 21% registered warm feelings toward Israel, compared with 16% for the Palestinians, while 29% had cool feelings toward Israel and 36% for the Palestinians
how would the Israelis be treated differently by the UN if they simply eliminated all Palestinians permanently?
I honestly do not understand why they continue to put up with their crap...
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Where is Obama on this?
Meanwhile the head of all heads espies his beautiness in his favorite talking mirror for 35th time in last 20 minutes thinking aloud," Maybe I should put ALL mirrors in this oval office and some electronic game those weasel scum middle classless people won't be allowed to buy, no more cars for them scumbags either, time to make sure the Joooo bow to MEEeeee,FOR I AM THEE Calpharte. Ahmadinerjunket said so."
And so it is in DC these days....
Meanwhile Thief in Chief Don QuiOxtobama chases terrorists for his imaginary new world order as his Kinetic Humanitarian (not a war, it's not, NOT NOT)Affair windmill insurgent UAV finder shall surround them Jooos once and for all,as he whispereth himself for who else will listen and undestand such intelligence but he( da limpdinkus)," Damn that Daffy Qaddafi, how many have died already, certainly not enough Joooos. No Jooos in Libya, who woulda thunked! and with my superior geography, hell maybe some shrapnel will hit Israel. I must send in the marine corpses, and calll MSM again to find out if anyone there is really on MY side, oh and must cover up those murdered and raped journalists, now for the EPA muahahahahaha"
Then he notices the prize heearned won and thinks," Gotta get some of the slaves i mean the staff to polish my Nobel Peace price but reflection always has Arafat staring at me, must get that fixed."
It’s foreign aid which keeps the Palestinian issue alive. They produce little, that I know of. If there was no welfare from foreign aid, the Palestinians would have to emigrate to someplace with jobs.
Reduce aid?! Bevins to Hetsy, Noooooooooo! How would the Irgun have managed to last until 14/5/48 if Congress had reduced aid to them? They were paying out sixty whole minutes an hour of aid to those Jewish revolutionaries, and they would have been hard put to make ends meet without it. Now they threaten to reduce aid to the PLO?! Racism!
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu... Representative Kay Granger, a Republican from Texas... Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham... four other Republican senators... one Democrat -- Maria Cantwell from Washington... British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy... Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was in Paris last week... scheduled to go to Berlin on May 5. Earlier this month... German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out against a unilateral declaration of statehood and in favor of an agreed upon solution. The US has also made its position against such a move well known...19 percent of the UK public said they had warm feelings for Israel, compared with 31% for the Palestinians. Thirty-one percent of the British public said they had cool feelings toward Israel, and 25% toward the Palestinians. In France, 21% registered warm feelings toward Israel, compared with 16% for the Palestinians, while 29% had cool feelings toward Israel and 36% for the Palestinians
Israel can not count on Eurabia for any support, especially not Cameron who hates Israel. Of the three the likeliest to support Israel is Germany.
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