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Obama Takes Tougher Line Against Gaza Casualties: Condemns Deadly Shelling of a UN School
ABC News ^ | 07/30/2014 | Julie Pace

Posted on 07/30/2014 3:07:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Obama administration condemned the deadly shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza Wednesday, using tough, yet carefully worded language that reflects growing White House irritation with Israel and the mounting civilian casualties stemming from its ground and air war against Hamas.

The U.S. frustrations were compounded by a flurry of Israeli media reports this week that appeared aimed at discrediting President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who spent days trying to negotiate an unsuccessful cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. In unusually blunt language, a State Department spokeswoman on Wednesday repeatedly described one of the reports as "complete crap."

The developments injected fresh tension into the often fraught relationship between Obama and the Israeli government, while also highlighting the president's willingness to take a tougher line against the longtime U.S. ally than some of his predecessors or lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

While Obama and other top officials consistently state their support for Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas rocket fire, the White House has been making increasingly strong statements about the Palestinian civilians dying in Israeli attacks. Officials have also directly called on Israel to do more to prevent the casualties.

More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in three weeks of fighting, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. More than 50 Israelis have also died in the clashes.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; israel; obama; un
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1 posted on 07/30/2014 3:07:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

did Obma condemn the UN for hiding rockets and handing them back to Hamas?


2 posted on 07/30/2014 3:08:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind
I wonder if Obama would've admonished the US for declaring war on Japan right after Pearl Harbor was bombed...
3 posted on 07/30/2014 3:10:31 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SeekAndFind
"Obama Takes Tougher Line Against Gaza Casualties:
Condemns Deadly Shelling of a UN School"


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4 posted on 07/30/2014 3:11:14 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey douchebag, how come you’ve been silent about the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Iraq? When your muzz brethren got the short end you wax indignant. But when Jews and Christians are assaulted and wiped out you are strangely silent. You’re a putz.


5 posted on 07/30/2014 3:11:17 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Was it a "school" or a WEAPONS DEPOT !?!
6 posted on 07/30/2014 3:11:29 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The kenyan is terribly worried about Moslem casualties. Other casualties are of no moment.
7 posted on 07/30/2014 3:11:35 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Probably not. The Japanese are not Mohammedan.


8 posted on 07/30/2014 3:12:17 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.”

~Genesis 12:3


9 posted on 07/30/2014 3:12:21 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: SeekAndFind

How come nobody’s asking why there are children at an armory?


10 posted on 07/30/2014 3:12:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: GeronL

Obama gave the money for the rockets and tunnels.


11 posted on 07/30/2014 3:13:01 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: GeronL
did Obma condemn the UN for hiding rockets and handing them back to Hamas?

Obama thought it was such a good idea he gave Hama$$ millions of dollars to do it again.

12 posted on 07/30/2014 3:13:21 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: GeronL
THIRD ROCKET ARSENAL FOUND AT UN SCHOOL IN GAZA

Oh Look…A Third Hamas Rocket Stockpile Found At UN School In Gaza

EXPOSED, SHOCK: ‘Ample Evidence’ U.N. Is Helping Hamas Shoot Rockets At Israel
13 posted on 07/30/2014 3:13:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

FUBO!


14 posted on 07/30/2014 3:13:39 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind

bump


15 posted on 07/30/2014 3:15:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama’s true colors (loyalties) If anyone ever had any question, or still wished to give him the “ benefit of the doubt” — that’s all over with now. Impeach!


16 posted on 07/30/2014 3:19:13 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama FINALLY lets loose!

“Mein Führer...! I can walk!!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc


17 posted on 07/30/2014 3:19:24 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Obama Takes Tougher Line Against Gaza Casualties: Condemns Deadly Shelling of a UN School"

I believe that line of spin is coordinated between the WH and Hamas.

18 posted on 07/30/2014 3:19:33 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: GeronL

There is more to this that meets the eye. I think the administration is begging for Republicans to start calling Obama a Muzzie. They are doing everything they can to provoke the Republicans so they can get that sound bite for November.


19 posted on 07/30/2014 3:20:33 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GM is dead and Al Queada is alive.)
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To: musicman

FUBO.
FUBO.
FUBO.

Repeat.


20 posted on 07/30/2014 3:22:38 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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