Even the State Department can’t keep up the pretense. “President Obama’s statement that ‘Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel’ was meant only for purposes of his platform and not for purposes of his policy. It has no more meaning for him in 2012 than it did in 2008, when he delivered the line to an AIPAC conference, complete with his trademark ‘Let me be clear’ preface — and then proceeded to disregard it as soon as he left the building. If President Obama ever holds another formal press conference, perhaps a reporter will ask how he was able to get the line into the platform but cannot get the State Department (or his own press secretary) to endorse even the first part of the sentence.”
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