Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com
6/7/2011
When President Obama last week invoked the regular six-month waiver to bypass U.S. law mandating that the American Embassy in Israel be moved to Jerusalem, the notice was released on Friday afternoon, a common time for the White House to “dump” material that ends up drawing little media attention.
The ritual notification to Congress came at a time when the administration is on the defensive over concerns voiced by some pro-Israel Americans that Obama is moving away from decades of strong bipartisan support for the Jewish state…
…In the latest of numerous Capitol Hill attempts over the years to press the issue, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) last March introduced the Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Act of 2011, which removes the waiver authority from the 1995 law, and calls for the embassy to be moved to Israel’s capital “as soon as possible, but not later than January 1, 2013.”
It also calls for the U.S. government to identify Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in official documents.
Thirty-five lawmakers from both parties co-sponsored the bill, which has been referred to the House Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia…
…Obama’s latest announcement was welcomed by Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh. The official P.A. news agency, Wafa, said he called it “encouraging and … consistent with President Obama’s vision of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.”
Obama’s stance was proof that neither the U.S. nor the world recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Rudeineh told the agency…
The entire article is at CNSNews.com
H/T Now the End Begins where you can read the White House document signed by the President.
Related: Why were these photos withheld until now? Some pictures have finally been published that vindicate Israel in the flotilla case a year earlier…
Update: Suing Organizers and Funders of the Gaza Flotilla
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Neal Sher, an attorney practicing in New York City. Along with Ed Morgan, a prominent Toronto barrister and law professor, he is presently representing Cherna Rosenberg, who has been subjected to the mortar attacks from Gaza into Sderot.
Previously, Sher was the Director the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which investigated and prosecuted Nazi criminals in the U.S. In that capacity, he was responsible for bringing many dozens of prosecutions and for barring former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim from coming to this country. He also served as the National Executive Director of AIPAC and was the President of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
Recently, Sher has initiated two lawsuits on behalf of Jewish students at U of C, Berkeley and York University in Toronto who had been subjected to anti-Semitic harassment and bullying groups seeking to denigrate Israel and her supporters. It has been charged that the administrations at these schools failed to take adequate measure to prevent these incidents and to protect the students…
Read also, The Tragic Fight for Gilad Shalit » Why has Israel persistently pursued the suicidal release of hardened murderers in order to bring him home?…
