Clinton Demands Settlement Construction Of All Types Cease

And by that she means everything.

"We want to see a stop to settlement construction, additions, natural growth - any kind of settlement activity," declared Clinton in some of the Obama administration's clearest comments to date on what it expects from Israel. She was speaking to Al-Jazeera in an interview, of which the State Department released a transcript on Wednesday.

In other words, if you live in Jerusalem, Efrat, Gush Etzion, Ariel or other any other Jewish communities the Palestinians want to occupy, you had better stop having kids and forget about getting permits for building an addition to your home. Now I realize that this is a pro-abortion administration, but still...

Needless to say, our Secretary of State had nothing to say about illegal Arab construction in places like East Jerusalem.

While this kind of Jew hatred is morally disgusting on her part, some things to consider; first, the fact that this was Hillary Clinton, who as Secretary of State under Obama has very little power and has been reduced to being an Obama mouthpiece when it's deemed necessary.Second, that this was done in an al-Jazeera interview broadcast to the Arab world with no formal indication this is anything more than rhetoric. And third, the Israelis are not going to abide by it even if it were, and Obama lacks the leverage to make them.

Remember what I said about Obama needing to provide some red meat for the Arab street for his big speech in Cairo June 4th? This is a sample, and something he can now just allude to with the barest of mentions without real substance.

I think a similar item is a story now going around that high officials in the Obama administration reportedly promised Jerusalem as their capitol to the Palestinians, along with a host of other goodies.

While President Obama might like these ideas, he understands politics if nothing else. There's no way Netanyahu would agree to it, nor would the members of his coalition...or the Israeli public. Formally announcing it as US policy in Cairo and attempting to force Israel to acquiesce would pretty much end any kind of harmonious relationship between the Obama administration and Israel, and end any type of leverage Obama might have on Netanyahu.

I frankly don't think Obama's that stupid, although I could certainly be unpleasantly surprised.

Like Hillary Clinton's nonsense, I think this is simply pure kabuki theater to put a nice spin on Obama's Cairo outing and hide the fact that nothing much is going to happen with the Palestinians in the near future.