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White House: Israel construction plan hinders peace
Yitzhak Benhorin and AP
Published: 14.03.10, 16:48
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1. White House
RC ,   USA   (03.14.10)
What does Israel expect from an administration that is led by a president that mocked the Bible in public while he was a senator, but does not dare mock the Koran in public? As president he bowed down and kissed the hand of the Saudi King. It seems it will just get worse. I pray that Barack Hussein Obama does not bring judgments on America by the G-D of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Maybe he still does not understand that Israel’s enemies are also America’s enemies.
2. when was the last time this administration criticized palest
zionist forever   (03.14.10)
The palestinians have had virtually no criticism by this US regime. Plans were made to build a hotel in east Jerusalem ( by a private company ) Abbas started shouting and screaming the US steps in says this is not a good thing it harms the peace process. Israel demolishes illegaly built structures in Jerusalem including some built by jews. Abbas starts screaming & Obama starts demanding it stops. Israel suspended building in Judea & Samaria and carried on some small scale building in Jerusalem Abbas screams Obama listens and tells Israel not to do it. Israel wants to invest in preserving herritage sites Abbas has a tantrum & Obama says this plan should be canceled. Israel wants to build in Silwan Abbas shouts & screams, Biden who came to make trouble anyway starts sulking and the US says don't do it your harming the peace process. This regime takes the attitude the arabs are angels who have never done anything wrong but Israel is an evil monster trying to destroy them. I just hope the US jews have the intelligence not to vote for this muslim loving anti semite again.
3. stand firm Bibi
Steven Stein ,   New York New York   (03.14.10)
Who does America think it is! J street is loving this, and america thinks it runs Israel
4. two state solution
Dana Rothschild ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.14.10)
but WITHOUT JERUSALEM!!!!!!!
5. TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ...
FO ,   Belgium   (03.14.10)
From two things one: or you respect the Anglo American Treaty of 1924, concerning the Mandate for Palestine that gave the Jews the IRREVOCABLE RIGHT to settle anywhere in the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights, a right unaltered in International Law and valid to this day due to Article 80 of the CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS, or you don't. If for you Mr. Obama it is for whatsoever reasons difficult to accept Jewish rights, how would you feel if someone would propose to cancel the "THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION" about abolishing slavery, and putting an end to Black People's rights?
6. All the US cares about is cheap Arab oil....
JC ,   Israel   (03.14.10)
And for that they are willing to sacrifice Israel. Obama et al could care less about a few million dead Jews. THAT's the truth!
7. Trust
Mike   (03.14.10)
Hey Axel when do the PLO get to do something to show trust? The only thing that have provven tat we can trust them with is for them to send bombers, missles, and killers. What more would you like us to do? We ga e them temple mount. We gave them Hebron. We gave them gaza. We gave them most of west bank. We ga e them weppons fo there own police... All of which has come back to haunt us. So what Excatly is it that you want is to do to build trust??? Tell me ... You seem to be good at everything being the advisor to a president that has the lowest ratings of any president in the history of the USA you have very little to show for yourself oh and by the the prime minister of israel is not a GOP senator so back off
8. Give em Hell Bibi !!
J.B. Doom ,   Beautiful Gate   (03.14.10)
The Whore of Babylon deserves it !!
9. Axelrod
carlos ,   San Diego U.S.A   (03.14.10)
The difference bertween Axelrod and Chomsky is that Axelrod works for the WH. Palin said it all: "How is that Hopey changey treating you." It is very sad but Jews voted wrongly in the past election. It is something to worry about. Has anybody read "Kiddush Ashem" by Sh. Ash? The story of betrayal is there and it is repeating itself.
10. This is gone too far. back off US.
israeli   (03.14.10)
you would think the only problem in the world is israel. no iraq, no afganistan, no china, no russia, no africa, no al-qaida, no iran, no syria, no hammas, hizballah etc. only israel is the problem of the US administration.
11. provocation: a jew buys house in jerusalem
(03.14.10)
They must leave. History shows that it works well: Saudi-Arabia: 1945: Berlin, 2005: Gaza Strip, 2010: Eastern-Jerusalem
12. Anyone Who Thinks That Homes For Jews Is
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (03.14.10)
a hindrance to peace, is no friend. That is pure nonsense. Israel does not have to build trust with the Arabs. It is the Arabs who have to build trust with us. But, what are they doing? Rioting and starting another Intifada. Pres. Obama's administration is all confused, and its finger-pointing at Israel as the bad guy is a predictable outcome of the President's fundamental acceptance of the irrational Arab position vis-a-vis Israel. Let's face it. He is not our "friend". He doesn't really like us, and he has been doing his best to make us look bad. He is angry with us because we refuse to commit suicide. But, true peace will begin with the Arabs recognition of a Jewish Israel, a proposition they are incapable of accepting. It's that simple. He can also "build trust" with us by firing Mrs. Clinton who insulted our Prime Minister and nation with a 45-minute lecture on how bad we are. What Chutzpa! We demand an apology from her.
13. Israels enemy no.1 = Hussein Obama
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (03.14.10)
Since Hussein Obamas Cairo speech we all knew what would happen to the special relationship between Israel and the U.S. : It would no longer be a special relationship. What was hardly to foresee, was the speed in the deterioration of this relationship and the unprecedented way in which Hussein Obama and his gang closed ranks with the Iranian mullah state. Now we have reached the point, in which the Jerusalem "housing affair " is used as a pretext to paralyse Israels political system in order to give Iran a free reign to complete its nuclear program. Israel MUST circumvent the despicable Obama gang , attack Irans illegal nuclear installations and gain back its political momentum. The political fallout of this attack will send Hussein Obamas gang into the frenzy of a wild chicken dance and put an end to their foreign policy aspirations.
14. Obama has to decide whether he is a
Vardina   (03.14.10)
captive in the hands of the Muslims or is he the president of the United States of America. May be Israel should tighten its ties with the Russians for a change. It depends on Obama.
15. Just because Palis say they want Jerusalem
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (03.14.10)
Is no reason to give it to them.
16. shas must go, Lieberman must go
avramele   (03.14.10)
kadima must enter the government. bibi is the worst Pm since....bibi
17. American BS
Eddie ,   london UK   (03.14.10)
Each American presidential candidate says before the elections that they will nto impose a solution on Israel, and then they go and do exactly that.
18. Israelis "know what they have to do" call in US Ambasador
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & New York   (03.14.10)
This is the biggest farce in Obama's failed presidency. Israel has not insulted the US, Obama, or Biden. This is no worse than what happened to RIce and Bush Jr. This is just another excuse to push Israel to make concessions to a failed Palestinian former government and to take presure off of Obama for his failure to accomplish anything positive in his year in office. So far he has cost the Democrats their majority, raised the budget deficit, failed to keep any of his campaign promises. All he has done is sell out the American and Israeli peoples to the Muslims (what sovereign bows to another?)
19. Israel has the right to build
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.14.10)
in Eretz israel and especially in our eternal capital Jerusalem. Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for over 3500 years.
20. To # 14
Leah ,   Israel   (03.14.10)
obama is not just a captive to the Muslims he IS a Muslim.
21. An excuse to pounce on Israel
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (03.14.10)
This is disgusting. There was a mistake in timing. Israel apologized. But Axelrod and Tom Friedman in the NY Times don't want to read it that way. They want to take it as an opportunity and excuse to pounce on and attack Israel. They are hypocritical and fake. There was no Israeli agreement ever to halt construction in Jerusalem. This hypocrisy is disgusting.
22. The Americans can go to hell!
Wise Saba ,   Eretz Yisrael   (03.14.10)
We will build in Jerusalem whenever & wherever we want! Jerusalem is, was & will be the undivided unified capital of the Jewish people forever.
23. correction
tom ,   toronto, canada   (03.14.10)
it doesn't hinder peace, it just hinders the white house's plans - not *quite* the same thing! sort of like the way that "calm" doesn't really mean no more qassams, or the "recognition" of israel isn't really recognition (or the changing of the plo charter), or "disarming of terrorist groups" doesn't really mean they have to be disarmed, etc.
24. Obama has harmed himself .It will show soon in falling Poll
Alan ,   SA   (03.14.10)
Obama is not in the best rating zone in US polls at best of times . I believe this will soon become apparent in US opinion polls. Israel should tell US that the present climate that he has engendered is not conducive to talks right now and a period of time needs to pass till it is more congenial. .
25. what difference does it make
Dov ,   usa   (03.14.10)
A mistake was made an apology was given. Where is the apology for naming town squarers after murdering terrorists. Palestinians don't want peace. Who ever heard of a country stopping construction in order to start talking about peace. The whole Palestinian strategy is stupid. They have gained nothing.
26. mistruth or innumeracy?
tom ,   toronto, canada   (03.14.10)
the "two state solution" mantra is a huge lie: first of all, there is already a "two state solution" in place. transjordan (now known as jordan) was created as the "arab homeland in palestine", with 78% of the land of palestine, in 1923. israel now sits on roughly half of the remaining 22%, with the current haggling over the border regions of the west bank and gaza. by rights, the arab refugees should be allowed to return to "arab palestine" (aka jordan.). it is not the lack of a state, but the ambiguity of the border that has destabilized the middle east. a clear, non-negotiable and secure border for israel would do more for real peace than the endless manipulations of the palestinian movement (whose avowed goal is still the elimination of israel). in fact, the americans are proposing a "new and improved" arab state of palestine, simply because jordan does not want to allow the plo in. this would be a "three state solution", which would give arab palestine twice as many votes at the united nations as the united states. but why stop at three? the reality is that gaza and the west bank have little or nothing in common (which at the moment is reflected in not even a common government). so in addition to "fatahland", the "legitimate aspirations of the palestinian people" will be expressed in a third arab state, with a working title of "hamastan". had the arab palestinians only really wanted a country of their own, why did they not declare independence, or even mention it, while the west bank and gaza were under complete arab control from 1948 to 1967? the notion that such an arrangement, with four independent "countries", two of them "of the terrorists, by the terrorists and for the terrorists", can result in peace is hopelessly absurd. the very term "two state solution" is an insult to the intelligence, because it is a hollow slogan that is none of what it pretends to be.
27. THE US NO LONGER CAN MEDIATE IN THE ME
stude ham   (03.14.10)
the US is far too busy demonstrating its hostilities towards israel... and as corollary its tilt towards the less than reliable arabs. good work israel in unmasking the real face of the BO mOB.
28. Axelrod = communist/marxist atheist = NOT a Jew!
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29. the nazicrats think they control Israel! time to teach them
Jordan is palestine   (03.14.10)
a lesson! Israel should stop sharing intelligence with the US until Obama Hussein understands!
30. Obama and gang...
AlbertoGA ,   St. George, USA   (03.14.10)
On the way out, in desperation they blame the Jews. It just remind me of Hitler, W O W !
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