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US to Israel: Build in Jerusalem for Arabs, but not for Jews
Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/29/2016

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: arabs; israel; jerusalem
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Arabs belong in ARABIA
1 posted on 02/29/2016 7:26:44 PM PST by Lera
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To: Lera

Who in the hell is this wussy piece of oft-penetrated excrement to tell Israel where it can build in its own country? Back to the bathhouse, Barry.


2 posted on 02/29/2016 7:30:58 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Lera

Obama needs to get back to leading from behind.


3 posted on 02/29/2016 7:43:46 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Lera

Israel to US: Go eff yourself


4 posted on 02/29/2016 7:50:54 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Lera

FUBO.


5 posted on 02/29/2016 7:51:00 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Lera

Naturally Obastard comes down on the side of the Muslims.


6 posted on 02/29/2016 7:51:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Lera
Right on schedule, just before Purim
7 posted on 02/29/2016 7:55:26 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: Lera

God will bring wrath to this nation.


8 posted on 02/29/2016 7:55:36 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: patlin

[[Right on schedule, just before Purim ]]

Haman is at it again.
Haman doesn’t yet realize he is building his own gallows.


9 posted on 02/29/2016 8:09:33 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Lera

Not this American!

It’s the City of David, not Ishmael.


10 posted on 02/29/2016 8:16:13 PM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Lera

Did the Amalakites move to Kenya?


11 posted on 02/29/2016 8:32:34 PM PST by the_daug
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To: Dogbert41

Yeah .
They need the same answer Nehemiah gave the ammonite and the arabian.

(Nehemiah 2:18) Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

(Nehemiah 2:19) But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

(Nehemiah 2:20) Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.


12 posted on 02/29/2016 8:33:54 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: the_daug

He is part Arab so could very well have Amalekite blood.


13 posted on 02/29/2016 8:35:05 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Lera

“”


14 posted on 02/29/2016 11:52:27 PM PST by Postman (Flies landing on 0re0 know crap when they see it!)
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To: Lera

all arabs should be 86’d from Jerusalem , every last one .


15 posted on 03/01/2016 1:43:42 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Lera

Yo, Bibi,
Tell America’s quota boy to kiss your hairy butt.


16 posted on 03/01/2016 4:19:55 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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17 posted on 03/01/2016 4:31:03 AM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a)
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To: Lera

There is only one area in Giloh that is majority Arab, and what is this anyway, Jim Crow? STFU. Don’t come if you can’t STFU about things that aren’t your affair.


18 posted on 03/01/2016 7:56:32 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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(Nehemiah 2:18) Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

(Nehemiah 2:19) But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

(Nehemiah 2:20) Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.


19 posted on 03/01/2016 8:30:15 AM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: Lera

History repeats, although without a friendly king of Persia, just a hostile megalomaniomonarchoboulomenos in the US.


20 posted on 03/01/2016 2:38:27 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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