Despicable. The Zivotofsky case affects me personally since I was also born in Jerusalem. Despite Kerry, Biden and Obama all endorsing a united Jerusalem, despite the law being on the books and despite reality, Obama’s Supreme Court justices are making bizarre and dishonest arguments for why an American boy shouldn’t have his proper birthplace recorded. Twelve-year-old Menachem, a baby when the case began in 2003, and his parents sat through the hour-long argument that saw justices wrestle with questions of the president’s primacy in matters of foreign affairs and the effect the court’s eventual decision could have on simmering tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Yes this whole thing has been going on for so long that it’s practically Dickensian. Justice Sonia Sotomayor used strong language in support of the administration’s position. Congress and the Zivotofskys are “asking the government to lie,” Sotomayor said. When Alyza Lewin, the family’s lawyer, protested, Sotomayor said, “How could you tell me it’s not a lie? You, the United States, are being asked to put on the passport that you believe the place of birth of this individual is Israel, and … the executive has said, no, we don’t think it was Israel, we think it was Jerusalem.” The Wise Latina seems to be too stupid to understand the difference between a political position and a statement of fact. Bizarrely she’s attacking a twelve-year-old boy and his family for wanting the government to uphold its own law and accusing them of lying and of wanting the government to lie. Jerusalem isn’t a country. It’s a city. It’s the capital of Israel, a country that the United States has diplomatic relations with. Insisting that Jerusalem isn’t in Israel because Obama chooses not to recognize it, is a lie. Sotomayor is lying by trying to defend that lie. And like most liars, her defense is to accuse her opponents, in this case, a 12-year-old boy, of being a liar.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:56:00 +0000
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