The Democrats’ official platform, released late Monday, omits a clause from the party’s 2008 document proclaiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a subject of intense diplomatic scrutiny that Obama’s Republican challenger Mitt Romney has put at the center of his position on the Jewish state.
In 2008, Democrats wrote in their platform, “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel. The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.”
The 2012 platform contains no reference to Jerusalem, and maintains support for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinians.
But the platform does read, “The President’s consistent support for Israel’s right to defend itself and his steadfast opposition to any attempt to delegitimize Israel on the world stage are further evidence of our enduring commitment to Israel’s security.”
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And CNN (and YWN) left out that they also left out the line about Hamas! – which read in ’08 “The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mitt Romney makes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital his “central position.” I’m voting for Romney, but on this I’m not holding my breath. Every non-incumbent candidate since I can remember has said the same thing, and then done nothing about it, citing the Presidential prerogative to recognize such a move as an “security risk to American interests.” I do think Romney is likely to be more publicly supportive of Israel’s right to self defense, etc., as President Bush was. But Jerusalem under Romney is going to remain the same life-sized museum of Judaism that it always has been to U.S. Presidents and the State Department.
and they cut out G-d too
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/09/democrats-are-officially-godless/
Well if the 2008 statement said “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” then by definition it still is the capital.
Finally one of the political parties stops lying to klal yisroel; year after year using wording that intimated to us that they recognized East Jersusalem as part of Israel forever; the U.S. Government never changes it’s policies of not recognizing any part of East Jersusalem’s annexation.
President GW Bush even bragged in his autobiographical memoirs in 2010 the following:
“With my approval, Condi oversaw a separate channel of talks directly between Olmert and Abbas. The dialogue culminated in a secret proposal from Olmert to Abbas. His offer would have returned the vast majority of the territory in the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians, accepted the construction of a tunnel connecting the two Palestinian territories, allowed a limited number of Palestinian refugees return to Israel, established Jerusalem as a joint capital of both Israel and Palestine, and entrusted control of the holy cites to a panel of nonpolitical elders.”
He didnt let up the entire time he was in office:
GW Bush on MAY 26, 2005 with Abbas at the White House: “Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudice final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Therefore, Israel must remove unauthorized outposts and stop settlement expansion”.
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN — February, 2006, while Bolton was serving as president of the Security Council and just weeks after Hamas won Palestinian elections:
“Israel must continue to work with Palestinian leaders to help improve the daily lives of Palestinians. At the same time, Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes its road map obligations, or prejudices the final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. This means that Israel must remove unauthorized posts and stop settlement expansion.”
President George W. Bush speaking with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – October 20, 2005
“Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudice final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Therefore, Israel must remove unauthorized outposts and stop settlement expansion.”
JAN 2008 BUSH
BUSH: “I know Jerusalem is a tough issue. Both sides have deeply felt political and religious concerns. I fully understand that finding a solution to this issue will be one of the most difficult challenges on the road to peace, but that is the road we have chosen to walk…..
….The establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it…..The peace agreement should happen, and can happen, by the end of this year.
Bush: “I share with these two leaders the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security….The point of departure for permanent status negotiations to realize this vision seems clear: There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people. These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure, recognized, and defensible borders. And they must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent…..While territory is an issue for both parties to decide, I believe that any peace agreement between them will require mutually agreed adjustments to the armistice lines of 1949 to reflect current realities and to ensure that the Palestinian state is viable and contiguous. I believe we need to look to the establishment of a Palestinian state and new international mechanisms, including compensation, to resolve the refugee issue….I reaffirm to each leader that implementation of any agreement is subject to implementation of the road map. Neither party should undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudices the final status negotiations. On the Israeli side that includes ending settlement expansion and removing unauthorized outposts. On the Palestinian side that includes confronting terrorists and dismantling terrorist infrastructure.
President Bush January 10, 2008: at the King David Hotel Jerusalem
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080110-3.html
Bush: “I share with these two leaders the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security….The point of departure for permanent status negotiations to realize this vision seems clear: There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people. These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure, recognized, and defensible borders. And they must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent…..While territory is an issue for both parties to decide, I believe that any peace agreement between them will require mutually agreed adjustments to the armistice lines of 1949 to reflect current realities and to ensure that the Palestinian state is viable and contiguous. I believe we need to look to the establishment of a Palestinian state and new international mechanisms, including compensation, to resolve the refugee issue….I reaffirm to each leader that implementation of any agreement is subject to implementation of the road map. Neither party should undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudices the final status negotiations. On the Israeli side that includes ending settlement expansion and removing unauthorized outposts. On the Palestinian side that includes confronting terrorists and dismantling terrorist infrastructure.
I know Jerusalem is a tough issue. Both sides have deeply felt political and religious concerns. I fully understand that finding a solution to this issue will be one of the most difficult challenges on the road to peace, but that is the road we have chosen to walk…..
….The establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it…..The peace agreement should happen, and can happen, by the end of this year.
January 8, 2008 / US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told The Jerusalem Post that “Har Homa is a settlement the United States has opposed from the very beginning.” Rice, who was accompanying Bush en route to Israel said that “the United States doesn’t make a distinction” between settlement activity in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and that Israel’s George Bush Road Map obligations, which include a building freeze, relate to “settlement activity generally.” Here we have the Bush Adminstration imposing -even 6 years after the Road Map was initiated – the road Map. And none of the concerns that Israel formally delineated were addressed by Bush.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=88107
http://www.jpost.com/Israel//Article.aspx?id=88107
Israel should not undertake any activity that contravenes road map obligations or prejudice final status negotiations with regard to Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Therefore, Israel must remove unauthorized outposts and stop settlement expansion.”
President George W. Bush speaking with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – May 26, 2005
“Now, our position on settlement activity has not changed. We have said to the Israelis that they have obligations under the roadmap, they have obligations not to increase settlement activity.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Interview with LA Times – March 24, 2005
“I would say that we continue — our policy continues to be that Israel should freeze settlement construction.”
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The U.S. government wont even move the embassy to WEST Jerusalem- the U.S. wont even move the embassy next to the Knesset in West Jerusalem. The U.S. Government will not even refer in official correspondence with ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO JERSUALEM BEING ISRAEL.
No Republican president has ever even hinted at the idea that he, the president, or the government of the U.S. recognizes annexed East Jersualem as Israel.
Furthermore No Republican President nor any Republican platform indicates on the paper or in a footnote or in an addendum or anywhere else on paper or otherwise that East Jersualem that was annexed after the 67 war is what they mean in the platform by the word Jersualem.
By the way, Bush continues to back his Hamas decision…
And when it comes to his push to include Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the US, in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections of 2005 – which the Islamist movement won – Bush remains resolute.
“America could not be in the position of endorsing elections only when we liked the projected outcome,” he explains, adding that the vote “forced a decision in Hamas” about whether it would govern or revert to violence.
runwithharetz i on’t have a clue what you ares ning. Did you really keep all these dusty files in your computer?