1. By making it U.S. policy that the 1967 borders are the STARTING POINT for negotiations, Obama put Israel on the defensive in its fight for security and for its cultural – and the Christian cultural – heritage in Jerusalem.
The statement
overturns assurances by George W. Bush to Israel in a 2004 letter that stated a return to the 1967 borders was in fact
NOT the policy of the United States. This assurance was made in return for a concrete step, the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza. The concrete step cannot be reversed. The assurance could be reversed by an unreliable ally. Today, it was.
Obama Insists Israel Withdraw to Fantasyland | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier
2. Charles Krauthammer, MD, MA, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, in an Apr. 31, 2004 editorial titled "A next step for Israel?" wrote:
"The Johnson administration was instrumental in making sure that the governing document for a Middle East settlement -- Security Council Resolution 242 -- called for Israeli withdrawal to
'secure and recognized boundaries,' not 'previous boundaries.' And it called for Israel to withdraw 'from territories occupied' in the 1967 war -- not 'from the territories occupied,' as had been demanded by the Arab states, and not from 'all territories occupied' as had been demanded by the Soviet Union.
Arthur Goldberg (U.S. ambassador to the U.N.), Lord Caradon (British ambassador to the U.N.) and Eugene Rostow (U.S. Undersecretary of State) had negotiated this language with extreme care. They spent the subsequent decades explaining over and over again that the central
U.N. resolution on the conflict did not require Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines." Apr. 31, 2004 - Charles Krauthammer, MA, MD
3. Betrayal: Obama breaks U.S. guarantees
It ainÂ’t just Fox News that sees ObamaÂ’s speech laying out
a radical and negative shift in policy toward Israel, and it ainÂ’t just us Israelis, but also neutral policy think-tanks such as
Stratfor perceive it so. To say that people are going apeshiite over this here is a serious understatement.
“
Those borders are not defensible,” our Prime Minister raged. The U.S. provided
guarantees, in writing, that “deal with Israel not being asked to withdraw to the 1967 lines, which are not defensible, and which place large population centers in Judea and Samaria outside of these borders.” Indeed, as Stratfor notes, those guarantees explicitly included “never having to withdraw to the 1967 borders.”
Well, he's lowered the hammer and sickle on the only free nation in the Middle East...
....another case where we warned against this President....
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