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| Obama's 'undivided' Jerusalem talk draws fire amid Bush-Olmert meet |
| 2008-06-05 |
| Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama provoked a flurry of reaction Wednesday by touting Jerusalem as the 'undivided' capital of Israel, going further than the current administration of President George W Bush who was holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House. Obama, speaking before an Israeli lobby group in Washington, said any future Palestinian state must be 'contiguous and cohesive' but rejected East Jerusalem as the capital of that state. 'Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,' Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one day after clinching the Democratic Party's nomination for president. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the remarks later Wednesday. He said there would be no peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict without a resolution of the status of Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 I heard hussien on IBA today, and to me, he sounded like an idiot, Last I heard Tel Aviv was the capital of Israel. Unless the muz perversion of history holds it as its captal. |
| Posted by: scpatriot 2008-06-05 22:01 |
| #8 Barack Obama did not rule out Palestinian sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem when he called for Israel's capital to remain "undivided" Is he slick, or what? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-05 21:32 |
| #7 what #6 says. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-06-05 16:54 |
| #6 The nomination is won and Obama is tacking to starboard. No surprise at all. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-06-05 11:25 |
| #5 A lot of Israelis would love to get rid of a substantial section of E Jerusalem because - gets some welfare recipients off the roles - if they lose citizenship they can't get into Israel and steal stuff or hurt people - the prospect of living in a Arab ruled paradise may frighten them into telling the truth about what they really prefer in the way of govt. also, in related news, Hamas has sort of unendorsed Sen Obama |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-06-05 09:23 |
| #4 Must be desperate for $$$ to offend his core constituency this way. More likely they've already been told on the q.t. that it's 'for show'. Taqquiya, indeed. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-06-05 08:50 |
| #3 Taqiya |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-06-05 08:21 |
| #2 Must be desperate for $$$ to offend his core constituency this way. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-05 07:29 |
| #1 Fund raising. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-06-05 01:29 |