Obama Denies Promising Jerusalem to Palestinians
A Lebanese newspaper reported on Tuesday that Sen. Barack Obama told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Lebanese Prime Minister Salam Fayyad promised them that, as president, he would help the Palestinians establish an independent state.
Additionally, the report said, Obama promised them East Jerusalem.
The report was immediately denied by the Obama campaign, saying that Obama had promised them no such thing.
According to the report, Obama promised them Jerusalem but said that they should keep it a secret.
An aide to Abbas denied the report was accurate, as did the Obama campaign saying that “there were no secret commitments made, and no discussion of Jerusalem whatsoever. This report is false.”
True or not, the remarks play right into the notion already existing in many quarters that Obama is not a friend of Israel, regardless of his more pro-Israel statements in the recent past.
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