Posted on 12/26/2017 12:52:23 PM PST by Lera
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman recently asked the State Department to cease using the term 'occupation' to describe Israel's presence in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem, according a report by Kan, the Israel Broadcasting Corporation.
According to the report, the State Department objected to the request, but eventually agreed to discuss the matter.
Ambassador Friedman described Judea and Samaria as being under an "alleged occupation" in an interview with the Jerusalem Post in September. Later that month, he stated that he believes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are part of Israel.
“I think the settlements are part of Israel,” Friedman said in an interview with the Hebrew language Walla website.
“I think that was always the expectation when Resolution 242 was adopted in 1967. It remains today the only substantive resolution that was agreed to by everybody,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The real occupiers are the Arab invaders who think the land is theirs when it never was.
I bet a Democrat starting the term, occupation
“Department objected to the request, but eventually agreed to discuss the matter.”
Discuss? No. Do what you’re told to do you mutts in the State Department.
Obviously a Dummycrap started that term. Leftards are good at branding from “global warming”, “Net Neutrality”, “social justice” etc but empty at their meaning.
Inquiring minds want to know: Is the State department the big gator in the D.C. swamp or is it the intelligence community? Hard to say for certain but they both sure are up to their necks in runaway globalism and corruption.
the only occupation there is by the Muslims occupying parts of the Promised Land, which even their own Korans tell them belongs to the Jewish People
Friedman should continue to refer to the Muslim occupiers of Israeli territories, as a good step towards repatriating them back to their own Muslim homelands
imho
Hilarious try at expanding the recognized borders which are definitely the UNR 181 lines.
Only 2 gov’ts yammer on as if the 181 lines are not valid. The rest of the world always references 181 as the sole valid boundaries.
Keep talking to yourself - continue the fantasy LOL
Is the State department the big gator in the D.C. swamp or is it the intelligence community?....Yes. Most CIA big Wigs are SD. Most DEA are SD Big Wigs. How else do they launder our tax money?
UnitedNazis lost any credibility it may once have had... at least 500 bigoted resolutions ago.
UnitedNazis can GTH and have no say about it now. None whatsoever They can pass as many resolutions as they want. Delusion. Pure delusion. We are praying that USA gets the Hell out of the UnitedNazis, or at least gets the UnitedNazis and all their spies out of America, ASAP!
At any event, UNR181 from 1947 was rejected by the Muslims, who proceeded to invade and try to murder all the Jews.
There is no going back to the (invalid to begin with) UNR 181 now, 70 years later. That’s a deluded joke at BEST, and frankly a clear signal of someone being totally and completely divorced from the real world, INSANE.
I wish President Trump will now reassign Greenblatt and Kurtzner OUT of the mid=east, where they appear quite clearly to have zero understanding and even less smarts, imho.
It does no good to constantly stir the pot with Muslim terrorists like PLO/Abbas, nor does “meeting” with them confer any honor or respect on America.
Don’t the Palestinians understand that Diversity Is Strength?
By that definition then USA is under “occupation” by English-descended whites, which I’m sure the commie-Dems are only too happy to declare.
“Discuss? No. Do what you’re told to do you mutts in the State Department.”
I’m wondering if the Civil Service rules are so skewed that a GS person can refuse to carry out a lawful order and not be fired?
How many times can they say no to The Boss (POTUS), and keep their job?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Look at how much they protested him, looks like they were right....he does support Israel
Re: “Only 2 gov’ts yammer on as if the 181 lines are not valid.”
Please add some detail.
I have no idea which side of this dispute you are on.
Intel is the big gator, State is the big crock
The government should also stop using the list that came out last week of 7 words.
I’ve forgotten all of them or I would give examples.
Someone stuck their neck/s out! So who objected? Should suck very quickly to be them. I’m sure there’s an opening in Nigeria, Libya or someplace similar for them.
Thanks Lera. Second on what you said regarding the use of "settlements". Also no more "refugee camps" -- they are squatter villages, because refugee status is temporary -- nations that host the ethnically undifferentiated Arabs who never lived in Israel anyway have done so for 70 years. They ain't refugees. Neither were their parents and grandparents etc -- they bailed.
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