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February 18, 2009
Obama Promises Palestinians He'll Protect 'biblical heartland'
Obama promises Palestinians he'll protect 'biblical heartland'
Palestinian officials 'enthusiastic' about new tone in White House
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – The Obama administration has pledged to the Palestinian Authority it will closely monitor Jewish construction in the West Bank and will protest any new housing developments in the biblical territory, a top PA negotiator told WND.
"They told us the White House will watch for any Jewish construction," said the PA negotiator, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Obama knows that if [Likud Chairman Benjamin] Netanyahu is the next prime minister, he will try to expand the settlements. They pledged to us this will be strongly protested," the negotiator said.
Although Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima party captured one more seat than Likud in last week's elections, Netanyahu is considered most likely to form the next government, since he is reportedly able to forge the most stable coalition with other parties in the 120-seat Knesset.
The PA officials said they were enthusiastic about the new tone of the White House and about recent meetings with Obama's Mideast envoy, former Democratic Sen. George Mitchell. They said they believe that under Obama the Palestinians can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration.
"Regarding all understandings achieved between the parties, the Obama administration told us they will give guarantees to carry them out," said a top PA official.
"With Obama, the number of settlers to be removed from the West Bank will much be more important than 60,000," said the PA official, referring to previous negotiations in which Israel expressed a willingness to withdraw from up to 94 percent of the West Bank and move about 60,000 settlers into central settlement blocks closer to Jerusalem.
A top source said the PA requested that the Obama administration threaten sanctions against Israel for any new Jewish construction in the West Bank.
The source told WND that Obama is said to favor Israel withdrawing from nearly the entire West Bank.
Israel recaptured the West Bank in the 1967 Six Day War. The territory, in which about 200,000 Jews live, is tied to Judaism throughout the Torah and is often referred to as the biblical heartland of Israel.
The book of Genesis says Abraham entered Israel at the West Bank city of Shechem (Nablus) and received God's promise of land for his offspring.
He was later buried with the rest of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, except for Rachel, in Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs. The West Bank's Hebron was site of the first Jewish capital.
Wild Thing's comment........
B. Hussein sure hates Israel. He wants to hand the Biblical Heartland to the muslims.
Israel needs to stand their ground with Obama. I don't think Obama is any match at all against Bibi. I hope BiBi wins.
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....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
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Posted by Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 05:44 AM
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Israel, you are on your own now.
I hope Israel gets away from this land for peace concept. It has never worked in the past. Besides, if Israel just waits a short while, Obama will have all the Palestinians relocated to America. I hope that stimulus bill includes a lot more convience stores.
Posted by: TomR at February 18, 2009 11:33 AM
What I want to know is where in New York city is the Usurper going to relocate these Palestinians. And will they immediately be able to collect Welfare, and free medical insurance.
One good place to put them would be Bedford-Styvesant area its all welfare and most of the residents there have already converted to I slam as their primary form of religion. Except maybe smelling 'Chittlins and Turnip greens' every day would be UN PC for the muzzies.
Posted by: Mark at February 18, 2009 01:48 PM
Why don't I believe him? Too many broken promises already and my future in ruins financially? I wonder?
Posted by: Lynn at February 18, 2009 02:06 PM
Tom, I hope he changes his mind, that someone, anyone talks hard to him (Obama) and lets him know this is not something to mess with. Like they say How Israel goes so goes the world.
Yes LOL there will be endless money given to Muslims to open their convenience stores.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 07:20 PM
Mark, good one!
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 07:22 PM
Lynn, yes, when we lived in Calif. the Arabs bought a lot of huge mansions in Beverly Hills. What they would do is bring all their relatives to live in the house too. The Muslim women were not allowed to drive so the Muslims husband had limos to take the wives everywhere they went.
I am not thinking all of them can afford to do that, but the thing is wherever they do end up living they infest the neighborhoods, bring all their relatives and like the complaints in Beverly Hills the food they fix reeks and smells horrible and it is the kind of thing that the homes next door can smell as well.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 07:27 PM
