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12-08-2014, 09:28 PM
U.S. Congressmen ask Obama to explain 'sanctions' against Israel
Query apparently based on Haaretz article that the White House was considering taking action against settlements.
By JTA (http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/jta-1.428693) | Dec. 8, 2014 | 5:24 PM
U.S. mulls harsher action against settlement construction (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.629876)
By Barak Ravid | Dec. 4, 2014 | 6:00 AM
Republicans in Congress have asked the Obama administration to explain a report that it is considering “sanctions” against Israel.
“Recent reports suggest that your administration has held classified meetings over the past several weeks to discuss the possibility of imposing sanctions against Israel for its decision to construct homes in East Jerusalem,” said a letter sent Friday and signed by 48 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Israel is one of our strongest allies, and the mere notion that the administration would unilaterally impose sanctions against Israel is not only unwise, but is extremely worrisome,” the letter continued.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) issued similar statements.
The request for clarification was apparently based on a Haaretz report (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.629876)last week that that the Obama administration was “examining taking action against the construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, rather than making do with issuing denunciatory statements.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.630616
Related
Israel plans largest WB settlement expansion in 30 years ; Surprising Obama response (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
2009:
U.S.-Israeli relationship takes new direction
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM Tue Jun 2, 2009
"The president doesn't want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank," an Israeli political source, briefed by Netanyahu aides, quoted U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell telling an Israeli delegation that met him in London last week.
Possible scenarios for twisting Netanyahu's arm could range from U.S. inaction at the United Nations in thwarting resolutions critical of Israel to choking off some military supplies, political sources and commentators said.
"Delaying the shipment of spares for the Apaches can ground the air force," political columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv, referring to Israel's U.S.-made attack helicopters.
"The replenishment of ammunition and weapons supplies in the event of another expected conflagration in the Gaza Strip or Lebanon is a matter of American goodwill," Caspit said.
Few expect Washington ever to go as far as to hurt Israel's defences, but it does have other diplomatic pressure points.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/0...40040020090602 (http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/06/02/idINIndia-40040020090602)
2012:
Publisher of the ‘Atlanta Jewish Times’ suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama (http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/publisher-of-the-atlanta-jewish-times-suggests-mossad-should-assassinate-obama.html)
Adam Horowitz on January 20, 2012
John Cook reports at Gawker (http://gawker.com/5877892/):
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html). Either way, problem solved!
Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html)):
Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.
Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?
Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?
You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOumPRP0NaxY6xt93qp7XuzAeH5VTpT k-ARcOi-kia74pyYQnH
2014:
Israel appropriates massive tract of West Bank land
Move comes in wake of kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; intention is to build a large settlement, Gvaot, between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem.
By Chaim Levinson | Aug. 31, 2014
Outpost Watch: Obama's future minefield - and Netanyahu's (http://www.haaretz.com/news/outpost-watch-obama-s-future-minefield-and-netanyahu-s-1.278583)
By Bradley Burston | Jun. 22, 2009 | 3:56 PM
Israel planning mass expansion of West Bank settlement bloc (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-planning-mass-expansion-of-west-bank-settlement-bloc-1.271055)
By Akiva Eldar | Feb. 27, 2009 | 1:26 AM
The appropriation of 3,799 dunams (988 acres) of West Bank land between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem was announced on Sunday by the Israel Defense Forces' Civil Administration.
The appropriation was decided on by the cabinet last week as a response to the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens by Hamas militants in the area in June, according to the administration's announcement.
Anti-settlement group Peace Now said it was the largest land appropriation in 30 years.
The intention of appropriating the land is to create territorial continuity between the Green Line and settlements of Beitar Illit, Kfar Etzion, and Gvaot.
The appropriated land belongs to five Palestinian villages in the Bethlehem area: Jaba, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Husan and Nahalin.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.613319 (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.613319)
Query apparently based on Haaretz article that the White House was considering taking action against settlements.
By JTA (http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/jta-1.428693) | Dec. 8, 2014 | 5:24 PM
U.S. mulls harsher action against settlement construction (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.629876)
By Barak Ravid | Dec. 4, 2014 | 6:00 AM
Republicans in Congress have asked the Obama administration to explain a report that it is considering “sanctions” against Israel.
“Recent reports suggest that your administration has held classified meetings over the past several weeks to discuss the possibility of imposing sanctions against Israel for its decision to construct homes in East Jerusalem,” said a letter sent Friday and signed by 48 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Israel is one of our strongest allies, and the mere notion that the administration would unilaterally impose sanctions against Israel is not only unwise, but is extremely worrisome,” the letter continued.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) issued similar statements.
The request for clarification was apparently based on a Haaretz report (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.629876)last week that that the Obama administration was “examining taking action against the construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, rather than making do with issuing denunciatory statements.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.630616
Related
Israel plans largest WB settlement expansion in 30 years ; Surprising Obama response (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
2009:
U.S.-Israeli relationship takes new direction
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM Tue Jun 2, 2009
"The president doesn't want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank," an Israeli political source, briefed by Netanyahu aides, quoted U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell telling an Israeli delegation that met him in London last week.
Possible scenarios for twisting Netanyahu's arm could range from U.S. inaction at the United Nations in thwarting resolutions critical of Israel to choking off some military supplies, political sources and commentators said.
"Delaying the shipment of spares for the Apaches can ground the air force," political columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv, referring to Israel's U.S.-made attack helicopters.
"The replenishment of ammunition and weapons supplies in the event of another expected conflagration in the Gaza Strip or Lebanon is a matter of American goodwill," Caspit said.
Few expect Washington ever to go as far as to hurt Israel's defences, but it does have other diplomatic pressure points.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/0...40040020090602 (http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/06/02/idINIndia-40040020090602)
2012:
Publisher of the ‘Atlanta Jewish Times’ suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama (http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/publisher-of-the-atlanta-jewish-times-suggests-mossad-should-assassinate-obama.html)
Adam Horowitz on January 20, 2012
John Cook reports at Gawker (http://gawker.com/5877892/):
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html). Either way, problem solved!
Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html)):
Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.
Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?
Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?
You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOumPRP0NaxY6xt93qp7XuzAeH5VTpT k-ARcOi-kia74pyYQnH
2014:
Israel appropriates massive tract of West Bank land
Move comes in wake of kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; intention is to build a large settlement, Gvaot, between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem.
By Chaim Levinson | Aug. 31, 2014
Outpost Watch: Obama's future minefield - and Netanyahu's (http://www.haaretz.com/news/outpost-watch-obama-s-future-minefield-and-netanyahu-s-1.278583)
By Bradley Burston | Jun. 22, 2009 | 3:56 PM
Israel planning mass expansion of West Bank settlement bloc (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-planning-mass-expansion-of-west-bank-settlement-bloc-1.271055)
By Akiva Eldar | Feb. 27, 2009 | 1:26 AM
The appropriation of 3,799 dunams (988 acres) of West Bank land between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem was announced on Sunday by the Israel Defense Forces' Civil Administration.
The appropriation was decided on by the cabinet last week as a response to the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens by Hamas militants in the area in June, according to the administration's announcement.
Anti-settlement group Peace Now said it was the largest land appropriation in 30 years.
The intention of appropriating the land is to create territorial continuity between the Green Line and settlements of Beitar Illit, Kfar Etzion, and Gvaot.
The appropriated land belongs to five Palestinian villages in the Bethlehem area: Jaba, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Husan and Nahalin.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.613319 (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.613319)