Given how Obama has treated Israel, it would have come as no surprise if this had been intentional. In any case, the initial report was widely denied and dismissed as inaccurate; however, now Morton has confirmed that it was true, and says it was an error. An error that happens to coincide with the sitting president's consistent stance toward Israel, but apparently he can't be this open about it yet.
"U.S. says Israel’s inclusion on terrorist watch list was a mistake," by Ron Kampeas for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, July 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Israel was included erroneously on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security terrorist watch list, a U.S. official said.John Morton, the director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the department, said Israel's recent appearance on a list compiled by the department's office of the inspector general was a mistake.
"The addition of Israel in the OIG’s list of ICE's 'Third-Agency Checks' (TAC) was based on inaccurate information provided to the OIG during the course of its audit," Morton said in a statement sent by e-mail to JTA. "The U.S. does not and never has considered Israel to have links to terrorism, but rather they are a partner in our efforts to combat global terrorism. The United States maintains close intelligence-sharing relationships with Israel in order to address security issues within its own borders and in our mutual pursuit of safety and security around the globe."...
And the liberal leftist Amer.Jewish person will still vote demoncrat! like Rush says, a liberal is a liberal first!
Can there be much doubt about what Obama in his most private thoughts thinks about Israel?
More reason for the Jewish not to vote for that sorry excuse for a president.
What's really stupid is a destructive lie spread on the Right eliminating the need to triple check Israeli Arab extremists out of a false sense of regard for Israel!
This reversal is a regrettable decision and now Israeli Arab Muslim extremists can freely roam around America - without ICE being able to check them against terrorist database watchlists!
Other than that, its a great day for America!
Looks like pure gross negligence, and gross incompetence, or worse, from "top" down and "bottoms up"
"Can there be much doubt about what Obama in his most private thoughts thinks about Israel?" a refined thought from Wellington.
I wonder if this is a slight breaking out of what goes on behind closed guarded white doors? Perhaps this represents not so private thoughts? Maybe openess and transparency should develop.
How long before the outing of the truth behind this travesty and insult against our friends in Israel?
Looks like a bit of in-house comedy to me. Some office wag thinking his mates at the next desk would get a chuckle from his wit might well have sent it thinking the person who got it would laugh and spike it on the spot, grinning later at the water cooler. The "mistake" was that no one was clever enough to stop it before the likes of me found out about it.
If Obama hadn't destroyed the economy to the point it is now we can be sure there would tomorrow be one unhappy fellow wishing he'd never been so clever in his own mind. As is, we can guess Obama won't want yet another man on the street begging for change and table scraps.
Freudian slip
Politics, politics and more politics. Walk around in circles when it comes to taking an honest, straight line approach to beat the real oppressors! But we talk like a corporate Billionaire playing with words effectively.. "Pakistan is our friend in strategic war against terrorism"! But hey, Pakistan hid Osama dear old Mr. Obama? Nevertheless, we see that Mr. Obama and dhimmi democracy is getting along well.. because? Yes, He Can!
"What's really stupid is a destructive lie spread on the Right eliminating the need to triple check Israeli Arab extremists out of a false sense of regard for Israel!"
Well, your speculation is interesting. I like people who think outside of the box. However, I think that the designation of state sponsor of terrorism implies that the government itself sponsors terror groups, which does not apply to Israel. Also, I'm not aware of any discrimination in security procedures that favors one country over another. So, in this case, your speculation holds no water. Better luck next time.
There WAS a mistake that occurred but certainly not the one referred to above. These reports are meticulously prepared, reviewed, then approved. I find it nearly impossible that Israel's inclusion in this report was accidental. Seems like somebody in Homeland Security gained some courage and a conscience and spoke the truth! That Israel systematically punishes and.discrimnates against minorities, murders nonviolent protesters,.and passes blatantly bias and undemocratic laws. The only real mistake that was made was the shameful removal of Israel AS A TERRORIST STATE
Moron.
Only a moron would make the statements you just made.
Greetings:
Somedays you get the passive-aggressive; somedays you get the aggressive-passive.
It seems to me that either the Obama apparatchiks are quite blasé about their responsibilities or that there is now such a uniformity of the Presidential Thought that such a sophomoric error could be published.
And as most tyrants throughout history have figured out, a "soupçon" of "pour encourager les otres" can be a good day's work.
Israel's inclusion on that list must have been done to cause as much hurt as possible. Its such an important document that trying to say it was some kind of typing error or any other error for that matter is just BS. Israel is being targetted for a dirty tricks campaign.
Real Jew isn't a Jew. He's a Mohammedan savage who needs dropping into Mecca with a kippot superglued to his head.
It's good that someone @ least sees the original story for what it is, instead of just swallowing lies about the situation just b'cos the 'Right' comes out w/ it - just like the other fabrication of WND that appeared here about Delta refusing to fly Jews to Saudi Arabia (Delta doesn't fly there in the first place).
The list in question was a list of countries whose residents ought to be screened for terror links. All Muslim countries are in that list, as was Israel. And the reason that Israel was on that list was that there are a number of Israeli Arabs - Muslims & Christians - who are virulently anti-Western, and who need to be screened for terror links. In fact, India too needed to be on that list - but wasn't - due to it's 130m+ mohammedans. In other words, that list needs to be expanded in some cases, not shortened.
Bottom line - the list above was not a list of terror sponsoring countries such as Syria & Iran & Libya, as the GOP echo chamber would have one believe. It was just a list of countries whose citizens ought to be surveilled carefully. Now thanks to this, Israeli Muslims can be freely contracted by groups like Hamas, Hizbullah, PFLP to plan terror attacks in the West, and the DHS can do nothing about them b'cos some clowns in the GOP, who can't otherwise bring themselves to name Muslims as our enemies, want to display their pro-Israeli clout w/o having to burn bridges w/ pro-Muslim people & groups, like Grover Norquist, Ed Rollins, Darryl Issa, Chris Christie, et al.
No, there can't be much doubt. Wouldn't surprise me if the community organizer becomes a flotilla organizer after leaving office (or already is in other ways, such as this "mistake").
I understand why Israel supporters' only line of defense is to defame, lie, and name call. And who can blame them. The israeli govt's policies are so completely undemocratic, barbaric, and despicable that honest and fact based arguments are utterly nonexistent! In the disgraceful words of netan-yahooo "israel is indefensible" (clearly proven in ur childish reply)
Israel is the ONLY democracy in the region...while some of the commenters here are ALL FOR turning part of Israeli territory it into "democratisc" republic of Iran....
hahahaha...what a load of bull...we've seen how demcratic are the two NEW muslim states in Europe - Kosovo and the Bosnian muslim-land...Both have ethnically "cleansed" all the Christians and Jews... At this stage no muslim country can also be a democratic country....in spite of all the bullshit served by Chritiana Amanpour...you people have a long way to go to prove to the world that you won't KILL, rape and exterminate all the non-muslim minorities. So far you have a VERY poor civil rights or basic human right record. Whatever happened to the Kurds in Turkey? Or the Armenians? Whatever happened to the Serbs in Kosovo? What a joke, but not funny at all....Shut up and disapppear you are the one to talk about "barbarity." Look at Sharia law....
Forgot to mention the poor Copts...and many other "minorities" who suffered and were exterminated and "ethnically cleansed" by the muslims.
When you stop having PUBLIC beheadings and stonings, and institute a SINGLE civilized, secular state, run by equallaws for WOMEN and minorities, then come back to talk about "barbarity."
Queenie: Real Jew-not - offers an excellent example, like so many other similar imposters, of several principles authorized by the manual of quran, practiced by islamics:
First, the name- illustrates “War is Deceit” and taqiyya, Second – taqiyya verbal lieing, deceit, dissimulation, and Third – Kitman - a related procedure of withholding of full info, reserving part of a true statement, leading to the opposite meaning of the truth of the original statement. Overall, much kitman practiced by realjew.
From an excerpt entry by Daniel Pipes: “According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of taqiyya against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and a religious duty.
Like many Islamic concepts taqiyya and kitman were formed within the context of the Arab-Islamic matrix of tribalism, expansionary warfare and conflict. Taqiyya has been used by Muslims since the 7th century to confuse and split 'the enemy'. A favored tactic was ‘deceptive triangulation'; to persuade the enemy that jihad was not aimed at them but at another enemy. Another tactic was to deny that there was jihad at all. The fate for such faulty assessments by the target was death”
This "mohammaden savage" is a proud Jewish American who has ACTUALLY visited Israel and Palestine. However based on ur response, u are clearly a shameless racist who has stood for nothing in life and sits in front of the computer for hours proving himself irrelevant
The widespread claim that Israel is "the only democracy in the ME" is falling on deaf ears all over the world. Since its forced creation there had been countless violations of UN resolutions, discriminatory laws against minorities, and jews-only housing and roads. The most recent 'democratic' incident in Israel was the arrest of rabbi Dior for his public support of killing non jews.In response Thousands of settlers clashed and violently attacked Israeli police. What a wonderful democracy! And How preposterous (and self defeating) to bring up the subject of human rights. Considering EVERY HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP IN THE WORLD UNEQUIVOCALLY ACCUSES ISRAEL WAR CRIMES AND A WIDE RANGE OF HR VIOLATIONS. But I guess they.are all antisemetic anti israel
Wow! Ur extensive knowledge of islamic ideology from the 7th century is impressive. And along with rest of ur post,.Irrelevant. Refute.any of my comments to millisa.
hahahaha...
Ok, I'll make it very simple for you because you seem to have trouble following what I'm talking about. Let's for instance look at the "democratic" republic of Turkey...What have they done to their FELLOW Kurdish muslims? Of course, the Kurds aren't that religious and want to secede, so they've been systematically exterminated, both by the Turks, as well as by the Iraqis. What happened to Ocalan? That's respect for human rights? What is happening to non-muslims in Sudan and Egypt? That's respect for human rights? SHOW ME ONE muslim country which has CIVIL laws, and civilized society, EQUAL laws for men and WOMEN and minorities? There isn't one.
If I lived in Israel, I would be doing my best not TO have to LIVE like the rest on the countries in the region. Jews don't want another islamist state around them. It's as simple as that.
Well I certainly appreciate you for "making it simple". However 'simplifying' is obviously a recurring theme in ur comments. For example, you just listed a number of conflicts involving muslims, without providing any relevant info pertaining to these event. Which is an attempt to 'simplify' these conflicts therefore implying that its all just 'jihad' or 'muslim murderers'. What are u trying prove Captain Obvious, that religious conflicts/wars exist? Religious wars have been fought since as long as religion existed. Muslims Jews.Christian Hindus Chinese Japanese ect. None more righteous then the other. You either need a proper education or almost certainly ur hatred of Islam, which is typically hidden behind 'concern of human rights',forces u to focus only on Muslim atrocities and no others.
If "hatred" is stating THE OBVIOUS... that there is NOT A SINGLE muslim country which has CIVIL laws and respect for human rights of the minorities who live on their territory, than so be it. "Hating" is a rather primitive emotion, which seems to me is prevalent in the muslim, not secular countries since you don't distinguish between the religion and LAW. The problem with muslim countries is that religion IS LAW, and ALL laws are based on Koran, not on civil consensus. If public stonings, beheadings and Sharia law in general are considered "normal" and progressive by you, there's nothing more to say. But you have to REALIZE that many people are horrified by it, and do not wish to live anywhere close to such government.
You further bundle your argument saying that religious conflicts/wars always existed. If that's so, what is your objection to Israel's policies?
Forgot to mention the very long war between Iran and Iraq.... How long did that last? When the muslim countries advance and institute CIVIL societies and civil form of government, than you can come here to preach and lecture.