Obama administration publicly condemns Israel AGAIN….

The Obama administration publicly condemned Israel last night after they declared a settlement in the West Bank to be ‘state land’, possibly in response to the kidnapping and murder of the 3 Israeli teens that sent Hamas and Israel into a war:

YNET – The US rebuked Israel Sunday overnight after it announced a land appropriation in the West Bank, calling the move “counterproductive” to efforts to achieve a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, and urging Jerusalem to reverse the decision.

Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon” by the military-run Civil Administration on Sunday.

The notice published on Sunday by the Israeli military gave no reason for the land appropriation decision, while Israeli media reported the move was in response to the kidnapping and murder of the three Israeli teens. Tensions stoked by the kidnapping quickly spread to Israel’s border with Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, and the two sides engaged in a seven-week war that ended on Tuesday with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.

Israel has every right to respond to the threats they face in any number of ways, whether it is to bomb the heck out of Gaza or reallocate ‘disputed’ land as state land. And the US should be standing firmly behind Israel in these matters. After all, the people that Israel is supposed to make peace with want to annihilate them. How could we not be firmly behind Israel?


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