Saturday, 20 March 2010
CNN; Last week on Israel: Old News
In the last few days there has been some disagreement over how the Israelis regard Obama. People are saying he can't be trusted. Others say they like him. The Israelis thought that the announcement of the 1600 settlement buildings in East Jerusalem being built was bad PR during VP Biden's visit over a week ago. People were writing in, responding to "Cafferty: Time for U.S. to get tougher with Israel?" CNN's Jack Cafferty's blog, expressing negative opinion on the US giving two and a half billion $ a year in aid. In other words, the US should use that money as leverage to make Isael back away from more settlements and ease up on Palestine, specifically with regard to trade restrictions and needed outside aid coming in, and allow Palestinians more self-determination.
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I totally agree with Cafferty... there should be a caveat to receiving U.S. funds. Maybe even some criteria like 'we don't give money to those in violation of World-Court/U.N. rulings.. or I could just be another bleeding-heart liberal who believes that everyone has rights...
I would agree with your condition for recieving US aid, otherwise the US could be accused of funding war crimes.
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