OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OUTRAGED WITH ISRAEL – After Report Finds West Bank Settlements Legal
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 3:48 PM
The Obama Administration slammed Israel after a committee found the Israeli West Bank settlements legal.
The JTA reported:
The Obama administration criticized an Israeli panel finding that West Bank settlements are legal under international law.
“We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and we oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters Monday evening in answer to a question about the Levy Committee report. Ventrell added that the State Department is “concerned about it, obviously.”
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns could bring up the report during meetings this week in Israel. Burns will be there with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to the region.
The Levy Committee, which was formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and headed by former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, said in its 89-page report released Sunday that “Israel does not meet the criteria of ‘military occupation’ as defined under international law” in the West Bank, and that therefore settlements and West Bank outposts are legal.
The report , which calls for the legalization of all outposts and allowing people who built homes on Palestinian-owned land to pay compensation to the alleged owners, recommends changing the legal regulations concerning Jewish settlement in the West Bank in the areas of zoning, demolitions and building.
Dovish Jewish groups in the United States criticized the report.
Americans for Peace Now in a statement called on the government of Israel “to repudiate the findings of the commission it appointed to address the problem of illegal outposts in the West Bank.” APN added that Israel “would cause terrible damage to its international standing, to its relationship with the United States, and to prospects for peace with the Palestinians and the Arab world” if the government adopted the report.
J Street called on the Israelis “to reject the committee’s recommendations and to choose instead a path that leads to two states, thereby securing both Israel’s Jewish and democratic future.”
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David commented:
I studied international law and learned 2 basic concepts:
a) territory conquered in a defensive war is yours to keep
b) the right of self determination only applies to ‘peoples.’ The ‘Palestinians’ are not ‘people’ for the purposes of international law because they do not have their own language, identity, culture etc. They only came into existence recently for propoganda purposes and are not distinct from Jordanians and other Arab populations
So I am not sure what legal principals the Hussein Obama administration are following
Patty commented:
And now the Jewish Vote for Romney. And I cannot be more excited for Israel. They have outsmarted Obama. Jewish Style.
Hooray for Israel!!
FurryGuy commented:
Since when was Barry elected
presidenttyrant and dictator of Israel?FurryGuy commented:
Haven’t you learned by now that laws and legal precedents only apply to mere mortals? They certainly don’t apply to “Teh Won” in his own mind.
Patty commented:
Obama has just been punked by Israel!
coolidgerules commented:
A bad international crisis is coming before this election…..bank on it. Bolshevik Barry’s internal poll numbers are in the tank and he is “showing his ass” more and more every day. His revolution is coming and he’ll do anything to stay in power.
snap boy commented:
So the FORMER Supreme Court Justice of Israel is more willing to act in the best interests of his country than is the sitting Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court?
Granny commented:
Good for Israel! I repeat: did our muslim pos occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue make his Muslim Brotherhood cohort enter OUR WhiteHouse by the back door as he did Prime Minister Netanyahu?
Militant conservative commented:
Obama is gonna have to do
another line of coke to get
Through this week.
Anyone else noticed the
wheels are falling off of the
Obama tricycle?! Whaaa!
Poor black guy getting the
Recognition he deserves.
FAILURE! All your son.
Powder is dry
TeachX3 commented:
#6 … agreed.
As the puzzle pieces continue to fit together, my HOPE IS IN THE LORD … yeah, I’m one of those ‘clingers’ from the Heartland.
l.barney commented:
the chutzpah of the big o is amazing…the Israelis should say “Blank you.”
Rose commented:
Odrama Queen is like a flailing dead snake – thrashing more after death than it ever did in life.
May his own Harvest find him quickly – fast as the speed of Light, and exponentially increased, suddenly, taking him unawares, and with all irony, timeliness, and Heavenly cleverness, uniquely tailored for him.
S. Wolf commented:
Poor dumb American Jews. Most of them will happily trade their birthright of a Jewish nation for the social justice of Mein Fuehrer Hussein bin Obama. They do not understand yet they are the only ones saying ‘Never Again’.
coolidgerules commented:
Don’t forget about the small arms treaty by the UN at the end of the month. He is sending Alinsky #2 to go around Congress to subvert the Constitution yet again. Crisis after crisis after crisis after crisis. He wants us concentrating on 100 different things trying to figure out what the hell they’re up to. Divide and conquer. All with help of the MSM-of course.
Thanks a lot all you COWARDS in CONgress that said and did absolutely nothing from this Leninist regime of thugs. F@cking worthless Ivy League A@@holes. Hope you all rot in hell
Rose commented:
#1 July 10, 2012 at 3:53 pm
David
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The Principles of Karl Marx and Islam, well shaken and blended – the principles of DICTATORS – “you don’t have a right to defeat DICTATORS because THEY SAYS SO.”
THAT is the only principles that Odrama Queen has. AS HE PREPARES AS WE SPEAK TO SIGN A U.N. ANTI-GUN – ANTI USA CONSTITUTION TREATY!!!!
Paul A'Barge commented:
No to two states. One state only: Isreal. You think they’re pissed now? Wait for the settlements in Gaza. And then the West Bank. And then the Golan Heights.
Let’s roll back the borders of Israel to historical locations: the borders of Israel during Solomon’s time. All of Judea and all of Samaria, plus plus.
Bring. It.
democraps suck commented:
Awe poor little ol bambi didn’t get his way
Adam Robert Ryan commented:
Obama reiterates the position of the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton, and GW Bush administrations.
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