US legislator rejects state recognition

US legislator rejects state recognition
December 11, 2010

WASHINGTON: A senior US legislator has sharply condemned moves by Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay to recognise an independent Palestinian state as “horrible” but ruled out diplomatic retaliation.

“It’s horrible, it’s a terrible precedent,” Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the incoming House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, told AFP in a wide-ranging interview in her office overlooking the US Capitol.

“It sends the wrong message to the Palestinian (National) Authority, because it tells them that they don’t need to reform,” make peace with Israel and recognise its right to exist as “a democratic Jewish state,” or tackle extremists, she said.

But Ros-Lehtinen, who will have broad powers to shape the US Congress’s role in US foreign policy come January, brushed aside talk of possible retaliation from Washington despite its strong opposition to the diplomatic move.

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Ileana, with Honduran illegal coup President Roberto Micheletti
within several days of the armed, military violent kidnapping of
the country's elected President, Manuel Zelaya, as they ushered
in an unbroken pattern of "government" violent oppression of ALL
possible forms of dissent, murdering union workers, journalists,
teachers, political figures, human rights workers & other citizens.

Why bother to post her comments? She's an evil witch.