Thursday, April 10, 2014

OBAMA AND KERRY PROVE TO BE INEPT IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS

Mat Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel
 
Israel’s leadership is declaring that John Kerry has “thrown us under the bus.”

In reporting the apparent death of Middle East peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry told members of a Senate committee that, “700 settlement units were announced in Jerusalem, and ‘poof,’ that was sort of the moment.”

Contrary to the Obama administration’s delusional, “head in the sand” Middle East policies, we must stand with Israel! Please see my important update below – Mat.

Conservatives,

Secretary of State John Kerry has once again put his foot in his mouth in blaming actions by the Israeli leadership for the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
 
As everyone on the planet knows, there is a tremendous amount of distrust between the Israelis and the Palestinians. There appears to be an equal amount of doubt that the Obama administration has the capability to broker a deal when both principle parties disagree on the starting point of negotiations.

++Israelis are demanding that Palestinians acknowledge their statehood and right to exist as a starting point, which the Palestinians refuse to do.

According to the newspaper Israel Hayom, an Israeli Strategic and Intelligence Minister addressed the unraveling peace talks by telling a group at Tel Aviv University…

“About a month ago we listened to PA President Mahmoud Abbas say he has no intention of recognizing the right of the Jewish people to a sovereign state. There are situations where one must stand firm and present this as a basic demand – full recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people. We cannot come to terms with anything else from Abbas.”

++For their part, the Palestinians demand that established borders be restored to pre-1967 boundaries, which includes a divided Jerusalem, a demand the Israelis categorically refuse. 

Israeli leadership recently announced the approval of 700 new settlements to be built in East Jerusalem, in an area the Palestinians assert belongs to them.

These settlements were approved for Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, not the West Bank or other areas considered by the Palestinians to be “occupied territories.”

In response to Kerry’s allegations that Israel was largely to blame for the recent breakdown by approving those settlements, an unnamed official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said:

“In the understandings reached prior to the talks, Israel did not commit to any limitation on construction. Therefore, the Palestinian claim that building in Jerusalem, Israel's capital, was a violation of the understandings is contrary to the facts.

Both the American negotiating team and the Palestinians know full well that Israel made no such commitment.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu has thus far refrained from directly commenting on Kerry's position, but said, “We are standing up for ourselves with determination and wisdom.”

++It is time to tell the world that We Stand with Israel!

Israel, under Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership, will certainly stand for itself.  But the United States under President Obama’s double-speak foreign policies must not be among the nations throwing Israel ”under the bus.”

  I know that you stand with Israel by your prior support of our pro-Israel campaigns.  Thank you!

I want to make you aware of a special offer that we have for all supporters of Israel. Here is an opportunity to get a copy of a fascinating book that we are genuinely pleased to offer, George Washington and Israel by Peter Lillback, PhD, the president of The Providence Forum and president of Westminster Theological Seminary.

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++Fox News asks “Is John Kerry a Failed Secretary of State?”
 
“Sen. John McCain brutally criticized Secretary of State John Kerry for a failure to “recognize reality” in a slew of foreign policy missteps by the Obama administration.”

Senator Marco Rubio said McCain was “right on point.” He went on to say…
 
“On the issues of national security around the world, we are less safe today than we were when President Obama took office. We're in a dreadful spot, because if you understand the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy, it's not based on truth, it's based on wishful thinking.”
 
Further, a Washington Post columnist called Kerry’s foreign policy “delusional.”

Liberty Counsel views Secretary of State John Kerry’s most recent blunder to be yet another example of the fact that under President Obama, apples don’t fall far from the tree. We’ve been calling the Obama administration’s foreign policies misguided, ill conceived, and incomprehensible for over five years.

++We stand indivisibly linked to Israel!

Liberty Counsel supports Israel for biblical and national security reasons. Israel is a Middle East bastion of democracy and individual freedom and is the birthplace of the Judeo-Christian concept of the rule of law – which, in turn, became the foundation of America and Western Civilization.

As I was privileged to discuss with Prime Minister Netanyahu several months ago, the United States and Israel are the modern day pillars of Western Civilization and our nations’ fates are inextricably linked.  We MUST stand with Israel!

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God bless you and God bless the nation of Israel!

Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

 

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