Obama official blasts Israel for denying “Palestinians” sovereignty, security, dignity

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

The Obama administration is attacking Israel as Hamas rockets rain down on the tiny Jewish state.

In denying Israel’s sovereignty they are flouting international law. Is Caroline Glick explains in her book, “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East”: “Except during periods when he was physically barred from doing so — most recently during the Jordanian an occupation of these areas from 1949 to 1967 — Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria from time immemorial, just as they have lived in the rest of the historic land of Israel for the better part of 4000 years. Based on this historical connection, in 1922 the League of Nations granted the Jewish people sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria and the rest of Israel.

On May 15, 1948, the day the Jewish state declared independence, Jordan joined Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq in invading Israel with the intent of annihilating it. Jordan ended the war in possession of northern, souther, and eastern Jerusalem as well as today and Samaria. Under international law, this was an illegal war of aggression. All Jews who had been living in the areas that the Jordanians conquered were expelled from their homes hundred for massacred or taken captive in Jordan. The official position of the Israeli government is that Israel has a right to sovereignty over the areas.”

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