It is the same old, same old.

Whenever are the Americans going to learn?

The Jews have been yanking the chains of American presidents and other
American politicians for literally decades now. The Jews continue to talk,
talk, talk, and build, build, build, while they slowly chisel away at the
Palestinian territories. Meanwhile, the weak Americans helplessly stand by,
trying to save face, while the Jews embarrass them time and time again. As
it has already been said, by the time those crafty Jews are done, there
won't be much left with which to form a Palestinian state, and the
Palestinians know it, which is why they are growing impatient.

So once again an Israeli PM has made a fool out of another US president. As
I have said before, Bibi Netanyahu is one shrewd, manipulative politician,
and just like Israeli PM's before him, he's got the Americans in the palm of
his hand. Netanyahu embarrassed Biden, and now he's embarrassed Obama as
well. He has Obama begging him for concessions.

All of the violence aside, can you really blame the Palestinians for their
current distrust of the Jews? I most certainly can't.

I should point out that Netanyahu tells one big lie in the following
article. He claims that Jerusalem is the capital of the state of the Israel.
It may be to the Jews who live there, but it is an established fact that the
rest of the world does not legally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel. Tel Aviv is, besides also being the commercial capital of Israel. In
fact, on the Wikipedia website, it even states:

"Due to the international dispute over the status of Jerusalem, most foreign
embassies remained in or near Tel Aviv. In the early 1980s, 13 embassies in
Jerusalem moved to Tel Aviv as part of the UN's measures responding to
Israel's 1980 Jerusalem Law. Today, all but two embassies are in Tel Aviv or
environs."

As far as the Palestinians unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state, they
have used this tactic before, and they are probably just bluffing, but you
never know. I know that a large part of the world would probably stand
behind them, including much of Europe and Russia, but the USA most certainly
wouldn't, because they are financially beholden to the Jews.

When will this merry-go-round ever stop?


In Curt Exchange, U.S. Faults Israel on Housing

By MARK LANDLER and ETHAN BRONNER - NYT

November 9, 2010


WASHINGTON -- President Obama's criticism of new Israeli housing plans for
East Jerusalem, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's even sharper retort,
have thrown the Middle East peace talks into jeopardy, with the dispute over
Jewish settlements looming as a seemingly insuperable hurdle.

The Obama administration is struggling to restart direct negotiations
between the Israelis and Palestinians, which stalled last month after the
expiration of a partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet Mr. Netanyahu in New
York on Thursday, while Egypt sent two top officials to Washington to
discuss ways to salvage the process.

But the brusque exchange between Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu reflected again
the gulf between Israel and the United States over settlements -- an issue
Mr. Obama initially made the centerpiece of his Middle East diplomacy.
Palestinian officials said Israel's latest announcement threatened the talks
and could prompt a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.

When asked in about Israel's plans for 1,000 housing units for a contested
part of East Jerusalem, Mr. Obama said, "This kind of activity is never
helpful when it comes to peace negotiations."

"I'm concerned that we're not seeing each side make the extra effort
involved to get a breakthrough," the president added during his visit to
Indonesia. "Each of these incremental steps can end up breaking trust."

A few hours later, Mr. Netanyahu's office responded with a statement, saying
that "Jerusalem is not a settlement; Jerusalem is the capital of the State
of Israel."

The United States and Israel have well-known differences over Jerusalem, Mr.
Netanyahu's office said in the statement, adding that building plans should
have no effect on the peace talks.

Despite their efforts to build mutual trust, Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu
seem to keep talking past each other. On Tuesday, they were worlds apart in
symbolism as well as substance: the president voiced his criticism of Israel
while on a visit to Jakarta, capital of the world's most populous Muslim
country.

Mr. Netanyahu was in New York, meeting business people, midway through a
visit to the United States that included a speech to a Jewish group in New
Orleans on Monday, in which he called on Washington to be more aggressive in
threatening Iran with a military strike if it did not give up its nuclear
program.

Analysts said Mr. Netanyahu's unyielding tone -- a palpable contrast to his
chagrined reaction after a similar housing dispute during a visit to Israel
by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. -- testified to the altered political
environment in the United States. The stinging Democratic defeat in the
midterm elections, the analysts said, had emboldened Mr. Netanyahu to push
back harder against the administration.

"He is dealing with a president who is politically weakened," said Daniel C.
Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel. "A lot of his friends in
Washington are Republicans. He feels more comfortable with them, so he just
feels that he's got a freer hand here."

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael B. Oren, rejected that
view. "We're not looking for a confrontation with the Obama administration,"
he said.

He said Mr. Netanyahu was eager to discuss with Mrs. Clinton "how we are
going to move forward, once we get over this hump."

But Mr. Oren declined to say whether Mr. Netanyahu would offer new proposals
for breaking the impasse. The United States has asked him to extend the
settlement freeze for 60 days in return for security incentives.

Israeli officials have said Mr. Netanyahu is hemmed in by his right-wing
coalition, which opposes extending the freeze. Some officials said that by
taking a hard line on Israel's right to build in Jerusalem, Mr. Netanyahu
might gain the political cover to compromise over the West Bank.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton will meet with Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed
Aboul Gheit, and its intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman. Egypt is worried by
the impasse, and American officials said they expected the Egyptians to
advance their own ideas for resuscitating the talks, which could include an
Israeli pledge to withdraw troops from parts of the West Bank.

Whether that would be enough to satisfy the Palestinians without an
extension of the settlement freeze is not clear. In another gesture to the
Palestinians, Mrs. Clinton will announce the United States' annual financial
contribution to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, an administration
official said.

Mr. Netanyahu has supported Mr. Obama's mix of engagement and sanctions
against Iran. But in his speech to the Jewish Federations of North America
in New Orleans, he called for a more aggressive approach.

"If the international community, led by the United States, hopes to stop
Iran's nuclear program without resorting to military action," he declared,
"it will have to convince Iran that it is prepared to take such action."

Dan Diker, a senior foreign policy analyst at the Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs, said the speech was calculated to "push the military option
to the top paragraph of the policy from the third or fourth paragraph."

But Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that the threat of military
action was not the best way to deter Tehran. Mr. Gates said the recent
United Nations sanctions against the Iranian government were starting to
bite.

Israel's housing announcement came in the form of plans published for public
review in local newspapers on Friday, just before Mr. Netanyahu headed to
Washington. As with previous announcements, Israeli officials said the
timing was determined bureaucratically, not politically.

Still, the timing raised questions about what Mr. Netanyahu knew and when.
After Mr. Biden's visit to Israel was spoiled last March by a similar
announcement that Mr. Netanyahu said was a surprise to him, American
officials told the Israelis that they wanted no more surprises.

At the time, Mr. Netanyahu's aides said he sent out letters demanding lists
of future settlement plans to avoid surprises while peace talks were under
way. It was unclear whether Mr. Netanyahu knew about this one before it was
published in newspapers last week. On Tuesday, it also became clear that
some 800 units would be built in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Israel's action was "a
call for immediate international recognition of the Palestinian state."

The Palestinian leadership has been talking about shifting its focus to
getting international recognition of a Palestinian state if settlement
building continued and the peace talks remained stalled. The Obama
administration and Arab states have urged it not to go that route.



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