Obama Administration Warns Against Even Symbolically Recognizing Jerusalem as Capital of Israel
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 6:56 PM
Jerusalem- The Wailing Wall
June 7, 1967
(Azure)
Sometime around 10:15 on the morning of June 7, 1967…
The first reservist paratroopers of Brigade 55 broke through the Lion’s Gate leading into the Old City of Jerusalem and reached the narrow enclave of the Western Wall. Having just fought a fierce two-day battle in the streets of east Jerusalem, they grieved for lost friends, and grieved as well for their own lost innocence in what for many was their first experience of combat. They leaned against the Wall, some in exhaustion, some in prayer. Several wept, instinctively connecting to the Wall’s tradition of mourning the destruction of the Temple and the loss of Jewish sovereignty—precisely at the moment when Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem had been restored.Several hours later, Yitzhak Yifat, a twenty-four-year-old reservist about to begin medical school, reached the Wall. As part of the brigade’s 66th Battalion, he and his friends had fought in the Six Day War’s toughest battle: Intimate combat against elite Jordanian Legionnaires in the trenches of Ammunition Hill, on the road to Mount Scopus.
“The Photograph: A Search For June 1967″
Yossi Klein Halevi
Azure
Summer 2007
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a sharp departure from her stance when she was a senator, warned that any American action, toward recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be avoided for the reason that it would jeopardize the so-called peace process.
The NY Sun reported:
Secretary of State Clinton, in a sharp departure from her stance when she was a senator, is warning that any American action, even symbolically, toward recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel must be avoided for the reason that it would jeopardize the peace process.
Her warnings were issued in a brief she has just filed with the Supreme Court — in which she is arguing that a law she voted for when she was Senator is unconstitutional because it could require the U.S. government to give to an American citizen born at Jerusalem papers showing the birthplace as Israel.
The law requiring the government to issue such documents on request passed the Senate unanimously at a time when Mrs. Clinton was a member. But Presidents Bush and Obama have taken the position that the law infringes on the president’s prerogatives in respect of foreign policy. Mrs. Clinton is being sued by an American youngster, Menachem Zivotofsky, who was born at Jerusalem in 2002 to American parents who want his birthplace to be listed on his passport as Israel.
In addition to citing the peace process as the excuse for not issuing the birth document the Congress wants issued, Mrs. Clinton’s brief adds a new twist to the story of the White House photos first disclosed last month by the New York Sun. The story involved the discovery that even while the White House was fretting over the requirement to list Jerusalem, Israel, as Master Zivotofsky’s birthplace, the White House’s own website was featuring a series of pictures from Vice President Biden’s 2010 trip to the Jewish state and identifying the pictures as showing him at “Jerusalem, Israel.”
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Francesca commented:
Of course. Now Hilary doesn’t need Jewish votes. Pathetic.
american patriot commented:
What is this thing called “the peace process?”
How can such a thing exist when one party to the process – the so-called Roman citizens sometimes referenced as Palestinians, as a surrogate for Muslims everywhere, vow repeatedly, including that vow in various state documents (eg, Hamas Charter) – promise that they will NEVER, ever allow peace, and that they will pursue Jews to the death even when those Jews seek refuge behind rocks and trees.
gus commented:
LIBTARDS ALWAYS side with filth and criminals. LIBTARDS HAVE NO MORALS. Libtards to not believe in, nor fear God. If it’s EVIL, LIBTARDS love it.
big L commented:
Oh heck,Hillary will say all this negativism on Jerusalem and beat up Israel and still all,repeat all the american Jews will vote for her if she were running…Don’t kid yourselves.
john b commented:
Hilarious Clinton — I ain’t laughing. She is the radical left half of the Rodham-Clinton marriage.
Remember! she is on record saying how regime change was necessary in Iraq…. before Bush went in.
Remember! Her role in Nixon’s resignation and what she wanted to do with other information.
Remember! She was the first pusher of Obamacare…. when she was first Lady (lady?).
And I remember her look of abject hate of Bush as she glared at him during Bush’s address to Congress and the nation immediately following Sept. 11.
she is scum.
Sickofobama commented:
Since Hussein and Hitlery don’t want it – this is what I just posted on my Facebook page.
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Happy Rosh Hashanah Jews around the world. Peace be with you.
Ipso Facto commented:
And of Hillary’s listening tour, should we be now be lead to believe she was simply putting on a facade in order to feather her own nest? Why, I am aghast at the mere mention of one of the opportunists from Arkansas behaving in such a fashion!
And of Obama’s renewed efforts to capture the Jewish vote after the Democrats lost the recent NY congressional election, are we to believe that the charlatan is actually, as Jessie Jackson said, “no longer going to be worrying about those Jews anymore”?
And of the Jewish people and their affinity for the Democratic Party, I wonder if any of them read Caroline Glick’s essay today? Read it, maybe. Act accordingly, not a fuc*ing chance.
mercador commented:
God told them that in this world they would have troubles, but that He would be with them in the trouble. God is with the Isrealis, and He is with all those that believe in His Son. I do not believe that the Isrealis are such good people , because they are just people. God made them a promise that He would be with them and He would bless them that blessed them and that He would curse them that cursed them. God keeps His promises. If you receive His Son this promise is to you and you become an adopted Jew.
P. Aaron commented:
Like the timid methods the Zero’s have been workin’ are so effective.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Well we now how she likes to fake accents. Did she use a fake Arab accent while arguing this?
ruready? commented:
Our nation is cursed with a curse for electing Obama. Our judgement is sure – unless we repent and remove him and his memory.
BigAlSouth commented:
Definition: Peace Process. “An oxy-moronic state of affairs where gullible and naive Jews offer up concession after concession in the hopes of a lasting peace while their “Peace Partners” secretly plan the destruction of the Jews.”
There will never be a lasting peace in the middle east if the Jews sheath their swords. There will only be further carnage and Holocaust.
Redwine commented:
In 1999, the antisemite and Israel-hater Hillary gave the nasty Suha Arafat (the terrorist’s “wife”) a big, on-stage smooch (see the pic and article in the link) after Suha accused the IDF of using “daily and intensive use of poisonous gas” on “Palestinians”.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/the_30second_giuliani_v_clinto.html
That miserable Shrillary has absolutely nothing to say about Jewish sovereignty over their 3,000 year old united, eternal capital. She will continue Comrade Barry Hussein’s hostile actions against Israel.
(Jim – Please – It’s the Western Wall, not the Wailing Wall.)
Oh Noes! commented:
The elite commies day will come sooner than they could ever imangine. As quoted in the book of Jerimiah. God will cut in half all those who interfere in dividing Jerusalem. Hilliary will be down in hell with the rest of the progressive un-repentent commies.
rickperry2012 commented:
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, plain and simple.
11B40 commented:
Greetings:
I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s. Our small by New York City standards neighborhood’s two large demographics were those of Jewish heritage and those of Irish heritage. After the overt hostilities ended I talked to my father about the goings-on and asked him what he thought the Israelis should do with the “Palestinians”. My father’s reply was, “Take ‘em down to the river [Jordan], point ‘em East, and give ‘em a decent headstart. Regretably, the Israelis failed to do so.
The present Israeli Ambassador to the USofA, Michael Oren, has written a book entitled “Six DAys of War” about the 1967 conflict. It is well worth the effort.
SEHaase commented:
I don’t really care what Obama & Clinton recognize, they are enemies of Israel. They do not speak for the majority of Americans. Americans support Israel and when we elect an American to be POTUS again he/she will also.
Opaobie commented:
If she wouldn’t even acknowledge that there was an intern under her husband’s desk, she certainly has no moral aversion to not recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel…
KLD commented:
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel…there and that wasn’t remotely symbolic. As SickofObama says and I second the thought~~ L’shana Tova!
Perfected democrat commented:
Hillary’s very long-time personal aide, daughter of high profile “kingdom” academics and an in-your-face Saudi operative, as such is privy to America’s most sensitive government operations; one would have to be brazenly dishonest (or pathetically ignorant and docile) to not recognize the intelligence implications. The Jonathan Pollard affair pales by comparison. What is wrong with this picture in the context of events ranging from Arizona to Jerusalem, and everywhere in between? When are the congressional investigations going to start?
Adi commented:
This is in line with the US official policy so far.
However there are countries not so bound by the political correctness and oil dependence, countries who know what Arab/sharia supremacy and slavery means.
Of course I am not talking about USA, I am talking about South Sudan.
Valerie commented:
There is nothing the United States can do to jeopardize the peace process. That is because there is no peace process.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
The peace process will not begin until the Hamas Covenant is repudiated.
Molon Labe commented:
Remember if Hillary ever runs she was Sec State and did nothing to stop Obama. She is part and parcel of this administration.
Obama has destroyed or weakened our relationships wi6th our allies and emboldened our enemies.
May he burn forever. I fear what the future will hold as a result of his actions. The military are always the ones that pay.
Perfected democrat commented:
Eventually, they will repudiate the covenant as an honorable exercise of “Al Taquia”; there can be no peaceful resolution to this conflict, end of story…
Sandy commented:
I supported Hillary. Spent countless hours volunteering for her. Now I see that she is the Eva Braun of the Obama Administration. She stands by her man no matter what she has to stand for in his name.
Adi commented:
Contrast and compare Simon Deng vs Hillary Clinton:
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=457&load=6066
ar05075 commented:
Jerusalem IS the capitol of Israel….yuck fou Hitlery.!!!!
God Bless Israel.
yourmaster commented:
0bama has to keep sucking Allah’s cock
….it’s what he was born to do.
He is an enemy of Israel and Jews
jorgen commented:
Israel seems to have to negotiate on two fronts: “Palestinians” and Obama.
Can’t Congress do something?
Theadora commented:
Jerusalem IS the capitol of Israel!
Hillary wants us to agree with her to an UNTRUTH!
Patty commented:
This is truly the last straw. Ignorance, moronic and disturbing on way too many levels.
Fox had a poll and Perry and Romney lost, repeat lost to Obama. Christie may have strength and the right stuff to win. But if these are the polls that are showing this in a time of 9% unemployment, then those polled must not be Americans.
P. Aaron commented:
Perhaps the cash flow from her husband’s speaking (fees) to the Arab lobby is threatened? Perhaps her future cash flow from speaking to the Arab lobby is being threatened?
With the Clintons as with all commie libs; follow the money.
#1AMERICAN commented:
when will the fat ugly beeotch just go the fukk away for good
west1890 commented:
And when, pray tell, will someone insist Hillary, the modern Progressive, fire Huma Abedin, her trusted sidekick, whose mother and brother are members of the Muslim Brotherhood? Yeah, the same Huma that recently loudly complained about how “provincial” Americans are for making an issue of her hubby, Anthony Weiner, flashing his weiner all over the internet. Why don’t we just give the Muslim brotherhood a position in the president’s cabinet? Oops, Obama did.. Hillary has that spot.