Friday, March 20, 2015

President Obama Calls Netanyahu to Congratulate and tell him the US believes in a Palistinian State.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/18/1371810/-Obama-stands-strong-He-doesn-t-congratulate-Netanyahu-rather-he-rebukes-him?detail=email

Not only has President Obama not called Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on his apparent victory in yesterday's Israeli election, he has instead explicitly rebuked him:

Obama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, reaffirmed the president’s belief in the two-state solution, and strongly condemned Netanyahu’s decision to rally support with incendiary remarks about a high turnout among Israeli Arab voters. Netanyahu used a 28-second video on election day to warn that Israeli Arabs were being bussed to the polls “in droves”. “The United States and this administration is deeply concerned about rhetoric that seeks to marginalise Arab Israeli citizens,” Earnest said. “It undermines the values and democratic ideals that have been important to our democracy and an important part of what binds the United States and Israel together.”
He added: “Rhetoric that seeks to marginalise one segment of their population is deeply concerning, it is divisive, and I can tell you that these are views the administration intends to communicate directly to the Israelis.”
Netanyahu, of course, rallied to his surprise plurality win not only with his overt racism against Israel's minority Arab citizens, but he also finally came clean and admitted what everyone has known all along: he opposes the creation of a Palestinian state. So unless he plans on allowing Palestinian residents of Gaza and the West Bank to become Israeli citizens, and thus demographically overwhelm Jewish Israelis, or unless he plans to try to send them to other countries, his active intent is to make them permanently stateless, and effective permanent prisoners, just for having been born Palestinian Arabs.

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