Posted on 12/29/2014 11:46:32 AM PST by Dave346
Foreign Policy article examines number of times state department referred to "unacceptable" behavior this year; Israel ranked between North Korea and Pakistan.
The US State Department described Israeli actions as "unacceptable" 87 times in 2014, with only three countries being more "unacceptable," according to a Foreign Policy article published last week.
Journalist Micah Zenko searched the State Department's website for usage of the term, and his "top ten" list shows Israel sandwiched right between North Korea and Pakistan. Zenko pointed that the US officials regularly use the phrase "but then do very little in response to prevent or deter those actions from reoccurring."
Most of the condemnations relating to Israel involved building in settlements or the announcement of plans to construct additional housing behind the Green Line. Government spokespeople also castigated Israel for civilian casualties during Operation Protective Edge.
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently used the "unacceptable" label to refer to North Korea's alleged hacking of the Sony Corporation.
The US State Department is not the only entity in the international diplomacy arena that tends to recycle certain phrases. Ynet found that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used the word "concerned" 140 times in 2014 in statements responding to events. Israel and Palestine were the most concerning places of 2014, with 19 press releases using the term.
Top 10 unacceptable countries since Obama took office:
Syria (147), Iran (118), North Korea (115), Israel (87), Pakistan (83), Russia (78), Egypt (77), China (74), Afghanistan (66), and Iraq (63).
Netanyahu may not be eligible to run for office another term. If he is, there is much opposition. You know how leadership personalities go in and out of fashion i,e, Winston Churchill. There are many more liberal Israeli groups who want to give up more land to the Palestinians.
We shall see what happens by the next national election, which I believe is on March 17th, St. Patty’s Day.
What’s the Hebrew version of “Go bleep yourself, Kerry!”?
I’ll bet Netanyahu knows.
Was able to verify this here (look down left side of page):
I would think the Obama administration would absolutely love Israel — taxpayer funded abortions for any reason & universal health care.
Absolutely, just one notch above the last one
the just put one really ugly criminal after another in that
position.
Top 10 unacceptable countries since Obama took office:
“Syria (147), Iran (118), North Korea (115), Israel (87), Pakistan (83), Russia (78), Egypt (77), China (74), Afghanistan (66), and Iraq (63).” OMG! U left out Marxist
USA.
The State Department is NOT the USA.
There’s a reason why it’s so commonly referred to as the Snake Dept.
The first item is a speech by Hillary Clinton saying that a nuclear Iran would be unacceptable to the US and to Israel.
The second item lists "Activities / Actions in Syria Unacceptable to International Community" and mentions unacceptable attacks on our Ambassador to Egypt but has "Israel/Palestine" as another heading on the same page with nothing about unacceptable actions there.
Same thing with the third item. Stuff unacceptable in Syria and Egypt, but Israel is in the same part of the world and is included in the same briefing.
Item four calls the situation in Gaza unacceptable but praises some Israeli action, so maybe it's not Israel they're ruling unacceptable. There's a question about whether Israeli home demolitions are "unacceptable" but the official doesn't give a black-and-white answer on that.
So the story is garbage based on the fact that Israel, Egypt, and Syria are included in the same briefing transcripts and any condemnation of one country in a press conference counts turns up when you search for the name of any one of the countries.
What the U. S., or You Ass?
The ass in the White House thinks a lot of stupid things.
Ani lo midober Ivrit. Can you transliterate?
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Surprised? We build houses. We don’t get intimidated. Wooooooo.
That just sends a tingle....to think that Zimbabwe is so high on the “acceptable” list.
When they really needed The U. S. in the 1967 Six Day War all of a sudden neither our State Department or the Executive Branch could find our written treaty where we promised to come to their defense in event of an attack. It seems it had been misplaced. Do not laugh this was actually what was reported on the evening news.
Of course after their God given miraculous, stunning victory our State Department hounded them to death for the next five years till they give back the Sinai Desert plus all the oil wells they had started to drill there to the very people Egypt that led the attack on them.
They used our World Bank to put financial pressure by blocking their loans from they needed to get Jews out from behind the Iron Curtain.
Every time God gives them a miracle victory on those that attack them along with some of their land that was taken from them in the attack launched against them that was supposed to push them into the sea the day after they were given statehood.
Then we show up afterward pressuring them until they give it back, just to keep the oil money flowing into the pockets of the rich American oil companies who fund our reps of both parties.
Then there's our sins where we openly defy the Living God by making the law of the land the things He says are abominations the Law of the Land and giving.
Now we wonder why our Country under judgment and is at the edge of the dump and being fitted for sackcloth and having ashes piled on our heads.
God will not be mocked.
And we declared the administration of ob unacceptable daily.
Yet the Golden Globes and Oscar awards show is filled with Jews
Case in point, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin’s monologue at the Oscars
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