Obama’s Chief of Staff: 50 Years of Israeli Occupation Must End By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/obamas-chief-of-staff-50-years-of-israeli-occupation-must-end/print/
“Forget 50 years of occupation. Six years of Obama’s occupation of the White House must end.”
Is that the White House Chief of Staff or the Chief of Staff for the PLO? Hard to tell the difference these days.
White House Chief of Staff, Denis McDonough showed up at J Street, an anti-Israel group funded by a lot of the same left-wing billionaires as Obama, e.g. George Soros, to denounce Israel and praise the work of the anti-Israel org.
After delivering some standard talking points about how great the economy is these days (for anyone who works for the government), McDonough bashed Republicans for not being supportive of Israel.
(Yes, the errand boy for the guy who spent the past week threatening Israel is accusing Republicans of not being supportive of Israel. George Orwell, please pick up the white courtesy phone.)
“To achieve this, the United States has long advocated direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2009, Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly endorsed a two-state solution. Over the course of President Obama’s administration, most recently with the tireless efforts of Secretary Kerry, the United States has expended tremendous energy in pursuit of this goal,” McDonough said.
That must be why Obama mainly ignored it, didn’t visit Israel and avoided any major push on it until his second term. Until Kerry became obsessed with it, it was mainly a non-issue. So much for the tremendous energy.
“That is why the Prime Minister’s comments on the eve of the election—in which he first intimated and then made very clear in response to a follow up question that a Palestinian state will not be established while he is prime minister—were so troubling,” McDonough claimed.
“After the election, the Prime Minister said that he had not changed his position, but for many in Israel and in the international community, such contradictory comments call into question his commitment to a two-state solution.”
Then again Obama committed to a united Jerusalem as a candidate. It’s okay for him to say things and not mean them.
“We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made, or that they don’t raise questions about the Prime Minister’s commitment to achieving peace through direct negotiations,” McDonough warned.
Okay, then Israel will assume that Obama remains committed to a united Jerusalem. It can’t pretend those comments weren’t made.
“In recent days, some have suggested our reaction to this issue is a matter of personal pique. Nothing could be further from the truth.,” McDonough said, denying the really obvious.
“An occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end, and the Palestinian people must have the right to live in and govern themselves in their own sovereign state,” he added.
But which ones? The ones under Hamas in Gaza? The ones under unelected PLO rule in the West Bank? The ones who don’t have full legal rights in Jordan, the original Palestinian State?
Details, details. We all know it’s Israel’s fault and Israel must somehow make it work.
Speaking of occupations, when is Obama going to tackle Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus? Oh I forget, it’s okay for Muslim countries to invade and occupy non-Muslim countries. It was okay when Egypt and Jordan invaded Israel and seized its territory in 1948. It’s only wrong when Israel took that territory back in 1967.
Forget 50 years of occupation. Six years of Obama’s occupation of the White House must end.
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