Democrats denied Israel three times, will they try for another?
Via NY Post:
When it comes to setting Middle East policy, too often Washington prefers not to confront inconvenient realities. We now have two examples before us.
The first is the fiction that the western half of Jerusalem isn’t part of the state of Israel, even though the Israelis have controlled it since 1948. Such is the power of this fiction that the dispute has now become an issue for the US Supreme Court.The issue is the State Department’s refusal to include the word “Israel” on passports of US citizens born in Jerusalem — notwithstanding a law requiring it do so. The policy dates to the Bush years but continues to be carried out by the Obama State Department. And the argument for this fiction is twofold: changing it would infringe on the president’s executive powers and incite Islamist violence.
As columnist Jeffrey Goldberg asks: “What does it say that we allow the fear of violence to make us deny what is true?”