hile everyone’s focused on election day another big story is going on at the Supreme Court. Oral arguments over Zivotofsky v. Kerry began yesterday, in a case that could potentially decide U.S. policy over the sovereignty of Jerusalem, the West Bank as well as the entirety of Occupied Palestine. Under a deceptive guise, ostensibly “created to give individuals the right to self-identify,” the case brought before the court, pushed by stalwarts of the Israel lobby, including but not limited to the Zionist Organization of America, American Jewish Committee, the Anti Defamation League, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center, seeks a ruling that essentially grants Congress the authority to bypass the executive branch on Jerusalem, thereby stripping the president of the power to conduct foreign affairs. And yes, in Congress, the lobby rules. - See more at: mondoweiss.net/2014/11/jerusalem-supreme-buying#sthash.yZcJExfH.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:49:30 +0000
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