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International News Title: Pompeo rips Democrats' 'foolish position on Israeli settlements' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back Monday against congressional Democrats who demanded that the Trump administration retract its declaration last month that it views Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as legal under international law. In a letter..., the Secretary of State called Democrats’ positions against Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria “foolish”, Israel Hayom reported Monday night. Last month, Pompeo announced that the State Department did not view Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as being inherently illegal under international law, reversing the policy set down late in the Obama administration, mirroring the position adopted by the Carter administration four decades earlier. Days later, 106 Democrats signed a letter written by Rep. Andy Levin condemning Pompeo’s declaration and demanding that the Trump administration reverse its position vis-à-vis Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. The decision, the signees argued, undermined America’s “moral standing,” and cited Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a clause which is often cited by those arguing that Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria are illegal under international law. On Monday, Pompeo fired back, writing that the 106 Democrats who signed onto the letter held “foolish positions”, adding that viewing Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as illegal was not a long-established, bipartisan position in the US as Levin’s letter had claimed. “You criticize the State Department’s determination that the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not categorically inconsistent with international law – a decision which you contend reverses ‘decades of bipartisan US policy on Israeli settlements,’” wrote Pompeo. “You further argue, in conclusory fashion, that this determination ‘blatantly disregards Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. While I appreciate your interest in this important issue, I could not disagree more with those two foolish positions.” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest and cited Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a clause which is often cited by those arguing that Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria are illegal under international law. It's often cited because it applies.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1) Then vote for the democrats if you're to stupid to know you are full of shit.
#3. To: misterwhite (#1) Why do you support terrorists crybabies?
Bulldoze every muslim home. Then build a home for the Jews on those spots.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3) Bulldoze every muslim home. Then build a home for the Jews on those spots. Yeah! Then put all the homeless Palestinians in boxcars and ship them to camps. Right?
#5. To: misterwhite (#4) Yeah! Then put all the homeless Palestinians in boxcars and ship them to camps. Right? No what you want to do to black people is not the solution. Put them in an airplane with parachutes and drop them off in Antartica. Plenty of room there. Or they can go to Jordan with their cousins if they prefer.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5) Out of a sort of morbid curiosity: What have you got against the Palestinian people? Are you aware that many of them are Christians?
#7. To: Anthem (#6) I was joking I once had a map that marked Antarctica as the proposed Palestinian homeland
Here is what I have against the aPalestiniam Muslims. They are Muslim. They are in Israel the land given to the Jews by God Himself. Most Palestinians it seems to me are terrorist freaks.
#8. To: A K A Stone (#7) Gotcha. I like humor too, as you know. You probably also know that the bloom of youth has long faded from my life and allow me to say that now I'm just trying to produce some good fruit before I become another dead branch. Speaking of branches, up one branch of my family is a Jewish woman who converted to Chrisianity. Her son was technically born Jewish but he didn't practice any religion. His wife was probably of Jewish descent, ancestors moving from Spain to Ireland, and she was a mean bitch. He was a popular guy in our family, the women all glowed about him. He was generous and kind hearted. Plus, he was modestly successful, and when cars came out he drove a top of the line luxury land yacht. Women like that. They're empirical that way. In my life I've known both Jews and Musliims. I don't know them all, of course, but my experience has been that Muslims have been kind hearted and generous. The Jews mean spirited and stingy. I should add, since you bring up the book, that Jesus excoriated the Judeans, and he is the new covenant. Any real estate dealings from before that are exactly what Jesus tore into them about -- legalisms that have nothing to do with God's grace.
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