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Congress demands Obama explain rumored sanctions against Israel

Dec 5, 2014 3:40 pm By Robert Spencer

obama-netanyahu2While he hands Iran approval for its nuclear program on a silver platter, Obama is apparently considering sanctions against Israel. He turns allies into enemies and enemies into allies — the latter in his eyes only, not theirs.

“Congress Demands Obama Explain Rumored Sanctions Against Israel,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, December 5, 2014 3:06 pm

Members of Congress are demanding that President Obama come clean about controversial reports that he is considering leveling sanctions on Israel, according to a letter sent Friday afternoon by lawmakers to the White House.

The Obama administration has found itself engulfed in controversy since reports emerged Thursday that the White House and State Department had met in secret to strategize about imposing sanctions on Israel for its continued building of houses in contested Jerusalem neighborhoods.

State Department and White House officials have continued to dodge questions from reporters on the matter, maintaining that they will neither confirm nor deny the reports.

The administration’s evasive position has prompted outrage among pro-Israel leaders and prompted Congress to demand that Obama start answering questions about the delicate issue.

“We urge you and your administration to clarify these reports immediately,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) and nearly 50 other House lawmakers wrote Friday afternoon, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

“Israel is one of our strongest allies, and the mere notion that the administration would unilaterally impose sanctions against Israel is not only unwise, but is extremely worrisome,” they state. “Such reports send a clear message to our friends and enemies alike that such alliances with the United States government can no longer be unquestionably trusted.”

Congress, which traditionally has purview over such measures, has never given the White House permission to sanction Israel.

“At no point in time has Congress given the administration the authority to sanction Israel,” they wrote. “In fact, Congress has continued to show its unwavering support for Israel and has recently taken steps to increase our economic and military cooperation.”

As the White House leaves the door open to sanctions on Israel, it is lobbying Congress against leveling more sanctions on Iran.

“At a time when you have requested an additional seven months to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear weapons program, any attempts to undermine the U.S.’s support of Israel will only further diminish the administration’s ability to get congressional support for any potential agreement with Iran,” the lawmakers wrote.

When faced with questions about these reports—which state that classified meetings were held between the White House and State Department about possibly sanctioning Israel over the settlement issue—Obama administration officials have refused to provide a clear answer.

“I’m not going to talk about any sort of internal deliberations inside the administration and certainly not inside the White House,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Friday, a refrain also echoed by State Department spokesmen….

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  1. Mobyus says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 3:59 pm

    Obama the Iranian-Manchurian- candidate.

    • cassandra says

      Dec 5, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      I actually think he is anyone’s whore – I mean candidate. He takes money from Arabs and Nazis, Soros being one of the nazis, his controller, Valerie Jarrett gets paid by the Islamic Nazi regime, no doubt.

    • noellsq says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 2:52 pm

      He will destroy this countries military,cause race riots,make you think the police are the enemy,divide the county further and last make enemies more important than allies. He should have been not impeached but jailed. He lies about most everything and only cares about when and where he will spend millions on his next vacation. POTUS is a disgrace to the American way of life. He plans to hire 1000’s to help illegals get citizenship but will not hire people to protect our border. Why is his transcripts hidden.

    • Kepha says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 11:43 pm

      Just a gosh-durned minute! I have a number of friends born and bred in the Dongbei (“Manchuria” to a lot of Westerners)–and some of them are probably better Americans (albeit naturalized rather than natural-born) at this point than the O ever will be! Still, I get the reference. Maybe just call the O subversive-in-chief? What a triumph for the Hate America crowd! They have one of their own in the Oval Office.

  2. Marty says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 4:36 pm

    The gloves of the Obama administration are coming off, especially regarding Israel. This latest egregious episode might have been a shock a few years ago, but no more. As a frequent and recent visitor to Israel, there is no doubt that not even Israeli Arabs have any confidence in current American foreign policy. Nor should they.

  3. Salah says

    Dec 5, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    “At no point in time has Congress given the administration the authority to sanction Israel,” they wrote.

    He doesn’t need one, he doesn’t care about the Congress, he’s got his own “authority,” it’s called: Tyranny.
    The rule of law is over. Now the American people have only two choices:
    1- Arrest Obama (not impeach, but rather ARREST) and bring him to justice.
    2- Total surrender.

    • mad-aussie says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 5:43 am

      ARREST THE FILTHY TRAITOR OBAMA..Jail him and throw away the key.

      • Darren says

        Dec 6, 2014 at 1:18 pm

        Diebold machines, 110% voter turn out in some precincts, 99% of the vote for Obama in some precincts, illegal immigrants being bussed to poll stations, dead people and cartoon characters voting, and I think the majority or pretty near of the populace not even bothering to vote. This behind the scenes footage is how voting is done in America.

  4. RonaldB says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 12:18 am

    Let me look on the bright side of this.

    Obama’s obvious identification with the enemies of Israel might finally push organized liberal Judaism into directly opposing Obama by name. Liberal Judaism is one of the most leftist and most active constituencies in the country. And a major supporter of Democratic politicians. But, they do support Israel.

    Once the Democrats see the hostility of liberal Judaism towards Obama, Democrats will not only jettison the Obama wing of the party, but might begin supporting an actual diversity of opinion within their party. The Kennedy and Jackson Democrats were thorough patriots. There is no reason not to have liberal Democratic genuine patriots in the political process.

    It seems the leftist and socialist governments are more upset over the occupancy of apartment buildings in Jerusalem, than the persecution, mass murder and deportation of Christians and other non-Muslims in ISIS and some Muslim countries.

  5. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 1:59 am

    @cassandra
    “I actually think he is anyone’s whore…”

    You slander the oldest profession, Cassandra.

    Obama is no whore.

    He is a mean, hateful little man with a chip on his shoulder and an agenda to diminish America and destroy it if possible.

    A whore is a capitalist who provides a product (sexual pleasure) for money. As such, it is an entirely honest profession, as everyone agrees on the terms.

    Obama is a deceitful little man on a hateful mission – he does not have the integrity of the lowest whore.

  6. ItsJo says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 4:47 am

    If people in America do NOT know by now, that “Obama Hater ‘arrogant(his words) America and is spitefully doing ALL he can to destroy this Republic-they have NOT been paying attention and watching What he does NOT what he says.” He was mentored by Communist, Frank Marshall Davis for 10 yrs.(to age 18) who taught him all HIS hatred, and Anti-American rhetoric. Davis of Chicago/Hawaii hated “White Colonialists-Founding Fathers….and SO DOES Obama. He IS Muslim, though he LIES about being a Christian- he honors Muslim Holidays(didn’t wear his Muslim Ring during Ramadan-lied saying it was ‘being repaired’….really? Muslims DON’T wear jewelry during Ramadan. He as a Muslim naturally HATES Jews. He is allowing Iran to finish their nuclear warheads(per his Iranian born, co president-Jarret) and now, he is sanctioning Israel about building? It is HIS Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists that are “Cutting off people’s heads-including Christian Children, and this “Liar In Chief” is upset about some buildings? THIS, should tell people WHERE Obama’s Allegience IS, with HIS Muslims, and NOT Americans or Jews. This man is a spiteful, Evil, Narcissist, and HE IS DANGEROUS to America, as he “Continues to Pit-American against American, Divides the Classes-causing Deliberately HIS Race War, as he follows ‘Cloward-Piven’ that he studied under @Columbia, in his deliberate desire to “Overwhelm ALL our Systems in Place(he’s done it with Everything) Cause Chaos(he’s done that in ALL areas) and end free enterprise and capitalism, as he dreams of bringing DOWN AMERICA, THEN REBUILDS IT IN HIS IDEOLOGY OF MARXISM.

    WAKE UP PEOPLE, AS THIS MAY BE THE END OF THIS REPUBLIC, AS ALL HE’S DONE WITH HIS RADICALS SURROUNDING HIM AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA THAT COVERS UP FOR HIM AND LIES FOR HIM HAVE BECOME COMPLICIT-THEY ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS NATION’S DEMISE.

    READ “Cloward-Piven” online, and you will SEE this man’s Agenda Clearly- He has EVIL SOROS as a puppetmaster, to his being a puppet. Soros has wanted to bring about America’s Financial Demise for Over 40 yrs. – Read article: “Soros Bets on U.S. Economic Collapse” @ A.I.M. 1/16/2008 by Cliff Kincaid.

    • Judi says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 9:51 am

      Its Joe – well said!

  7. veritas says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 5:57 am

    Barry two name the quisling.

  8. E. Alexandra Pierce says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 6:48 am

    From a half-assed health insurance mandate to Benghazi, from ghastly immigration policies to this (the more time passes, the more clear it becomes that he had it in for Israel from the beginning), Obama has been a complete disaster for this country. He’s quite possibly the worst president we’ve had in living memory; the 2016 elections can’t get here soon enough.

  9. hammar says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 7:05 am

    Just as in France during the French Revolution which wasn’t a revolution at all but the stripping of the Countries faith and Church to allow the liberal swine to lead the country into the gutter it is now. And look at Europe with no faith in its people and Church’s and allowing the muslim dogs to establish its phony koran and sharia law which is the devils potion in life. Slavery, murder, rape and jihad are its laws. The world is being swallowed by satanic people who will kill without thought. People are so dumb just as in Ferguson where the crowds were allowed to run ramped and burn and loot their own town for their own sort of jihad of rage. Phony justice just as the koran is the phony word of the god, allah the moon god is the phony god of islam and mohammed the phony preacher who is no messenger but a murdering pirate and vandal he was his whole life. Liberals have ruined and are dragging America down this deadly path of no faith in Christ our Savior. Obama is a phony president and allowed into our White House to tarnish this great countries reputation and lead us into the gutter.

  10. ken cicala says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 8:08 am

    Obama has keep this a secret but history will show that he is indeed a devout Muslim. You can bet on it.
    I know he hates the Jews just like the Muslims do.

    • Judi says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 9:47 am

      Ken – it’s no longer a secret…he IS a muslim!

    • Jae M says

      Dec 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm

      How can he still be in office with all these actions being so obvious? He seems to be helping Iran, seems to backdoor his allies with deception and has shown respect for the Muslim Brotherhood. There is something very diabolical going on.

  11. Charlie Griffith says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Re:
    “If we do not complain to our Congressional Reps then we cannot blame anyone if the rats take over, because we are being warned!”

    Completely agree.

    Daily we read of evermore instances of potential Impeachment material against this dangerous president of ours, twice elected by a hapless, uneducated, uninterested Publik.

    The political passions of the 18th Cent. Americans which accomplished such literally revolutionary and beneficial results seem now to’ve been superseded by such as the passions of Ferguson, an insignificant little town in our central state of Missouri.

    We have the tail wagging the dog right now inside our America. Other countries may smirk in amusement at our current discomfort , but the odious and obvious fact is that the subject of Black Racism is being exploited by the likes of the Jacksons and Sharptons, Limited, a century and a half after Emancipation, and a half-century after Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society started fire-hosing money and “entitlements”; but where are the visible advances initiated by the Blacks themselves?…after having been given “equal opportunity”?

    The reticence of the majority Republicans [Google: “Republic”] is apparently due entirely to not wanting to “offend” potential Black voters by actually Impeaching the First Black President. Well, he’s half Black, anyway.

    Compare with the Impeachment of one Billy Clinton after massaging [pun alert!] the factual truth about le Interne Monica L.

    Tenure in Office trumps all.

    So, indeed. We’re complicit, as are our Republican Congress-persons if this creature named Obama isn’t Impeached and removed from Office.

  12. Kepha says

    Dec 6, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    The O was raised on an anticolonialist narrative, in which “white people” are the root of all evil. He sees the Israelis as “white settlers” on a non-Western people’s land. Hence, friendship with Rahm Emmenuel or no, the O hates Israel.

    But I will also fault the common Israeli line that “Israel had to come into being as a refuge for the survivors of the Shoah”. While certainly part of the story, it ignores the slightly more than half of Israeli Jews who are Mizrahi.

    Then again, I could care less about the “settler v. indigene” meme. It is meaningless in an area like the Mediterranean littoral, which has been crisscrossed by virtually all the migrations and trends of history. Probably the only people who are both heirs to a high civilization and resident in the lands where their ancestors were at the time of the agricultural revolution are the Han Chinese in the vicinity of the middle Huang He, the Mon of southern Burma, the Khmer, and the Dravidians of southern India. Virtually everyone else (including the Han Chinese from the Chang Jiang south, the English, the Thai, certainly the Arabs and Turks) are descended from “settlers” when you go back far enough.

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