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US State Department rejects lawmakers' calls to close PLO office
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Published: 22.12.15, 23:40
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1. If & When Elected
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (12.23.15)
The US has a Presidential system. If and when elected to be President, Ted Cruz will set his own foreign policy. Until then, Foreign Policy is controlled by the person who is the President. Ted Cruz is also calling for carpet bombing Syria with nukes, to make it glow in the dark. That too is NOT current US policy.
2. Kerry is a myopic Arabist and leftist. No dealing with him!
ROBERT BLUM ,   United States   (12.23.15)
Kerry is an ignoramus. The proof being that he is a leftist ideologue henchman for Hussein Obama, of the same ilk, who cannot face the fact that a 2 state solution with murderers who want Israel from the Jordan River to the sea, that creates NOTHING but terror and wants to murder Jews as per their Hamas Charter, everywhere in the world, is supposed to follow the UN resolution which America signed, stating that it will in no way support terror organizations, which Hamas and the PLO have always been and will always be!
3. We have an idiot in charge.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (12.23.15)
What is there to get! Most of us know the PLO are a bunch of cold blooded killers. But Obama can't seem to fathom that. Maybe you should let him ride in an egged bus through the Gaza Strip.
4. terrorism that must be condemned.
Nick ,   Den Haag Holland   (12.23.15)
Abbas is I.S in a old suit. Remember Munich As.....e.
5. Are you nuts?! How would they go on with the Piss Process?!
(12.23.15)
Every American President & Israeli PM needs these thugs to go on, so they too can continue throwing sand in people's eyes. Basic charade..."Socialists" need "poor- people", capitalists need wars & skirmishes. Power Baby, Power! go Vlad, go!
6. So his most Wonderfullness Abbas
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (12.23.15)
Has persuaded the Greek Parliament to 'Recognise Palestine' Does anyone know WHICH Palestine? Is it for A One State Solution of Palestine divided in two parts Gaza and West Bank A Two State Solution of a separate Independent Gaza and Independent West Bank A Unified Contiguous Single State of Palestine formed from land exchanges of West Bank for parts of Negev and possible land purchases from Egyptian Sinai - THE THIRD WAY which growing numbers of Palestinians across the world and political divide are advocating for? WE WANT FROM ABBAS STRAIGHT answers TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE not some bizarre mix of Greek Comedy Tragedy and Pantomime all rolled into one!
7. Ah so the rewards of Abbas new Intifada?
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (12.23.15)
Christmas Tourism to the West Bank devastated Employment opportunities for Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank gone Knife crime AMONGST PALESTINIANS at an all time high Construction and New Business Starts ups down to a trickle But WAIT WE STILL DO NO KNOW WHAT FORM Palestine will take because Abbas refuses to say Is it 1. Three State Solution: Israel and Independent Gaza and Independent West Bank 2. Two State Solution:Israel and Unified Gaza and West Bank 3. Two State Solution: Israel and Palestine created from Greater Gaza formed from land exchanges of West Bank for parts of Negev and possible land purchases from Egyptian Sinai But why should Palestinians care? We now have new Passports,,,,to nowhere
8. PLO the original terrorists group
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (12.23.15)
and, apparently, a business of it's own with the US State Dept. as a client. Thanks obama.
9. When will the Taliban open an office?
David ,   Hartford USA   (12.24.15)
Remember the lunatic Taliban? Killers of school children, destroyers of ancient monuments, murderous psychopaths? Soon Obama and Kerry will offer them an 'office' in D.C. Does nobody in Washington have the balls to tell Abbas that until all incitement to kill Israelis is stopped, no office of the PLO will ever exist in the USA? Kerry is such a worthless, spineless, and clueless lap dog for Obama that it makes Americans want to vomit. Notice that Kerry always 'urges both sides to stop inflammatory remarks.' As if Abbas's incitement to kill Jews and Israel's anger that Abbas IS inciting his people to kill Jews is some how equivalent! Mr. Kerry, is it not possible for you to simply tell the truth? Who in their right mind would want an office, in D.C., of an organization that has been responsible for thousands of deaths and injuries over the years? Why reward terrorists? When Trump or Cruz become president, the PLO office will be closed within 24 hours and the staff given the same amount of time to leave the country or face arrest. And that's how it should be.
10. State dept wants to keep PLO
rays ,   nh,usa   (12.23.15)
Sure ,by their logic the USA should encourage ISIS and all other terror organizations to open offices in DC. The State Dept has a long history of defending enemies of the USA.
11. #1 Try telling the truth
Benji ,   US   (12.23.15)
Obama doesn't have a policy against ISIS and he's in conflict with his own military advisers. He can't even say Radical Islam. Ted Cruz says he would eliminate ISIS where they hide. Your nuke story is like Hillary's new fake video allegation against Trump. Current US policy under Obama has become a detriment to our security.
12. lawless us govt
me ,   milw. wi   (12.24.15)
you must be talking about the muslim controlled state dept
13. the recognition of international terror organisation
C   (12.23.15)
the recognition as legitimate of an international terror organisation is the core of the problem. the arab palestinians have been given all manner of international recognition without any reciprocity. the plo is nothing but the public face of a terror organisation. it is mistaken, to say the least, that the us government has any influence on the plo.
14. #11 - Totally Wrong
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (12.24.15)
Carpet Bombing does not make sand glow in the dark. Facts are facts. Carpet bombing starts firestorms that consume everything, like at Dresden, even the oxygen from bomb shelters The only way to get the glow in the dark is with nukes. Bush had his policies; Obama has his policies; Cruz is irrelevant unless and until he is elected by 50% plus one of the US electorate. Cruz advocates committing war crimes on a massive scale. Read his words. Read the facts and read the Geneva Conventions. Then read the agreement to withdraw US troops from Iraq and see the date it was made and who signed it.
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