Long standing US Policy on Jerusalem is anti-Israel and pro-Arab.
By Ted Belman, August 2012
For the last 60 years, the US has been steadfast in its efforts to prevent Israel from exercising sovereignty over Jerusalem and declaring it to be its capital. The only possible reason for such a policy is to show deference to the oil lobby in the US. It mattered little to it, that for three thousand years, Jerusalem has only been the capital of Judea, now Israel, and is inseparable from it. Jerusalem (Zion) is mentioned over 700 times in the Torah and not once in the Koran.
Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was pressed on the issue of Jerusalem. Not only was he unwilling to say the Jerusalem is the capital of Israel but he was not prepared to acknowledge that the western section of Jerusalem, which Israel conquered in the ’48 War and which lies to the west of the armistice lines, was even in Israel.
By acknowledging he was in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, Romney embraced the reality and flew in the face of a 60 year old American policy.
The response from Camp Obama was immediate.
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