Posted on 07/14/2014 11:46:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Much of the reporting on the fighting between Israeli forces and those of the Hamas terrorist network describes various parts and parties as “increasingly irrelevant.” It’s a term that is generally applied well, but not widely enough. It deserves greater breadth and judgment in its application. There are those who are highly relevant, increasingly irrelevant, and entirely irrelevant. Let’s begin with the last category.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was increasingly irrelevant to the possibilities of renewed war, but with the formation of his “reconciliation” government with Hamas terrorists, Abbas has been demoted to utter irrelevance. He has no power to speak for the Palestinians, no ability to enter into a cease-fire agreement with the Israelis. His powers are a nullity: he can make noises in the international press, which should ignore him. It would, but for the fact that the media would have to admit Abbas’s irrelevance in reaching out to interview the Hamas leaders. It is, for now, more consistent with the media narrative that Palestinians are victims and Israelis evildoers, to keep up the pretense that Abbas is still a leader of his people.
On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is entirely relevant to the conflict. Netanyahu has chosen — correctly, on moral, factual, and strategic grounds — to do as much damage to Hamas in the Gaza Strip as can be done by the highly-capable Israeli military. Netanyahu knows, as Tony Blair admonished Israel this week, that he cannot entirely stamp out Hamas because it exists as a political and ideological entity, not only a terrorist force. But he can destroy vast parts of its networks, its command structure, and its rocket arsenal.
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Now, all Obama and Kerry can do is watch. They have forfeited the Israelis’ trust and can do no more than whinge from the sidelines."
This is what makes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a great leader - he recognizes reality and deals accordingly, the best that he can. And at the same time, he doesn’t fall prey to the incessant lies that Israel commits war crimes. It’s obvious that Israel does not target the civilians in order to kill them or drive them out of the country.
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On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is entirely relevant to the conflict. Netanyahu has chosen — correctly, on moral, factual, and strategic grounds — to do as much damage to Hamas in the Gaza Strip as can be done by the highly-capable Israeli military. Netanyahu knows, as Tony Blair admonished Israel this week, that he cannot entirely stamp out Hamas because it exists as a political and ideological entity, not only a terrorist force. But he can destroy vast parts of its networks, its command structure, and its rocket arsenal.
The fact that the Israelis have used the “knock on the roof” tactic (a smoke bomb dropped on a roof to warn of imminent air attack on the building) — and have been dropping leaflets and making phone calls to individual Gazans warning of impending attacks — proves that Israel is doing everything it can to avoid civilian casualties. Hamas is reportedly forcing people back into buildings they attempt to flee, but hasn’t been able to stem the tide of people warned by leaflet drops who are crowding the roads out of the northern area of the Gaza Strip.
Kerry and Obama funded weapons, and gave some too,
to Enemies of the USA to be used
against America’s allies (and eventually America)
using US taxpayer money.
The Pali’s attacks on Israel seem to always coincide with when they run out of money, and usually the useful idiots in the west send them billions for it.
This time it is very different....
Too many other things going on in the world right now, that are keeping the usual clients busy elsewhere.
Syria and Iraq are too preoccupied with its their own civil wars to care, the Jordanians have their own problems, and the Saudi’s are more concerned about ISIS at their border.
Egypt has beaten down the Muzzie Bro’hood, and they ARE Hamas. They want nothing to do with this.
The only active clients for the Pali’s right now are the Iranian’s, who aren’t in much of a position to help them, and the Obama Administration.
Even Official Russia has been fairly quiet this time, with relations btween Putin and Bibi going well, issuing a few lower profile condemnations, and nothing else.
The Pali’s picked a really poor time to start lobbing missiles....
“O” has spent how many years now degrading US credibility, debasing the American national character, taking cheap shots at our history of involvement in global politics (AS IF he actually understands ANY of it) and otherwise defaming America and Americans generally, etc.
How at THIS point is Kerry (or any other US statesman) supposed to be welcome or credible ANYWHERE?
American Patriots Against John KerryThe 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.
Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) of the Vietnamese in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.
According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.
By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.
“Now THAT’S the limit...being called a liar by an ex-KGB, despotic Communist, megalomaniac!!”
Who seems to be more sane and truthful than the United States Secretary of State.
As a Nation, we really have jumped down the rabbit hole, haven’t we....
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sKerry: “Talk to the thumb.”
whinge
Noun:
1. complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way.
"stop whingeing and get on with it!"
Verb:
1. an act of complaining.
They seem to be irrelevant what ever they do. These are not leaders. Isn’t Obama still playing golf at Martha’s Vineyard and can’t be bothered with such trivial stuff as being president?
. Hamas is reportedly forcing people back into buildings they attempt to flee, but hasn’t been able to stem the tide of people warned by leaflet drops who are crowding the roads out of the northern area of the Gaza ...
Prayers for Netanyahu and the good people of Israel..
World Cup is over. Chaos is 'game-day' at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...
I hope the Israelis take the Puppet's stance on 'unilateral action'...you know, he's quoted as saying,
"I don’t have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip.
The Puppet's not running for office anymore, so the Israelis should just 'LET ER RIP"!!!!!!!!
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