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Obama Responds to Jerusalem Synogogue Attack: 'To Many PALESTINIANS have died'
Breitbart ^ | 11/18/2014 | FRANCES MARTEL

Posted on 11/19/2014 5:40:59 AM PST by logi_cal869

President Obama has responded to today’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem in which four Israeli Jews attending morning prayers condemning the attack, and stating that “the majority of Palestinians” want peace.

In a statement delivered to the White House press pool, President Obama responded to the attack by declaring that “too many Palestinians have died,” as well as Israelis, in the struggle between the state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas and its affiliates, including the internationally active Muslim Brotherhood. “At this difficult time,” the President told reports, “I think it’s important for both Palestinians and Israelis to try to work together to lower tensions and reject violence.”

“We have to remind ourselves that the majority of Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly want peace,” the statement concludes, before the President begins remarks on the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The President did not take questions.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: israel; jerusalem; obama; templemount; waronterror
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Aside from a poorly written & sourced article it's accurate.

This source has the transcript, pasted below:

Obviously, we condemn in the strongest terms these attacks. A number of people were wounded, and four people were killed, including three American citizens, so this is a tragedy for both nations – Israel as well as the United States – and our hearts go out to the families who obviously are undergoing enormous grief right now.

Too many Israelis have died; too many Palestinians have died. And at this difficult time I think it’s important for both Palestinians and Israelis to try to work together to lower tensions and to reject violence.

Tragically, this is not the first loss of life that we have seen in recent months. The murders for today’s outrageous acts represent the kind of extremism that threatens to bring all of the Middle East into the kind of spiral from which it’s very difficult to emerge, and we know how this violence can get worse over time.

But we have to remind ourselves that the majority of Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly want peace.

The irony is if you reword those statements to reflect sentiment on 9/11, or Boston for that matter, what outrage would result? (vs. the abject silence over these remarks)...the 'equivalency' makes me nauseous.

1 posted on 11/19/2014 5:40:59 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869
Obama was just protecting his investment in Hamas.

New Inconsistencies with Malik Obama’s IRS Paperwork
which bears Lerner’s signature, but is dated Sunday June 26, 2011.

Lois Lerner approved tax exempt status for foundation
operated by Obama's half-brother for Hamas

Deleted IRS Emails may be about Obama’s Brother and Hamas/a>

Barack Obama’s Brother Malik Joins Hamas Terrorist Group


2 posted on 11/19/2014 5:45:20 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: logi_cal869
“We have to remind ourselves that the majority of Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly want peace,”

There is not a shred of evidence that themajorityy of Palestinians want piece. To the contrary, the majority of Palestinians were dancing in the streets celebrating the Synagogue massacre.

3 posted on 11/19/2014 5:45:32 AM PST by circlecity
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To: logi_cal869

Obama’s inner muslim cannot allow him to make a statemenmt critical of Islamic terrorists without working in his usual moral equivalency.


4 posted on 11/19/2014 5:46:23 AM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Iron Munro

I have never doubted that the bastard is a muslim, he confirmed that once again with that statement.


5 posted on 11/19/2014 5:48:21 AM PST by DaveA37
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There is not a shred of evidence that themajorityy of Palestinians want piece.

Freudian slip. :)

the Palestinians want 'pieces'...

6 posted on 11/19/2014 5:54:19 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: DaveA37

I believe his inclinations more accurately are described as “anti-Christ”. Muslims are just convenient allies.


7 posted on 11/19/2014 5:57:20 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: logi_cal869

Piece of garbage ..... the man-child is sickening.


8 posted on 11/19/2014 6:14:03 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: logi_cal869

Once again, he shows his true colors. They are not red, white, and blue.


9 posted on 11/19/2014 6:18:18 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: circlecity

The news video shows a raghead with a plate of what we are told was candy being passed out to celebrate the great victory of the Muslim murderers.Maybe the White House misspoke the majority of Palestinians want a piece of candy.


10 posted on 11/19/2014 6:18:45 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: logi_cal869

Barack Hussein Obama does not care how many people have to die, as long as he gets his way.


11 posted on 11/19/2014 6:18:56 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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I was traveling and I had stopped for coffee at McDonald’s and saw Bozo appear on TV and make this statement - actually, I think something was left out, because I believe he started by saying that he was offering his condolences to the families of the Israelis AND PALESTINIANS killed. All of the Palestinians killed were, of course, terrorists who had just slaughtered five Jews.

I was so furious that I felt like hurling my coffee cup at the screen.


12 posted on 11/19/2014 6:27:33 AM PST by livius
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To: logi_cal869

To many?


13 posted on 11/19/2014 6:34:34 AM PST by arthurus
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To: circlecity

Peace.


14 posted on 11/19/2014 6:35:37 AM PST by arthurus
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To: MrB

Islam is Muhammad is the Anti-Christ.


15 posted on 11/19/2014 6:37:01 AM PST by arthurus
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That is how Moslems think.It does not matter who or how many die so long as all who are left alive are Moslem.


16 posted on 11/19/2014 6:38:07 AM PST by arthurus
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To: logi_cal869

“Too many Palestinians have died and I am appointing a Suicide-Bombing Czar to help create a vest that does NOT kill the vest wearer.”


17 posted on 11/19/2014 6:44:34 AM PST by red-dawg (<<< click for info on my book.)
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To: livius

Hmmm...I’ll have to look for that transcript.

Agreed on sentiments, though not my own TV...


18 posted on 11/19/2014 6:50:59 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: arthurus
"Peace"

Geez, one dumb typo and they laugh at you for it all day. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa........ :-)

19 posted on 11/19/2014 6:57:31 AM PST by circlecity
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To: logi_cal869

There are no “Palestinians”. They are Arabs. From Saudi Arabia. I am so tired of all this garbage. Arabs, they are Arabs


20 posted on 11/19/2014 6:59:32 AM PST by realcleanguy
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