Pandora
Well-Known Member
Why would the white house take the time to change the wording on their website and though I can already guess the left leaning posters will say it doesn't matter move along nothing to see here exc. There is something to see, it means something or they would not have taken the time to do it.
Are they trying to appease someone or some group?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/white-house-cleanses-israel-website_588127.html
Here is another site that talks about it but also has a couple of other very strange stories that sound anti Israel to me....
A press release issued Wednesday noted the change after the ZOA filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting a petition by Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky.
Zivotofsky was denied the right to list Israel as his place of birth on his U.S. passport because the State Department said it would "infringe on the president's foreign policy powers."
In the brief, the ZOA noted that documents issued by the executive branch routinely refer to Jerusalem as part of Israel, without infringing on presidential powers.
The White House response to examples included in the brief was to alter captions under several photographs of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, taken during a trip to Israel in 2010. Captions that read "Jerusalem, Israel" were changed to "Jerusalem," the New York Sun reported.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideis...-House-Site-Scrubs-References-to-Jlem-Israel/
Are they trying to appease someone or some group?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/white-house-cleanses-israel-website_588127.html
Here is another site that talks about it but also has a couple of other very strange stories that sound anti Israel to me....
A press release issued Wednesday noted the change after the ZOA filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting a petition by Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky.
Zivotofsky was denied the right to list Israel as his place of birth on his U.S. passport because the State Department said it would "infringe on the president's foreign policy powers."
In the brief, the ZOA noted that documents issued by the executive branch routinely refer to Jerusalem as part of Israel, without infringing on presidential powers.
The White House response to examples included in the brief was to alter captions under several photographs of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, taken during a trip to Israel in 2010. Captions that read "Jerusalem, Israel" were changed to "Jerusalem," the New York Sun reported.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideis...-House-Site-Scrubs-References-to-Jlem-Israel/