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The same media which can't be bothered to notice that there is a proxy war going on between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, with Saudi jets bombing civilian targets. Who have paid no attention whatsoever to a week of violence between Algerians and Egyptians that included stonings and death threats, are up in arms over the building of 900 housing units in the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem.
In response to the Nof Zion construction, Obama warned that, "additional settlement building does not contribute to Israel's security".But Nof Zion is not about security, as much as it is about an overcrowded Jewish population in Jerusalem looking for someplace to live. When the Arabs seized half of Jerusalem in Israel's War of Independence, they forcibly expelled the Jewish population of Jerusalem in a brutal act of ethnic cleansing that goes ignored by the same leftists who focus on elderly Arab men waving keychains in the air. Homes belonging to Jewish families were replaced by Arab families, who in turn were not expelled when Israel liberated and reunited both halves of Jerusalem in 1967. While countries such as England recognized Jordan's annexation of East Jerusalem, they have failed to recognize Israel's reunification of the city. This has led to the ongoing absurdity in which children born in Jerusalem are treated as stateless by the US government and the US embassy remains in Tel Aviv, while the US Consulate in East Jerusalem does its best to pretend that it's in the capital of Palestine, completely refusing to recognize Israel's existence. Were security the issue, Gilo which faces the Arab towns of Beit Jala and Al Khader, and has been shot at repeatedly from them, would be a poor choice to live in. But Jerusalem is bulging at the seams. The price of housing has shot up, and while US Ambassador Richard H. Jones may have told Jewish residents of Jerusalem that "Sometimes people do have to move to a different location. They cannot always stay close to their families", the reality is that living next to their families is exactly what people want to do. Regardless of what the State Department thinks about the matter. 1800 years ago the Romans expelled the Jewish population of Jerusalem and renamed it Aelia Capitolina, a pagan city, and renamed Israel, Syria Palaestina. Today Obama and the State Department seem determined to do the very same thing. By calling a Jerusalem neighborhood, a "settlement", Obama is actively attacking the right of Jews to live in Jerusalem. If Jewish Jerusalem is a settlement, then effectively every other part of Israel where Jews live is a settlement too.
In Time Magazine, the increasingly unhinged Joe Klein claimed that Gilo "would be the capital of Palestine", with presumably a Hadrianiac or Jordanian style ethnic cleansing solution for the 50,000 Jews who live there right now. Not that I imagine that would stop him in the least, so long as he had someone else to do the dirty work for him. But finally what is the basis for calling the Gilo neighborhood a "settlement"? The land on which Gilo was built was bought and owned by its Jewish residents. That land was occupied and seized by Jordan in 1948, until Israel liberated the territory in 1967. To call Gilo a "settlement", recognizes the Jordanian invasion and seizure of the land as legitimate, while treating the Jewish presence there as illegitimate. And that is the real basis behind all this madness. The reason why a Jewish home in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel is a settlement. To speak of "settlements" is to claim that the Jewish presence in Israel is illegitimate. And while some Israeli leftists may fondly imagine that settlers are religious Jews who live in caravans, as the case of Gilo once again demonstrates, all of Israel is a settlement. And that is why as far as the world's diplomats are concerned, an Arab terrorist has more right to open fire on a Jewish family driving down the road, than the Israeli army has to shoot that same terrorist. And by giving in to US pressure to negotiate directly with the PLO, by signing the Oslo accords and by repeatedly agreeing to talk peace with Arafat and Abbas, the door was opened to greater and greater delegitimization of Israel. Israel's global diplomatic position is far worse than it was 17 years ago. Israel's strategic position is far worse than it was 17 years ago. The most rabid bigotry and the ugliest incitement has become the norm, the sort of language you would once hear in Ridyah or Damascus has now become cocktail party chatter in London, Paris and Washington D.C. All of Israel's concessions have combined to put a gun to Jerusalem, and then to the rest of the land for a great going out of business, everything must go sale.
The men and women who toiled and worked the land, who turned swamps and desert into farmland and cities, understood that if there was no room for Jews in Israel, there was no room for Jews anywhere. Palestinian Islamic terrorism in turn is driven by the national and religious imperative to destroy the only non-Muslim country in the Middle East. And while America and Europe decry Israel's capital as a Jewish settlement, Muslim settlements are springing up in their own capitals. While the cocktail party chatter is that serving up Israel on a platter to the beast will keep them safe, the violence is already in their streets. The same violence that Israel was built as a refuge against. And if Israel falls, they will be the next item on the menu. ------------------------------------
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  written by Todd, November 22, 2009
You might want to consider the reality that Obama is a muslim sympathizer. He may be a covert believer of Islam since he has never renounced his Muslim faith. I am not sure he is an American citizen and is an administration of lies.
 written by illwill, November 22, 2009
You are either ignorantly uninformed, A Christian Zionist, with a fundamentalist ideology based on biblical prophecies, or an incredibly blind support of Israel if you think that continued settlements are going to lead to a peaceful solution for the Israelis or the Palestinians!!
written by illwill, November 22, 2009
There was a new study done in the Knesset that said that ALL of Jerusalem will be Arab majority in 20 years. Look it up!! This effort to Judaize Jerusalem, with a few Jewish citizens in mostly Arab neighborhood of, demolition of Arab homes, absentee property laws, and discriminatory taxation policies are not working. Arab populations in East Jerusalem are increasing. If there ever will be a peaceful solution Israel is going to have to recognize the fact that Arab parts of East Jerusalem are going to be the capital of a Palestinian State!!
 written by Bill Whitfield, November 23, 2009
Obama has proved over and over he is an Enemy to Israel and to America and to all Allies of America! Hussein is most comfortable when he is in the presence of our Enemies! He has a kindred with them because he also hates America and what it stands for.
The Palis have been offered their own country before and have turned it down. They are only happy if they are whining and killing, just as most muslims are. Jerusalem has always belonged to Israel. It was given to them by the true God, not the Satan enity that the muslims worship, who is no god but a demon! Obama*s may not support Israel but all Christian Patriotic Americans do, just as it tells us in the Bible to do. Obama is most likely not even an American and if he is, he is a sorry excuse for one, same goes for Jimah Carter. Both are America's Greatest Enemies!
written by Bill Whitfield, November 23, 2009
I hope that Israel continues to expand and grow. The Palis have been offered their own country before and turned it down. They love playing the victim. In reality, Israel has always owned the land given to them by God, the True God, not the Satan enity of Islam.
Obama has insulted or turned his back on all of America's allies and groveled before our enemies. He is the Weakest President America has ever had! He makes Jimah Carter look like Reagen! Go Beni! Keep expanding!
 written by juicy, December 01, 2009
thank you for illuminating some truth in a world gone mad with BS.
 written by davidmelechisrael, December 02, 2009
The sons of Ishmael cannot accept their heritage,they also lust for that of Isaac.
Thirst for blood and hands raised,they cannot change the will of God. Israel is an eternal fact and grows greater day by day. Obama's funky roadshow will fade into oblivion and shame much as Carter's helicopters did in the Iranian sand and his soulmate Ahmenijad will boil in his own insane blood. In the meantime,we Hebrews will continue tilling the soil of Erets Israel,continue to invent,create, prosper and enjoy it!!
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The Obama Administration and the media are naturally not upset by the Jerusalem municipality's decision to build 500 housing units for Arabs in Jerusalem. No they're upset by a private Jewish housing project built on privately owned land. And that double standard aptly conveys their premise that a Jewish house in Jerusalem is a "settlement", while an Arab house in Jerusalem is just a house. A Jewish home violates the "status quo" and is "unhelpful for peace", while an Arab home is just a home. There is of course a name for that sort of policy, it's one that Jimmy Carter who is still continuing his tour on behalf of Hamas knows quite well, Apartheid.
When even liberal US news outlets such as CNN have described Gilo as a Jewish neighborhood, in contrast to radical left wing British outlets such as the BBC and Reuters, who branded it as a "settlement", Obama's shift is a deliberate one. Helpful as always, UN Secretary General Ki Ban Moonbat stepped in to denounce Gilo as a "settlement built on Palestinian land that undermines efforts for peace". Considering that Gilo already holds a population of 50,000, the land was privately owned and the Jewish presence there goes back to the Book of Joshua, but the facts are no obstacle to the lies.
The case of Gilo is one more wake up call that not only our terrorist "peace partners", but even the so-called honest brokers of the world community do not believe that Jews have the right to live anywhere in Israel. Their backing of a Palestinian state has nothing to do with peace, as the fact that peace has failed to emerge over 17 years has not in any way dampened their ardor and enthusiasm for the project. Nor is it about a Two State Solution bringing regional stability. Even the dimmest paper pushers in the State Department and Foreign Ministry know that even were a Palestinian state to be created, the result would be more regional instability, not less. Only a One State Solution can succeed, and that solution is an Arab state and no Israel. The "Peace Process" and the "Two State Solution" are an incremental approach to bringing about that final solution.
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