Yesterday President Obama delivered his historic speech to the Muslim world, calling for an independent Palestinian state and calling on Israel once again to halt the growth of its West Bank settlements. Today, Israeli officials say they will ignore the appeals, and continue on with the policy of settlement growth.
Since taking office two months ago after a tightly-contested election, Israel’s right-wing coalition government has abandoned the previous government’s peace talks and repeatedly rejected the “two-state solution” which President Obama has been advocating.
More recently the administration has been pressing Israel to halt the growth of settlements, as agreed to in the previous roadmap. The Israelis have rejected that call as well, claiming to have had a secret deal with former President Bush that allowed them to continue to expand the settlements. The agreement was never written down, and Bush-era officials insist it was never made at all.
All this has added up to a very tense US-Israeli relationship, and despite US pledges not to seek punitive measures against Israel for its continued defiance, Obama has faced mounting domestic criticism as well as anti-US protests in Israel, where Obama has been condemned as “the most anti-Semitic American president.”
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Very sad to say BUT Israel is NOT now and has NEVER been an 'ally' of America. In 1967 Israel deliberately attacked the USS Liberty with the intent to MURDER all 246 officers and sailors. Hitler claimed that Germany needed "living space" Eastward. Netanyanhu claims that Israel needs "natural growth" in the West Bank as Israeli settlers continue to steal land from the Palestinians. Is there any difference in the two? Israel is NO friend and NO ally of America and our blind support of Israel is what makes enemies of all of the Arab countries. IF anything happens to Obama – look to the Israeli Mossad as the culprits! Zionists TRAITORS in the Bush Administration LIED and led the US into an illegal unnecessary war with Iraq for the benefit of Israel. And AIPAC – the TRAITORS to the US advocate that the US go to war with Iran for Israel.The ONLY 'peace' that Zionists like Netanyahu wants in the Middle East is to MURDER all of the ARABS and to steal all of their lands. There are Jews in Israel who oppose such Nazi policies. America needs to oppose and not support such policies.