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United States Must Keep Its Word
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Israeli cabinet minister Dan Meridor has come out strongly in response to the attacks by Obama and his State Department on the construction in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem. As I pointed out previously on this blog, there was an agreement between the United States and Israel on the issue of settlement construction, and if the United States is not going to honor its side of the deal, then why should Israel (or any other country, for that matter) ever believe the United States when it makes deals?
If our allies have to worry about the administration changing every 4 years, then they’d be better off making deals with dictators-for-life than with the United States! Is that the sorry state of our promises that we want projected to the world?
As the AP reports:
“It is of great importance to us that what the [previous] US administration agreed to is not overlooked,” Meridor said, at a press briefing in Jerusalem organized by The Israel Project organization, adding that the credibility of future agreements and understandings was at stake.
“This is how countries take upon themselves obligations,” he said, stressing what he called the “oral understandings” – regarding what construction would and would not be permitted under the terms of the freeze – were reached “by America and Israel,” and did not lapse because of the change of administration.
“The agreement is binding on us and them,” Meridor said.
He added: “It was agreed that the Israelis can go on building within certain parameters. That’s what happened, and no word was said against it in six years.”