Post by Daniel on Jan 23, 2018 9:23:09 GMT -5
Vice President Pence's Eloquent Speech to Israel’s Parliament
Joseph Klein
January 23, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence told the Israeli parliament on Monday that the United States will open its embassy in Jerusalem "before the end of next year," while also reiterating President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as "the capital of the state of Israel." The vice president was on the final leg of a 3-country visit in the Middle East, during which he had frank but cordial discussions with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan before arriving in Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, continuing his temper tantrum, has refused to meet with the vice president.
Despite Abbas’s snub and forceful rejection of any U.S. role in future peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, Vice President Pence urged the Palestinians to resume negotiations. He repeated President Trump’s pledge that the United States would support a two-state solution if both sides agreed. The vice president also noted that President Trump resolved to maintain the status quo at the holy places, including Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, and was "not taking a position on any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders.”
At the same time, Vice President Pence did not allow Abbas’s snub or any concerns over diplomatic niceties to temper his expression of the Trump administration’s strong support for Israel. To the contrary, he declared in his address to the Knesset, “I am here to convey a simple message from the hearts of the American people. America stands with Israel. We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight. We stand with Israel because we believe in right over wrong, good over evil, and liberty over tyranny."
Vice President Pence noted the historic and religious connection that the Jewish people have with the Holy Land, giving the lie to the revisionist history put forth by the Palestinians and their allies in the United Nations. “The Jewish people held fast to a promise through all the ages, written so long ago,” he said, “that ‘even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,’ from there He would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed. Through a 2,000-year exile, the longest of any people, anywhere, through conquests and expulsions, inquisitions and pogroms, the Jewish people held on to this promise, and they held on to it through the longest and darkest of nights.”
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www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269101/vice-president-pences-eloquent-speech-israels-joseph-klein
Joseph Klein
January 23, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence told the Israeli parliament on Monday that the United States will open its embassy in Jerusalem "before the end of next year," while also reiterating President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as "the capital of the state of Israel." The vice president was on the final leg of a 3-country visit in the Middle East, during which he had frank but cordial discussions with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan before arriving in Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, continuing his temper tantrum, has refused to meet with the vice president.
Despite Abbas’s snub and forceful rejection of any U.S. role in future peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, Vice President Pence urged the Palestinians to resume negotiations. He repeated President Trump’s pledge that the United States would support a two-state solution if both sides agreed. The vice president also noted that President Trump resolved to maintain the status quo at the holy places, including Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, and was "not taking a position on any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders.”
At the same time, Vice President Pence did not allow Abbas’s snub or any concerns over diplomatic niceties to temper his expression of the Trump administration’s strong support for Israel. To the contrary, he declared in his address to the Knesset, “I am here to convey a simple message from the hearts of the American people. America stands with Israel. We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight. We stand with Israel because we believe in right over wrong, good over evil, and liberty over tyranny."
Vice President Pence noted the historic and religious connection that the Jewish people have with the Holy Land, giving the lie to the revisionist history put forth by the Palestinians and their allies in the United Nations. “The Jewish people held fast to a promise through all the ages, written so long ago,” he said, “that ‘even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,’ from there He would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed. Through a 2,000-year exile, the longest of any people, anywhere, through conquests and expulsions, inquisitions and pogroms, the Jewish people held on to this promise, and they held on to it through the longest and darkest of nights.”
more
www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269101/vice-president-pences-eloquent-speech-israels-joseph-klein
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