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.”
Stand your ground. Israel. The American people have your back. Or the true American s do anyways
WONT HAPPEN ON BIBIS WATCH WISH HE WAS OUR PRESIDENT I REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD ONE LIKE HIM.
This administration is so out of control it’s beyond rediculus.
I am sure that if Truman was watching this happen, he would be very disappointed in this administration and especially this president.
White House needs to shut the hell up.
Israel needs to get rid of all terrorist from within Israel.
Amen Nancy.
Does he think he now rules the world? He has nothing to say about what happens in Israel.
It’s actuly a 3000 year “occupation ” with the boundaries drawn by God.
that would mean ethnically cleansing Israel so that only Jews live there.