Posted on 03/21/2011 2:51:42 PM PDT by propertius
Sarah Palin has emerged at the centre of a potentially embarrassing mystery when she abruptly aborted a visit to Bethlehem just yards from an Israeli checkpoint guarding the entrance to the city of Christ's birth.
Mrs Palin, whose trip to the Holy Land is being seen as an attempt to burnish her foreign policy credentials ahead of a possible presidential bid, had been planning to tour Christian sites before holding evening talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. Bethlehem was supposed to be her first stop of the day, according to a leaked copy of her schedule.
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It is unclear whether Mrs Palin and her team failed to realise that Bethlehem lay on Palestinian territory rather than in Israel, a mistake often made by foreign tourists, though not so often by visiting politicians
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Pure lies by the PDS media. She wasn’t scheduled so the leak likely came from the WH.
Pray for America
Gee, ya think?!?!
Problem for the libs. She DIDN’T “abort”.
Author felt compelled to use the term “abort” and “Bethlehem” in the same sentence due to his sick wish that Jesus had never been born.
unbiased write would have used:
Palin cancels Bethlehem visit
or
Palin suddenly cancels Bethlehem visit
sounds like they went up to the checkpoint, got a nice view, then turned around. they went to a monastery that has a good view of bethlehem and surrounding areas. no big deal.
if she had a sense of humor she’d say she was disappointed that she didn’t get to see where Obama was born.
Yeah I understand that people come from around the world just to visit the scenic security checkpoints.
Absolutely! The article from the Jerusalem Post about the Temple Mount visit says:
“Why are you apologizing all the time?” Palin asked her guides.
Palin expressed regret that she would not be able to visit Nazareth or Bethlehem during her brief stay in Israel, but promised that she would soon come back for longer.
More likely her staff screwed up.
I don't think that Palin is the incompetent one in this picture, but whoever she has making these kind of arrangements needs to be replaced with someone who knows what they are doing.
And yes, snide is right.
I love her and she’s my candidate, but she’s got to deepen and upgrade the contribution of the team around her. She did great with the Q&A in India, but she should have had a professional work on her speech.
Poor choice of words for someone as pro-life as Palin is.
But certainly a deliberate one.
She went to Israel to do a drive by of a security checkpoint? And the purpose for that was????
There is really no need to embarrass yourself by posting blindly from an ignorant position. Hope that helps.
Has it helped you?
The headline for this story tells us volumes about the thing that the left fears most from Sarah Palin.
They are furious to the point of incoherent rage over the thought of Sarah giving birth to a Down’s syndrome child rather than have an abortion. Trig’s birth confronts their lies about what abortion really is.
If this was anyone else, the headline would have used the word “cancel.” IMHO
No doubt.
From the Jerusalem Post article posted yesterday — 3/20/11 on Drudge.
It’s still there.
“Palin expressed regret that she would not be able to visit Nazareth or Bethlehem during her brief stay in Israel, but promised that she would soon come back for longer.’
Bethlehem was never on the agenda. I call bunk.
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.
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