Posted on 07/27/2014 2:33:18 PM PDT by SJackson
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he wants an “immediate, unconditional humanitarian” cease-fire in the war with Gaza, based on a process Israel has made clear it opposes.
The statement Sunday afternoon from the White House describing a phone call between the two leaders referred to cease-fire talks led in recent days by Secretary of State John Kerry which culminated in a proposal rejected unanimously on Friday by Israel’s security Cabinet.
“Building on Secretary Kerry’s efforts, the president made clear the strategic imperative of instituting an immediate, unconditional humanitarian cease-fire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities based on the November 2012 ceasefire agreement,” the statement said.
Israeli leaders rejected Kerry’s proposal in part because it envisions talks with Hamas toward ends that Israel believes would reward a group it rejects as illegitimate, including opening borders.
Additionally, Israel wants any cease-fire to allow Israeli troops to continue tracking and destroying tunnels from the Gaza Strip into Israel, which Israel says were in place to facilitate a massive terrorist attack on Israeli communities.
Obama in his statement addressed some of the Israeli concerns, which were not made explicit in drafts of Kerry’s proposal leaked to media over the weekend.
“The president underscored the United States’ strong condemnation of Hamas’ rocket and tunnel attacks against Israel and reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself,” the statement said. “The president also reiterated the United States’ serious and growing concern about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza.”
The statement from Obama also nodded to another Israeli demand, that Gaza be demilitarized, although it suggested this was a long-term goal.
“The President stressed the U.S. view that, ultimately, any lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must ensure the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of Gaza,” it said.
So far the conflict launched July 8 has killed more than 1,020 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 43 Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel.
We are supposed to be nice to Hamas, because they could be ISIS. That is according to O admin lackeys.
Ping
Oh, I suspect HAMAS gave Obama that list of demands.
That doesn’t matter. I have friends who are muslims. It’s a peaceful religion. /s
Tell Odungo that, “I don’t speak STOOPID. Could you please speak in English?” It will take him 20 minutes to figure that out. Meanwhile, you tell him you want to have lunch with your family and leave him puzzling in the outer office.
And people in hell want ice water, you retarded dung beetle.
If Queen Putt really wants it to stop let him do a Rachel Corrie on one of their dozers... hey, it almost worked for her!
President Obie is talking to the wrong side...
what, obama is king of the world now?
Tell Obama, ‘go to hell’.
Why should or would Israel care about what we think they should do? Don’t they know what to do? Are they their own country?
fubo.
and if he said the same thing to obama in whatever issue it was, bam would say the same thing back.
spare parts, iron dome
Considering that Obama and Hillary bear a large responsibility for the weapons and tunnels they should stfu.
They supported Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi and M/B allowed the Egyptian entrance to Gaza to be wide open to weapons and tunnel building supplies.
Per Bibi “sure we will get right on that when the last cave is destroyed”.
I am going to concur with that sentiment, which, I am sure will be a continuing theme within this thread.
One is given to wonder whether the behavior is intentionally bad, meant to insult...or simply borne of ignorance about the proper conduct of foreign relations.
Bowing, kissing the ring, loose talk, inappropriate touching, gifts in bad taste, stupid proposals, ambassadors ignorant of the relevant history, politics and traditions off their host country, mislabeled re-set buttons, etc. Are they evidence of petty insult or colossal ineptitude?
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