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Israel to defy UN, build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem

Dec 27, 2016 5:54 pm By Robert Spencer

East Jerusalem is not occupied territory. It belongs to Israel by historical right, by UN declaration, and by right of conquest (a right universally recognized for every country in the world except Israel). Obama has betrayed a U.S. ally, while showering billions upon a state whose government orders its people to chant “Death to America.”

“Israel to build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem,” by Keith Koffler, Washington Examiner, December 27, 2016:

Israel will move ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem, refusing to back down after a United Nations vote last week declared such housing there and in the West Bank illegal under international law.

The vote succeeded after the United States, in a historic break with precedent, abstained.

According to the New York Times, the city will approve the construction of 600 new housing units Wednesday, a first step in what will ultimately amount to 5,600 new Jewish homes in the Arab section of the city.

“Israel is a country with national pride, and we do not turn the other cheek,” Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu said. “This is a responsible, measured and vigorous response, the natural response of a healthy people that is making it clear to the nations of the world that what was done at the U.N. is unacceptable to us.”

Netanyahu has reacted angrily to President Obama’s decision to abstain from the vote, as has President-elect Trump, who tweeted Monday that the United Nations had become a “club” where people “have a good time.”

Netanyahu also downgraded ties with countries that had voted for the resolution, including Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine and Egypt.

Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hopes the resolution will influence the upcoming Middle East conference in Paris to lay the groundwork to end Israel’s settlement construction

Abbas said early Tuesday that the resolution “proves that the world rejects the settlements, as they are illegal, in our occupied land including East Jerusalem.”…

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  1. Charles says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    President Osama is the worst TRAITOR in the history of our nation. I pray daily that he will soon be brought to Justice!

    • dsinc says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 7:32 pm

      I agree. I hope Donald Trump throws him in jail for fraud and treason.

      • SoCalMike says

        Dec 27, 2016 at 9:19 pm

        If Hillary belongs in prison (and she does) Obama belongs in the electric chair.
        He’s a total traitor.

        The bigger problem is the info transmitters in our society have made treason hip, cool and chic as well as official policy and conventional wisdom so even if we do manage to fry Obozo, the infestation of our information organs and institutions will continue unabated.

        • Shirley Dressler says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 3:48 am

          I have always believed that Israel belongs to the Jewish people. I believe in the Creator of Heaven and earth and all things in it but that’s not the issue. I am all for Israel even though I do not belong to them but they are the chosen people and have endured terrible atrocities against them. It is WRONG and its time to get it RIGHT!! STOP accusing them will bring no good as we ALL face death in the end!!!

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 3:33 pm

      Charles, I have said many times in these blogs, this filthy Muslim traitor is far from done. The minute he knew Trump would be his replacement, THANK GOD, Obama would do everything he can to hurt this nation. Hurting Israel, is just the bonus, he HATES Israel, and has since he was a radical student mooching off the US taxpayers, in University.. This evil man has blinded many, and as any pre-introduction to a Anti-Christ, he exudes evil.. That is why so many detest this evil person.. I for one expect even worse actions from this scum before Jan. 20, 2017.. This is what we have to face.. The bright side of all this horror is Trump will be president, and will be able to repair some of the damage this pig has put upon our nation. Israel knows the majority of Americans support them, and want success for the Jewish state. The fact is this, Obama will do more, as much as he can to harm the good, and democratic process, and nations like Israel, so if I were a US ally I would watch my back for the next three weeks..

      • maghan says

        Dec 29, 2016 at 4:12 am

        Problem is that Obama has little knowledge of the history of the area. The Palestine Mandate of 1922 is still legally binding. So what are he and Kerry arguing about?

        It is obvious what Obama and the Arabs want. A 3 state solution of Israel, Palestine and Jordan, instead of the legally binding Mandate resolution of 2 states: Israel and Jordan.

        “Occupied territories”? No, it’s the Arabs that invaded from Arabia and conquered all of West Asia and are now occupying it.

    • madmemere says

      Dec 29, 2016 at 12:37 am

      Only if this fraud can be proven to be a “legal US citizen”, can he be charged with fraud – -if he iis “anything else”, then he can and should be charged with espionage (as in spy) – -the sentence, upon conviction, is the same – -the “final solution”!

    • edlorens says

      Dec 29, 2016 at 10:06 pm

      Sorry! He got immunity from the justice, same as Hillary!

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    OBAMA AND MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY ANTI-SEMITES.

    Why ? Petty envy and hatred for the brilliance, toughness, resilience, and culture of Jews.

    • Joanne says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 12:34 am

      Spot on. Jews are creators, muslims are destroyers.Jews make up 0.2% of world population but hold over 20% of all Nobel prizes. You can count the number of Nobel prizes awarded to muslims on your fingers (one hands for the sciences). Jews brought life and fertility (trees/foliage, landscaping, construction, creative people) back to a barren, forlorn land and are savaged for it by the UN hypocrites and Jew-haters. I own several products labeled “Made in Israel”. What do the parasitic Palestinians manufacture, beside jihadis? It would be impossible to boycott these people since they don’t make anything. We’re not allowed to boycott their terrorist imports.

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 11:14 am

        When flying over the Middle East one is always struck by the huge area of desert, sand, mountains etc. which constitutes absolutely nothing – no industry, no agriculture, no development, no enterprise of any sort. Absolutely miles and miles of space and no population.

        Israel is a tiny speck by comparison but these gifted and intelligent people have made a wonderfully productive and fertile country out of a little piece of desert.

        It is long overdue for the Muslims to stop moaning about their miserable lot and get down and do a day’s work to improve Palestine and the rest of the Middle East, but perhaps it is beyond their extremely limited ability?

        • Peggy says

          Dec 29, 2016 at 7:58 pm

          Why should they if they can take it from others.
          What makes me so angry is that they are being allowed to behave like this. Instead of going into Iraq and other countries supporting Islamists why hasn’t the west got together and fixed the Israeli/Palestinian problem once and for all.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 3:35 pm

      Amen!!

    • edlorens says

      Dec 29, 2016 at 10:27 pm

      I believe that with Obama it goes deeper than that. Please recall, that his biological father was Muslim from Kenya (his mother originally from Kansas was wife # 2. As Muslim he was a polygamist with 4 wives). But Obama’s stepfather, also Muslim and Obama spent his childhood as a Muslim in the Indonesia. Then, later while in the University he allegedly had a lover, the illegal male from the Pakistan. The ring that Obama is wearing (“There is no God but Allah”) it supposed to to be the same one that he exchanged with his Pakistani lover. His past is intertwined with Muslims, not Jews. It is unfortunate that at the time when we are at war with the Islamic countries we got the president that has split loyalties.

  3. gravenimage says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    Israel to defy UN, build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem
    ……………………..

    Good. This is Israel proper.

    The very fact that Israel is being excoriated for building homes while the “Palestinians” are being largely ignored for murdering Israelis is madness.

    • epistemology says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 8:22 pm

      Yes every true democrat has to be with Israel, as the country only defends its rights. Jerusalem is mentioned a lot of times in the Bible but is never mentioned in the Koran. BTW the palis don’t want a state of their own, they only want to destroy Israel and every sovereign country has to fight against its destruction.

      • Wellington says

        Dec 27, 2016 at 10:13 pm

        Seconding your statement, epistemology, which endorsed gravenimage’s statement.

        Of course, on a very specific matter, it is important, as you did, to write “democrat” with a small “d” since increasingly the Democratic Party of the United States of America is no friend of Israel (or of America for that matter). Look no further for confirmation of this “hypothesis” than the fact that Democrats aplenty wouldn’t mind Keith Ellison becoming the new chairman of the DNC.

        Happy New Year, my friend, and please stay well in an ever growing unwell world.

        • Westman says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 3:07 am

          When I think back on it, in 45 years of listening to NPR and PBS, official organs of the left and democrats, only Garrison Keillor, on Prarie Home Companion made any attempt to instill pride in our nation or praise patriotism. The organs paraded a nonstop litany of hyped historical grievances against the US with such vehemence that one would expect they should take the next ship back to England or commit suicide.

          Now it appears that they not only wish self-hating-cultureless suicide for their own nation – they wish it for Israel, a nation that has earned its way in the world while under constant threat of annihilation by enemies sworn to their destruction by Islamic Ideology.

      • maghan says

        Dec 29, 2016 at 4:21 am

        It’s about the holdings of Arab military Imperialism being vehemently argued for by its help-meets at the U.N. Irony of ironies: New Zealand is an occupying state and Senegal is an artificial state carved by the French, and Britain is the same nation that established the boundaries of 1920 and 1922 Palestinian mandate. The Brits cheated the Jews in 1992 falling prey to Arab blandishments; now they are cheating again–this time by way of the U.N.

  4. Hari Singh says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    Its time for a tourist boycott of those countries instrumental in the recent UN’s resolution against Israel, especially New Zealand which sponsored the bill and France and UK which should have known better. Tourism is a big part of the economy of New Zealand as well as France and UK. Some of the countries such as Sengal are such dumps I don’t think anyone would go there, but their tourism should stop as well.
    The 1967 was not an armistice line but a cease fire line. It ended Israel being 12 miles wide at some points. It gave them defensible borders, this is another Munich Agreement.
    Obama did this because he is at best a Muslim sympathizer. His father was a muslim which by shariat makes him one as well, no doubt he prayed at mosques in Indonesia as a young adult. If Obama is a Christian where is his baptismal certificate?

    • boakai ngombu says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 7:01 pm

      baptismal certificate … there are many certificates about and are but paper … where are the righteous acts of POTUS? continuing malevolence towards certain folk demonstrates impenitence … POTUS has little knowledge of forgiveness and being forgiving.

    • Mong says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 11:22 pm

      France barely has a tourist income these days; almost 90% decline in Paris. Wonder why.

    • Aardvark says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 9:05 am

      I am absolutely disgusted that my country (UK) voted for this resolution. I’m pretty sure this did NOT reflect the will of the British people.

      • Pong says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 10:15 am

        I am not sure, if your opinion is correct. It seems that majority of British people are against Israel. As a result, it makes it easier to islimise Britain, for anti-semitism is one of the major part of islam.
        Statistics show that more then twice number of people in Britain support moslem palestinian state against Israel. It is even more then in France and far more then in US, were the great majority supports Israel. It says a lot about moral standing of british people.
        Does it matter? Not any more. It is not a question, if britain will become another islamic state. It is only when. Being an optimist, I give it 20 years, but it may happen sooner.

        • Anne Smith says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 11:17 am

          The BBC has promoted a non stop agenda of hatred towards Israel which has very definitely had an effect on British thinking.

          Most Brits only believe what they hear from the BBC, and are too busy living hard working lives to find out anything else.

  5. Champ says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    Israel will move ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem, refusing to back down after a United Nations vote last week declared such housing there and in the West Bank illegal under international law.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    ✡ GO ISRAEL!!! ✡ WE LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU!!! …even if that backstabber obama won’t.

  6. Dov Berrol says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    Apparently, when Jordan captured these territories and the old city of Jerusalem, nobody complained that it was “occupied”. From 1949 to 1967, the Arab Muslims could have created a State of Palestine there, but they didn’t. Because the Arab world never will be satisfied until they gain control of all of the land of Israel and make sure the Jews submit to Islam as is directed by the Quran which Obama loves so much.

    The obsession with the so-called “Occupied Territories” is a red herring to continue jihad against the Jews. Who was it that said “War is deceit”?

    And Secretary of State John Kerry is getting ready for a public speech tomorrow that defines a plan that will bring “peace to the Middle East.”. What a dhimmi buffoon…how stupid does he think we Israelis are?

    • Pong says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 10:37 am

      I think we overlooking something positive in what happened in UN.
      1. Israel will intensify building new homes, particularly in Jerusalem, where there is big shortage of real estate.
      2. UN made it more difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate any kind of peace and becomes less relevant to the real problems of the world. US might make a move against UN and I can see UN will be dismantled in the future.
      3. Obama, by showing his real face to american jews, if not push them to republicans, will for sure push them away from the democrats. It has started already. Some of the big donors have already announced that they will not contribute to the party any more.
      4. With democrats moving to the left, electing Ellisson to head the party, losing blue collar working people support and blaiming everyone, but not themselves, for their failures, they will become a regional party for NY and California and totally irrelevant on national level.
      5. The big losers is not Israel, it is UN and the democratic party.

  7. somehistory says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Reading an article in Front Page today, makes it clear that equating terror with building “settlements” includes building hospitals…that treat both Jews and those that wish to kill them…the Hebrew University, which teaches both Jews and those that wish to kill them…and all access roads to these and other places that Israel builds and maintains. To condemn Israel as being a criminal due to building homes for people, and to let the terrorists off, is demonic.

    There has been enmity between God’s children and satan the devil and his children since God first chose a people for “special possession” and made promises to Abraham to “bless those who bless(ed)” him.
    With enmity, or hatred, goes strife and warfare.
    And the moslims do not want peace. If given all of Jerusalem, they would still insist that no Jews live …anywhere on earth.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    About that UN resolution 2324 that Obama backs, or at least failed to veto, which calls for the dividing of the State of Israel in to a “two state solution.” Which in reality is not a real or genuine at all . For even of idea of some people of dividing Jerusalem as well as other parts of the State of Israel between the Jewish people of the Muslim/ Arabs is nothing but folly. To engage the madness of such “talks” is a hoax and a farce .This is because in the so called “negotiations” between the heads of the Jewish nation of Israel and the leaders of the “Palestinians” the Muslim /Arabs the “Palestinian” leaders will speak the truth only when in happens to fit their agenda. The rest of the time the will be speaking half-truths and outright lies. For their goal is to obtain all of the land of the State of Israel ,.Even in it takes much time and it means getting the land piece by piece. So those “peace talks” are a hoax. For the “Palestinian” leaders are employing what is the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya . Which is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception are good things to do as long as it’s done for the cause of the advancement of Islam. The insidious scheme is part of the stealth jihad .Otherwise known as “Islamic Gradualism.” This sly and something subtle strategy of disingenuous speech, lying deception of achieving the goal of all the land of Israel a war ploy that will be a disaster if the heads of the State of Israel are foolish enough to agree to divide the land of Israel with Muslim /Arabs ,the “Palestinians.” For if such a “peace dialogue” results in a divided land, the outcome will literally be murder. For “Palestinian” leader will allow the jihadists use that land as a base to launch murderous rocked attacks in to Israel. As for example, Hamas of Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Such false hopes for peace which are based on the foundation of lies are nothing new when it comes to Israel . For example, the Bible in Psalm 55:20, 21. Reads “Such men do violence to those at peace with them and break their promised word; their speech is smoother the butter but their thoughts are of war.” [N.E.B.]

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    About that anti-Israel UN resolution that Obama may well have had a sinister hand in creating, or at least failed to veto, which calls for the dividing of the State of Israel in to a “two state solution.”
    This shows some things about President Obama .That he is very to do a much hard as possible in the short time he has before he leaves Office. Even if he doesn’t really have such malicious anti- Israel, pro–Islamic feeling the same about of damage is nevertheless done. This also exposes the falseness on his claim that he is “a Christian.” For a real Christian would take seriously the teaching of Jesus. By Obama backing the UN resolution Obama Obviously doesn’t care what Jesus taught . For Jesus taught “If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. {K.J.V.]
    In addition , to risk sounding really far –out it had been reported that Obama’s national security advisor , James Jones, had declared the President Obama in the year 2009 had religious experience in the White House Office in the Obama believed that God appeared to him in a vision and told him the he should work for the dividing of the land of Israel into “two states.” [1] if this report of a supernatural experience of Obama actually occurred then the Bible contains the answer to this story . For the Bible teaches that Satan is so very deceitful that he can “appear as an angle of Light” Second Corinthians 11:14 . Furthermore, to divide is showing that Obama ,who is for sure not the Anti-Christ is Nevertheless influenced by the spirit of the coming Anti-Christ who is predicted, in the Bible ,to come in the future. So to divide the land that composes Israel according to the Bible is wrong . So wrong ,in fact , when the real arch – villain who is will be the Anti Christs comes to power in the Middle East he “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. As for Obama is the reported religious vision he had in which supernatural being told him to “divide the land ” that this instruction is in contradiction to the Bible in Daniel 11 39. It’s thus in the light of Isaiah 8:20. An instruction in error, folly and darkness. Shame on Obama for wanting to “divide the land” and likewise being taken in by a deceptive religious experience.

    [1] THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR by Erick Stakelbeack pages 218. 219.

  10. Don McKellar says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    It will be very soon be to the point that Israel should take over all of Jerusalem and destroy the dome of the rock and that other mosque and take charge. Let’s just get this shit over with already. Completely push all the so-called “Palestinians” out of all of Israel’s territory and into the hands of their pals so they can deal with the welfare cases. I am sure that Trump will back Israel 100% as soon as America has complete oil independence. And when he’s on great terms with Putin with the promise of a hugely mutual beneficial relationship ahead. Just make Israel completely whole and as one and that will be the end of that. Indeed, Trump will be able to claim that which no President has ever been able to claim: he was instrumental to solving the “peace process” in the only way it could be solved. What — are the moslems going to hate Israel even more? Not possible. And with no military backing from Russia or the US, they will probably do nothing. The worst that can happen is that they will be destroyed militarily by Israel.

  11. Brenda Buruma says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Israel has certainly had her face slapped hard this year with the Iran nuclear agreement and now this. She has so many resolutions against her, by the UN, yet Israel is one of the most, moral, kind, intelligent and democratic countries in the world.
    It’s time to get rid of the UN. It’s a waste of time and money.

  12. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:26 pm

    From Nov. 2016, “Only 18 out of 57 Muslim Nations Sign UN Coalition to Fight ISIS”
    http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/18-57-muslim-nations-sign-un-coalition-fight-isis.html/
    (IMAGE WARNING: viewer discretion is advised)

  13. ploome says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    The legality of the 1922 Mandate was adopted that same year by the U.S. Congress in H.J. Res. 360 and signed by President Warren Harding. The newly created Arab country of Jordan attacked Israel in 1948 seeking to annihilate its inhabitants and illegally occupied Judea and Samaria until 1967. That year, Israel won back the territory originally allocated for a Jewish State as part of the 1922 League of Nations agreement.
    A dangerous new low for the Obama administration – Renegade Republican EP359
    There is no such thing as “’pre-67 borders.” They were merely 1949 armistice lines between Israel and neighboring countries after they launched an illegal war of extermination. It has nothing to do with the notion of a unique Arab “Palestinian” entity west of the Jordan River. There was never any internationally recognized legal sovereign occupying Judea and Samaria from the time the British Empire fell until 1967. Jordan’s occupation of the area west of the Jordan River was never recognized. To the extent there is an Arab Palestinian state it is the modern state of Jordan, which already sucked up 77% of the original Mandate of Palestine allocated for a Jewish State under the first plan of the Balfour Declaration.
    Although the U.N. has bloviated time and again about Israel “withdrawing” from the region, those are merely recommendations and political arguments. They are not legal arguments because once that land was allocated for the Jewish state by the binding charter of the U.N., it cannot be rescinded without Israel’s consent any more than Florida can be taken away from the U.S. and be returned to Spain without our consent.
    Until fairly recently, even the Left was forced to admit this legal and historical reality. During an interview with Matt Lauer on October 1, 1997, then-Secretary of State Madelaine Albright reluctantly admitted that although she was unhappy about recent construction in Judea, it was indeed legal:

    http://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/12/israels-right-to-build-homes-is-settled-under-international-law#sthash.Jgf0QT5n.dpuf

    • Sassy says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 8:36 pm

      You could also check out Versailles Court of Appeals 2013 ruling that confirms Israel has the right to build and live on Cisjordanian land.

  14. Kepha says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    My posst-mortem on the O and the UN vote.

    What can be said of those who voted against Israel? Russia was the country which birthed _The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion_, while Egypt is the country which bought and widely disseminated that forgery. Malaysia is pathological about the JOOOOOOOOOOOOZ. Senegal is Muslim majority, and follows France (which fears its growing Muslim minority) closely. In addition, it has been clear for some time that the French intelligentsia has never forgiven the USA for having made it impossible for them to live and work under their idol Stalin. Communist China has always seen Israel as a Western imposition in the Middle East; and in some of its official circles blames uppity Jews for helping do in Big Brother Soviet Union. Zeev Suffott, Israel’s first ambassador to the PRC, even notes that some Chinese Communists blamed Jewish ”foreign friends” for introducing an element of “fanaticism” into an otherwise “humane” Chinese Communism, as if Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing, her cousin Kang Sheng, and others were not about as pure a bunch of Han as anyone might find (and a clear warning of the sort of moral irresponsibility that infects China’s Communist regime)..

    As for the O, he has something personal against Benyamin Netanyahu. The silver lining in 8 years of this [mal-]administration has been the O’s deep-seated laziness and his taking rhetoric for reality. Helped along by the Great American Liberal Guilt Trip (GALGT), the O probably cannot take anyone who gives him less than adulation. Netanyahu, on the other hand, had a father who wrote a fat tome on the Inquisition, a brother who is one of his country’s martyrs, personal experience as a fighter for his country, a corresponding strong sense of the precariousness of both Israeli and Jewish existence coupled with a powerful sense of responsibility to lessen that precariousness, and an energy and committment to what he sees as important work. To Netanyahu, the O’s getting gulled by Putin and Erdogan, plus his walking loudly with no stick in Syria, probably places the O somewhere on the sscale between Nebbich and Shlimazel. Throw in as well that the O, with no apparent achievements outside of a political career that was ssmoothed for him by others, seems a shmo (What’s his name?) as well. On short, Netanyahu looks at the O and says, “that is no mensch!” Throw in an Ashkenazi Israeli’s forthrightness that grates on many official Americans (I saw that in some of my erstwhile colleagues at State), and you have a toxic relationship between the two men.

    The O also sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a lens of settler vs. indigene, and could care less that Jews have never been completely absent from ‘Eretz Yisroel, that the slight Mizrahi majority in Israel comes from people who were as badly and traumatically displaced as most Falastin Arab victims of an-Nakhbar, or that the “Palestinian” population has a considerable element descended from Maghrabi, Bosniak, Cretan, and other Muslim refugee groups whose presence in ‘Eretz Yisroel is not deeper than the Zionist-inspired Ashkenazi portion of the land’s population.

    SecState Kerry probably can’t forgive the Israelis their role in humiliating the Soviets at a time when he was doing his best to sabotage from within an American effort against a Soviet proxy (North Viet Nam). Both he and the O seem to see Israel as an unforgiveable player in a global counter-revolution against the Marxist vision.

    I am not the sort of Evangelical who sees a harbinger of the End Times in the re-emergence of modern Israel, for I believe that the Chosen People are those gathered about God’s Anointed rather than in a strip of land (I believe that my reading of Paul makes me an “Additionist” rather than a “Supercessionist”). But my sympathies in this latest tiff are squarely with Israel, and I pray that Trump would undo this American backstab within an obscenely short period following his swearing-in.

    This summer, I will be going to France as part of a tour my wife and I signed onto. But I will bite my tongue and refuse to say “Cheesey surrender monkeys” while there.

    • Angemon says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 11:43 am

      +1

  15. Mark A says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Good for Israel.

    I think I’ll buy some more State of Israel bonds to show my disdain for Obama, the UN and for the other countries which voted in favor of the recent UN Security Council Resolution.

  16. Sam says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:35 pm

    Don’t all those Jews who supported OBAMA, THE TRAITOR feel ashamed now. Nah! Probably not. A liberal is a liberal regardless of ethnic origin.

    • Peggy says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Not all Jews are Jews at heart.

  17. Peggy says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    Netanyahu also downgraded ties with countries that had voted for the resolution, including Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine and Egypt.
    —————————————–
    Shame on them all. I can understand Egypt voting for this but the others not.

    Anyway, what are they going to do if Israel doesn’t listen? They can huff and puff but at the end of the day they will just have to accept it. Once Trump takes office it will all change.

    • Pong says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 11:22 am

      I hope it will never happen, but with estimated nuclear arsenal of 200-300 warheads, some of which on submarines, israel can obliterate Europe, the ME and have some change left. So military option is not on. Isolation is also going to fail. Israel has more international contacts today, then 10 years ago and those contacts are growing.
      Israel is the only country in the world, which is a true friend of US.

  18. Joey Goest says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    As always, I am grateful for Mr. Spencer’s analysis. As a long-time reader, thank you!

  19. davej says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    My impression is that Israel is a civilized country that wants to build peace (against firm opposition) but the Palestinians are rock throwing nihilists consumed by typical Jihadic hatred.

    Support the civilized man and shun the savage.

    Obama showed us his sympathies a long time ago. He seems to be an intelligent person but even he cannot escape his early upbringing in Islam. This is the power of Mohammed’s infernal brain worm.

    • maghan says

      Dec 29, 2016 at 1:37 pm

      Intelligent? How so? What does he know? Never wrote any serious paper or book on the law. Just a lucky poseur.

  20. Cecilia Ellis says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    In addition to personally directing U.S. abstention from voting for or against this UN resolution, Israel has proof that Obama promoted and assisted with the preparation of that resolution:

    http://ijr.com/2016/12/763886-netanyahu-ironclad-information-that-obama-colluded-with-the-un-against-israel/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=politcs

    However, it appears that Obama’s betrayal of Israel runs even deeper, as there is widespread speculation that prior to leaving office, Obama will officially recognize an independent State of Palestine:

    https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/12/obama-may-have-one-more-nasty-surprise-for-israel-up-his-sleeve

    Obama’s legacy will be one of treachery and betrayal, confirming his uncontested prominence as the worst U. S. President ever. Should he once again undermine Israel, the damage to Israel will be grave and difficult to surmount. This is “absolute evil.” What an arrogant, lying, conniving, delusional narcissist!

    • Peggy says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      Obama’s legacy will be one of treachery and betrayal
      =================
      Not if you are looking at it from the Islamic side and that’s what Obama is all about.
      He will be proud of himself as will his Muslim brothers.

      The rest of us will see him as the worst traitor but I have a feeling he won’t care.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 12:26 am

        Peggy, you are right. Obama does not — and will not — care about what we think. However, pride goes before a fall.

        • Peggy says

          Dec 28, 2016 at 11:56 pm

          That’s why he has to pay for his sins. He might care a little when he’s rotting in prison or drinking camel piss in the desert. He can choose which one he wants.
          His daughters can marry some 80 year old and drink camel piss with him.

  21. Debi Brand says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    “Israel to defy UN, build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem”

    Good for them.

  22. jewdog says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    Message to Jews who voted for Obama:
    I am sure that you will continue to vote Democratic no matter what, and will rationalize any degree of appeasement as acceptable. That’s because you think that everyone in the world is just as liberal as you are and that every problem can be solved by compromise. You think that the Muslims are just like Jews, and that every grievance stems from discrimination. You think that way because you have not bothered to look into Islamic ideology in depth, or realistically, and are happy just to see your own reflection everywhere. That’s exactly what happened when the Israeli and American Jewish Left instigated the Oslo Peace Accords and thousands of innocent people were killed or maimed in subsequent terror attacks. Obviously, you learned nothing from that fiasco because you subsequently lined up and voted for Obama, a man of the Oslo Left.
    This move by Obama should come as no surprise as he has made his sympathies abundantly clear. If you had voted for him and are now disappointed, then I’d say that you should have known better and have gotten exactly what you deserve.

  23. Silvia says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    I have the most incredible info for Robert but I don’t have an e-m to send it to. I’m putting it here and hopefully he will see it or someone will send it to him.

    The following was on Israeli TV news last night, Ch 1 published by Egyptian tv.
    The Protocols of the conspiracy between Kerry, Rice and the palestinians.

    Caption 1:
    http://rotter.net/User_files/forum/5862c18557e7e1e62.jpg

    Rice and Kerry about the security council:
    “We are willing to cooperate with you in the security council on a balanced statement. We’ve ordered our ambassador at the UN (Samantha Power) to be in touch with the palestinian representative Riad Mansour.

    Caption 2:
    http://rotter.net/User_files/forum/5862c18557e7e1e63.jpg

    Kerry and Rice about the negotiations:

    “Netanyahu wants to destroy the 2 states option. Saeb Erekat predicted this 4 years ago and was right. Netanyahu wants to preserve the status quo with minor improvements.

    Kerry: “There’s a possibility that I will present ideas for a permanent solution, as long as they get palestinian approval immediately when they are published. I suggest a palestinian delegation go to Riyadh to present the points to the saudis.

    Rice:
    “There’s no point in presenting ideas and parameters to solving the conflict. The Trump administration will flatly reject it. The Trump administration is dangerous. The attitudes they will have towards Israel and the palestinians will be different than any administration since 67.

    Caption 3:
    Rice about moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem
    “I take Trump’s intention of moving the embassy very seriously as I do everything he said about the settlements.”

    Saeb Erekat: “If they move the embassy to Jerusalem, we will cancel the PLO’s recognition of Israel. We will dump on them the responsibility of managing the palestinian authority and we will ask the Arab states to expel the American Ambassadors.”

    Rice: “In such a case things will get very complicated. We all appreciate Saeb Erekat very much (she apologizes for rebuking him in 2014)

    Caption 4:
    http://rotter.net/User_files/forum/5862c18557e7e1e65.jpg

    Kerry and Rice and the impending Trump administration

    “We’ve advised Mahmoud Abbas not to engage in any actions that will be perceived as provocative by Trump like the dismantling of the palestinian authority or going to the Hague or stop the security coordination (with the Israelis). It’s paramount that suicide attacks and terror attacks are prevented, because they hurt the palestinian stand.

    They ask that these discussions remain highly confidential because of the sensitivity of the times.

    In the video they also say how they keep flattering Abbas how he always did what Obama asked him to do and filled their expectations. Furthermore, they give the palestinians advice on how to get close to the Trump administration.

    Full video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Detervq-8

    *********************************************************************************************************

    Except for how utterly disgusting they all are, a few points:

    1) They are assuming that the palestinians are perfectly capable of preventing terror when they want, so it follows that when there is terror, it’s because they want it to be.

    2) The arab microb dares to tell two senior American representatives that HE will ask Arab countries to expel American ambassadors and the two rats say nothing but to flatter him.

    3) Notice how these two American beacons of light ask the master of terror to abstain from murdering Jews not because it’s a crime under any circumstances but because “it will hurt the palestinian situation.” That’s their “moral” objection to murder of Jews.

    4) I guess since Abbas was such a great stooge for Obama and “did everything he was asked”. that means that Obama told him to never come to the negotiating table and also told him to kill many Jews.

    I really hope Robert sees this.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 12:23 am

      What you have written is very interesting, to say the least. Any your analysis seems accurate as to what you said about stopping the terror if they wanted to.l

      If you scroll to the part of the page where there is a *contact us* and click on it, you can put your message to Mr. Spencer there.

  24. dumbledoresarmy says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    There is no such thing as “East Jerusalem”. There is simply Jerusalem. Jerusalem that appears over and over in the Psalms. The area the Mohammedans want as their ‘trophy capital’, BTW, and from which they would no doubt exclude all Jews, were they ever to get hold of it, includes the historic Jewish Quarter of the Old City, with the Temple Mount and “Wailing Wall” aka Western Wall aka Kotel, the sites of 48 synagogues that were dynamited by the Muslims during the period 1949-1967, and the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives where burials date back to at least the 12th century AD… and from which tombstones were taken, by Muslim Jordan, to line *latrines*, during the 1949-1967 occupation of Jewish traditional land by Muslim imperialists who had intended nothing less than *genocide* of the Jews, and who removed – from Judea, Samaria and the part of Jerusalem that they had seized – *every last Jew there resident* and who did not permit even one Jew to set foot there, 1949-1967.

    As for the soi-disant West Bank, no historically-aware person, Jew or Gentile, should ever use that term. There is no such place. There is Judea, and there is Samaria, and both comprise the historic ancestral heartland of the House of Israel, to which Jews as a people are as deeply historically, culturally and spiritually attached as, say, the Pitjantjatjara people of inland Australia are to Uluru.

    No friend of Zion, either Jew or Gentile, should ever use the term “settlements” about Jews who choose to live in their ancestral homeland in Judea or Samaria, whether in Hebron or Bethel or anywhere else. One should speak simply of Jewish towns and villages, Jewish homes.

    I am praying, with conviction, that Trump will follow through on his promise to shift the American embassy in ISrael, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the moment he takes office.

    And when he does – please God I hope he does, it will be *the* best slap in the face he could ever give to the Ummah, to the Islamintern, to the 57 malevolent mohammedan ‘nations’ on the face of the planet – all of us who inhabit majority-non-Islamic countries, especially those of us in Canada, Australia, India and the UK, *must* instantly communicate with our heads of state and foreign ministers and praise the US decision and *demand* that *our* nations show similar courage and *all do the same*. Without warning, without apology and without explanations. Just. do. it. Move overnight. How i would love to see the collective fit of hysterics the mohammedans would throw if, say, the flags of Australia and Canada and India all suddenly appeared one fine morning outside nice shiny new digs (or elegant historic digs) in Jerusalem.

    Time to ‘be the strong horse’.

    And the proper response, to Mohammedan bluster, threats, tantrums (and all riots should be instantly suppressed by overwhelming force, if attempted), should be silence. A grim and icy silence. Stand one’s ground. Refuse to be conned into excuses, explanations or apologies, Maybe six months later, os statement might be issued: “By moving to Jerusalem we have corrected an anomaly. Jerusalem is the capital city of the Jewish state of Israel and embassies are always placed in any host nation’s capital city”. And that would be ALL.

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Dec 27, 2016 at 11:56 pm

      Brilliant statement!

      • JEROME HENEN says

        Dec 28, 2016 at 11:11 am

        After this latest anti Israel resolution it is doubtful Trump will be able to keep this promise. Many other presidents have promised the same and none have carried it through. Obama is doing everything he can to thwart the Trump presidency, seemingly taking Carter’s advice to heart. Next he will via Kerry declare a palestinian state. Expect another back stabbing soon.

    • Wellington says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 12:06 am

      With you again, dda.

      Long live the only beacon of light in just about the darkest corner of the world.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 12:10 am

      Hear, hear, DDA–fine post!

      Here’s a promising sign from President-elect Trump:

      “Trump Favors Moving U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem, Despite Backlash Fears”

      http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/15/502195135/trump-favors-moving-u-s-embassy-to-jerusalem-but-many-worry

      I hope he carries through with this.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Dec 29, 2016 at 6:55 am

        I too. I hope and pray.

        *American* jihadwatchers could be *tweeting*, emailing or phoning him and his team, to express their strong approval of this proposed move of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and their desire to see him perform what he has promised.

        He needs to know that when he does do it, huge numbers of people will be with him, applauding; millions of mostly non-Jewish people, American citizens and voters.

  25. Lucia Bartoli says

    Dec 27, 2016 at 11:54 pm

    What I cannot understand is how American Jews could EVER vote for a party that is not loyal to Israel! I stsnd with Israel! This move to build houses in East Jerusalem is genius! God will NEVER betray His Chosen People!

  26. Guest says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 3:05 am

    The UN has no right to tell Isreal how to progress, or any country for that matter. They are supposed to exchange and share ideas not rule the world.

    • JEROME HENEN says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 11:08 am

      UN is a bunch of thug theocracies making a mockery of democracy and the west. Whilst it is controlled by these vile theocracies it is impossible to expect anything but the worst from it. That is not to say that the europeans should not be ashamed of their own cowardice as well. They have become puppets sitting by silently whilst mass atrocities are committed in Syria and elsewhere. Besides having no back bone the west is hell bent on destroying itself by capitulating to radical islam. And of course the old jew hatred is more prevalent than ever.

  27. Robert_k says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 5:56 am

    Obama doesn’t give Executive orders, he merely issues Fatwas to the US and the UN. After all, he considers himself the President of 57 States (the OIC).

  28. lebel says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 6:24 am

    Any comments from Robert Spencer and Co on the christmas tree ban in Jerusalem? None? why? Oh because its done by Jews and not by Muslims and therefore we say nothing (or try to blame it on Muslims)

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/rabbis-pull-the-plug-on-christmas-trees-in-jerusalem-1.2914571

    • JEROME HENEN says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 11:02 am

      It was the jews who allowed all religions to freely practice in Jerusalem after the 6 day war. Before that it was only muslims allowed. Anyone mention that.

    • Pong says

      Dec 28, 2016 at 12:07 pm

      There is no ban on Christmas trees. It is a recommendation from a rabbi, who has no authority to enforce it. Ministry of tourism made it clear that the israely government has no policy on the matter.
      As compared to moslem attitude, I invite you to go to Saudi Arabia, or Gaza and find any Christmas trees there. In many moslem ruled places one would be panished for erecting a Christmas tree.
      Another poor attempt in moral equivalence.

  29. Michael Johnson says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Arabs are not mad because of land there mad because they want there Muslim god Allah to be greater but he is not and they know it yet they still follow Muhammad

  30. JEROME HENEN says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 am

    So its president Abbas now is it. The guy in the 11th year of his 4 year term. Is he in charge of Hamas now as well?

  31. Angemon says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 11:44 am

    Israel will move ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem, refusing to back down after a United Nations vote last week declared such housing there and in the West Bank illegal under international law.

    Good. The UN is toothless and their fatwas, I mean, resolutions, don’t carry any oomph.

  32. Richie says

    Dec 28, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    How safe is it there in East Jerusalem ? Its sounds like Muslims there leap at any chance to kill Jews. Id fear for my safety

  33. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 1:56 am

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