Yerushalayim Mayor Nir Barkat expressed support on Monday for the government’s plan to build 3,000 additional housing units in the E1 section between Yerushalayim and Ma’ale Adumim.
“We need to connect the E1 area to Jerusalem without any reservations at all, even with the world pressuring us not to do so….I don’t know of any city in the world whose regulator is the U.S. president.”
“When the world talks about a freeze in Jerusalem, I ask, a freeze on what? On the billions we invest in east Jerusalem? Should we stop construction for Arabs, Christians or Jews? Or does someone mean that when an entrepreneur approaches me, I should, heaven forbid, ask him what religion he subscribes to so he can receive a permit to build in Jerusalem? That would be horrendous and it negates even U.S. law.”
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
How about telling Obama to give back the US to the Indians – it wasn’t bought from them – IT WAS STOLEN
Finally someone says it like it is!!!
I DONT KNOW OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY WHO GETS 5 BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE US!! THE US I THINK GETS TO HAVE A SAY
americaner, you are way to correct!
Maybe we should give E. Jerusalem to the Indians. After all it would be better than giving it to the our Arab friends.
Lets make a deal. If Israel ceased asking for 3 billion a year , plus military aid and a host of other things, then maybe Israel would have the right to tell the US to stay out of its business. But until then, beggars cant be choosers
Sorry, #’s 3 and 6.
Egypt gets a ton of aid from the US.
So do the Palestinians.
Israel is not alone in that respect – but it is alone in that the US interferes with Israel policy decisions far more than it does with any other country to whom it gives aid.
There is another misconception here. The US needs Israel as an ally just as much as Israel needs the US. Israel is the US’s only consistent ally in the Middle East.