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יום ראשון, 5 ביוני 2011

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Iran's supreme leader calls for ethnically cleansing Jews from "Palestine"
PalArabs happy about Obama's Jerusalem decision
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Iran's supreme leader calls for ethnically cleansing Jews from "Palestine"

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:01 PM PDT

From AFP:

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that Iran backs "the undivided country of Palestine which belongs to the Palestinians," adding that "Palestine will return to the arms of Islam, without any doubt."

"We believe that the country of Palestine belongs in its entirety to the Palestinians."

As usual, it loses something in the translation.

From Palestine Today:

Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated that the only solution to settle the Palestinian issue is "to allow Palestinians to decide for themselves their next government through a referendum" and "to allow this government to decide what to do Zionists who came from abroad."

This of course means any Israeli Jew whose ancestors lived anywhere else before 1917, or 1880, would be force to leave their homes.

Why does the Western media downplay the racist statements of Iranian leaders?

PalArabs happy about Obama's Jerusalem decision

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:46 PM PDT

From JPost:

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday welcomed as "encouraging" US President Barack Obama's decision not to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Obama on Friday invoked US national security interests to notify Congress that he will not move the embassy to Jerusalem.

Obama's notification did not include a commitment to moving the embassy at some point in the future, unlike his predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who did suggest that this may be a possibility.

Nabil Abu Rudaineh, spokesman for the PA, said that Obama's decision affirms that the world and the US don't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Abu Rudaineh added that the decision indicates that the world recognizes that east Jerusalem has been occupied since 1967 and that the city would be the capital of Palestine "in the context of a two-state solution."

Indeed, by breaking with the (symbolic, but still important) declarations of previous presidents, Obama is in fact giving the message that Jerusalem will be a capital of only one state - and that state is not Israel.