{"id":22189,"date":"2014-03-09T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:08:04","slug":"the-latest-dumb-thing-our-state-department-has-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22189","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Dumb Thing Our State Department Has Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Peace\/2014\/03\/09\/State-Dept-Palestinians-Do-Not-Need-to-Recognize-Israel-as-Jewish-State\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted an article today quoting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Department of State\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8941666667,-77.0483333333 (United%20States%20Department%20of%20State)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">State Department<\/a> spokesperson <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jennifer Psaki\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jennifer_Psaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jen Psaki<\/a>. Mr. Psaki stated, &#8220;Our position is that Israel is a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jewish state\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jewish state<\/a>, but it is not necessary for the two sides to agree on this in the final agreement.&#8221; Wow.<\/p>\n<p>So Israel should agree to set up a Palestinian state and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Palestine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Palestine<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have to agree that Israel is a Jewish state? Does Palestine have to agree that Israel has the right to exist? That might be a little detail to get straightened out before Palestine becomes a state and forms an official military.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Recently, the U.S. had appeared to agree with Israel. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Barack Obama<\/a> referred to &#8220;the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Israel\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667 (Israel)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">State of Israel<\/a>&#8211;a Jewish state&#8221; in his recent State of the Union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/01\/28\/president-barack-obamas-state-union-address\" target=\"_blank\">address<\/a>, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John Kerry\" href=\"http:\/\/state.gov\/secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Secretary of State John Kerry<\/a> twice referred to &#8220;the nation-state of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldjewishcongress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Jewish people<\/a>&#8221; in recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/remarks\/2014\/03\/222808.htm\" target=\"_blank\">remarks<\/a> to the AIPAC conference of pro-Israel activists in Washington. However, both were careful to avoid insisting upon Palestinian recognition of Israel&#8217;s identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Palestinian people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Palestinians<\/a> did not agree to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oslo I Accord\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oslo_I_Accord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Oslo Peace Accords<\/a> of 1993, and considers such recognition to be a new demand. Palestinian propaganda denies Jews the right to sovereignty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America needs to grow up and realize that we cannot bring peace to the Middle East until Palestine agrees to recognize the existence of Israel and until Palestine stops training its children to hate Israelis (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14319\" target=\"_blank\">rightwinggranny.com<\/a>). Until the culture of hatred changes, there will be no peace.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=3b876bb6-29d0-44ef-929d-93fba111bd15\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart.com posted an article today quoting State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki. Mr. Psaki stated, &#8220;Our position is that Israel is a Jewish state, but it is not necessary for the two sides to agree on this in the final agreement.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,86,3731,7225,328,1281,537,1178],"class_list":["post-22189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-israel","tag-jennifer-psaki","tag-jewish-state","tag-jews","tag-john-kerry","tag-palestine","tag-united-states-department-of-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22190,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions\/22190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}