Posted on 07/28/2014 7:15:20 AM PDT by SJackson
Obama and Kerry Pressure Israel to Leave Hamas Alone
Posted By Joseph Klein On July 28, 2014 @ 12:50 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 12 Comments
President Obama is seeking to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into agreeing to an immediate unconditional ceasefire. In a phone call on Sunday, Obama reportedly told the Israeli prime minister that such a ceasefire was a strategic imperative. Obama specifically referred to the ceasefire proposed by Secretary of State John Kerry, which Israels security cabinet rejected unanimously last Friday.
Israel has been willing to observe several humanitarian pauses, primarily on a unilateral basis. Hamas went along with one 24-hour pause during the first part of the weekend and then resumed its rocket firings. After Hamas proposed its own additional 24-hour pause on Sunday, which Israel was willing to accept, Hamas nevertheless kept firing its rockets.
Kerrys proposal was inadequate to protect Israels security concerns. It would have left the remaining tunnels used by Hamas to infiltrate Israel in place, which Israel simply could not accept. According to a leaked draft document of the proposal that both Aljazeera and Haaretz were reported to have obtained, Kerrys ceasefire proposal skirted the specific concerns raised by Israel about allowing the tunnels to remain intact and letting Hamas keep its weapons stockpiles. Instead, it focused on opening the border crossings, with no specific security monitoring plan in place to ensure that Hamas would not build up its military capabilities even further. It called for the withdrawal of IDF from Gaza Strip and the end to any military or security targeting of each other. With the IDF gone and no more security targeting, that means the tunnels and remaining rockets would stay put for Hamass later use.
Moreover, under the Kerry proposal, the parties would begin discussing, within 48 hours of cessation of fighting, much of the Hamas agenda:
arrangements to secure the opening of border and non-border crossings, allow the entry of goods and people and ensure the social and economic livelihood of the Palestinian people living in Gaza, including fishing rights up to 12nm, transfer funds to Gaza for the payment of salaries for public employees, and address security issues.
After Kerry continued his discussions in Paris with foreign ministers from two of the leading Hamas supporting countries, Turkey and Qatar, President Obama tried to put the squeeze on Prime Minister Netanyahu to effectively leave the Israeli people exposed to more rocket fire and Hamas infiltration into Israel from their remaining intact tunnels. Obama and Kerry are so eager to seek peace at any cost that they evidently did not include representatives from Egypt or even from the Palestinian Authority in the high level Paris discussions. As a result, even the Palestinian Authority is disgusted with the Obama administration. Walid Assad, one of the spokespersons of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, complained of Kerrys appeasement of Qatar and Turkey.
The Obama administrations deference to Qatar, home to a major U.S. air base, is no doubt motivated in part by all the money that Qatar has committed just recently to spend on purchasing Apache attack helicopters, Patriot missile defense batteries and anti-tank Javelin missiles. An $11 billion deal was announced on July 14th. Qatar provides support to Hamas and other jihadists threatening peace and security in the region. Apparently, the Obama administration is not worried or does not care that some of those missiles and helicopters could well find their way to the wrong hands.
As for Turkey, President Obama considers its Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to be his personal friend. Obamas buddy is the same guy who just a few days ago said that You can see what Israel does to Palestine, to Gaza right now, surpasses what Hitler did to them. We do not accept this persecution, the massacre, the genocide by Israel. Obama let this scurrilous remark pass without a word of rebuke in defense of Americas closest ally in the Middle East. And it comes from the leader of the same country that committed genocide against the Armenians and has illegally invaded and occupied northern Cyprus.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) is planning another effort to break Israels lawful sea blockade of Gaza. The last one back in 2010 led to a violent confrontation with the Israeli Defense Force. This time, according to the IHH, it will have the protection of the Turkish navy.
While Obama was on the phone Sunday pressuring Israels leader to cave in to the demands of Hamass Turkish and Qatari protectors, Hamass political leader Khaled Meshaal, living in luxury in Qatar, received a phone call of assurance on Sunday from Hamass main arms supplier, Iran. Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Irans National Security Council, is reported to have told Meshaal not to worry about depleting Hamass stockpile of weapons. More will be on the way.
DebkaFile has advanced a very plausible theory as to why Obama and Kerry are tilting towards the Qatar-Turkey axis, which is trying to protect Hamass ability to live and fight another day. At the same time, Obama and Kerry are tilting against the Israel-Egypt-Saudi Arabia triumvirate, who are united in their resolve to severely curtail the threat that Hamas poses in the region once and for all. It is all about Iran. According to DebkaFiles analysis:
So why is the Obama administration shoving this powerful coalition out of his way and building a rival alliance to counter it?
Its primary motive is fear that if this group is allowed to make the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip a success, it will become the springboard for its next move, a victorious assault on Iran.
This sequence of events would totally derail current US Middle East policy, which hinges on détente with Tehran, Obamas advisers warn him, and even jeopardize his strategy for bringing the nuclear negotiations between the six world powers and Iran to a successful conclusion.
The Obama administration just last week agreed to a four month extension of the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. It does not want anything to possibly get in its way of making a deal with Iran.
If Prime Minister Netanyahu does not give in to the Obama administration pressure, it is quite possible that the administration will back a UN Security Council resolution proposed by Jordan directing that there be an unconditional immediate ceasefire and that the border crossings be opened. Israel will then be forced to choose between doing what it has to do to protect its citizens and bowing to the so-called international communitys edict. The Jewish state has no choice but to follow its own course for its survival.
America needs a “reset” button bad but I don’t want Slick Willie’s wife giving us one. All of her “reset” buttons are defective.
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This sequence of events would totally derail current US Middle East policy, which hinges on détente with Tehran, Obamas advisers warn him, and even jeopardize his strategy for bringing the nuclear negotiations between the six world powers and Iran to a successful conclusion.
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The “successful conclusion” in Obama World meaning Iran has nukes.
Suppose you were in a fight for your life and the buddy you thought had your back occupied himself during the fight by rolling marbles under your feet and squirting lemon juice in your eyes?
That has always been the case.
Friggin’ unbelievable.
BB will do what he needs to do to protect Israel regardless of what the haughty John Kerry (who served in Vietnam)and the world says
Why not pressure Hamas to leave Israel alone?
If anyone posts that “leave britney alone” pic, I’ll “abuse” them, I swear I will!
"Leave Hamas Alone!"
Sorry, couldn’t help it.
OK, OK... I won’t bother the mods... THIS time.
None dare call it treason
OK, where’s the “Leave Brittany Alone” Guy.
The Obama administration is showing sympathy for the devil by showing sympathy for Palestinians while holding Israel responsible for deaths caused by Hamas. There is a despicably concerted effort on the part of Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to clamor for a ceasefire in the name of moral equivalency.
You can always tell when Israel is experiencing great success during its battles with Hamas when two things happen almost simultaneously. There is international pressure for a ceasefire and moral equivalency is in abundance; both Israel and Hamas are painted as being equally responsible for the deaths.
Why don’t bamaboy and Kerry leave Israel alone. Israel is a country just like America, they are part of the U.N. (don’t know why the U.N. exists) so let them fight their own battles. Little boys like bamaboy and Kerry have enough problems right here in America’s backyard, they need to play nice over here in their own sandbox and leave everyone else’s alone!!!
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