Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Biden and Kerry put the screws to Israel at AIPAC
Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman John Kerry have used their speeches at the AIPAC conference
to put the screws to Israel.
Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic Senator John Kerry told the
pro-Israel AIPAC lobby Tuesday that Israel must freeze all building
in Judea and Samaria and make further concessions to the
Palestinian Authority.
Their speeches preceded by several hours a visit by President
Shimon Peres to U.S. President Barack Obama, who has fulfilled his
post-election commitment to "hit the ground running" in order to
return Israel and the PA to the table for discussions on a new PA
state.
"You are not going to like my saying this but [do] not build more
settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians
freedom of movement," the vice president told the delegates.
Both speeches represented an increasingly intense across-the-board
campaign in the Obama government to force Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu to accept the "two-state solution."
There is nothing in any agreement signed by Israel that requires it
not to 'build settlements' and there is certainly nothing that
prohibits it from expanding 'existing settlements.' Then-Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon promised then-President George W. Bush that he
would dismantle 'illegal outposts' that were built after 2001. But all
obligations under the 'road map' as accepted by Israel are contingent
upon the 'Palestinians' first dismantling all terror organizations,
and of course that hasn't happened and is never likely to happen.
Still, the uber-Leftist Obama administration pressures Israel to make
more unilateral concessions.
Of course, there probably weren't too many objections to Biden's and
Kerry's pressure at AIPAC. After all, AIPAC is sending the delegates
to visit Congress today to 'convince' their Representatives and
Senators to sign a petition calling for a 'two-state solution.'
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem
Linkname: Israel Matzav
URL: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/
