Clinton: Settlement Freeze Includes Jerusalem

I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live in Jerusalem
Israeli Government Press Director Daniel Seamen

David Bedein writes that when the Obama administration says there is supposed to be a total freeze on settlements in the West Bank, that includes Jerusalem:

“West Bank maps” issued by the United Nations also include 18 Jewish neighborhoods inside the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, in areas inside the city that Israel formally annexed after the 1967 war.

One of the Jerusalem neighborhoods resettled by Jews after the 1967 war is the Old City of Jerusalem, which hosts the Temple Mount, the holiest place in the world to the Jewish people.

Ms. Clinton’s press spokesman was asked if President Obama’s demand to halt expansion of “West Bank Jewish communities” included a demand to stop expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

The answer was affirmative. The U.S. State Department demands that Israel limit Jewish growth in these areas of Jerusalem, “whose status remains to be determined” in negotiations.

We are so used to hearing the US lecture Israel on what it should and should not be doing--and applying pressure to make its point. But if you take a step back, what the US is doing--and has been doing for years--is something it simply does not do to other countries, with a pressure that it has not dared to apply to North Korea.

And this is how the US is going to regain respect?

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