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Posted on 05/21/2011 7:47:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a small detail at the end of Obama’s big Middle East speech that everyone has overlooked up until now but which shows how inept this administration is at understanding the IsraelI-Palestinian issue and why it continually makes Israel mistrustful.
In doing his balancing act on Israeli and Palestinian fears and hostility, he says this:
“I’m convinced that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians would rather look to the future than be trapped in the past….We see it in the actions of a Palestinian who lost three daughters to Israeli shells in Gaza. `I have the right to feel angry,’ he said. `So many people were expecting me to hate. My answer to them is I shall not hate. Let us hope,’ he said, `for tomorrow.’”
That’s genuinely touching. But in the specific case Obama cites — that of Izzedin Abuelaish on January 16, 2009 — there is strong reason to believe that the three girls were killed because of Hamas, that is Palestinian, actions.
According to an official Israeli inquiry, Hamas snipers on the roof of their five-story building were shooting at Israeli soldiers. The tank returned fire. In addition, though, the investigation could not rule out the possibility that the girls were killed by an explosion of explosives and ammunition being stored in the building by Hamas or even by fire from Hamas forces.
In other words, the president took an incident where the cause was unclear and blamed Israel for it. And of course the tragic deaths of these girls took place because the United States did nothing to help prevent Hamas from taking over the Gaza Strip and then Hamas broke a ceasefire and attacked Israel.
Since then, the Obama Administration has pressured Israel to reduce sanctions on Hamas to an absolute minimum and provided $400 million to pay salaries in the Gaza Strip, which benefits Hamas’s rule.
In addition, since the Palestinian Authority has just announced it will pay money to those who are prisoners of Israel, U.S. taxpayer money will now go to reward those who have committed terrorist attacks.
And that tells us what we need to know: President Obama and his colleagues don’t get the facts straight and tend to blame Israel. In other words, Obama counterposed the reaction of an Israeli father whose son was murdered by Palestinian terrorists to that of a Palestinian father whose daughters were murdered by or because of the actions of…Palestinian terrorists.
And that’s the trouble with an “even-handed” approach to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
But, as with the Abu al-Aish case, it is the radicals who lead the Palestinian movement, several states, and the revolutionary Islamist oppositions — not Israel — are killing the peace process.
Terrorists attack Israel; Israel defends itself.
The revolutionary Islamists — not Israel or Husni Mubarak or the Saudi regime, or past U.S. policy — are destroying the Middle East. And since Obama Administration policy fails to realize these things then it, too, is destroying the Middle East.
One thing being missed with the whole arab spring is the growing connection to our border issues. On the same day Obama gave his throw Israel overboard speech, palestinians were speaking in Tucson about American theft of hispanic lands.
“I honestly cannot remember any speech he ever made that did not contain numerous lies in it.”
You can also count on numerous disparaging remarks about others, lots of grandiose proclamations and intentions, and of course frequent and glowing references to self.
Obama is doing exactly what he wants. And we all knew exactly what he wanted to do. We just didn’t think he would act so swiftly to ram through his agenda. His speechwriters write exactly what Soros wants Obama to say. Soros is a former Jew who wants to be King of the World. I hope the Jewish race survives this Pres..ent.
We are screwed. He is patently evil and RAMPING IT UP. We gotta impeach this guy, for SOMETHING. It wont do to wait to 2013 to get him out of there.
Hey Bambi, a Word you might want to consider:
“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”
Obama proves once more he has no limit to the things he can screw up he’s Idiot Inc.
There, fixed it.
Nice catch, thanks for the background or the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say
From today's news: US Vows $900 Million for PA, Gaza; Hamas Pockets Recent Funds
How can we be doing this?
The Majority isn't silent,
The Government is deaf...
So this is yet another...’The Israeli’s acted stupidly’ moment from Obama.
Obama is such an embarrassment to this country!
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The goods on the Kenyan are not all that mysterious. How can it possibly be mysterious if it takes a bunch of lawyers to keep it from the public?
It’s only government’s spinelessness and corruption that prevents it from being brought out in the open.
America, you are being hoodwinked.
You are right. It resluts in making anything he says worthless to listen to and very annoying to boot.
They aren't stupid enough to elect him.
Bingo!
And now he's going after Pakistan. While I believe Bin Laden is dead I'm not convinced he was killed in the recent raid. Bin Laden supposedly living under the noses of the Paks sure makes our ally look bad. How convenient.
0bama never lets facts get in the way of his socialist agenda.
“Let us all pray the Mosad has the goods on that POS....”
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The Mossad has the goods, but so do we.
Only problem is, our government doesn’t have the courage to admit it.
Absolutely correct.
I watched as much of his speech as I could stomach and everything he said could be applied to the USA by substituting illegal aliens and American Indian tribes for Palestinians and Americans who live along the border for Israelis. We have large numbers of both Hispanic and Indian radicals, not only in our large cities, but in our rural agricultural areas. Of course, we also have large numbers of Muslims of all economic classes, from Somalis on welfare to Arab and Pakistani MDs, financiers, professors and journalists, everywhere.
Giving Ø the benefit of the doubt is frustrating, isn't it? Øbama knows exactly what he is doing.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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