“This week the State Department engaged in a remarkable assault on Israel. Both in tone and in content, it marks a new hostility and plenty of sheer ignorance.
The comment, titled “Recent Israeli Settlement Announcements,” ran as follows: “We are deeply concerned by reports today that the Government of Israel has published tenders for 323 units in East Jerusalem settlements. This follows Monday’s announcement of plans for 770 units in the settlement of Gilo.
“We strongly oppose settlement activity, which is corrosive to the cause of peace. These steps by Israeli authorities are the latest examples of what appears to be a steady acceleration of settlement activity that is systematically undermining the prospects for a two-state solution.”
323 housing units.
I feel reasonably certain that they are building many more housing “units” than that in my neighborhood of Oakland alone.
Obama’s Racism
The Obama administration is both racist and seemingly incapable of learning from past efforts.
The reason the Obama administration is racist (or anti-Semitic) is because they harrass the Jews of the Middle East for daring to build housing for themselves in the very place that Jews have resided for millennia.
Long, long, long before there was any such place as London or Paris or Washington, D.C. there was Jerusalem… and it was crawling with Jews. Why was it crawling with Jews even many centuries before the first Arab showed up to steal Jewish land?
Because Jerusalem is, indeed, the ancient capital of the Jewish people.
The Arabs do not get to come along thousands of years later, take it, claim Jerusalem as “the third holiest city in Islam” – which is nonsense, they might as well claim Walla Walla, Washington as the thirty-seventh most holy city in Islam – insist that they are the actual indigenous population, and then carry out fourteen centuries of non-stop colonial violence against the Jewish natives to the region.
Sadly, however, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party do not see it that way.
They honestly believe that any future state of “Palestine” must be Judenrein and, yet, somehow, against all common sense and basic human decency, they see themselves as anti-racists.
They aren’t.
Obama Administration Inability to Learn
Clearly Obama and his advisers and other hangers-on support apartheid.
That belief in selective apartheid has become one of the hallmarks of current “liberal” / “progressive” thought and action.
“Selective Apartheid”!
I like it, Leon, and very much intend to steal it.
:O)
It never fails to disgust and horrify me that my former ideological buddies, who consider themselves righteous anti-racists, spit at Jews who live in Judea.
The hypocrisy is profound.