Eric Cantor is a real pile of hippo dung

from THinkProgress:



Cantor-led GOP delegation to Israel undermines U.S. policy on settlements.

President Obama has made clear that, as part of his plan to achieve a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Israelis should cease creating or expanding settlements in the West Bank (a position that has been official U.S. policy since 1967). Israeli officials have expressed displeasure with this demand and last Sunday, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and so a Jewish family could move in. The U.N., the U.S. and many E.U. states strongly condemned the evictions. However, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and many of his GOP colleagues are in Israel this week undermining U.S. policy by not only offering support for Israeli settlement expansion but for the East Jerusalem evictions specifically:



It’s not just the Obama administration that wants a settlement freeze, the Israelis themselves committed to one in the Bush administration’s 2003 Road Map. “Maybe it’s too much to ask Cantor and his colleagues to recognize the injustice and indecency of Israeli policy toward Jerusalem’s non-Jewish residents,” the Wonk Room’s Matt Duss writes. “But it shouldn’t be too much to expect them not to go abroad and provide cover for it.”



http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/06/cantor-israel-settlements/

To feel justified in having 2 Arab families lose their homes just so they can move in?

I am thankful that Obama is not doing the same kind of ass kissing that Bush was with the Israel bully tactics.

Could we hope for some progress?

of what is acknowledged by all parties to be private property belonging to an Israeli?

It's rather like a white landlord evicting a black family because he wants the area to be settled by whites.

and the courts agreed. This would not be an international incident elsewhere