The Obama administration demands a complete freeze of "settlements" including suburbs of Jerusalem and the area of the old city which holds Judaism most holy site: the Western Wall. Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "He wants to see a stop to settlements - not some settlements, not outposts, not ‘natural growth' exceptions." That means a complete halt to any Jewish population growth in those areas.  As Charles Krauthammer and other serious experts in the Middle East point out, such a freeze may well destroy the towns but will do nothing in the way of moving Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran any closer to accepting the Jewish State of Israel.  The question here is not whether a demand for a settlement freeze is practical but whether it is racist in the extreme. Why does the U.S. insist that it is not only acceptable but necessary for all lands that may one day fall under Palestinian jurisdiction be Judenrein? (German: clean of Jews and a central step towards the...(Read Full Post)