Posted on 06/03/2010 8:08:18 AM PDT by nycteacher
NEW YORK – The Obama administration is pressing Israel to allow into the Gaza Strip new activist flotillas setting sail from Europe, according to an official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office speaking to WND.
Separately, an Israeli government official said the White House asked Netanyahu for concessions in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in exchange for U.S. opposition to the establishment of a United Nations commission to investigate Israel's commando raid of a flotilla earlier this week that resulted in the deaths of nine violent activists.
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Shame on anyone who claims to care about Israel who voted for Obama.
Ah, the CHICAGO way! Bribe, blackmail, extort and shake-down. So what do you TRULY believe? Well, it depends upon what is most profitable at the given moment!
This has become the MO of this administration. Either dangle a carrot behind the scenes to affect elections or threaten extortion in the case of Israel to gain concessions.
This whole thing was a setup from the gitgo and this admin no doubt knowingly approved of this whole fiasco early on. They’re now going to use this as a hammer to further screw up the ME in a way only the Euros could prior to 0zero.
One of the flotilla passengers is the former Melkite Greek archbishop of Jerusalem, Father Hilarion Capucci, who was previously arrested for using his church car service to smuggle explosives, firearms and katyusha rockets into Israel for the PLO. Capucci was freed after an appeal from the Vatican.”
If true, the Israelis should have never released such a terrorist. The flotilla was nothing more than a bunch of terrorists in drag.
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