Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:21 am Post subject: VP Joe Biden visits Israel
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you
Genesis 12:3
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ISRAEL - Bibi n Biden
March 10, 2010
Israel approves construction in Jerusalem. Biden condemns;
arrives at Netanyahu's home 1.5 hours late for dinner
The prime minister reportedly promised Biden "No one was seeking to embarrass you or undermine your visit.
Biden embarrasses himself! His foot is in his mouth all the time! His voters must be idiots.
RUDE!
US Vice President Joe Biden left Prime Minister Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu waiting for over an hour and a half at the dinner table.
Rude Biden was angry at Israel for allowing building homes for Jews on their own land.
Biden Condemns Construction in Jerusalem, Israel's Capital.
Its none of Biden's business!!!
Palestinians bitch to Biden - they are always bitching, so what?
March 9, 2010 Transcripts of Statements in Jerusalem, ISRAEL.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:51 am Post subject: Biden in Israel
Israel exerts soverign right to its capital as Biden looks on astounded
By Paul Richter
March 10, 2010 / 24 Adar 5770
JERUSALEM — In the midst of a high-profile visit by Vice President Joe Biden, Israel on Tuesday unveiled plans for new housing in disputed Jerusalem, a surprise step that embarrassed and angered the highest-ranking Obama administration official yet to visit the country.
Biden, who had come to promote new peace talks and to smooth the Obama administration's strained relations with a longtime ally, instead denounced Israel's plans to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem as a threat to the search for peace.
"I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem," Biden said, calling it "precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now."
"We must build an atmosphere to support negotiations, not complicate them," Biden said.
The sharp turn of events abruptly changed the tenor of the trip in its second day, coming just hours after the vice president proclaimed his love for Israel and declared enduring U.S. support. Biden's visit followed a year of tension brought on by Israel's defiance of the Obama administration's admonitions on precisely the same issue: housing settlements in disputed areas.
In Washington, the White House added its own criticism. But it was unclear how deeply the latest step by Israel would affect ties between the two countries, which have been strained by tensions over the Jewish state's hardline security measures.
Aides said Biden raised the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a dinner given in honor of the vice president's visit. U.S. officials have repeatedly warned Israel that such development in Jerusalem would anger Palestinians and further threaten prospects for peace.
Biden is to deliver a major address on U.S.-Israeli relations on Thursday. He will also meet with Palestinian and Jordanian officials.
However, Israelis sought to downplay any relation between Tuesday's announcement and Biden's visit, saying the housing plans have been years in the making and that Netanyahu, who appeared in public with Biden only hours earlier, had no idea it they were being unveiled.
Nonetheless, the plans by the Israel Interior Ministry to build the 1,600 homes for Israelis in the Ramat-Schlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem cast a dark shadow over Biden's visit, which was aimed at strengthening frayed ties between the two allies.
Palestinian leaders consider such housing moves a threat to the future Palestinian presence in a city they hope will someday be their capital, and the announcement brought quick protests. Palestinian officials said the announcement was timed to Biden's visit and called for a strong U.S. response.
A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the Israeli move as "dangerous" and said it would "torpedo negotiations and the American effort even before they start."
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:04 am Post subject: Biden opposed Israel building
Jerusalem expansion spurred by Biden's clampdown on Israeli action on Iran
March 10, 2010
Tuesday night, March 9, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu told visiting US Vice President Joe Biden that the Interior Ministry district building commission's announcement clearing the addition of 1,600 homes to the existing East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo had been made without his knowledge. It would take another two years of paperwork for building to begin.
The announcement drew sharp condemnation from the White House in Washington and from Biden, who arrived late for dinner with the prime minister, after condemning the "substance and timing" of the announcement with the launching of proximity talks. This, he said "undermined the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions I've had here in Israel." The announcement was roundly condemned by the UN Secretary, Egypt and Jordan, as well as Israeli opposition leaders.
Israeli officials later assured Washington there had been no intention to undermine the Biden visit, but Netanyahu took no steps to reverse the decision made by ultra-Orthodox, hard-line Shas interior minister Ellie Yishai.
According to debkafile's sources, the sweetness and light conveyed by public statements was hardly present in the US vice president's private talks with Israeli leaders. Netanyahu may well have approved the Jerusalem announcement as an indirect comeback for the way the American visitor laid down the law on a number of issues of Israeli concern, chiefly the matter of Iran's rapid progress toward a nuclear weapon.
The peremptory note was first noted when Biden called on president Shimon Peres, his first meeting with an Israel leader. He then explicitly warned Israel against venturing to attack Iran without prior American permission.
Even the oft-repeated American commitment to Israel's security was delivered with a notable reservation: I can promise the people of Israel that we will confront every security challenge that we will face, said Biden. This statement ruled out unilateral Israel operations in its defense. Forget unilateral, he was saying: From now "we" make the decisions about the levels of "security challenge" facing Israel and how to "confront it." And there was no false modestly about who the senior decision-maker was to be in this "alliance."
Jerusalem was also taken aback by the US vice president's assertion that Iran was isolated as never before. A distorting prism appeared to be held up by the Obama administration to justify its backtracking on painful sanctions for Iran. These sanctions were explicitly promised by the White House to Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak in return for Israel's consent to hold back from striking Iran's nuclear facilities.
The Biden visit to Israel, therefore, far from meeting its avowed goal of smoothing over the differences between the Obama administration and Israel, has left Jerusalem more distrustful than ever.
The climate was not improved Monday, March 8, by Yukiya Amano, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, announcing that the IAEA board would get back to discussing Iran's nuclear program and making decisions only in five months' time. In other words, the UN Security Council would not have the nuclear watchdog's recommendations for supporting a sanctions resolution before July.
Israel attributed this delay to Washington's intervention as another gambit for shunting Israel and its demands for harsh sanctions aside, while also holding its hand against exercising any military options.
Approval for the expansion of Ramat Shlomo came on the heels of a tough new statement by defense minister Barak Tuesday. In a talk to students, he warned that when it came to Iran, Israel must keep its finger on the trigger at all times. And upon arrival in the United States this week, chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi was instructed from Jerusalem to talk tough on the Iranian question when he meets Pentagon officials in the coming days.
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:36 am Post subject: U.S. Criticism of Israel Ignites Firestorm
U.S. Criticism of Israel Ignites Firestorm
March 16
Congress scolds Obama for publicly condemning Israel for its housing announcement. GOOD!
The Obama mafia's fierce denunciation of Israel has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro-Israel interest groups who say the criticism of Israel was misplaced. DUH .. ya think?
A parade of influential lawmakers has taken aim at the wicked decision to publicly condemn Israel for its announcement of
new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem while Vice President Joe Biden was visiting on March 9 and openly vent bitter frustration.
With diplomats from both countries referring to the situation as a crisis, the outpouring of anger in the United States, particularly from Capitol Hill, comes at a difficult time for Obama, who is trying to win support from wary lawmakers for a massive CONTROL (health care) bill.
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:51 am Post subject: Republicans slam Obama's hard line towards Israel
Republicans slam Obama's hard line towards Israel
March 15, 2010
WASHINGTON DC
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor says spat with Israel 'jeopardizes America's national security', while another senior party member concerned about administration's 'softer approaches' toward Palestinian Authority, Syria and Iran
Republican lawmakers came out swinging Monday against President Barack Obama's hard line toward Israel over its controversial plans to expand a settlement in disputed east Jerusalem.
The number two Republican in the House of Representatives deplored the Obama administration's stance on Israel as "irresponsible" a week after Israel gave the green light to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish settlers in the area the Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.
Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top officials said last week's announcement of the new construction was insulting and damaging to efforts to revive long-stalled peace talks.
"To say that I am deeply concerned with the irresponsible comments that the White House, vice president and the secretary of state have made against Israel is an understatement," said House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives.
"In an effort to ingratiate our country with the Arab world, this administration has shown a troubling eagerness to undercut our allies and friends."
He said the administration's public spat with the Jewish State "jeopardizes America's national security."
The government of hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave permission for the new construction in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood on March 9, just as Biden visited Israel, sparking a major diplomatic crisis.
Israel's ambassador to Washington said bilateral relations have hit a 35-year low.
It also came just two days after the Palestinians had reluctantly agreed to hold indirect, US-brokered negotiations with Israel.
Senator Sam Brownback said in a statement that "it's hard to see how spending a weekend condemning Israel for a zoning decision in its capital city amounts to a positive step towards peace."
The Kansas Republican, a staunch defender of Israel in Congress, said it would be "far more worthwhile" for the administration to focus its efforts instead on shifting the location of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a highly controversial proposal.
Israel indispensable ally
There are no embassies in Jerusalem, as Israel captured and annexed east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War in a move the international community does not recognize. Israel considers all of the city its capital despite Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem.
Brownback also urged the Obama administration to narrow its focus on the "growing Iranian nuclear threat," referring to the Islamic republic's continued defiance of international calls to halt its controversial uranium enrichment program. Israel considers Iran an existential threat.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued a statement saying, “The Administration’s decision to escalate its rhetoric following Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel is not merely irresponsible, it is an affront to the values and foundation of our long-term relationship with a close friend and ally."
According to the Republican leader, "The Administration has demonstrated a repeated pattern since it took office: while it makes concessions to countries acting contrary to US national interests, it ignores or snubs the commitments, shared values and sacrifices of many of our country’s best allies.
“If the Administration wants to work toward resolving the conflict in the Middle East, it should focus its efforts on Iran’s behavior, including its pursuit of nuclear weapons, its state-sponsorship of terrorism, its crushing of domestic democratic forces, and the impact its behavior is having, not just on Israel, but also on the calculations of other countries in the region as well as on the credibility of international nonproliferation efforts," Boehner said in the statement.
"House Republicans remain committed to our long-standing bilateral friendship with Israel, as well as to the commitments this country has made,” he added.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, demanded that the Obama administration halt its condemnations of "an indispensable ally and friend of the United States."
"US condemnations of Israel and threats regarding our bilateral relationship undermine both our allies and the peace process, while encouraging the enemies of America and Israel alike," she said.
Ros-Lehtinen added that she was "deeply concerned" about the administration's "softer approaches" toward the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Iran.
Iran and Syria are the main foreign backers of the Shiite terror group Hezbollah but both deny that they provide anything other than moral support.
Washington also accuses Syria of turning a blind eye to militants crossing its border into Iraq.
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:08 am Post subject: Dividing Israel
For the life of me I do NOT understand how all these "leaders" in DC profess to be "Christian" yet know so very little of what the Bible says.
How have they missed the part over and over where GOD declares Israel a GIFT FROM HIM to the Jews? Have they never looked at the boundry lines given in the Bible? How have they missed the part where God states WHO His "chosen people" are? Actually there's a lot more territory than they now call Israel. I'm thinking they have never opened one of those sacred books. Probably have one sitting on the coffee table gathering dust; just for looks. OR not.
CJ, seems you are most likely right as rain.
I can think of one - right off the top of my head; a really well known one.
Claims to be Christian but shows NO traits of that. If it walks like a Muslim, talks like a Muslim, guess what? It's a MUSLIM!.
Oh, and "this" one seems to not have a U.S. birth certificate.
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