US Wavers on "Jewish State" Recognition While Cameron Endorses It

The United States touts itself as an impartial mediator between Israelis and Palestinians. Most of the international community continues to believe that the United States tends to favor the Israeli government position. However, a recent statement by Secretary of State John Kerry reinforces the Obama administration's critical approach toward Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is "a mistake," Kerry said, and should not be a vital factor in the ongoing negotiations. Israel's identity as the "Jewish state" is covered by United Nations Resolution 181 in 1947, Kerry said, and thus is enshrined in international law.

But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' says there is "no way" he will accept Israel as a Jewish because he believes that such recognition would defeat any chances for a Palestinian "right of return." The position stands in contrast with previous recognition by former PA President Yasser Arafat and the Palestine National Council.

An Israeli official told the Times of Israel that the U.S. administration finds it easier to criticize Israeli positions rather than confronting Palestinian obstinacy. Even though the U.S. may perceive that symbolic recognition is futile, it is a major root of the broader conflict – insinuating that the Palestinian Authority and the majority of Palestinian society reject the fact that Israel exists as a Jewish state in any form. Continuously advocating for a 'Right of Return' of Palestinian refugees to pre-1967 Israel would upset the demographic balance in favor of the Arab population in Israel and would lead to the de facto destruction of the Jewish state.

Moreover, State Department officials told the Jerusalem Post that Israel's decision on whether to allow its final release of prisoners next week, as per the initial agreement that initiated direct negotiations, would be critical for discussions to continue.

In contrast, British Prime Minister David Cameron supported calls to recognize Israel as a "Jewish state" on Thursday. "That's what Israel is and that's what it will be," Cameron stated at a joint press conference with Abbas in Ramallah. "Jews were persecuted around the world, including those murdered in the Holocaust, and so the decision was taken that Israel should be the homeland of the Jewish people and this is what it is," he said.

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Palestinian Media Watch Treasure Trove

Submitted by FactsRule, Mar 26, 2014 17:08

www.palwatch.org has much of the genocidal Jew & Israel hate spread over the last several decades among the now overwhelmingly intransigent blood-thirsty so-called Palestinians, a nom de guerre since the mid '60s.

The US has already recognized the Jewish State

Submitted by Wallace Edward Brand, Mar 14, 2014 20:48

The United States has already recognized the Jewish People's State. President Harding approved a Joint Resolution of the US Congress adopted June 30, 1922 approving the Palestine Mandate (that detailed the San Remo Agreement). It reaffirmed this action in a treaty entitled the Anglo-American Convention of 1924. See: SSRN.com/abstract=2385304 . Most people believe otherwise because of a misleading legal opinion circulated by a UN Committee at a time when the UN General Assembly vote had become dominated by an Afro-Asian and Russian bloc. SSRN.com/abstract=2404738 The San Remo Agreement, adopting the Balfour Declaration word for word, adopted its two step procedure in which the political rights for Palestine were put in trust when the Jews were recognized as their owner in 1920 so that the country would not be ruled by a minority as later occurred in Syria when the French set up an antidemocratic government with the small minority of Syrians awarded sovereignty. During the first step the Jews would have only a national home, but when their equitable interest in the political rights vested, the Jews would have a reconstituted Jewish Commonwealth.See "Book of Documents submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations Relating to the Establishment of the National Home for the Jewish People" compiled by Abraham Tulin, of counsel to the Jewish Agency. In 1922, 53 states recognized the Jews as owners of the political rights to Palestine when they approved the Palestine Mandate that further detailed the San Remo Agreement but limited Jewish control until the political rights had vested. In the "Jerusalem Passport" case, the Court of Appeals did not look back in time far enough. The Jewish legal interest to the political rights vested when the tacit trust terms had been met -- in 1950 and again in 1967 as to lands which Jordan had illegal occupied since 1948..

No surprise

Submitted by Geppetto, Mar 14, 2014 17:08

This is further evidence that Obama is a Muslim apologist and sympathizer and a coward. Israel has few friends around the world, a fact that does not speak well for those who hold that view, including Obama. But he hedges, hems and haws, pretending to be a staunch supporter of the only democratic nation in the Middle East while hiding the fact, in plain sight, that he, in conjunction with his anti-Semitic SOS, are really looking for a way to withdraw that support by claiming Israel is the intractable road block to peace, not the militant, Muslim Palestinians who are no doubt ecstatic over their good fortune; "Palestine from the river to the sea." Obama will then do what he's intended since he became the POTUS; allow Iran to develop a nuclear bomb, after all, what could it hurt; other nations have the technology, including Israel, and the latter is free to fend for itself without any help from us. The man is a veritable evil genius intent on alienating former staunch allies and dismantling and weakening America, a country he hates.

Obama no doubt feels more comfortable and empowered by joining the Muslim, anti-Semitic mob. Bucking it takes American determination, courage and character all of which he demonstrably lacks. He is more than an embarrassment he's a menace and needs to be removed from office, post haste. Who will take this on? America is in trouble....deep trouble. That we brought this on ourselves and the rest of the peace loving world is no consolation.

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