UN Security Council Resolution 252 of May 21, 1968 states: Reaffirming that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible,
1. Deplores the failure of Israel to comply with the General Assembly resolutions mentioned above;
2. Considers that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change that status;
3. Urgently calls upon Israel to rescind all such measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any further action which tends to change the status of Jerusalem;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Security Council on the implementation of the present resolution. The main problem with American public opinion is that it is so misinformed. And I would not fault the many Jewiesh groups in the United States and Israel that support Obama's position. Rather it is a part of an orchestrated campaign by the religious right to "preserve the state of Israel" for the second coming of Christ at a place called Aramgeddon in Israel. Read Gary North's, The Foreign Policy of 20 million Would-Be Mortals. North claims that their Christian Fundamentalist beliefs rest entirely on the existence of the State of Israel. Quoting North: It should be clear why they believe that Israel must be defended at all costs by the West. If Israel were removed militarily from history prior to the Rapture, then the strongest case for Christians' imminent escape from death would have to be abandoned. This would mean the indefinite delay of the Rapture. The fundamentalist movement thrives on the doctrine of the imminent Rapture, not the indefinitely postponed Rapture. Since May 21st has come and passed, I thought I would throw in that last quote. Comments welcomed...
"The right-wing media is sure that President Obama betrayed Israel and "sided with the terrorists" with his restatement of U.S. policy that the Israelis and Palestinians should come to a peace agreement that results in a "secure Israel" and "viable Palestine" with "borders ... based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.""
"But a funny thing happened. American Jews -- 78 percent of whom voted for Obama in the 2008 election -- didn't immediately rise up against the president. So the conservative media found their next target for attack: American Jews." The Jewish-Americans that I know are much too intelligent to fall in line with the race baiting Glenn Beck. What people don't understand is that the Christian Fundamentalist movement in America is the largest and most influential opponent of a Palestinian state based on any borders. Beliefnet published an article by Timothy Weber in 2004 entitled, On the Road to Armageddon...with a subtitle of, How evangelicals became Israel's best friend. Weber cites a Time/CNN poll taken in 2004: "While only 36 percent of all Americans believe that the Bible is God's Word and should be taken literally, 59 percent say they believe that events predicted in the Book of Revelation will come to pass. Almost one out of four Americans believes that 9/11 was predicted in the Bible, and nearly one in five believes that he or she will live long enough to see the end of the world. Even more significant for this study, over one-third of those Americans who support Israel report that they do so because they believe the Bible teaches that the Jews must possess their own country in the Holy Land before Jesus can return." The Jewish-American population of the United States is relatively small compared to the Christian fundamentalists. And in any case, from prior polls that I have seen, a majority of Jewish-Americans support a separate Palestinian state. The Republican Party and their propaganda outlet, Fox News, are heavy into the Chriatian fundamentalist orthodoxy, not necessarily that they all believe the prophecies of the Book of Revelations, but that they NEED these voters to enhance their voter base. The Christian fundamentalists put all their Biblical issues ahead of any economic issues...and therefore they are now the core of the Republican Party. And foremost amongst those Biblical issues is that the State of Israel...indeed the "Land of Israel" must be preserved.