White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough bluntly told a liberal pro-Israel lobby group yesterday “an occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end.”
He added, “President Obama still firmly believes what he said in Jerusalem two years ago — that peace is necessary, just and possible. Peace is necessary because it is the only way to ensure that a secure state of Israel is both Jewish and democratic. Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely. That’s the truth.”
It’s not the first time the word “occupation” has been used by an Obama official. In fact, in 2013, President Obama used it himself.
“The Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily indignities that come with it,” Obama said in Ramallah during a joint appearance with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
McDonough’s remarks continued the White House’s pushback against Netanyahu’s comments before his re-election that a two-state solution was off the table. Netanyahu has since walked back the remarks.
“Over the course of President Obama’s administration,” McDonough said, “most recently with the tireless efforts of Secretary Kerry, the United States has expended tremendous energy in pursuit of this goal. That is why the prime minister’s comments on the eve of the election — in which he first intimated and then made very clear in response to a follow-up question that a Palestinian state will not be established while he is prime minister — were so troubling.”
McDonough said the Obama administration will continue to oppose Israeli settlement expansion because “it undermines the prospects for peace.”
Obama is a joke. No one takes him seriously.
General George Washington told us not to continue the presidential seat before he left the position. I suggest he is correct. I am all for Israel’s occupancy, and I’m not Jewish. The borders have been fine as they are for many years, they just want to commit genocide. Let alone what we know if you are of Christian faith. They cannot occupy, or else more than expected will become an experience. That is why I deem this act suicidal to Muslims. They will only end themselves, and haste a final decision.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed
If we were all so hate filled we’d be just like you Joshua…You even have a Biblical name. Israel may have been God’s chosen people, but the NEW Israel spoken of Biblically has no earthly boundaries. Sound like you really have your own hate issues to me.
That is just the moslem talking, not the real United States, we are Israel’s friend, now and always.
If I was Isreal I would tell the US to butt out of our business.
What an ARROGANT BASTARD!!
That should already happened long time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U
I wonder how much clout Barry has that killed a large number of jewish people yesterday. He has the blacks & white & hispanics fighting each other now the Arabs & Jews