Why doesn't Obama
also label Jerusalem Arabs as “illegitimate settlers?”
Barkat Says Housing Project in Jerusalem ‘Essential’
By: Tzvi
Ben-Gedalyahu | Published: October 2nd, 2014
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| “Israel talks with building blocks. The Palestinian Authority throws them.” |
MY PS.- LO AND BEHOLD, HERE
COMES THE ANSWER FROM THE GOLFER-IN-CHIEF HIMSELF VIA ONE OF HIS PARROT-SPOKESWOMAN
JEN PSAKI IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT…SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT THE MERE ANNOUNCEMENT
OF SETTLEMENTS AND/OR CONSTRUCTION IS MORE EXPLOSIVE THAN ALL THE ORDINANCE WE
DROPPED IN GAZA JUST RECENTLY. THE WHITE
HOUSE SHOULD RESPECTFULLY REMEMBER THAT OUR LAND IS OUR LAND…AND WE DO NOT NEED
ANY PERMISSION FROM ANBODY TO BUILD WHERE WE NEED, WHEN WE NEED AND HOW WE
NEED. IF THE HADJIS DO NOT LIKE IT…THEY
CAN EXERCISE THEIR GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO GET THE HELL OUT OF ISRAEL AND LEAVE US
IN PEACE! AMEN,
State Dept. Complains New Homes in Jerusalem ‘Poison’ US Peace Plan
One man’s poison is another’s
antidote. | By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu | Published: October 2nd, 2014
“Israel talks with building
blocks. The Palestinian Authority throws them.”
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| Palestinian construction workers build homes for Jews in eastern Jerusalem. |
The U.S. State Dept. branded
advancement of a project for 2,610 homes for Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem as
“poison,” a label totally rejected by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.
The statement by State Dept.
spokeswoman Jen Psaki exposes the total hypocrisy of the Obama administration’s
stated policy that Israel and the Palestinian Authority should reach an agreement
through negotiations. She charged that
the project for new homes in southern Jerusalem “poison the atmosphere not only
with the Palestinians, but also with the very Arab governments with which Prime
Minister Netanyahu said he wanted to build relations, and call into question
Israel’s ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement with the
Palestinians.”
The key words are a “peaceful
negotiated settlement.”
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu met with President Obama on Wednesday hours after Peace Now leaked
the news that another bureaucratic obstacle has been removed for the
construction project in the Givat HaMatos neighborhood, announced two years
ago,
More than one-third of the
proposed homes are slated for Arabs in the adjacent Beit Safata neighborhood.
After Psaki’s condemnation and the White House’s objections that Jews are
“stoking tensions” by the purchase this week of more buildings from Arabs in
the Silwan area of eastern Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, “Arabs in Jerusalem
freely buy apartments, and nobody says that is forbidden. I will also not say
that Jews cannot buy property in Jerusalem. There cannot be discrimination
between Jews and Arabs.” Barkat said
Thursday, that the Givat HaMatos project, rather than “poisoning” anything is a
“necessary” step and that he will not be part of any policy that discriminates
between the rights of Jews and Arabs to build in all of Jerusalem.
The Obama administration’s
policy, which follows the lead of the Palestinian Authority and the Saudi 2002
Plan, does not object to Arab building in parts of Jerusalem claimed by the PA.
It only objects to construction for Jews.
Some of the headlines of the American criticism are misleading are
simply wrong. One large Israeli news site
proclaimed, “US-Israel Ties in Crisis Over East Jerusalem Building Plans,” but
the disagreement, no matter how harsh Psaki’s words, is the same tempest in the
same teapot that has brewed for years.
The real “crisis” is that the
Palestinian Authority, Peace Now and the U.S. State Dept. are beside themselves
because of their failure to hijack the “peace process” that has been in the
works for more than 20 years and which has achieved agreement after agreement
that the Palestinian Authority has reneged.
Blatant violations include worsening incitement for terror and the
establishment of a Palestinian Authority army, under the guise of a “police
force,” but Mahmoud Abbas’ fatal mistake was to ditch the entire premise of the
process that a final status agreement is to be reached through “negotiations.”
Israel has turned the other cheek dozens of times, but the Netanyahu government
has held hits red line concerning Jerusalem remaining united.
Abbas’ insistence to ditch
Washington and ask the United Nations to demand that Israel agree to his demands
by 2016 only aggravates the “crisis” in Foggy Bottom, which has not been able
to admit that its decades-old refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital has been a disaster.
Instead, it constantly
“condemns” Israel, as Psaki did on Wednesday, and chides Abbas for going to the
United Nations. Psaki, helpless in the
face of Kerry’s stubbornness to force Abbas’s demand down Israel’s throat, has
little to fall back on except to insist that the United States’ concerns are
not so much “about what is in the interests of the Palestinian people and the
interests of the Israeli people…[but] is about what is in the interest of the
United States.”
What exactly is in the
interest of the United States?
Plans for a previously announced
huge construction project in eastern Jerusalem were reported on Wednesday hours
before the meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President
Barack Obama Wednesday. The 2,610 apartment project
was not officially announced but was leaked through social network media and by
Peace Now. In fact, it was announced in
December 2012 and includes approximately 800
units for Arabs in the nearby neighborhood of Beit Safafa, but everyone is
jumping all over themselves as if this is a new plan.
Housing construction in Israel
can take years from their announcement until bulldozers go to work. However,
establishment media report every bureaucratic step in building plans as if the
project is something new, resulting in fictional numbers. Whether or not the plans for new homes were
posted – or re-posted - again by the
government or by Peace Now, as a Housing Ministry official suggested, the
report is a clear message to Washington that the Palestinian Authority can
forget about dividing the city along the old 1949-1967 borders.
The project is slated for the
neighborhood of Givat HaMatos, near Gilo in southern Jerusalem. Housing Ministry spokesman Ariel Rosenberg
did not confirm or deny the new project. But Bloomberg News reported, “Rosenberg
said in a phone call that Peace Now probably released the information today to
embarrass Netanyahu before his meeting with President Barack Obama.” Referring to plans to develop an area in
Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem, Peace Now stated, “Like the E1 plan, it
divides the potential Palestinian state and blocks the possibility to connect
the Palestinian neighborhoods in south Jerusalem with the future Palestinian
state.” The European Union stated, “At
this delicate moment after the Gaza ceasefire, it is essential to avoid actions
that may increase tensions, in particular in East Jerusalem.” There
really is not much tension. The Palestinian Authority’s openly anti-Semitic
remarks this week, calling Israel genocidal and comparing Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu with the ISIS leaders, has reduced the entire “diplomatic
process” to an illusion.
There is no tension because neither Israel nor the Palestinian
Authority really cares what the other side says.
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MY PS- AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE…WILL HELP HIM IMPROVE HIS PERFORMANCE IN
GOLF COURSE, SO AFTER HIS 840 DAYS/11 HOURS/40 MINUTES AND AROUND 50 SECONDS
LEFT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BARUK HASHEM, HUSSEiN OBAMA – FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - COULD DEDICATE HIMSELF TO GOLF, HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPINESS.
Barkat Says Housing Project in Jerusalem ‘Essential’
By: Tzvi
Ben-Gedalyahu | Published: October 2nd, 2014
CAPTION/Jerusalem Mayor Nir
Barkat puts cement on the official cornerstone celebrating the reopening of the
Tiferet Israel Synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat
rejected on Thursday a White House statement that building in Jerusalem will
“poison the atmosphere” and stated that building in Jerusalem ”is essential,
important and will continue with full force.”
He added, “ I will not freeze construction for anyone in Israel’s
capital. Discrimination based on religion, race or gender is illegal in the
United States and in any other civilized country. “The 2,600 apartments in Givat HaMatos that
we approved two years ago will enable more young people from all sectors and
religions to live in Jerusalem and build their future here, thereby
strengthening the capital of Israel. We will not apologize for that. “
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