Posted on 10/30/2023 6:35:34 AM PDT by SJackson
[Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
During Barack Obama’s presidency, relations between the United States and Israel, its closest ally in the Middle East, reached an all-time low. Obama appeased Israel’s mortal enemy Iran, allowed a one-sided, anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution to pass in the waning days of his administration, and released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority in his administration’s last hours. This was on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Obama administration had previously bestowed on the Palestinians, which the Palestinian leaders largely used to fund terror and line their own pockets rather than for the benefit of their own people.
Now Barack Obama is once again demonstrating his animus towards the Jewish State of Israel. Commenting on the current crisis in the Middle East, which was precipitated by Hamas’ genocidal slaughter and abduction of Israeli civilians on October 7, Obama warned Israel to restrain itself in its response to Hamas’ unspeakable evil acts. He said that “the world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire.”
Israel is in a fight for its survival against an enemy whose declared mission in its founding Charter is to wipe out Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. What the “world” thinks of Israel’s military strategy in defending its citizens against any further terrorist rampages is irrelevant. Why should Israel care about what the so-called “international community” thinks when many UN member states have regularly lined up in reflexive support of the Palestinians and have consistently bashed Israel?
“Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children,” Mr. Obama said. He conceded that “Hamas’ military operations are deeply embedded within Gaza – and its leadership seems to intentionally hide among civilians, thereby endangering the very people they claim to represent.” But then he put the onus on Israel for the inevitable civilian casualties resulting from Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields.
It is Hamas, not Israel, that is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity – both against Israeli civilians whom Hamas has slaughtered and abducted and against Palestinian civilians whom the terrorists deliberately put in harm’s way.
“The Israeli government’s decision to cut off food, water and electricity,” Obama said, “to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis; it could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel’s enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region.”
No matter what Israel has done for peace in the past, such as unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza in 2005 and agreeing to multiple ceasefires with Hamas following its previous rocket barrages, the “international community” demands ever more of Israel. Many in the “international community,” including the lame stream media, make excuses for the Palestinians. They take Hamas’ exaggerated claims of fatalities in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes at face value. They even ran with Hamas’ false accusation that Israel had destroyed a hospital in Gaza, causing multiple deaths, which compelling video and audio evidence proved was caused by an errant terrorist rocket.
Mr. Obama should be blaming only Hamas and its fellow terrorists for the “growing humanitarian crisis” in Gaza that he says he is so concerned about, not Israel.
Hamas has it within its control to secure the full restoration of provision of food, water, electricity, and fuel to Gaza by releasing all the hostages the terrorists are detaining, as Israel has proposed. Out of more than 200 hostages held captive by Hamas and its allies, however, only four have been released so far.
Moreover, Israel has no moral or legal obligation to provide any aid whatsoever to an enemy-controlled territory, especially when that enemy can then turn around and use what Israel provides to sustain the terrorists’ continued war crimes against Israeli civilians. Hamas has had sixteen years since it took over complete control of Gaza to enable the territory it is governing to become self-sufficient in the supply of basic necessities. Instead, Hamas has diverted money and resources that it has received from donor nations and non-governmental organizations to build up its arsenal of weapons, construct war tunnels, and carry out successive attacks on Israel.
Mr. Obama said that “how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters,” adding it matters that “Israel’s military strategy abides by international law, including those laws that seek to avoid, to every extent possible, the death or suffering of civilian populations.”
Israel has been doing all it can to abide by the laws of war by warning civilians residing or working in facilities that are partially occupied by Hamas to leave the premises before Israel’s military strikes those facilities. Israel has also warned Gazans living in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes and head south to safer areas along routes that Israel’s military has pledged not to strike. It is Hamas that has been dissuading, and in some cases preventing, Gazan civilians from leaving the more intensely active war zone in the northern part of Gaza.
Obama neglected to denounce the Palestinian Authority and its leader Mahmoud Abbas for remaining silent about Hamas’ blatant war crimes and violations of any semblance of international humanitarian law while leveling their usual accusations against Israel.
Barack Obama did enough damage while he was president. He would do well to keep to himself his opinions about Israel’s counterattacks in defense of its people against a genocidal enemy.
Be believes in the Mahdi and the Ulma. I bet he prays five times a day to Mecca. Now we know why he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
What would you expect from a Muslim loving SOB???? I really have a problem with America electing this American hating POS.
That “thing” did say the muslim call to prayer was the “the most beautiful sound in the world.”
No surprise. This is the same a-hole who set horrible rules of engagement for our troops, that they couldn’t shoot, unless they were fired on first. You can’t win wars if you’re concerned about offending your enemy. America will never be able to win another war while lawyers are breathing down the necks of our troops on the battlefield, making sure they are fighting with one arm tied behind their back.
Reports: Netanyahu 'Humiliated' by Obama Snub
And here's a NY Post article from 2010 on the same issue:
It is like telling the allies during WWII to have restraint in destroying the Nazis and the Japs. Both genocidal murdering evil.
Fcuk him
Israel has generally followed their purity of arms ideology
And will try
But this requires a close clip mowing of the grass
I doubt they can 100% destroy Hamas
But they can hurt them severely
But they won’t kill 2 million Palestinians I promise war fever folks here that won’t happen
So then what?
I don’t know
You could do like Ben Gurion mused and to some degree Dayan too and let them have West Bank too and keep Golan and Jerusalem but that would now require removing the settlers whom Bibi mostly supports
And right now support for that in the Israeli electorate is pretty damn low id reckon and at least from what I hear from Israelis I’ve known 30 plus years who btw understand the complexities of this more than freepers do
And worse you do that and rabid palis won’t be satisfied anyhow
So I guess you just keep mowing the grass when need be and don’t fall asleep again Mossad and Shin Bet
And you live with this teeming hostile camp(s) on your border
Worlds worst intractable mess in my view
The clash of the civilized and savages
Imagine Texas in 1840s with a few million ranchers and cities here and there with 2 million Comanches hellbent for blood just waiting to damage you in ways they see as perfectly acceptable but deplorable to you
And surrounded by ambivalent states at best and a few super hostile ones like Iran is
And a third of your inside the walls populace is s Comanche too and prospering but still sympathetic to those outside
And the whole damn world and even you does at times give financial and humanitarian support to these Comanches on your border
Sobering is an understatement
And mowing the grass means you tolerate these atrocities as their numbers grow and yours shrink
Any possible solution has yet to introduce itself
Obama/Biden assisted Iran to be a big sponsor of terrorism and helped start this war because of it.
Shaddup Obama, you’re not President anymore thank goodness. Wait, What?
IIRC——MUSLIM religion passed down thru the males.
Obama’s father & grandfather (a MAU MAU TRIBESMAN) were Muslim.
Therefore——HE IS MUSLIM
MANY of his past utterings also cement this.
IIRC-—USING THE NAME HUSSEIN IS ONLY ALLOWED TO MUSLIMS...
BTTT
Hussein, STHU.
Obama sat in trhe pews of the church of the antisemite Reverand Wright for years and years and said nothing. As far as we can expect he might have even said Amen.
A broken clock is right twice a day, but Obama isn’t a broken clock.
He’s the off-clock that’s ALWAYS wrong ALL of the time.
The world watched Hamas, one of your favorite terrorist organizations, and the world was disgusted. Only fellow terrorists and terrorist supporters like yourself are threatening Israel.
Gog speaks.
bubonic plague
rats
need to be fumigated
flea baggers
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