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.
As a result of Zero's inability to take the lead he's getting in WAAAAAY over his head.
Good to see.
The ultra-left, radical marxists and their useful idiots are rising up everywhere and projecting their behavior on their innocent enemies.
Then when they’re caught in their perfidy, they cite their own published lies and stories to prove that “both sides do it,” as if that makes their destructive idiocy all right.
Hamas clearly stated their refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist under any circumstances.
Negotiations are worthless. And always have been.
2. There will be no overt act by the United States to return the borders to their 1967 location. Thus, Israel is not harmed except verbally.
3. "The Divine One" by his verbal advocacy of a return to the 1967 borders locks in the Moslem vote and impresses many in the Islamic world.
4. The American Jews are realistic enough to know "The Divine One" will not in fact harm Israel. Therefore, "The Divine One" will not lose Jewish votes and money.
5. The right is so stupid they will spend their time going after a mirage i.e. the Jewish bloc thus wasting money and effort.
6. The Divine One's" political advisors have pulled off a master stroke for this idiot; 7. He has bolstered his Foreign Afairs "image."
8. His advisors are pressuring the American Banks for 20 billion to be used as a war chest topay off his ACORN army.(Remember his private Army more powerful than the real army? Well ACORN IS that army.)
8. America will have this clown in office in 2012. It is possible he will not even bother to leave office in 2016.
I think Bibi took obama to school even on this subject yesterday when he mentioned the Palestinians use of a anti tank weapon that took out a Yellow school bus and killed a sixteen year old boy.
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I cannot hear those words without thinking of:
Sarris: You fool! You failed to realize that, with your armor gone, my ship will tear through yours like tissue paper.
Jason Nesmith: And what you fail to realize is my ship... is dragging mines!
I hope that obama’s daughters grow up to be good muslim wives.
GRRRRREAT thread! Thanks to every poster
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They didn’t seem to be getting the facts straight in Honduras either, but it’s a stretch to believe there’s that much stupidity even in Washington.
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The author is being too generous to Obama.
Unlike Jimmy Carter and Dwight Eisenhower, who bumbled amiably around and occasionally got things wrongs, Obama is a very intelligent Alinskyite and attorney, an expert at shading and bending meanings.
So when Obama consistently bends and shades and twists things, it is out of his experience and expertise, and out of his clear and ultimately culpable intention. He is no ingenue, he is a cynical, power-driven Alinskyite, and his actions and words should be judged that way -- harshly.
I bet he’ll make more trouble as an EX-president too, than Carter ever did. Probably will be running around sniping at the Republican occupant of the WH and being a hemorrhoidal citizen of the world on behalf of islam. Might even convert (ie, come out). Guarantee there’ll be photo ops of him, “sox in mosques.”
And in the offices of those “bunch of lawyers” keeping a lid on our psuedo usurper president PUP), are a slew of typists, secretaries, switchboard operators, mail girls. I call on any one of them to spill the beans, anonymously if need be, it is their duty.
I missed that entirely. Probably because my blood pressure was already at the DANGER DANGER level.
You want me to believe this guy is just the front man for his his evil, evil handlers? No matter how youlook at it, the American people are stupid to believe him. And if he was elected by vote fraud, our vote no longer matteers, and it is all over but the shouting.
See post No. 57.
Has the death of all those Christians in arab territories grieved him ?
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