State Department Won’t Say Jerusalem is Capital of Israel
- Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:35pm by
Mytheos Holt
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If the Obama administration wants to soften its image among Israel supporters as being questionably interested in Israel’s interests, then refusing to describe Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was probably not the way to do it. In a press conference today, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland did exactly that, to the consternation of many reporters who repeatedly kept trying to clarify her remarks, only to be repeatedly stonewalled. The Weekly Standard has a transcript of the exchange, of which the relevant passage is as follows:
Q: Is it the view of the — of the United States that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, notwithstanding the question about the embassy — the location of the U.S. embassy?
MS. NULAND: We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem.
Q: Does that — does that mean that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?
MS. NULAND: Jerusalem is a permanent-status issue. It’s got to be resolved through negotiations.
Q: That seems to suggest that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Is that correct or not?
MS. NULAND: I have just spoken to this issue –
Q: (Inaudible.)
MS. NULAND: — and I have nothing further to say on it.
Q: You’ve spoken to the issue –
MS. NULAND: Yeah.
Q: — but (haven’t answered ?) the question. And I think there’s a lot of people out there who are interested in hearing a real answer and not saying — and not trying to duck and say that this has got to be resolved by negotiations between the two sides.
MS. NULAND: That is our –
Q: What is the capital of Israel?
MS. NULAND: Our policy with regard to Jerusalem is that it has to be solved through negotiations. That’s all I have to say on this issue.
The story comes just after the Washington Free Beacon noted that the State Department had listed Israel and Jerusalem as separate entities in a press release, which has since been amended. Originally, the release read as follows:
Some would probably argue that coming down on one side or another of this question might have tipped the Obama administration’s hand too much on U.S. policy regarding Israel. Yet this ignores the fact that under current U.S. law, Jerusalem is considered the capital of Israel. That boat has sailed.
Blaze reader markedmanner has posted video of the exchange. You can watch it here:
Is the administration hardening its anti-Israel credentials even further? Weigh in below.
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Comments (151)
crusaderx9
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:37pmRush was correct when he said (paraphrased) TRUTH IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH to overcome liberal lies and distortions…
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:32pmRush said (March 22nd):
“… We’re looking at [refering to Obama and oil lies] undeluded ignorance, arrogance, braziness, proverication, that is — tht is getting too large to calculate, and to keep track of; litterally, over the top.
I’m getting … I’m gonna pu — sometimes I feel the truth is not powerful enough to stop these people.
That’s a scary thought.
The truth … is not … powerful enough to stop these people. …”
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:04pmThe state department is a bunch of…….wait I better not say that, YEA I should, Aceholes. OK, feel better.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:09pmIf you follow the Rules… that the Enemy creates… you will loose!
Report Post »Maji
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 12:00amThats OK!
Report Post »I still have a hard time saying obama’s president.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:36am.
Report Post »75% of American Jews voted for Obama,
You reap what you sow.
Now you want me to feel sorry for you?
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:35pmThose who have been re-programmed and indoctrinated into the LIBERAL cult cannot deal in facts & figures or logic. ALL words and proper nouns must be filtered through the LIBERAL lense, and if needed – complete “re-assignment” and re-definitions words are done.
Examples: Pro-life women are now “men with breasts” ; Conservative African-Americans are no longer “black”; Jerusalem’s status as Capital of Israel is “under negotiations”, unborn children are “fetal tissue”; etc etc etc.
LIBERAL-speak is an ever-changing language that can be nigh unto impossible to decipher for the rest of humanity that is used to plain language such as 1+1=2.
Report Post »Just in time
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:34pmI can‘t help but think about Tom Minchin’s words when it comes to BHO and his administration!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:33pmBenjamin Netanyahu is not a fool. He knows that he can not trust Obama. The people of Israel know this too.
I trust Netanyahu more than I trust our own President. .
God please bless America. God will bless Israel.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:00pmAmen MOM … AMEN!
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:08pmI will second and third that I don’t trust our leaders at all
Report Post »I_CARRY_1_TOO
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:09pmI stand with Isreal and Jeruselum til the end and we will have victory over all evils….
Report Post »Danthebugman
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:17pmBi Bi is smarter than you think. The Liberal Jews of this country need to get their heads out of the sand and help put NOBAMA and his minions on the UN employment line!
Report Post »Mom_of_5
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:20pmI concur with your statement. Praise God for people who have common sense.
Report Post »philipzhao
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 5:05amCount me in !!
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:21amme too, I pray I can also trust the American people too. I pray the roots of our mighty tree have not rotted to the point of no return.
Report Post »mrshinola
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:01pmI stand with Israel, God’s Chosen People, the Jews. God Bless Jerusalem and all of Israel! mrshinola
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:29pmSo Obama‘s State Department won’t admit that Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel, the administration also refuses to admit that Obama was born in Kenya. No matter, God know what Jerusalem is.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:02pmYou have to know that Obama is in Dilusionville, and God is in His Heaven, laughing, Right??
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 12:12amThe entire State Department needs to be Purged… as it’s employees, hang on from Admin to Admin, promoting Foreign Ideology and their own Alien Interests!
Report Post »patriot4evermore
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:24pmMaybe she should look at a map! How flipping stupid can she sound? Our present leadership couldn’t make it any plainer how they feel about Israel. I’m not surprised. I told people before he was even elected he would be anti-Israel and he proves me right again and again. Sadly my fellow Jews will be blind and vote Democrat or not at all before they make a smart conservative vote. IDIOTS!!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:43pmI had a whole response , nice and PC – couldn’t do it! So, are you american yids just a lot dumber than Israelis? Or do you think anything but holocaust II is in the offing. Unbelievable to me!
Report Post »As far as a comment on the story- noithing new-move along!
indy1
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:22pmObama sided with his father’s Muslim brethren. 3000 year of history doesn’t matter to the Left and the Muslims.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:21pmjust amazing how the administration cannot even properly chose the battles to fight. even for the left this is strange. there is a war against the Christians and lovers of freedom in our country and abroad. Pray for the peace of Israel, and for our Republic.
Report Post »Pallamus
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:19pmAnd this is coming from an Administration which just said, not to long ago, that it has Israel’s back? Obama and his cronies must live in a vacuum. Talk about mind boggling. But I digress: After all we are being lead by a community organizer!
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:06pmGood for the State Department! Victoria Nuland took the right approach, and said the right thing given the situation there.
Report Post »EvangelicalTruthofAgesAlphaOmega
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:30pmThere are no negotiations when one side of the table are people that want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. What exactly is there to negotiate? Everything that has been asked of Israel has been offered, the Arabs don’t want peace, THEY DON”T WANT ISRAEL TO BE THERE…..PERIOD. Glad to say but Israel is here to stay, and Jerusalem is its Capitol.
One day even Obama will bow before God and claim he is Lord.
Whats next are we going to enter negotiations with Mexico over DC? I probably just blew Obama’s effort to win the Hispanic vote.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:49pm@EVANGELICALTRUTHOFAGESALPHAOMEGA
Your insane rant doesn’t actually merit a response, but considering you’re probably not the most social of people, and perhaps even a good person underneath all that baggage, I thought that acknowledging your existence with a comment would be the kind, humane thing to do.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:51pmYep, spoken like a true islamist administration.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 11:44pm@majasdad
You must be an atheist.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:04pmAnd yet American Jews will most likely vote for OBonzo. And American Catholics will probably vote for him as well. Ahhhh
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:12pmThey will but only those the truth has been revealed to will abstain while the others will continue to deny this lawless man in office and what he is. They then give themselves over to ruin and destruction and we will all suffer because of it just like the Germans following the evil Hitler, they paid dearly even the innocent who hated his guts.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:23pmnot American Jews, secular Jews.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:41pmYeah, HORSECRAZY. The ones that didn’t listen to Moses and STILL worship the golden calf.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 2:44am@HorseCrazy, I hear what you are saying, but all of the polls I have seen on the subject references ‘American Jews’, not ‘secular Jews’, so I have no factual evidence one way or the other. Your perspective seems to add a little sense to the conversation though.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:16am@Horsecrazy, Since you brought up the distinction, which Jews does your god tell us to bless? Secular or Orthodox?
Report Post »gretsch62
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:04pmIn November this one needs to find a file clerk job in some obscure city as tax payer demand more than hired monkeys in the state department!
Report Post »whatareyouami
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:01pmI’m so mad after what I just read, It sucks that I can‘t say what I’d like to say! But there are descent people here just like me that may not appreciate it. What sucks even more is that I’m not surprised! I’m just such a huge supporter of the Jews and I just find it so offensive! It stinks!!!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:11pmAnd they say no conspiracy exists against Israel!
Whenever our leaders and other world leaders express views regarding Israel that include of trying to divide it, negotiate its borders, land for peace swaps we always have calamities that follow. This failure to recognize Israels capital…its seat of government and then say this is still being decided is one more attempt at dividing Israel and those who attempt these actions are those the bible clearly speaks about. I will cause Israel to be a burdensome stone in those days and everyone who burdens themselves to remove it will be cut to pieces. Look for the storm, the quake the flood!
Report Post »American_Woman
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:59pmLove Is real
Love Israel
Obama nation
Abomination
Jer USA lem
Report Post »Jerusalem
HorseCrazy
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:18pmlove it
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:38pmDitto.
Report Post »georgette
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 2:03pmRegarding Israel…..
“and I will bless those that bless you and curse those who curse you”……..
The Administration might want to go with God on this one.
Report Post »bjornskis
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:59pmwhat good muslim would pretty much explains Oblumber
Report Post »bunnyma5
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:58pmHear, O Israel…….this man and his administration does not have your best interests at heart….he lies, schemes, tells you what you want to hear……
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:04amHow do you figure? I know it fits Beck’s narriative, but I just don’t see it. For someone who is anti-Semetic as Beck and team suggest, Obama has appointed many Jews to important positions. And really, you‘re all fools if you think the media wouldn’t go after Obama if they thought he was anti-Israel. I mean look at what they‘ve done to RP because they think he’s anti-Israel (or not pro enough Israel). I mean some of you are freaking idiots, incapable of thinking for yourselves. Don’t you think the anti-defemation league would be all over Obama if they thought he was anti-Semetic? Don’t you think AIPAC would be getting the word out if they thought Obama was anti-Semetic? No, the only one screaming is GB and company. The only media outlet that Obama has talked ill of is the only one that has a non-Jewish owner/CEO. Beck’s gone all whack-a-doodle and he’s taking many of you with him. Either that, or he’s just manipulating you religious zealots for some agenda. (it ain’t the truth) As agnostic, I think too many people, including Obama, are too pro-Israel. All I care about is this country. I don’t care about the land my ancestors came from, why should I care about the land other people came from? The only reason we do is a lack of separation of church and state by the state dept. ACLU won’t touch that though, they’re worried about Christmas in schools.
Report Post »Lando
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:57pmWe are dealing with an unconditional covenant with God and Abraham. In part it reads…
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
So get ready America, our collapse may be what we need to get our act together.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:01pmThe State of Israel?
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:57pmEven the P.L.O couldnt do this much dammage to Isreal than the Obama Administration and the State Department.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:51pmWhenever a nation (USA) messes with Israel, they get a backlash from YHWH. How about when Mr. Bush went to Jerusalem to have talks about dividing it with the squaters (Plasticstinians). Look up what happened right after he got back.
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:07pmIf God’s word is true – and God said “What you do to Israel – I will do to you” Presently, Israel’s Borders are surround by radicals that want to wipe them out. It is a good America’s Borders are safe. Surely, God was not talking about our Borders if we do not support Israel!
Nobody listens to what Obama says – Obama said, America has Israel’s back, and America’s resolve is rock hard when it comes to Israel. Obama is the master of saying I and me – but, Obama NEVER said, I have America’s back and My resolve is Rock Hard when it comes to protecting Israel.
You can bet God heard Obama – and Americans voted Obama into office. We need to vote him out or get ready for our own Borders to be over run with Drug Lords and Islamic Extremest. Just saying!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:50pmBREAKING NEWS: The obama administration does not speak for America.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:26pmYes it does, and the fact that we Americans voted for him gives him the mandate to do so.
momrules
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:38pmAbsolutely right Tri-Ox.
This American will always support Israel.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:49pmObama administration and the State Department are enemies of Israel.
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:13pmMost that know would tend to agree.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:48pmShe has no creditable answer? NObama Is Muslim so what else did you expect
Report Post »This sounds like double talk to me and this song will help you understand.
“What’s Wrong With This Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:45pmOf course Obama will not allow Jerusalem to be recognized as Israels capital; the radicals among the arabs claim rights to it already – and to Obama that is good enough. His hatered for all things English, American and Israeli are unadultered and absolute.
I imagine he would smile if he could arrange the destruction of the UK, Israel and America all in one shot.
Report Post »COREZONE
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:44pmYou have to be pretty shady to not answer questions when it is asked of you repeatedly.
Report Post »campt1
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:40pmWe have an Anti-Israel administration, what do you expect?
Report Post »markedmanner
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:15pmVideo of the exchanged mentioned in this post:
Report Post »https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J74LilHP2Wk