Obama Flip-Flops On Jerusalem Again
Obama is blaming his expressed support for an undivided Israeli capital in front of an audience of Jews on “poor phrasing.”
Which apparently is code for “I was lying.”
(IsraelNN.com) Barack Obama, the Democratic party’s nominee for U.S. President, retracted the statement he made at the AIPAC Convention in June, about the need for Jerusalem to remain Israel’s undivided capital. Obama had already qualified the statement the day after he made it, but in a new CNN interview he effectively retracted it, blaming “poor phrasing” and careless syntax.
Interviewer Fareed Zakaria asked: “One area where you’re outside the international consensus — and certainly, perhaps, some others — is the statement you made in a recent speech supporting Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. Now, why not support the Clinton plan, which envisions a divided Jerusalem, the Arab half being the capital of a Palestinian state, the Jewish half being the capital of the Jewish state?”
Obama replied: “You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given.
“The point we were simply making was, is that we don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent.”
Correct the interpretation? Here’s what Obama actually said:
Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
Here’s the video:
Kind of hard to misinterpret that, wouldn’t you say?
Obama must think we’re all stupid. Or, in the case of the adoring media, completely unwilling to call him out on this rather astonishing level of duplicity. Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics
