Posted on 03/24/2010 2:57:13 PM PDT by Nachum
Israel will continue building in all of its Jerusalem municipality and a construction plan that raised questions during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's current trip to Washington is nothing new, Netanyahu's spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday.
"There is no limitation on the right of property in Jerusalem. Jews and Arabs can buy and sell freely private property and homes in all the city, and that is the reality," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.
The statement was issued shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, at odds with Israel over settlement building in East Jerusalem, said U.S. officials were seeking clarification of Israel's plan for a further expansion of Jewish housing in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
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The list, ping
Bibi should tell Obama, “You bomb Iran’s nuclear plants, and we will stop building in Jerusalem for one year.”
Otherwise, Obama needs to keep his mouth shut.
Free enterprise? Capitalism? Private Property?
Pure evil in the view of Obama and his commie comrades.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Last July, and The One b*tched about it then.
"There is no limitation on the right of property in Jerusalem. Jews and Arabs can buy and sell freely private property and homes in all the city, and that is the reality," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.This whole "controversy" was engineered by the Obama administration, right down to the timing for Biden's trip. Thanks Nachum.
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