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Senate Democrats dispute Obama's decision on Israel boycotts
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 26, 2016 3:06 PM EST | Richard Lardner

Posted on 02/26/2016 12:23:10 PM PST by Olog-hai

Senate Democrats have opened a rare public feud with President Barack Obama over a congressional effort to discourage America's trading partners from targeting Israel with politically motivated boycotts and sanctions.

Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats voiced their objections to Obama's decision not to implement provisions in a trade law that instructs U.S. negotiators to protect Israel from being punished economically for its treatment of Palestinians. [...]

Obama is opposed to the boycott movement and has pledged to fight it "as long as I am president."

But his administration took issue with part of the bill that it said conflates Israel with "Israeli-controlled territories." That's a reference to the West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war but the Palestinians demand for part of their future state.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bds; dingyharry; obama; obamamuslim; rop; senatedemocrats; stateofpalestine; westbank

1 posted on 02/26/2016 12:23:10 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

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2 posted on 02/26/2016 12:25:57 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Olog-hai

“Obama’s decision not to implement provisions in a trade law...”

Obama the Lawless. While he signs a bill into law, he announces he’s not going to follow it. And he gets away with it.


3 posted on 02/26/2016 12:39:46 PM PST by KyCats
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4 posted on 02/26/2016 12:50:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: KyCats

Yeah right! It is the liberals who have the greatest hate for Israel


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6 posted on 02/26/2016 1:09:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Olog-hai

O the Islamonazi par excellence

SOME D’s are still not nazis, however


7 posted on 02/26/2016 1:16:08 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed

shall=must. As to faithfully, I suppose that depends on the faith. To an executive who worships himself, his actions are faithful in his mind.

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