OBAMA REBUKED BY ABBAS: Palestinians to Pursue UN Seat
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 22, 2011, 5:33 AM
Last year Barack Obama announced during his UN address that the Palestinians should have their own state. The Palestinian leaders took him at his word. Yesterday, during his speech at the UN, Obama pulled back on that notion and told the Palestinians not to push things just yet.
He then met with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and asked him not to pursue a UN seat… It didn’t work. The Palestinians will go ahead and pursue a seat at the UN this week.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in New York September 21, 2011. Both leaders are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Despite Obama’s best efforts, the Palestinians will seek a seat at the UN this week.
The New York Times reported:
A last-ditch American effort to head off a Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations faltered. President Obama tried to qualify his own call, just a year ago, for a Palestinian state. And President Nicolas Sarkozy of France stepped forcefully into the void, with a proposal that pointedly repudiated Mr. Obama’s approach.
The extraordinary tableau Wednesday at the United Nations underscored a stark new reality: the United States is facing the prospect of having to share, or even cede, its decades-long role as the architect of Middle East peacemaking.
Even before Mr. Obama walked up to the General Assembly podium to make his difficult address, where he declared that “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the U.N.,” American officials acknowledged that their various last-minute attempts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian negotiations with help from European allies and Russia had collapsed.
American diplomats turned their attention to how to navigate a new era in which questions of Palestinian statehood are squarely on the global diplomatic agenda. There used to be three relevant players in any Middle East peace effort: the Palestinians, Israel and the United States. But expansions of settlements in the West Bank and a hardening of Israeli attitudes have isolated Israel and its main backer, the United States. Dissension among Palestinian factions has undermined the prospect for a new accord as well.
Hat Tip Gini
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Published May 22, 2012 at 5:04 am - 78 Comments
vityas commented:
World leaders recognize what American voters didn’t. Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) is a small and impotent man.
Nelle commented:
Withdraw from the UN. Right away.
#1AMERICAN commented:
apparently nobody listens to what the A$$wipe has to say
donh commented:
The UN was never established by any popular revolution or vote of election. It is the counterfit kingdom established by Satan to void mankind from controlling our sovereign destiny. It is a kingdom at war with the jew. This is the 66th session. Occult societies operate on a religious devotion to numerology. You watch on the 6th day of debate during this 66th session, the number of the Beast, will be the day the reset button is pushed beginning the count down to Armegeddon . This will be the day little Hitler speaks and lifts the 13th imam out of the pit.
mg4us commented:
Obama to Abbas:
“Don’t pursue a UN seat and statehood bid now (wink wink)!” When I am re-elected (if if I have to cheat to do it), I will not only support you but give you all of Jerusalem, and force Israel to its 1948 original Border. .not 1967 border!”
“And as an added bonus, I will make sure that the Gaza strip and West Bank are a contiguous state, even if we have to cut Israel into two pieces to do it.”
Surely, if Obama really meant that he did not want Abbas/Palestinians to pursue this, he should publicly state that all US support & aid to Palestine will cease immediately should they go forward and pursue a vote for a seat.
lynched1 commented:
Palestine’s actions at the UN were always fait accompli. This dog and pony show was brought to you by the results of NY district 9.
big L commented:
Ka-Boom.
RedBeard commented:
Yes, world, you now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our Dear Leader is a bumbling clod without one ounce of talent for the job he holds. How do all you foreign Obama-cheering leftists feel, now that your savior is revealed to be an impaired and useless political hack who wastes oxygen with every breath?
BS-meter commented:
#6
You’re correct. None of this would have happened without that smack-down in New York. Even the Moron’s own people admit to this when pressed on the matter.
It’s all about the ’12 elections, and like every one of his other solutions they are timed to kick in AFTER the elections. At which time he will do the one-eighty and double cross us all once again.
I don’t blame him for trying. What really irks me is he thinks I’m too stupid to see it for what it is. On the other hand, he’s so used to the mind-numbed audiences of the community organizer constituency that he may be more in tune with the general electorate than I realize.
Multitude commented:
Does Abbas not remember the imperial Roman pillars at the coronation? The speech in Germany… “Called by the people, I ascend to the thrown to rule, not as a hater, but a hope and changer. In the words of Thomas Hobbes, I am the head of Leviathan.”
It must be confusion. Abbas probably couldn’t get through since Obama gave the green light, probably calling during any day of the week where Obama was golfing, partying with Hollywood or sports elites, fundraising or running out for triple burgers and pails of fries with Michelle.
Anyway, let’s give them their state. It’s easier than anyone is making out. They just need a map that points the way to Jordon, since someone already gave them a state. But if they want another, Syria’s available. Apparently its former owner has shown a lot of indications of intending to move to Iran rather soon and the place will be vacant.
Rich commented:
Let someone else take care of the middle east. We just don’t need the hassle anymore other than protecting our own people. We can still be a good ally to Israel without being all inside the Palestinian conflict.
If we could just get the Oaf in Office and his liberal idiots to let us tap our own oil,we would have much less to do over there.
L.E. Liesner commented:
How can the Palestinians have a state of their own when the money to run it comes from other nations? In fact money from American taxpayers, pays the salaries of Palestinian government officials that are in Israeli prisons for terrorism. Does it give a warm feeling that we are actually supporting terrorism?
Ginger commented:
Wake Up People…do you want four more years + of a Obama Dictator?
Vote against Obama in 2012
Do you want to live in a Communist country? Vote Against Obama.
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This is something like I would like to see on bill boards all over the US. We need to get the Tea Party people in each state to lead in this and we can support it with our money!People looks at bill boards..I know I do.
We need to put up in large numbers the web addresses of each Tea Party group in each state so people will go there and get informed!We have to work against the media!!!!
Jim….how about you? You can put a PO box address, etc so people can send money to finance the bill boards in Missouri.
Finncrisp commented:
International community organizing at it’s best. Barry has embarrassed himself (again) on the world stage. A classless clueless class warfare Marxist.
lol commented:
another foriegn policy failure feather in the “wons” cap. worst president ever. can’t wait till this one termer is voted out of office.
Ipso Facto commented:
First worthless organization = UN
Second worthless organization = Hamas
Third worthless organization = Fatah
Forth worthless organization = The Democratic Party
Dave-O commented:
The Master of Disaster strikes again. The entire world is laughing at King Putt. What a disgrace!!
I totally agree with #5 Mg4us – if Obammy is serious about delaying the Palestinian vote – he should announce that all American aid will be cut off if they proceed with it. The fact that he hasn’t done that speaks volumes. And the whole world knows it.
Sasja commented:
Well, Abamination does have a nice crease in his pants.
Hedgehog commented:
It was the teleprompter’s fault.
kansas commented:
It’s all Kabuki to fool the Jews into thinking Obama and the Palestinians are at odds. They are not.
Joanne commented:
The UN is a joke.
Candy commented:
I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Joel 3:2
I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.
Zephaniah 2:8
Rick commented:
“Professing themselves to be wise they became fools.”
The UN has more dictatorship than free democracy repeps, they have made the North Korean rep the Chairman of their Nuclear disarmament group, the most notorious human rights violators are over their human rights groups and on and on.
These “United States” need to stop funding this group and move it overseas. The U.S. started this group and they must finish it.
Send this message to your state reps.
StrangernFiction commented:
I totally agree with #5 Mg4us – if Obammy is serious about delaying the Palestinian vote – he should announce that all American aid will be cut off if they proceed with it.
Either way he betrays his Pali pals. He doesn’t want to do that. He wants to vote present and make it go away until after the election when he can finish off both America and Israel.
StrangernFiction commented:
“Professing themselves to be wise they became fools.”
These people are much worse than just fools.
Sandy commented:
Where was Obama last year when he could have stopped this? Now the region may be headed for a deadly war and Obama still tries to be above it all as he works both sides against the middle. So sure is he that no one will ever guess what side he’s really on.
jorgen commented:
Did Abbas let Obama out through the kitchen entrance?
Walden commented:
Since this post is about Israel, it seem like a good spot to ask this.
If you had to choose one and only one of the following, which would it be and why?
Choice 1: Jesus’s words and teachings were said and recorded, but no miracles were attributed to him and subsequent to his ministry, he simply was never heard from again.
Choice 2: A Christ, born of a virgin is miraculously born, performs miracles and is crucified as a complete redemptive and vicarious sacrifice for the sins of all mankind, but never says a word.
I suspect you would pick the second option. That is the choice that a sociopath would make.
Jerry C commented:
@ 28 Walden-”Choice 2: A Christ, born of a virgin is miraculously born, performs miracles and is crucified as a complete redemptive and vicarious sacrifice for the sins of all mankind, but never says a word.
I suspect you would pick the second option. That is the choice that a sociopath would make.”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Sociopathy is a loosely-defined term that may be used to refer to:
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy-is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness.
Jesus Christ followers attend worship services regularly with fellow believers as well as humane activites like giving charity the poor.-Fail Antisocial personality disorder.
Jesus Christ followers are expected to love God with all of their heart, mind & spirit and love their neighbors as themselves. In addition, the 10 Commandments, including not to lie, cheat & steal, summarize the qualities & attributes of a true, practicing Christian.-Fail Psychopathy.
Do you project much Walden? May God open your heart, mind & spirit to accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
Walden commented:
#30
There are only two Commandments that matter.
Walden commented:
#30
Also, did you choose 1 or 2?
Molon Labe commented:
State has been working for this for a long time. NEA is to be recognized.