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.”
In 1967 in 6 days Israel took back the old city, why does our Lord God tell us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem if it doesn’t belong to God’s Chosen people? In 1967 Israel began to occupy land that has always been their land. It’s recorded in the Holy Bible.
How about the native Indian request the same from the USA!!! What would you say?
Obama’s going too far
It was recorded in the bible Palestine, go and check it out!
Obumma will never be the man and competent leader like Netanyahu is!!!
It has not been an occupation. God gave them the land 3000 years ago. They own the land and no one can tell them to give their land away. Those that are against Israel and brings harm to them, God will give back to them multiplied. Any that do good to Israel will be blessed by God multiplied. Which side do you want to be on?
The Palestinians want a ONE STATE solution: Death to Israel, Jews frog marched into the sea. Only an idiot like Obama doesn’t see that.
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aistinê (whence Palaestina, from which Palestine is derived)[21] is generally accepted to have a correspondence within the Sacred texts of Judaism such that Palaistinê is a translation of the name Peleshet (פלשת Pəlésheth, usually transliterated as Philistia). Peleshet and its derivates are used more than 250 times in Masoretic-derived versions of the Hebrew Bible,[22] of which 10 uses are in the Torah, with undefined boundaries, and almost 200 of the remaining references are in the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel.[3][18][23] T
Eliminate Palestine, save Israel ……………….