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| The Veil is Coming off: Obama Top Aid Says Israeli Occupation Must End | |
| 2015-03-24 | |
| POLITICO -- White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough made clear in a speech to a left-leaning Israel advocacy group that President Barack Obama isn't letting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the hook for his dismissal of a two-state solution. That stance, as well as Netanyahu's suggestion also made in the closing days before last week's Israeli elections that he'd approved settlements in contested territory in Jerusalem for the strategic purpose of changing the borders are "so very troubling," McDonough told J Street's
McDonough added that the White House isn't impressed by Netanyahu's efforts since last Tuesday to backtrack on what he meant when he said there wouldn't be a Palestinian state established so long as he's prime minister. "We cannot simply pretend that these comments were never made," McDonough said. | |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169 |
| #1 "Clarifications" from his superiors in 5..4..3 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-24 05:40 |