Romney to Visit Jerusalem-Israel

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Mitt Romney is planning a visit Jerusalem-Israel this summer, where he will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu. It's amazing to read this news from different sources, as each adds its own details and "flavor."

 

 

The Washington Post is careful to give equal ink to Obama speechwriter and campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt:

.... Romney has made Israel a centerpiece of his assault on President Obama’s record on foreign affairs. The former Massachusetts governor has tried to cast the president as weak on his support of that country, once pledging to “do the opposite” of the Obama administration on Israel.

Romney, with his strong defense of Israel, has sought to consolidate his support among pro-Israel evangelical Christians as well as Jewish voters and donors. Jews overwhelmingly supported Obama in the 2008 campaign, but Romney’s strategists believe some could be swayed to switch allegiances this time, especially in the key battleground of Florida.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt suggested that Romney has been too vague in laying out his policies with regard to Israel.

“Governor Romney has said he would do the opposite of what President Obama has done in our relations with Israel,” LaBolt said in a statement. “Now he must specify how -- does that mean he would reverse President Obama’s policies of sending Israel the largest security assistance packages in history? Does it mean he would let Israel stand alone at the United Nations, or that he would stop funding the Iron Dome system? Does it mean he would abandon the coalition working together to confront Iran’s nuclear ambitions?”

 

The New York Times, apparently without recollection of its own May 2011 headline -"Obama Sees '67 Borders as Starting Point for Peace Deal" - quotes only Romney on the issue of Israeli borders. [Note: What dhimmedia and other leftists call the '67 borders should more accurately be known as the 1949 Armistice Demarcation Lines.]

....{Romney] has repeatedly tried to paint himself as a closer friend of Israel than the president, who he has accused of “throwing Israel under the bus,” and as more hawkish on the Iranian nuclear program, which Israel sees as an existential threat.

“I understand that in Israel, geography is security,” Mr. Romney said via satellite at the Aipac conference in March, drawing applause by promising to “never call for a return to the indefensible” borders before the 1967 war in which Israel captured East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

He also said that the Obama administration had “visibly warmed to the Palestinian cause,” and that he believed “Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state is a vital national interest of the United States.”

Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu have had a rocky relationship. Early on, the administration insisted on a freeze of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But last fall, Mr. Obama intervened to block the Palestinian Authority from obtaining recognition at the United Nations. They have differed somewhat in approach to Iran, but since a March meeting in the White House seem to have reached something of a détente....

 

Most accounts mention that Romney's travel plans were first published in the New York Times, but Arutz Sheva explains that it was Netanyahu's office that made the announcement.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157439

Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will visit Israel this summer to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leaders, a senior aide to Netanyahu told The New York Times on Monday.

 

That would be Ron Dermer. For anyone who might not know the name, the Times explains:

“[Mitt Romney is] a strong friend of Israel and we’ll be happy to meet with him,” said Ron Dermer, Mr. Netanyahu’s senior adviser, who worked with Republicans in the United States before immigrating [to Israel].

Why don't they just come out and say it: Ew-Republicans. The truth is they don't need to; they are supremely confident in their readership's collective Pavlovian response(s).

 

So when we wonder how Obama could possibly manage to maintain the approval of over 40% of likely voters in the U.S., we have to remember that the "palace guards" of the mainstream media are protecting him - with acts of both commission and omission - all day long, day in and day out.

 

 

 

UPDATE:  Romney will NOT be meeting with Abu Mazen. Carl in Jerusalem-Israel has the full story, not to be missed.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

The only reason the WaPo and the NYT wasted so much ink on this story (I say "wasted" because nobody -- except the Leftie androids who worship every word these papers print -- gives a hoot about what either paper thinks) is that the story worries them. The honchos at both papers understand that the Romney trip casts Obama in a bad light with anyone who cares in the slightest about the State of Israel -- and that includes a huge number of voters. Romney's not only doing the decent thing -- he's doing the politically advantageous thing. In the meantime, the Iranians have raised their usual saber-rattling to a new height by conducting maneuvers showing off some very impressive -- and lethal -- weaponry. With every passing day, the Iranian threat intensifies. With every passing day, Obama's appeasement brings us closer and closer to Iran's test of its first nuclear bomb.

[scp]

"...we have to remember that the "palace guards" of the mainstream media are protecting him - with acts of both commission and omission - all day long, day in and day out." Yes, EXACTLY! It is political and social **propaganda** on behalf of the democrat party. http://www.google.com/search?q=stalin+propaganda&tbm=isch

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