Obama Already Reversing Course on Jerusalem Comments

Well, here's what Obama originally said.



Here's what his people are saying now.

But a campaign adviser clarified Thursday that Obama believes "Jerusalem is a final status issue, which means it has to be negotiated between the two parties" as part of "an agreement that they both can live with."

"Two principles should apply to any outcome," which the adviser gave as: "Jerusalem remains Israel's capital and it's not going to be divided by barbed wire and checkpoints as it was in 1948-1967."

As if I didn't already have enough reasons not to trust Obama anywhere near foreign policy, to say nothing of the myriad issues of the Middle East.

Israel formally annexed Jerusalem in its entirety and treats the whole as its indivisible capital. Obama should have known better than to make the statement that:

"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided"

precisely because it runs counter to the Palestinian position that Jerusalem is to be divided up - split, and that Israel would likely lose access to the Temple Mount and the holiest spot in Judaism in the process. Of course, that too is an intermediate step in the Palestinian position since they ultimately seek Israel's total destruction.

Obama knows, or should know, this. Yet, he's making statements before AIPAC that he knows, or has reason to know, he can't keep or promise. His flip flop on Jerusalem shows that for all his rhetoric, he can't deliver on any of it.

UPDATE:
By the way, he does manage to keep his great uncle's Buchenwald liberation story straight. But has anyone bothered to check on whether he went to camp and had a Jewish American counselor tell him about Jerusalem when he was 11 years old?

UPDATE:
As Hot Air points out, the US position on the status of Jerusalem is that it is up to the parties to decide the status in talks.