The House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman went after a State Department release that noted an official’s travel to “Jerusalem and Israel,” and called on the Obama administration to publicly recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel.
The Monday media note bore the headline “Acting Under Secretary Kathleen Stephens Travels to Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Jerusalem, and Israel.” The next said she was traveling to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
“Where does the administration think Jerusalem is?” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said. “On Mars?”
The chairwoman noted that the administration has refused to budge in three years by not moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
“Now, the administration has gone even further,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “A mistake on a press release is understandable, but today the administration doubled down on its determination to treat Jerusalem as separate from Israel.”
“Legitimizing the myth that Jerusalem isn’t part of Israel undermines our ally Israel’s sovereign right to designate its own capital, and lends credibility to efforts by Palestinian leaders and extremists who continue to deny the connection of the Jewish people to their historic capital, Jerusalem,” she said.
“The administration needs to face reality, recognize publicly that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, and fully enforce U.S. law by moving our embassy to Jerusalem.”
At yesterday’s press briefing, a reporter asked spokeswoman Victoria Nuland if it’s the State Department’s position that Jerusalem is not part of Israel.
“Well, you know that our position on Jerusalem has not changed,” Nuland responded. “The first Media Note was issued in error without appropriate clearances. We reissued the note to make clear that Under Secretary – Acting Under Secretary for R, Kathy Stephens, will be traveling to Algiers, Doha, Amman, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. With regard to our Jerusalem policy, it’s a permanent status issue; it’s got to be resolved through negotiations between the parties.”
The reporter grilled her further about what the capital of Israel is.
“Our Embassy, as you know, is located in Tel Aviv,” Nuland said.
In 1948, the US under President Truman “recognized” the new State of Israel without waiting for Israel’s neighbors to accept it. Yet today, the US refuses to recognize, de facto or de jure, that Israel’s capital *is* Jerusalem, and won’t do so until the Palestinians recognize it as such. Oh, to have a Truman in charge again!
The US has, in effect, granted the Palestinians a veto on US recognition, just as Obama’s notion of “mutually agreed swaps” means Israel can’t claim or retain anything unless the Palestinians go along with it. So if the latter won’t “agree” to Jewish control over the Western Wall, well, they can’t have it.
But the US isn’t alone in such foolishness. A British advertising review board nixed an Israeli travel brochure because it included a visual shot of the Western Wall. And as far as those Brits are concerned, the Wall isn’t “recognized” as part of Israel.
Note for the State Dept.:
Rome is not the capital of Italy, Goths have claimed it.
Let’s play the game of the subversives, let us push them down the hill of ignorance and treason where they walk.
These people ?
http://theangrytiki.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/goths_group4491.jpg
Yes, you can see that they are victims of Latin imperialism !
So sad !
Stop the settlements of Latins in Eastern Rome !
Say no to the apartheid state of Italy !
Let the Goths build a Temple to (????Odin ???) on top of Saint Peter’s Roof !
PS
It’s getting as delirious as our psychototalitarians normal press releases.