“Without the U.S. support, the EU wouldn’t have taken such measures,” the negotiator further said.
On Friday, the EU published guidelines forbidding its 28 members from having any dealings with what they term Jewish settlements or territories they call “occupied” by Israel starting in 1967.
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h/t Jack WV
Always watch both hands whenever this White House administration speaks. How many remember the Press Conference one year ago, when Jay Carney refused to say Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel? Here's is the video:
White House refuses to name Israel's capital Twice In Press Briefing..
My suspicious this morning were correct when I commented that I believe the EU were supporting Hussein Obama's agenda: they support each other's, without considering that their actions undermine the sovereignty of the Land of Israel. No one can force the world leaders to accept Jerusalem as Israel's Capital; and no one can force the Arab Palestinians to reject their Charter that does not recognize Israel's right to exist.
Israel and her supporters should have seen the warning signs, when the White House released their video of the traveling agenda for President Obama, in March; because that video has removed Jerusalem from the US map. See this link: http://freebeacon.com/obamas-middle-east-map-erases-israeli-territory/ AND this link: http://reallycoolstuff.biz/borninisrael
and now, for the main article that draws water from a poisoned well:
U.S. court invalidates passport law on status of Jerusalem
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday invalidated a U.S. law that was designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports.
The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds a long-standing U.S. foreign policy that the president - and not lawmakers - have sole authority to say who controls the historic holy city claimed by Israelis and Palestinians.
In the U.S. government, the president "exclusively holds the power to determine whether to recognize a foreign sovereign," wrote Judge Karen Henderson for the panel.
Since the founding of Israel in 1948, U.S. presidents have declined to state a position on the status of Jerusalem, leaving it as one of the thorniest issues to be resolved in possible future peace talks.
The State Department, which issues passports and reports to the president, has declined to enforce the law passed by Congress in 2002, saying it violated the separation of executive and legislative powers laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
When President George W. Bush signed the law, he said that if construed as mandatory rather than advisory, it would "impermissibly interfere" with the president's authority to speak for the country in international affairs.
Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, whose son Menachem was born in Jerusalem and is a U.S. citizen, filed a lawsuit in 2003 demanding that the government enforce the law. Menachem's passport lists the city of birth as Jerusalem and does not mention a country.
The issue reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year on the preliminary question of whether it was so political that it did not belong in the courts. The high court ruled 8-1 that the case could proceed, setting up Tuesday's ruling.
The Zivotofskys plan to ask the high court's opinion again, their lawyer, Nathan Lewin, said on Tuesday.
"Today's majority and concurring decisions acknowledge that the constitutional issue presented by this case is significant and calls for resolution by the Supreme Court," Lewin said in a statement.
An estimated 50,000 American citizens were born in Jerusalem and could have used the law, if it were enforced, to list Israel as their birthplace.
While Israel calls Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital, few other countries accept that status. Most, including the United States, maintain their embassies to Israel in Tel Aviv.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as capital of the state they aim to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, alongside Israel.
(Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Howard Goller and Bill Trott)
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In closing, I will share just one thought about the USA's decision to refuse to accept Jerusalem as Israel's Capital and that is, Jerusalem is mentioned 800 times in the Torah/Old Testament and it is amazing to me that Barack HUSSEIN Obama cannot mention the name once (without associating the City of David to the Arabs).
SHALOM!
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