Posted on 02/29/2016 7:26:44 PM PST by Lera
Ahead of Biden's visit to Israel, Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to prevent new Jerusalem housing projects.
US Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Israel next Sunday, and the Obama administration is launching an all-out effort to prevent a repeat of the diplomatic flare-up that marred his previous trip in 2010.
In what is likely to be the last state visit to Israel by a top-level Obama administration official, Biden's visit closes out a rocky relationship between Israel and the White House.
Perhaps the most publicized dispute in that period was the so-called "Ramot Biden" incident in March 2010, when plans for a new housing project in the haredi neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem were announced while Biden was in Israel promoting talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Biden issued a sharp condemnation of the plans, while then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton berated Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during a 43-minute phone call.
Today, with the memory of the 2010 dustup looming, US officials are pressing Israel not to build in "sensitive" areas of Jerusalem like Gilo, Har Homa, and Pisgat Ze'ev, NRG reported, citing a high-ranking US official on condition of anonymity.
"We don't want another neighborhood in Jerusalem to be called 'Ramot Biden,'" the official said.
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Just like he said he would.
If he wants a Hawaiian pork dinner again, let him go to the takeout window.
I am very grateful for that scripture!
[[History repeats, although without a friendly king of Persia, just a hostile megalomaniomonarchoboulomenos in the US.]]
Looking to other kings has never been the answer.
(Proverbs 16:7) When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
There were never friendly kings without men seeking HIS face and crying out to him.
The Palestinians are not capable of governing themselves.
The more Israel hands them the worst they get even with their own people.
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