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Nixon mocked Democrats for Jerusalem position
Associated Press ^ | Mar 20, 2013 3:16 AM EDT | Frederic J. Frommer

Posted on 03/20/2013 12:51:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Last year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked the Democratic convention platform for its “shameful” decision to omit a reference to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But in a sign of how U.S. politics have changed in 40 years, President Richard Nixon complained in 1972 of the Democrats’ “dishonest” platform language declaring the city Israel’s capital.

Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, agreed with his condemnation during a previously unreported taped conversation from June 29, 1972. “To make Jerusalem the capital of Israel is not the platform of a major American national party,” Henry Kissinger told Nixon. “That is what I find so revolting here.” The tape is one of a collection housed at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

On Wednesday, Barack Obama is arriving in Israel for his first visit there as president—about six months after telling Democratic Party officials to reinstate language from previous convention platforms stating Jerusalem is the Israeli capital. But on Tuesday in Washington, Obama’s administration argued in a federal appellate court that a law allowing Americans born in Jerusalem to have their place of birth listed on their U.S. passports as Israel infringed on the president’s foreign policy powers. The United States, during administrations of both political parties, has refused to recognize any nation’s sovereignty over Jerusalem since Israel’s creation in 1948. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antizionism; democrats; districtofcolumbia; israel; jerusalem; nixon; russia; waronterror

1 posted on 03/20/2013 12:51:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

In other words, Obama is in line with Nixon. Not just on that, either.


2 posted on 03/20/2013 12:59:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Olog-hai

The Nixon era was a very strange time. Foreign policy was out the door and Kissinger assembled a coherent policy from a large set of small parts. Any mis-step could have resulted in the end of the world.

When looking back at giants it no surprise pygmies wish to reduce those giants’ stature.

The WOT is a problem, but compared to the Cold War it is an annoyance (not that 3K is a small issue — but we humans could have destroyed the entire planet)


3 posted on 03/20/2013 1:00:14 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: freedumb2003

Nixon on his tapes never came out favorably in his views towards the Jews I don’t think.

But he did support them publicly and with lots of foreign aid. A friend of mine (Airborne) was sitting on a plane waiting to take off to Israel in 1967(?). IIRC he said something like “I’m glad those Israeli’s ended it on the 7th day - ‘cuz we would have dropped in on the 8th.”


4 posted on 03/20/2013 1:11:32 AM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: 21twelve

The 1967 war was LBJ

The 1973 war was Nixon


5 posted on 03/20/2013 1:39:02 AM PDT by laplata
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6 posted on 03/20/2013 3:38:52 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Olog-hai

The State News Media is so desperate, they now resort to using Pres. Nixon as a character witness for Obama’s actions.


7 posted on 03/20/2013 4:27:31 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Olog-hai

The AP is pretty blatant in its worship of Obamugabe.


8 posted on 03/20/2013 5:57:50 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Olog-hai

Jerusalem wasn’t officially made the capital of the State of Israel until 1980, and no US president has ever recognized it as such.


9 posted on 03/20/2013 6:03:20 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Olog-hai
Nixon was dealing with an India which was leaning toward communism. We were allies with Pakistan at the time and he had to be careful not to antagonize the Muslim world unneccessarily or India could have gone to the dark side.
10 posted on 03/20/2013 11:40:07 AM PDT by what's up
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To: jjotto; All
Jerusalem wasn’t officially made the capital of the State of Israel until 1980, and no US president has ever recognized it as such.

I don't know what you mean by "officially made the capital." Jerusalem was certainly at least the de facto capital of the State of Israel since its founding in 1948. That's where the Knesset and the chief government administrative offices have been located, no matter who recognizes that as a fact or not.

11 posted on 03/20/2013 12:12:48 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Olog-hai; Bluestocking; PA Engineer; Blennos; kabumpo; golux; sf4dubya; SmileRight; Tribune7; ...
The entire purpose of this AP article is to make the 'Rats look good and the GOP look bad in regard to the US relationship with Israel.

Notice the praise of Obama, who is now coming to Israel "about six months after telling Democratic Party officials to reinstate language from previous convention platforms stating Jerusalem is Israel's capital." Of course, this Frommer isn't mentioning who might have been involved in dropping the language from their original platform in the first place.

Left out of the article entirely is the very salient fact that Nixon, despite his flaws, helped Israel most significantly with military aid during the Yom Kippur War a year after Kissinger made the comment about Jerusalem. To this day, Nixon is remembered as a hero among the Israelis, because actions - especially during a time of need - speak louder than words.

12 posted on 03/20/2013 12:58:14 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

You’right on all counts.


13 posted on 03/20/2013 1:05:41 PM PDT by laplata
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To: justiceseeker93

Well yes. But (leaving out Nixon and Ford) Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush had a combined 16 years, and George H. W. Bush had four years, to declare the US recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Presidents get to determine foreign policy as per the Constitution.


14 posted on 03/20/2013 1:06:29 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Thanks justiceseeker93. Partisan Media Shills ping.

Nixon was getting the Watergate colonoscopy at the time, and reportedly feeling lousy because he was ill and hungover — and yet, in answer to what level of commitment to make with the airlift, he said, “you will send everything that will fly.” The apparent ease with which the US delivered just-in-time (and just what was needed) supplies 8000 miles, and in one case, just to test (and show off) delivered an entire tank, ready for fueling and loading, and the inability of the USSR to come close to matching it despite a headstart and much shorter routes, helped fracture the political structure there, and — along with the earlier trip to Mao’s China — opened the door for detente and, ultimately, arms reduction treaties, economic implosion, destruction of the Warsaw Pact “alliance”, and disintegration of the Soviet Union.


15 posted on 03/20/2013 3:47:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: freedumb2003

well put, VERY well put.


16 posted on 03/20/2013 3:50:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: nickcarraway

Obama isn’t fit to shine Nixon’s shoes, and not just on that, either. Oops. I said something racist by accident. Must hurt self. Must hurt self. Ow. Ow. Ow. Dobbie is a bad house elf.


17 posted on 03/20/2013 7:19:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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