OBAMA SLAMS JEWISH CONSTRUCTION

WND EXCLUSIVE

U.S. SLAMS JEWISH CONSTRUCTION

Simultaneously aids illegal Palestinian land grabs

Aaron Klein

TEL AVIV – While the Obama administration has been criticizing a Jewish construction project in an already-existing Jewish neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, the U.S. government is aiding the Palestinian Authority in developing infrastructure in eastern Jerusalem, including on property legally owned by Jews.

The latest U.S. rebuke of Israel surrounds the Jerusalem municipality’s decision to construct 900 new homes on empty acres in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish housing development in northeastern Jerusalem.

The State Department called the new housing plan “damaging and inconsistent” with Israel’s commitment to create a future Palestinian state.

“This is a disappointing development, and we’re concerned about it just as a new Israeli government has been announced,” U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters at press briefing last week. “Israel’s leaders have asserted that they remain committed to a two-state solution, and we need to see that commitment in the actions of … the Israeli government.”

Rathke said the U.S. administration would “continue to make our position clear that we view this as illegitimate.”

An Interior Ministry spokesperson explained to the Times of Israel the approval last week by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee to construct the 900 homes is not new.

“These are not new apartments,” the ministry spokesperson said. “It is a project that was approved years ago.”

The spokesperson explained the plans were first approved five years ago but were delayed until new roads could be built to facilitate travel to the expended part of the community.

While the U.S. slammed the new construction plans, a WND investigation previously determined the U.S. has been aiding the Palestinians in developing infrastructure in eastern Jerusalem, including on property legally owned by Jews.

That situation has been unfolding in multiple Jerusalem neighborhoods, such as the northern Jerusalem neighborhoods of Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis, which are close to the Jewish neighborhoods of Neve Yaacov and Pisgat Zeev in Israel’s capital.

Kfar Akeb, Qalandiya and Samir Amis are located entirely within the Jerusalem municipality.

The lands were legally purchased on behalf of the Jewish National Fund using Jewish donations in the early 1900s, immediately after the organization was founded in 1901 with the specific charge of repurchasing and developing the land of Israel for Jewish settlement.

According to officials in Israel’s Housing Ministry, Arabs first constructed facilities illegally in Qalandiya and Kfar Akev between 1948 and 1967, prior to the 1967 Six-Day War during which Israel retook control of the entire city of Jerusalem.

Qalandiya, still owned by JNF, came under the management of the Israeli government’s Land Authority in the late 1960′s.

Ministry officials say the bulk of illegal Arab construction in Qalandiya took place in the past 20 years, with construction of several new Arab apartment complexes taking place in just the past few years.

Neither the Israeli government nor JNF took any concrete measures to stop the illegal building, which continues today with new apartment complexes in Qalandiya under construction.

A recent visit to the Jerusalem neighborhoods found some surprising developments.

Official PA logos and placards abound on the Jewish-owned lands, including one glaring red street sign at the entrance to the neighborhoods warning Israelis to keep out.

Another official sign, in Kfar Akeb in Jerusalem, reads in English, “Ramallah-Jerusalem Road. This project is a gift form (sic) the American people to the Palestinian people in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and PECDAR. 2007.”

The sign bears the emblems of the American and PA governments and of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. The displays were not present during a previous WND tour of the neighborhoods in 2006.

Some local schools in the Jerusalem neighborhoods are officially run by the PA – some in conjunction with the U.N. – with many teachers drawing PA salaries.

Councils governed by PA president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization oversee some municipal matters. USAID provides the PA funds for road and infrastructure projects in these Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Internal JNF documents previously obtained by WND outline illegal Arab construction on the Jewish-owned land.

A survey of Qalandiya summarized on JNF stationery conducted in December 2000 and signed by a JNF worker states, “In a lot of the plots I find Arabs are living and building illegally and also working the JNF land without permission.”

The JNF survey goes on to document illegal construction of Arab apartment complexes and the UN school under the property management of Israel’s Land Authority.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/u-s-slams-jewish-construction/#EGY0MwIosDRPhGDr.99

My comments: Obama and the godless Democrats will use ANY MEANS to bring about the DESTRUCTION of Israel. They are anti-Israel, anti-God, and anti-Chrsit.