Baloney. She said what she meant.
"I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand."
She stands by Israel's right to live and prosper, and she stand by their right to expand their setttlements if they so choose.
What about the arabs? Israel is capable of working that out herself, and doesn't need us to tell her what she has to do.
J Street responded... "Palin's pandering to her right-wing base comes at the expense of the security of the State of Israel, the lives of those actually living the conflict, and the fundamental American interest in achieving a two-state solution in the near term,"
Who is J Street? "J Street is a nonprofit advocacy group based in the United States that promotes American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts..."
So which is it? Her comments come at the expense of the people living there? Or so says J Street, who doesn't live there and is promoting US leadership and is worried about the impact her remarks will have on US diplomacy...
On the contrary. It is J Street who ignores the people living there and wants to promote the views of outsiders, while Sarah stands for the rights of Israelis to work out their own destiny as they see it.
“settlements” = “suburbs”