The news today is that President Obama used his interview with Fox News as a platform to cricize Israel for going ahead with plans to build a few apartment buildings in Jerusalem. This act allows the Israelis to have housing for a few hundred families in their capital city.
It is no wonder that Obama criticizes this act. Just imagine! there will be a few hundred more Jews in Jerusalem. think of it in American terms. Today, Washington D.C. has a majority of black residents. African Americans control the local government. Just imagine the outcry if the D.C. government issued building permits to allow construction of more housing for blacks on land in currently white neighborhoods. My guess is that no one would say anything, and I am quite sure that I am correct.
This is a close parallel to the issue in Israel. There are certain neighborhoods that the Palestinian Authority wants to claim for itself in a future state, although there is no particular basis for this claim besides the fact that the area was administered by Jordan fifty years ago. It has been under Israeli control for nearly 50 years and has been officially part of the state of Israel for close to that length of time. Residents in the area are Israeli citizens whether they are Arabs, Jews or others.
Why is it that Obama repeatedly criticizes Israel for not allowing the Palestinian complaints to act as a bar to Jewish habitation of certain areas. In Obama's view, if the PA complains, all the Jews have to move out of an area. That is true even if the area is a neighborhood of Israel's capital city.
We have heard speech after speech after speech after speech from the man who believes himself to be the greates orator in world history. Usually, Obama tells us about himself; after all, how can that tale not lead to world peace? We have heard points that could best be described as uneducated or naive. At worst, one could call them meaningless garbage that serves no purpose whatsoever. Still, Obama goes on and on and on and on and on with his speeches and complaints.
Interesting enough, however, is one salient fact: by blaming the Jews for all the problems in the area, Obama has finally found a problem which is not the sole cause of the USA.
The man just does not get it.
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