US President Barack Obama dramatically changed US foreign policy – sandbagging Israel and aligning himself with PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ preconditions for talks – when he called Thursday for a “full and phased withdraw of Israeli forces” from “occupied Palestinian lands” to the 1949 armistice borders that Israel’s former Foreign Minister and UN ambassador in 1967, Abba Eban, referred to as the “Auschwitz borders.” http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144334
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Congressman Allen West Response to President Barack Obama’s Call
for a Two State Solution in Israel
(WASHINGTON)
— Congressman Allen West (FL-22) released this statement today:
“Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state.
From the moment the modern day state of Israel declared statehood in 1948, to the end of the 1967 Six Day War, Jews were forbidden access to their holiest site, the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, controlled by Jordan’s Arab army.
The pre-1967 borders endorsed by President Obama would deny millions of the world’s Jews access to their holiest site and force Israel to return the strategically important Golan Heights to Syria, a known state-sponsor of terrorism.
Resorting to the pre-1967 borders would mean a full withdrawal by the Israelis from the West Bank and the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Make no mistake, there has always been a Nation of Israel and Jerusalem has been and must always be recognized as its rightful capital.
In short, the Hamas-run Palestinian state envisioned by President Obama would be devastating to Israel and the world’s 13.3 million Jews. It would be a Pavlovian style reward to a declared Islamic terrorist organization, and an unacceptable policy initiative.
America should never negotiate with the Palestinian Authority- which has aligned itself with Hamas. Palestine is a region, not a people or a modern state. Based upon Roman Emperor Hadrian’s declaration in 73 AD, the original Palestinian people are the Jewish people.
It’s time for the American people to stand by our strongest ally, the Jewish State of Israel, and reject this foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.
While the winds of democracy may blow strong in the Middle East, history has demonstrated that gaps in leadership can lead to despotic regimes. I have questions for President Obama: ‘Who will now lead in Egypt?’ and ‘Why should American taxpayers provide foreign aid to a nation where the next chapter in their history may be the emergence of another radical Islamic state?’
President Obama has not stood for Israel or the Jewish people and has made it clear where the United States will stand when Palestine attempts to gain recognition of statehood by the United Nations. The President should focus on the real obstacle to security- the Palestinian leadership and its ultimate goal to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people.”
Prime Minister’s Office announcement following President Obama’s speech – הודעת משרד ראש הממשלה לאחר נאום הנשיא אובמה
Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace. Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state.
That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress. Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines. Those commitments also ensure Israel’s well-being as a Jewish state by making clear that Palestinian refugees will settle in a future Palestinian state rather than in Israel.
Without a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem outside the borders of Israel, no territorial concession will bring peace. Equally, the Palestinians, and not just the United States, must recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, and any peace agreement with them must end all claims against Israel.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will make clear that the defense of Israel requires an Israeli military presence along the Jordan River. Prime Minister Netanyahu will also express his disappointment over the Palestinian Authority’s decision to embrace Hamas, a terror organization committed to Israel’s destruction, as well as over Mahmoud Abbas’s recently expressed views which grossly distort history and make clear that Abbas seeks a Palestinian state in order to continue the conflict with Israel rather than end it.
ישראל מעריכה את מחויבותו של הנשיא אובמה לשלום. ישראל מאמינה שכדי שיכון שלום, הקמתה של מדינה פלסטינית אינה יכולה לבוא על חשבון קיומה של מדינת ישראל.
מסיבה זו. מצפה ראש הממשלה נתניהו לשמוע מהנשיא אובמה אשרור להתחייבויות האמריקניות כלפי ישראל מ-2004, שזכו לתמיכה גורפת בשני בתי הקונגרס. התחייבויות אלה נוגעות, בין היתר, לכך שישראל לא תתבקש לסגת לקווי 1967 שאינם בני הגנה ושיותירו מרכזי אוכלוסייה ישראליים גדולים ביהודה ושומרון מחוץ לגבולות אלה. התחייבויות אלה גם נועדו לחזק את קיומה של ישראל כמדינה יהודית, ע”י הבהרה ברורה שפליטים פלסטינים ייקלטו במדינה הפלסטינית ולא בישראל.
בלי פתרון בעיית הפליטים על ידי ישובם מחוץ לגבולות מדינת ישראל, שום ויתור טריטוריאלי לא יסיים את הסכסוך. כמו כן, הפלשתינאים ולא רק ארה”ב חייבים להכיר בישראל כמדינת הלאום של העם היהודי וכל הסכם שלום עימם חייב לכלול קץ לכל תביעה מישראל.
ראש הממשלה יבהיר שעל מנת להגן על ישראל, צה”ל חייב להיות פרוס לאורך נהר הירדן. ראש הממשלה נתניהו גם יביע את אכזבתו מהחלטת הרשות הפלסטינית לאמץ את החמאס, ארגון טרור המחויב להשמדת ישראל, ומהתבטאויותיו האחרונות של מחמוד עבאס שמסלפות את ההיסטוריה ומבהירות שעבאס חותר למדינה פלסטינית במטרה להמשיך את הסכסוך עם ישראל, במקום לסיימו.
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