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John Kerry’s big blunder in seeking an Israel-Gaza cease-fire
Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2014 | David Ignatius

Posted on 07/29/2014 7:09:33 AM PDT by Innovative

Kerry’s error has been to put so much emphasis on achieving a quick halt to the bloodshed that he has solidified the role of Hamas, the intractable, unpopular Islamist group that leads Gaza, along with the two hard-line Islamist nations that are its key supporters, Qatar and Turkey. In the process, he has undercut not simply the Israelis but also the Egyptians and the Fatah movement that runs the Palestinian Authority, all of which want to see an end to Hamas rule in Gaza.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; fatah; hamas; israel; johnkerry; kerry; obama; palestinian; qatar; turkey
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Is anyone surprised?

Except this wasn't a "blunder" it was deliberate per instruction by Obama.

1 posted on 07/29/2014 7:09:34 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

The childish Hanoi Boi is in over his head.


2 posted on 07/29/2014 7:11:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: Innovative

After having two Senators run the State Department for six years now....neither have much real experience at this worldly stuff....you have to wonder who exactly in the White House is the real person managing the 3x5 cards on foreign diplomacy for the President?


3 posted on 07/29/2014 7:12:11 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Innovative

John Kerry’s life can be described as a “big blunder”...


4 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:04 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: Innovative
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

What Zell Miller said 10 years ago remains true today.

5 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:27 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: pepsionice

Who runs things? ValJar.


6 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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skerry’s, the traitor, biggest blunder was being born.


7 posted on 07/29/2014 7:15:48 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Innovative

Israelis appear to have finally figured out that they need to ignore these clowns and fix their own problems.


8 posted on 07/29/2014 7:16:23 AM PDT by aardwolf46
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It’s not Kerry’s blunder, it’s Obama’s for naming Vietnam boy as Secretary of State.


9 posted on 07/29/2014 7:16:59 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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In the WaPo? ??????????????..............


10 posted on 07/29/2014 7:19:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Innovative

In the WaPo? ??????????????..............


11 posted on 07/29/2014 7:20:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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Well, gee. Isn’t that special. They aren’t so much worried about undercutting Israel - far from it. They are deeply worried, however, about the prospect of undercutting the Muslim whatevers of Egypt. Tell me Obama isn’t a Muslim.


12 posted on 07/29/2014 7:20:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I gots you ValJar right here!..................

13 posted on 07/29/2014 7:21:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Innovative

Now don’t be too hard on Ol’Moose Face. remember he served in Vietnam.
I should say, he served himself in Vietnam.


14 posted on 07/29/2014 7:21:22 AM PDT by Pompah
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To: Innovative

The decades long battle between the two is due to the fact that Israel has never made a secure border around their country to seal it from the West Bank and Gaza.


15 posted on 07/29/2014 7:21:25 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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(Except this wasn’t a “blunder” it was deliberate per instruction by Obama.)

Exactly! The media still doesn’t get that Obama loves the Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore is a big supporter of Hamas. Why would he want to weaken them and their financiers?


16 posted on 07/29/2014 7:21:34 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: aardwolf46

Israelis appear to have finally figured out that they need to ignore these clowns and fix their own problems.


Yep. Every cloud has a silver lining.


17 posted on 07/29/2014 7:22:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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.you have to wonder who exactly in the White House is the real person managing the 3x5 cards on foreign diplomacy for the President?

Jarrett, Brennan, Power, Rice.

18 posted on 07/29/2014 7:22:42 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Innovative; All
If the Washington Pest is saying a Democrat blundered then it is saying he blundered REALLY BAD!

IE: The Washington Pest is saying: 'Obama get your act together or fire this clown'.

19 posted on 07/29/2014 7:25:56 AM PDT by sr4402
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20 posted on 07/29/2014 7:32:18 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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