Posted on 01/06/2009 2:01:08 PM PST by freedom9
Barack Obama, who takes over as U.S. president from George W. Bush on January 20, broke his silence about the violence in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and in Israel a "source of deep concern for me."
Obama added he would adhere to his principle that only Bush should be the voice of U.S. foreign policy at this time but he would have plenty to say after his inauguration in two weeks.
Nonetheless, Obama said that he is "not backing at all from what I've said during the campaign we're going to engage effectively and consistently in the peace process."
"We've got plenty to say about Gaza, and on January 20, you'll hear directly from me," he added.
Meanwhile, the United States on Tuesday signaled some flexibility over Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip, saying it would like to see "an immediate ceasefire" but emphasizing any such agreement must be durable, sustainable and indefinite.
U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack also said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to the United Nations on Tuesday was designed to show that the United States was open a variety of ways to achieve a cease-fire. "We would like an immediate cease-fire, absolutely," McCormack told reporters, speaking after Israeli tank shells killed at least 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school where civilians had taken shelter. "An immediate cease-fire that is durable, sustainable and not time-limited."
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Yeah, he's as smooth as a snake.
They criticize W's speech, but every word he spoke meant something, and together they meant great things ("We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them" -- this simple-sounding sentence completely reframed -- in fact, made possible -- the "war on terror" and literally brought the battle to the enemy).
If there are any honest linguists anywhere, they must be getting all up in a tizzy about 0. And by the time he's gone, they'll be tizzied out.
Poll-driven policies that hurt our economy & security.
I didn't think too much when Obamah chose Hillary as SoS, but when he chose Leon Panetta as CIA Director then I knew that the Clintonistas did indeed have something on ole Barry.
Seems to me the Clinton's do have the goods as we see less change and more and more of the same.
So that's what they're calling terrorists now-a-day, "civilians"? If not how many civilians died when the 40 Palestinian terrorists were killed?
And why no outcry from obamessiah for the months of rocket attacks killing Jews? Why weren't Jewish civilians a "source of deep concern" for him?
I expect an uneven hand toward Israel, and Israel's political answer must be a hard-line prime minister during a time of liberal American presidents.
Israel's ultimate answer is "blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."
What?! No affirmative action from our affirmative action president?
Cast from the same mold as the McKinney family, perhaps?
Over and over again, Billy McKinney called Mitnick a "racist Jew." As Slate's Chris Suellentrop noticed, when the New York Times asked Billy McKinney to elaborate on his comments, he simply repeated that Mitnick "is a racist Jew, that's what he is, isn't he?" The controversy over Billy McKinney's comments lasted weeks. Disgraced, he resigned from his daughter's campaign. That year, Cynthia McKinney won 58 percent of the vote.
“I have been told by my advisors that ‘the loss of civilian lives in Gaza and in Israel are a source of deep concern for me’... And has anyone here got a Marlboro?”
The only innocent civilians in Gaza are the ones who are acting as informants to the Israelies.
I supposed one of the many good things about the exit of the Bush administration was that phrase “deep concern” would left on the trash heap of useless phrases. Do they teach this kind of junk at Harvardyale?
Yeah, the Apocrypha, you can see why it never made the Canon.
LOL, by the way.
“the Clinton people he has surrounded himself with never made a decision”
Do you remember when Hitlery called for a Palestinian state and she got creamed by the media and pundits? It’s unbelievable to me that people on FR still think Jeb Bush deserves our support. The best way to punish Bush for destroying the world is to banish all Bushes from our circle.
He gets more and more depressing.
His concern should be for the state of Israel, a haven of normality in a sea of vicious zombie Muslims-—many of whom this country continues to let in and support.
So this is what passes for leadership. Can’t wait for of the same farom The Messiah.
So, if the terrorists are in a civilian neighborhood taking advantage of the proximity of civilians, then Israel should absorb attacks intentionally targeting its own civilians, because Israel knows there are civilians near the Hamas terrorists.
In other words, Israel should give away free attacks.
Is that insane logic, or am I missing something?
If they followed the same logic of "civilian death proportionality" 60 years ago, they'd have had to kill around 20 million Germans.
You’re not missing anything.
Haha! Excellent!
“”We’ve got plenty to say about Gaza, and on January 20, you’ll hear directly from me,””
Quite regal of him, using the royal ‘we.’ He’s waiting until he’s officially in to start showing his true fascist self.
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