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Israel’s ambassador to the US publicly rebukes Obama Administration for backing PA unity government that includes Hamas

Jun 2, 2014 10:43 pm By Robert Spencer

dermer-obamaAnd Israeli government officials said: “We are deeply disappointed by the comments of the State Department regarding working with the Palestinian unity government. This Palestinian government is a government backed by Hamas, which is a terror organization committed to Israel’s destruction.” It is refreshing, and rare, to see these unpopular truths being spoken by anyone on the world stage.

“Israeli ambassador publicly rebukes US administration for backing PA unity,” by Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, Times of Israel, June 3, 2014:

In tough language rare for an Israeli diplomat in Washington, Israeli ambassador to the US Ron Dermer said Monday that Israel was “deeply disappointed” in the State Department’s decision to continue dealing with the Palestinian Authority now that it has Hamas support.

“Israel is deeply disappointed with the State Department’s comments today on the Palestinian unity government with Hamas, a terrorist organization responsible for the murder of many hundreds of Israelis, which has fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and which remains committed to Israel’s destruction,” Dermer said in a Facebook post.

“This Palestinian unity government is a government of technocrats backed by terrorists, and should be treated as such,” he said. “With suits in the front office and terrorists in the back office, it should not be business as usual.”

Israeli envoys rarely publicly rebuke US administrations. Dermer’s was the first public comment on the matter.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, said earlier Monday that commending the Fatah-Hamas partnership is “lending legitimacy to terror attacks against Israel.”

In a letter to the president of the UN Security Council, Prosor wrote that Hamas “may seek the veneer of legitimacy by partnering with the Palestinian Authority but it is clear that the terrorist group remains committed to destroying Israel.”

Prosor added that the international community must condemn terrorist attacks against Israel.

Earlier Monday, Israeli government officials in Jerusalem slammed the United States for announcing that it will work with the new Palestinian unity government, sworn in earlier Monday. In strikingly bitter comments, officials said that rather than cooperating with a government backed by a terror group, Washington ought to be urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to disband his pact with Hamas and resume peace negotiations with Israel.

“We are deeply disappointed by the comments of the State Department regarding working with the Palestinian unity government. This Palestinian government is a government backed by Hamas, which is a terror organization committed to Israel’s destruction,” Israeli government officials said. “If the US administration wanted to advance peace, it should be calling on Abbas to end his pact with Hamas and return to peace talks with Israel,” they added. “Instead, it is enabling Abbas to believe that it is acceptable to form a government with a terrorist organization.”…

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  1. Champ says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 10:55 pm

    Long Live Israel!!!

    >boo obama<

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 3, 2014 at 2:18 am

      Sadly, Israel will remain on her back foot, penned in by wolves, until Judgement Day, but Judgement Day for Satan and His Muslim tools will come.

    • john spielman says

      Jun 3, 2014 at 9:09 am

      The Obamanation who sits in the Oval office will continue to do evil because he has no Godly foundation to his life. The major influences in his life was Islam- that demonic doctrine of apartheid, atheistic Marxism, and Jeremiah Wright who was completely WRONG! This is why the Obamanation is complelty rudderless and is piloting the ship of state into rocks

  2. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 11:04 pm

    From the article – “…suits in the front office and terrorists in the back office..”.

    Exactly.

    A good description of Fatah + Hamas.

    But it is also a pretty good description of the goodcop/badcop game as played by the entire Ummah considered as a gestalt; and *also* as played by the ummah in all its local or regional manifestations, wherever and whenever it is not *quite* strong enough to dispense with flimflam altogether.

    Mecca mode, Medina mode.

    Or, as another poster here once put it – “Islam = Thuggery + image management”.

    • mezcukor says

      Jun 3, 2014 at 8:39 am

      I agree with you and the article but it is also a good description of the white house and of Obama

  3. Notta_allah_followa says

    Jun 2, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    As I’ve said before, as long as Obama is in the White House, Israel is on her own. He is incrementally feeding the sheep to the wolves. Israeli Jews, if you are reading these posts, you HAVE to convince every American Jew you know to vote conservative. Obama is NOT your friend. He is killing Israel slowly, a death by a thousand cuts.

    • Gungadin says

      Jun 3, 2014 at 9:40 am

      Yes…..for sure…..and he accelerates his application of those cuts it seems almost daily…..and the Congress continues to sit on their hands at the feet of this monster that occupies the WH

      • John C. Barile says

        Jun 3, 2014 at 9:54 am

        As long as Harry Reid remains the Senate Majority Leader, Congress will be Obama’s lapdog. Harry will keep the natives in their place back on the reservation.

  4. Mladen Andrijasevic says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 1:34 am

    Shame on the US! Is the Obama administration just ignorant or does it deliberately ignore Article 13 and Article 7 of the Hamas Charter?

    Why doesn’t Secretary Kerry ever ask them about Article 13 and Article 7 of the Hamas Charter?

    http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/off-topic-simple-question-for-catherine.html

    A question for Catherine Ashton:

    Since Article 13 of the Hamas Charter reads:

    “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad”

    while article Article 7 of the Hamas Charter reads:

    “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”.

    and since Article 7 is taken from Hadith Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177 and quotes the Prophet Muhammad:
    “Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”

    does Catherine Ashton believe that Hamas will abolish its Charter and renege on Muhammad’s words in the Charter?

  5. Mirren10 says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 3:41 am

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more sickening, wolfish grin (Obama’s), unless it was on the face of the equally repulsive, morally rotten, Jimmy Carter.

    Mr Dermer , with his slight twitch of the lips, looks like he’s trying not to throw up. And who could blame him ?

    The Israeli’s have been horribly betrayed; by the US, Europe, the UN. All the civilised countries and organisations, who should be championing Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East, have instead chosen to throw her to the wolves.

    I’ve just written a message of solidarity with Israel, to the Israeli Ambassador in London.

    Perhaps American JW’ers could send messages of solidarity to Mr Dermer. It might hearten him.

    Long live Israel !

  6. Jeff says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 4:49 am

    Obama is, and has been, a complete catastrophe for the USA and its allies. The only thing that has shielded him from being impeached is his skin color.

  7. Bezelel says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 7:32 am

    The problem is obaMUD is in complete agreement with hamas.

  8. richard Sherman says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 7:53 am

    Obama and Hillary worship the Hamas CHARTER. They believe in everything HAMAS believes in. That is why they revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS and kidnapped and enslaved approximately one thousand Jewish girls and women.

  9. duh_swami says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 8:08 am

    Stealth jihad headquarters is the WH. The chief stealth jihadist sits on the throne of treason.

  10. MORT KUFF says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 9:17 am

    It is time that Israel has officially poked back at Obama’s blatant cuts at the only democratic state in the Middle East and former closest ally, Israel. There is absolutely nothing to lose in speaking out. And yet, even more to lose if they don’t. Obama isn’t going to change course; he is committed to all things Islam and anti-Semitic/anti-Israel. He should know that Israel is not cowardly and it is about time he knows that Israel is better as a friend than it would be as an enemy. But, being the block-head he is, Obama couldn’t comprehend that.

  11. Jay Boo says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 9:31 am

    A blossom of truth struggles for life in the muck of the State Department’s swamp.

  12. Dan says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 9:41 am

    Only half right. PLO/Fatah is a terrorist organization too.

  13. el-cid says

    Jun 3, 2014 at 10:15 am

    There is a consistency to Obama’s policy: He assisted the Iranians to break the blockade, He supported the Muslim Brotherhood, he supports the unified government of Hamas and the PA, and he releases 5 Taliban leaders in order to facilitate negotiations, he undermined Israel’s planned offensive against Iran, and he is arming Jihadists in Syria–all the same appeasement. We can throw in his bow to Putin as well.

    He demonstrates no understanding of military power and how to use it and of course has no military or executive experience. Both foes and allies know this. Unfortunately, the military adventures of the Bush years would make even a real leader weary of mistakes. Was it not Reagan who funded the Taliban? This is not an easy puzzle.

    Most worrisome is that he ignore the extremist rhetoric of our enemies as meaningless. We learned from WWII when people say they will exterminate a group of people it is not rhetorical.

    Where are the leaders, either democrats or republicans, who are clear headed and can figure out what to do? We have seen stupidity on both sides of the house.

    Our “complaining” is not much help I’m afraid.

  14. gravenimage says

    Jun 4, 2014 at 9:44 pm

    Israel’s ambassador to the US publicly rebukes Obama Administration for backing PA unity government that includes Hamas
    ……………………………

    Good for Ron Prosor—not that Obama will care.

    Hamas hasn’t even pretended to go though the motions of being a “partner to peace”—so it isn’t plausible that even the most hopeful naif could believe that Hamas really intends to negotiate with Israel in anything resembling good faith.

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