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.”
When the other side allows “peace.” The history of this “debate” is littered with broken agreements on the “Palestinian” side. Just Abbas alone was with Y$#%&!@*er Arafat in 2000 @ Camp David when he turned down a statehood deal from Israel, in 2008 he walked away from another statehood offer from Israel, etc. Palestinians continually reject ANY deal which admits to the right of Israel to exist, Obama can’t be so dumb as to not know this.
Obama is a rotten Dictator and needs to quit pushing others around. Israel made a green and beautiful country of peace instead of a country like Palestine that only wants hate and war and not doing good for its people. Obama knows nothing of what these Israeli people have gone through and still have to go through. He needs to get lost and leave us all alone.
Big mistake israel is not to be messed with.
Who in the hell does Obama think he is king of the freaked world
Or what
Shut up WH!
No business of Obama,
None of yoaur busienss Obama!
WHITE HOUSE HAS NO SAY SO IN GODS MATTERS, SO BUTT OUT OBAMA,
GO TO HELL OBAMA YOU MUSLIM $#%&!@*