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State Department "Dismayed" at Israeli Crimes
Marco Villa
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
- Israel will not agree to a settlement freeze, but only “restraint”
- “Restraint” means that settlements will continue to expand in the West Bank
- And this “restraint” - which Secretary Clinton called “unprecedented” will not even applied to occupied East Jerusalem which is majority Arabs and which the Palestinians aspire to have as their future capital; but Israel’s far-right government claims East Jerusalem as Israeli land and is busy “Judaizing” the place by ethnically cleansing Arabs and building illegal Jewish settlements
In short, Obama has been a dismal failure even by American standards.
After insisting for months on a settlement freeze, Obama et al decided to play the now “Good Cop”. By sucking up to Israel they had hoped that a Likud government would commit to peace. Here’s how Likud has responded:
Israel yesterday defied US pressure when it gave preliminary approval to a plan to construct 900 new housing units in a suburb of Jerusalem built on occupied Palestinian land in a move that could stoke regional tensions.
And to demonstrate just how subservient Obama [Bushama] is to Netanyahu, the White House has now refused to even acknowledge Israeli settlements as such.
Initially the White House criticized the new illegal colony in Jerusalem as follows: “Statement by White House House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Approval of Settlement Expansion in Jerusalem.”
But then changed it to: “Statement by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Jerusalem”
What the hell does that mean? So settlements are not even the issue here. The White House just wants everyone to know it has a statement on Jerusalem. As if the statement is about some fair going on.
The toughest words Obama’s pathetic team has been able to muster is “dismaying” Fortunately, a great journalist (he’s not an American predictably, but from the BBC) called them out on their bullshit.
Read how the State Department spokesman grovels as he defends the indefensible:
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QUESTION: How long is the U.S. going to continue to tolerate Israel’s violation of international law? I mean, soon it’s not even going to be possible – there’s not going to be any land left for the Palestinians to establish an independent state. MR. KELLY: Well, again, this is a – we understand the Israeli point of view about Jerusalem. But we think that all sides right now, at this time when we’re expending such intense efforts to try and get the two sides to sit down, that we should refrain from these actions, like this decision to move forward on an approval process for more housing units in East Jerusalem. QUESTION: But should U.S. inaction, or in response to Israel’s actions, then be interpreted as some sort of about-face in policy – the President turning his back on the promises he’s made to the Palestinians? MR. KELLY: You’re – okay, you’re using language that I wouldn’t use. I mean, again, our focus is to get these negotiations started. We’re calling on both parties to refrain from actions, from – and from rhetoric that would impede this process. It’s a challenging time, and we just need to focus on what’s important here, and that’s – . . . QUESTION: Right. And then, last one on this, you characterized this decision by the planning commission as dismaying. MR. KELLY: Yes. QUESTION: You can’t come up with anything stronger than “dismaying”? I mean, this flies in the face of everything you’ve been talking about for months and months and months. MR. KELLY: It’s dismaying. QUESTION: Yeah, you can’t offer a condemnation of it or anything like that? (Laughter.) I mean, who is in charge of the language here. MR. KELLY: I have said what I have said, Mr. Lee. . . . QUESTION: Could you give us just a brief synopsis of the progress that Senator Mitchell has made in his months on the job? MR. KELLY: Well, I think we have – we’ve gotten – QUESTION: Yeah, maybe if the – MR. KELLY: — both sides to agree on this goal. We have gotten both sides – QUESTION: Ian, they agreed on the goal years ago. I mean, that’s not – MR. KELLY: Well, I think that we – this government – QUESTION: You mean you got the Israel Government to say, yes, we’re willing to accept a Palestinian state? You got Netanyahu to say that, and that’s his big accomplishment? MR. KELLY: That is an accomplishment. QUESTION: But previous Israeli administration – previous Israeli governments had agreed to that already. MR. KELLY: Okay, all right. QUESTION: So in other words, the bottom line is that, in the list of accomplishments that Mitchell has come up with or established since he started, is zero. MR. KELLY: I wouldn’t say zero. QUESTION: Well, then what would you say it is? MR. KELLY: Well, I would say that we’ve gotten both sides to commit to this goal. They have – we have – we’ve had a intensive round or rounds of negotiations, the President brought the two leaders together in New York. Look – QUESTION: But wait, hold on. You haven’t had any intense – MR. KELLY: Obviously – QUESTION: There haven’t been any negotiations. MR. KELLY: Obviously, we’re not even in the red zone yet, okay. QUESTION: Thank you. MR. KELLY: I mean, we’re not – but it’s – we are less than a year into this Administration, and I think we’ve accomplished more over the last year than the previous administration did in eight years. QUESTION: Well, I – really, because the previous administration actually had them sitting down talking to each other. You guys can’t even get that far. |
If you just landed from Mars and read about this and saw how Israel acts and the White House, the U.S. reacts, not nothing anything else who would guess is the superpower here?
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