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November 4, 2008 | 12:01 am

Obama foreign-policy adviser says Jerusalem will not be divided

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Dennis Ross, the top Middle East adviser for former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, was tapped by Barack Obama to be one of his top foreign-policy advisers. Last month, Ross wrote a column for The Jewish Journal explaining he joined Team Obama.

Over the weekend, the Jerusalem Post added to that with an interview in which Ross, responding to a question about Obama’s AIPAC speech, talks about what his boss really thinks about Israel. Ross says that, despite a next-day about-face, Obama really does support an undivided Jerusalem:

“I am convinced that he will stand by Israel. I am. If I wasn’t convinced of that, I wouldn’t be standing here. Do I think that at the end of the day he will do whatever’s necessary if Israel’s threatened? I do.

“You raised the issue of Jerusalem. That was at the AIPAC speech. And what he said, he said the following: “Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.” He said the city should never be divided again. And it’s true that in that speech he didn’t make the third point, which is, the final status of the city will be resolved by negotiations. Before the speech he said that, after the speech he said that. The American position has been those three points.

“The fact of the matter is, Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact that the city should not be divided again. That’s also a fact. The position of the United States since Camp David, the position, by the way, adopted in the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, signed by [prime minister] Menachem Begin, was that the final status of Jerusalem would be resolved by negotiations. Those are the three points. That’s what his position is.”

If you weren’t aware, there has been a lot of concern about what an Obama presidency would mean for Jews and Israel. A lot. I don’t think it’s warranted, but it appears we’ll find out soon enough.

(Hat tip: Mondoweiss)

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Surely you jest. I don’t suppose you notice that “I am convinced that he will stand by Israel. I am. If I wasn’t convinced of that, I wouldn’t be standing here.” is recycled from the same statement that Biden made in response to the same question.

I promise you that the day that Ross gets his marching orders to explain that for very important and complicated business reasons, or because of new developments and committments Jerusalem must be divided, he will carry that out. Maybe it will be called something else, like administrative redistricting or community home-rule. The goal is to satisfy the vast worldwide mass of incessant critics of Israel. If Israel can be softened up with missile attacks and terrorism, fine. If not, by an electronic and academic and political intifada to roll back ‘67, then to roll back ‘48, then to flood the country with illegal aliens, then to make them legal. Then to maje it a bi-national state of its citizens, change the name of the country to Palestine, then to demand self-determination to the new majority who happen to be Muslim and Arab. False land and history claimns will become accepted truth, and Jews will be forcibly ripped from their homes, the same corrupted Jews doing it to other Jews in Gaza and Amona and Hebron. Boy are they going to be surprised. The memorials for the dead and exiled will be truly beautiful and moving.

Don’t laugh, they don’t care if it takes twenty or fifty years. After all there were NO ‘Palestinian’ Arabs before 1964 when Arafat was taught Arab Liberation Theology by Ho Chi Minh and look how far they have come.

Unfortunately, when they threw the Jews out of Europe and the rest of the Middle East, they left them with nowhere else to go. So it won’t go quite in the way I outlined, but I fear bloody times ahead.

While we are here, here and here and here is William Ayres’ Weather Underground Manifesto from 1974, it is loaded with references to the illegal Zionist Colonialist oppressor state of Israel displacing Palestine and the Palestinians. Ayres is not dead yet, has never changed his thinking and if he is not on staff he will be having influence.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/04/08 at 8:48 am

Thanks to LGF, I discovered this Ynet report

Sources in Ramallah told the al-Akhbar daily that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are expecting Obama to win, “despite his leaning towards Israel,” which they said was aimed at gaining the support of the Israel and the Jewish lobby in the United States.

The sources said that during a recent meeting with Obama, the two Palestinian leaders “heard the best things they ever heard from an American president.”

According to the report, the Democratic senator told Abbas and Fayyad that he “supports the rights of the Palestinians to east Jerusalem, as well as their right to a stable, sovereign state”, but asked them to keep the remarks a secret.

Dennis Ross, a key advisor to Obama on foreign policy, denied the report outright. “As someone who was present in Senator Obama’s meeting with the Palestinian leadership, I can state definitively that there were no secret commitments made, and no discussion of Jerusalem whatsoever. This report is false,” his statement said.

Sic ‘em, Dennis!

Comment by Ben Plonie on 11/05/08 at 2:51 am

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