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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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To: Innovative
“Kerry’s mistake isn’t any bias against Israel but rather a bias in favor of an executable, short-term deal.”

This sentence summarizes the article.

And it could not be more wrong.

It is Obama not Kerry who is behind this. Kerry is just following orders in his own stupid, incompetent way.

It is not a mistake. It is deliberate policy to support Hamas, Qatar and Muslim terrorists.

It is bias against Israel. Bias against Israel and total, unquestioning support of Muslim terrorists.

It is not so much that the Obama Administration is in favor of a short term deal. It is that the Obama Administration wants something, anything, that they can take credit for.

It is also a strategy to prevent Israel from neutralizing Hamas and completely destroying the Hamas tunnel network.

And it is an attempt to legitimize Hamas by making its terrorists equal or superior to Israel.

If Hamas were winning and their rockets were killing Israeli civilians the Obama Administration would not be “in favor of an executable, short-term deal.”

21 posted on 07/29/2014 7:37:31 AM PDT by detective
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To: Innovative

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- Israel hating Jew John Kerry (suddenly Jewish after pretending he was Irish to get elected in Massachusetts for all of his earlier years) is killing Jewish citizens and soldiers very day.

- Right in line with his boss scumbag Muslim liar Barack Hussein Obama II -

- and the Jews in the USA voted 78% for Obama? Suicide is painless if a HAMAS rocket instantly blows away your relatives in Israel...

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22 posted on 07/29/2014 7:40:17 AM PDT by devolve (-Tell VLADIMER after my ERECTION I have more 90% more FLEXIBILITY - pre-1899 Colt SAA frames needed)
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To: Innovative

Obviously deNazification of the Palestinians is not in Obama’s playbook since Obama is himself a recidivist incapable of changing his twisted perverted criminal political trade.

Obama is a fanatic.


23 posted on 07/29/2014 7:41:04 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: pepsionice

Funny how former senator president surrounds himself with senator.

i do not remember who said it, but only former Governors are actually electable.


24 posted on 07/29/2014 7:42:37 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Innovative

Kerry really should do something useful, like throwing his phony medals over the Gaza fence.


25 posted on 07/29/2014 7:48:14 AM PDT by Gritty (Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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To: pepsionice
"Hey Dave, look what Valerie wrote on my card."


26 posted on 07/29/2014 8:14:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Innovative

.... via Obama? No, I don’t think so.

Via Yo’mama Sisterhood (VJ in lead), more likely.


27 posted on 07/29/2014 8:25:52 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: lavaroise

You could go down the last hundred years, and find very few Senators that went national and made it. Add to that....he barely did one full year as a Senator, before he went into campaign/primary mode. So he went from state senator with nothing of accomplishment to one year of Senator, and then went national. You couldn’t find another example of this unless you went back to Lincoln (non-Senator but he barely did any time as a Representative).


28 posted on 07/29/2014 10:23:40 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Rennes Templar

“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.”

There IS a secure border — but the terrorists are building MANY tunnels to get into Israel — Israel is now destroying these.


29 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:23 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Rennes Templar

“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.”

There IS a secure border — but the terrorists are building MANY tunnels to get into Israel — Israel is now destroying these.


30 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:32 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Rennes Templar

“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.”

There IS a secure border — but the terrorists are building MANY tunnels to get into Israel — Israel is now destroying these.


31 posted on 07/29/2014 7:14:37 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

That’s for some of Gaza, but the West Bank has never had a border...to keep PLO out of Israel, and Israeli settlers out of the West Bank.


32 posted on 07/29/2014 7:58:17 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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