Gary Bauer, AmericanValues.org
I have talked to foreign policy experts in Washington, D.C. and Israel today and they are using adjectives like “bizarre,” “inexplicable,” “counterproductive,” and “outrageous” to describe President Obama’s diplomatic jihad against Israel. I can’t print the adjectives that I would use.
When Iran accelerates its nuclear weapons program, Obama, Biden and Hillary show infinite patience. They extend the hand of “friendship” over and over, even when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s response is to slap us in the face. But when Israel goes forward with authorizing new housing units for its own citizens in its own capital, suddenly the Obama Administration declares diplomatic war.
Cancel your newspaper if it refers to these housing units as a “settlement.” The neighborhood, Ramat Shlomo, was established in 1995 and is entirely within the city of Jerusalem. As of a few years ago it had 18,000 residents, mostly Orthodox Jews. The idea that this neighborhood is somehow an impediment to “peace” talks is laughable.
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