Posted on 10/01/2014 6:52:27 PM PDT by Rusty0604
State Department uses unusually harsh language when criticizing Israel’s approval of 2,610 homes in Jerusalem.
The U.S. State Department used unusually harsh language on Wednesday when criticizing Israel’s approval of planned construction of 2,610 homes in Jerusalem.
The housing units, which have been slated for construction since 2012 in the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos, were given final approval last week.
Reacting to the move, the State Department warned it would call into question Israel’s commitment to peace with the Palestinian Authority.
According to Reuters, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the step would also send a “troubling message” if the Israeli government proceeded with tenders and construction.
“This development will only draw condemnation from the international community, distance Israel from even its closest allies, poison the atmosphere not only with the Palestinians but also with the very Arab governments with which Prime Minister (Binyamin) Netanyahu said he wanted to build relations,” Psaki was quoted as having told a briefing.
In addition, it would “call into question Israel’s ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement,” she added.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday that President Barack had Obama told Netanyahu of Washington's deep concerns over the Israeli move.
Obama raised the development in face-to-face talks in the Oval Office, Earnest said.
"The United States is deeply concerned by reports the Israeli government has moved forward" with planning for construction in a "sensitive area" of eastern Jerusalem, Earnest said, according to AFP.
Earnest warned that the project could distance Israel from its "closest" allies and that Israel would send a "very troubling message" by following through with it.
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The State Dept has cursed America with Ebola,
Tuberculosis, ISIS, beheadings, EV-68, murders,
and even complicity in SLAVERY and RAPE,
and in the meantime is so utterly low,
that it has time to attack Jews for building homes.
Barack Obola’s response: “Yes, you can. You don’t need all those houses anyway. The Germans used to pack you Jews in nice and tight in those ghettos.”
Your sentiment is shared by millions.
Dear Benyamin Netanyahu, Kindly tell Obama, and his administration to FO, which means go fly a kite.
According to the Obama regime:
- firing rockets at civilians = “partners in peace”.
- building housing for people = “poisoning the atmosphere”.
Are they insane, evil, or both?
0bam again more like Carter in the hate for Israel. 0bama has an excuse. He’s mussie.
Yes. It is beyond doubt.
The State Department is a rats nest that needs to be totally cleaned out.
Meanwhile The PA lobbing missiles at civilians does not poison the atmosphere. Smells of hypocrisy.
If I wasn’t a lady, I would spit on everyone who voted for this man!!
Cause Jews poison wells, don’t ya get the reference?
The most antisemitic administration in history.
FU State Department
Meanwhile, the delusional, ignorant, incompetent megalomaniac thinks that he not only can, but is entitled to decide what a (non-muslim) sovereign must do.
I wonder what his reaction would be if Netanyahu suggested that it is "inappropriate" for U.S. citizens to build anything within 50 miles of the Mexican border because it disses and upsets the hundreds of thousands of illiterate Mexicans and other illegal criminals who want to come into the U.S.
You know, he might actually agree, LOL!
The enemy within USA embarrasses America yet again. (The only mitigation to any of this is that nobody takes serious anything a bunch of lying nazis say, but it still makes America look like sh@t just because it spews forth from govt offices and bureaus ). Please pray for America.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Sure, why should Jews be allowed to purchase homes in Jerusalem. Jewish families poison the atmosphere, Hamas and Hizbollah rockets rock.
Well, of course. How else would we kill Christian children to get blood for our matzohs? /bitter_sarcasm
Indeed.
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