Monday, December 19, 2011

Israel Still Building: U.S. Support Implicit


As Israel announced settlement expansion of over 1,000 homes, President Obama bragged of his Israel bona fides.  Not even a faint protest to echo the long sounding refrain...

Update 12-21-11:  Top Jewish fundraisers stick with Obama.  Does this give Israel a free pass?

Update 8-20-26:  Reuters reported:
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has warned militant Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank not to steal property owned by Palestinian Americans, describing such behavior as "a violation of God's law". 
"You don't take something that doesn't belong to you."

Patently laughable given what has happened over the last thirty years.   Israel has taken and taken and taken and taken and taken and ....