Pamela Geller, American Thinker: U.S. Ambassador Tells Georgia To Vote for a “Palestinian” State

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Pamela Geller

U.S. Ambassador Tells
Georgia To Vote for a “Palestinian” State

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From the former
Soviet Republic of Georgia comes news of an extraordinary betrayal by the Obama
Administration. As Obama continues to abandon freedom in his support of
Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia revolutions and regimes in Egypt and elsewhere,
he has taken behind-the-scenes steps to further the international isolation of
Israel, the only democracy in that Middle East.

Just before the November
29 United Nations vote granting non-member state observer status, the U.S.
ambassador to Georgia, Richard Norland, an Obama appointee, met with Georgian
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. During their conversation, Norland recommended
that the Prime Minister that Georgia should vote in favor of a Palestinian
state.

This
happened despite the U.S.’s official opposition, as Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton called the vote “unfortunate and counterproductive … plac[ing] further
obstacles in the path of peace.” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said
on the day of the vote: “None of the vital interests of peace appear in the
resolution that will be put forward before the General Assembly today and that
is why Israel cannot accept it.” He was right. But in Georgia, the U.S. was
betraying a steadfast and true ally.

This information
comes from Gabriel M. Mirilashvili, a prominent businessman and corporation
owner in Georgia, who is Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and
head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews. Mirilashvili says that he heard
this from Ivanishvili himself, and that there exists an official record of the
conversation between Norland and Ivanishvili. When Mirilashvili urged
Ivanishvili to oppose the Palestinian statehood resolution, Ivanishvili
responded that the American ambassador had told him to support it.

It is also interesting to note that a few days
before this meeting, George Soros came to Georgia and also met with Prime
Minister Ivanishvili, and they agreed to collaborate on various initiatives.
Obama’s close ties to Soros goes back to the 2007 and the run up to the
2008 presidential election.

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Meanwhile, another
source said that Georgia is harboring Chechen jihadists — killers who have
Georgian passports. When some of these jihadis were arrested in Turkey, the
Turkish press published the fact that they were traveling on Georgian
passports. What’s more, their leader, Umar Sugaipov, who is not currently in
Georgia, is a former deputy head of security for the late President of the Chechen
Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov.

This is the kind of
government that the Obama Administration is whispering with to work against
Israel. That the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia would advise that nation’s
Prime Minister to support a Palestinian state is shocking, but not surprising.
This is what the U.S. under Obama has been covertly but effectively pursuing on
the world stage for four years now. While Obama is courting influential Jews in
America and Americans who support the tiny Jewish state, he is betraying Israel,
our only reliable ally in the Middle East.

Obama’s foreign policy was instrumental in the rise of
jihadist and Islamic supremacist regimes across the Middle East and North
Africa. And it is not difficult to see what the second Obama presidential term
will bring. Obama is consistent in his foreign policy. Four years into his
presidency, the world is radically transformed, and soon will be unrecognizable.

Obama has said pro-Israel things — but in reality his
words mean nothing when he has also called upon Israel to accept a Palestinian
state with contiguous borders, which would mean a truncated and bisected Israel
disastrously vulnerable to jihad attacks. He has also insulted Netanyahu
repeatedly. Obama clearly wants to go even farther, but the “Palestinians” and
Muslim states so far still won’t cooperate by even giving the appearance of
accepting Israel’s existence and wanting to establish a lasting peace.

Obama’s hostility towards Israel is hardly surprising. I
warned of his policies towards Israel and the Jewish people in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War
on America. His anti-Israel alliances and troubling
relationships are meticulously documented. What wasn’t knowable was just how
unfriendly Obama would get with the Jewish homeland. If his anti-Jewish mentors
and advisors are any indication, Israel would be wise to realign with other
freedom-loving nations as quickly as possible – before U.S. Ambassadors direct
any more foreign leaders to betray Israel.