[Loyolas Mattman]

The Secretary of State of the United States is arguing over the building of a sub-division. No, not submarines or an armored division, but 300 houses comprising something like “The Towers at Jerusalem Lodge.”

Condi should take her half-baked analogy of Palestine as Alabama circa 1960 and butt out. Our involvement isn’t doing our ally any favors, so we should just leave it alone.

[SJackson]

Condi should take her half-baked analogy of Palestine as Alabama circa 1960 and butt out.

It's a odd analogy isn't it. Jews and Arabs live in Jerusalem, including East Jerusalem.

Jews have lived in Jerusalem for 3 millenia, with the exception of "East" Jerusalem, aka the Jewish Quarter, from 1948 to 1967.

And Condi reverts to the "status quo" of those 19 years. As any good George Wallace fan would have when it comes to Condi living where she chooses.

[JerseyHighlander]

This is actually part of the Secretary of State’s portfolio to help ease the housing oversupply crisis in the US by stopping the building of homes in Israel so less affluent Jewish-Americans move to Israel, thereby increasing the demand for housing in the US.

This explanation at least is reductum ad absurdum to at least give the American public a good chuckle while we cry in our old boot broth here.