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How the U.S. came to abstain on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Washington Post ^ | Dec. 28, 2016 | Karen DeYoung

Posted on 12/28/2016 7:07:55 PM PST by Innovative

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To: Innovative

The time had come for him to take a stand - when he wouldn’t have to deal with the consequences.


21 posted on 12/28/2016 7:33:06 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Innovative

... settlements already constructed on Palestinian land...

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There is no “Palestinian” land...It is all Israel....


22 posted on 12/28/2016 7:33:06 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Innovative

Fake news from the comPost.


23 posted on 12/28/2016 7:33:41 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dp0622

This might be of help....

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/12/israels-right-to-build-homes-is-settled-under-international-law?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=122816crcontentemail&utm_campaign=newslettertraffic


24 posted on 12/28/2016 7:33:47 PM PST by Postman (The Flies have finished defining BHO and HRC and will be moving on)
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To: dp0622

The land in question was won by the Israelis in the 67 war. There has never been a country of Palestine. Never was a people calling themselves Palestinian with a culture and history. They are arabs plain and simple.


25 posted on 12/28/2016 7:34:00 PM PST by Hiro Protaginast
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To: Innovative

The “truth” from a compost pile in Washington. All those fungi and bacteria doing their thing. Nonsense.


26 posted on 12/28/2016 7:34:03 PM PST by Fungi (Having my fungus and eating it too.)
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To: Hiro Protaginast

And if I recall correctly, Israel didn’t start that war so to the victors go the spoils.

Life’s tough palestine. Suck it up.

What was “palestine” and Israel called before ‘48?


27 posted on 12/28/2016 7:42:36 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Innovative

Simple morons dancing around the evil of islam. islam will die as surly as its filth pushes closer to good people.

islam and its ability to inbreed and pinch off more of its vermin is all it has going for it. It must be eliminated before peace will prevail.


28 posted on 12/28/2016 7:47:05 PM PST by soycd
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To: joshua c

I do not understand why Powers or Kerry did not resign instead of doing this, it is not like they are going to have a job in 3 weeks. True believers?


29 posted on 12/28/2016 8:22:56 PM PST by depressed in 06 (I'm going to have to come up with a new tag line.)
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To: dp0622

Apparently you are not aware of the history of the area.

First, Palestine existed only as a part of other nations and empires. Palestine was part of the Roman Empire. Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Palestine has been primarily Jewish territory through both of those empires. In the Dori Gold’s book, the Wahabi’s in the late 1800’s historically marched upon this area to “push the Jews into the sea”. Mooslimes tried to take this land away from Jews since the inception of Islime. The Mosque built on top of Temple Mount wasn’t built until after their so-called prophet;s death almost 70 years later. Their so-called prophet never stepped foot onto that area but yet the Temple Mount is the place where he was allegedly taken up to speak to his god to negotiate how many times a day the mooslimes had to pray.

The Ottoman Empire called this area Palestine and did not want it because it was a desert - arid and dry and hardly anything grew there. Jews have lived in this area for many many years.

After the dissection of the ME the majority of countries in the Arabian Peninsula threw out not only Jews but the dregs of their Beduin populations. They came to settle in this area but the country that they were supposed to settle in was Jordan not Israel. It was an uprising in Jordan that put these people down and around 70 to 80 thousand of them were killed due to this uprising. There are more Palestinkians in Jordan than Israel. They reside in permanent refugee camps. There are more in Lebanon. This has led to the controversial subject of the Right to Return. There isn’t enough space in Israel for all of these people to settle in Israel.

Jerusaleum has been contentious ever since the Crusades. This is why when Bush said what he did about undertaking a crusade against those who did 9/11 there was a huge outcry.

Here is the issue, Israel isn’t just a fight about 6 million people it is a ongoing conflict in which there are many more people than 6 million. Israel affects almost the entire world. Islime is fighting a proxy war through the Palestinkians. There has never been a people called Palestinkians. The term didn’t come about until after Israel was made a country in the 20th century. Palenstinkians don’t exist because there is no race, no sovereign country and there has never been a people called Palestinkians since biblical times when Palestinians denoted Jews who lived in that area by the Romans. The Bible tells us so.


30 posted on 12/28/2016 8:24:07 PM PST by zaxtres
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To: depressed in 06

Powers, Kerry, AND Obola did it. They instigated it (behind the scenes) by letting it be known that they (Washington) would NOT oppose the UN’s measure.


31 posted on 12/28/2016 8:45:39 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Innovative
The rapid increase of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, despite escalating U.S. criticism, could very well close the door to any hope of negotiating side-by-side Israeli and Palestinian states.

That is true. These settlements make a side-by-side, 2-state solution impossible. I think, the Israelis know this too. A 2-state solution is pure fiction. The Muslims will never allow a Jewish State to exist, much less co-exit amongst them, enjoying peace, prosperity and happiness. It's antithetical to Islam. Huckabee made this point very well on O'Reilly tonight.

After decades of this pretense and appeasing, it's time to accept that a single-state is the only option. Let's hope Trump, with or without the UN, will make this happen.

32 posted on 12/28/2016 9:04:38 PM PST by mikeIII
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To: Helicondelta

“The Washington Post is a joke. All lies and deceit”

Im convinced owner Bezos is an evil man, Amazon.com. be damned


33 posted on 12/29/2016 12:35:06 AM PST by DAC21 (in)
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To: Innovative

I’m getting tired of Muslim trash.


34 posted on 12/29/2016 1:17:34 AM PST by Crucial
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To: Innovative

Israeli sources say Obama was involved in creating the resolution.


35 posted on 12/29/2016 1:41:28 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Simple, elected an anti Israel President.

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36 posted on 12/29/2016 3:45:54 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: dp0622
7 BILLION people in the world. Yet the focus is on 6 MILLION.

Evil focuses on undoing what God has decreed......

37 posted on 12/29/2016 4:48:25 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Note: this topic is from 12/28/2016. Thanks Innovative.

38 posted on 12/01/2017 10:18:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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