OBAMA'S DEMAND THAT ISRAEL STOP BUILDING IN JERUSALEM GOES AGAINST ALL PREVIOUS USA POLICY - AND BEYOND WHAT EVEN ARAFAT DEMANDED TO TALK

STEVEN ROSEN/MEF:

Consider this:

If, 17 years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton or Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin freeze all settlement construction, including in Jerusalem, before Arafat would sit down with Rabin, there would have been no Oslo agreements.

... The same year as the famous handshake on the White House lawn, 1993, the Rabin government completed the construction of more than 6,000 units in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood of East Jerusalem, out of a total of 13,000 units that were in various stages of completion in areas of the city that had been outside Israeli lines before 1967.

So Arafat did sit down with Rabin, even while Israel's construction in Jerusalem continued.

And, on Sept. 13, 1993, the Oslo peace accord was signed -- by the same Mahmoud Abbas who refuses to sit down today.

And on October 14, 1994, Rabin, who built homes for Jews in East Jerusalem, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Altogether, Israel completed 30,000 dwelling units in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem in the four years of Rabin's government.

Even the Jan. 9, 1995, announcement of a plan to build 15,000 additional apartments in East Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the 1967 borders (especially Pisgat Zeev, Neve Yaacov, Gilo, and Har Homa) did not stop negotiations, which resulted in the Oslo II accord of September 28, 1995.

Israeli construction continued while Abbas and Rabin signed an historic accord.

OBAMA AND ABBAS ARE THEREFORE NOW TRYING TO IMPLEMEMENT A NEW POLICY AND TERRIBLE IN ORDERR TO SCREW ISRAEL.

IT WON'T STAND.

A UNITED JERUSALEM WILL BE HERE LONG AFTER BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA IS GONE.