Let him act responsibly to the PA actions in the UN last week by closing the PLO mission in Washington, and by withholding the funds to the UN and the PA, as mandated by U.S. law,
since the PA is in violation of their agreement NOT to do an end run
around negotiating with Israel and going to the UN for recognition.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen sets the right example in
complimenting and thanking the few nations that voted with Israel and
the U.S. against the PA resolution in the General Assembly. Thank you
calls to her: 202-225-3931
Phone
calls to President Obama, telling him to honor Israel's sovereignty and
keep his hands off construction plans in Jerusalem: 202-456-1111; 1414.
OBAMA SPIES ON JEWS IN JERUSALEM. Decision to build 3,400 new homes sparks international outcry
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM - The Obama administration and European Union are closely monitoring Jewish construction in an eastern section of Jerusalem
where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced the
planned building of 3,400 new homes, a European envoy here told WND.
The European envoy to Israel confirmed a story yesterday in Israel's Ynetnews website reporting how this week's European protest against the construction of new Jerusalem homes was coordinated with the Obama administration, according to an Israeli official.
"The
European move is essentially an American move. The Brits asked the
Americans how to act," an unnamed Israeli official with close ties to
the U.S. administration told Ynetnews.com.
Israel's
Higher Planning Council of the Israel Defense Forces' Civil
Administration yesterday vowed to go forward with plans to construct the
new homes in what is known as the E-1 corridor between Ma'ale Adumim,
an eastern Jerusalem suburb and a neighborhood closer to western
Jerusalem called Pisgat Zeev.
The
Palestinians seek a state that encompasses undefined areas of eastern
Jerusalem. Israeli prime ministers have been adamant that the major
Jewish neighborhoods of Ma'ale Adumim, Gilo and Pisgat Zeev will remain
within Israeli jurisdiction in any future deal.
Israel's
decision to build the new homes followed last week's vote at the United
Nations General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's status
to non-member observer state.
The new housing decision prompted European countries to summon Israel's ambassadors in protest.
Britain,
France, Sweden, Denmark and Spain on Monday all summoned the Israeli
ambassadors to their respective countries to express their condemnation
of Netanyahu's decision. On Tuesday, Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Finland
and Egypt also filed protests.
The
European envoy told WND the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and European
embassies here are closely monitoring any Jewish construction in both
eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Last month, WND reported
Obama administration diplomats were monitoring Jewish housing
construction projects in two Jerusalem neighborhoods, according to
informed Israeli officials.
The U.S.
consular staff had visited Gilo and Pisgat Zeev, two entirely Jewish
neighborhoods in the eastern sections of Jerusalem, the officials said.
WND first reported in 2009
that the Obama administration had set up an apparatus to closely
monitor Jewish construction in Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank to
the point of watching Israeli moves house-to-house in certain key
neighborhoods, according to Israeli officials.
In
March 2009, Obama's then-Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, oversaw
the establishment of an enhanced apparatus based in the U.S. consulate
in Jerusalem that closely monitors the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem
neighborhoods, incorporating regular tours of the areas, at times on a daily basis, the officials said.
Previously,
under the Bush administration, the consulate kept a general eye on
Jewish Jerusalem and West Bank construction, receiving much of its
information from nongovernmental organizations.
"Mitchell's apparatus takes things to a whole new level. They are watching very closely," said an Israeli official.
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