US Supports Israeli Attack on Gaza Strip
Obama Says Hamas Needs to Stop Retaliating
Yesterday’s de facto ceasefire is over, and Israel is now attacking the Gaza Strip in what officials say will be a protracted round of attacks aimed at proving Israel retains a “deterrent” capability.
Within hours of the ceasefire collapsing, the Obama Administration was loudly cheering the attack, insisting Israel has a “right” to launch such attacks as part of its “self-defense” and condemning Hamas for retaliatory rocket fire.
The State Department was the first to issue a statement, along with a travel warning for Americans who may be going to southern Israel. The statement insisted there was “no justification” for Hamas to launch any attacks, and claiming Israel was trying not to kill civilians.
President Obama’s own statement was in much the same vein, insisting that Hamas stop retaliating against southern Israel as a way to “deescalate” the situation. It seems unlikely Hamas’ actions will have any impact either way, however, as Israeli officials are openly talking about making this a long campaign of strikes, and one that, as usual, the US will continue to defend in the international community.
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PEACE EVER AFTER
November 14th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Egypt should offer to annex Gaza as an autonomous province. That should quell the violence.
mojo
November 14th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Off course Israel is not trying to "kill any civilians" they just murdering them and they done it for years, under their rule of engagement by naming the Palestinian terrorist, that is how a apartheid regime and a fascist regime works,. They kill then they ask for his identity, the very same regime was doing the same in South Africa before they were demolished by the African people, then the west was helping the black nation of South Africa, here and now the racism and the vulture capitalism is silence as a lamb.
nomangepas
November 15th, 2012 at 12:58 am
It's institutionalized murder. One wonders if this was a secret price exacted by Bibi for forbearing re: Iran. Also, given Susan Rice's firm support of Bibi and noisy obstructionism at the UN, she is absolutely the wrong one to succeed Hillary in whose mold she is cut, unless the Administration is intent on pursuing the same misadventures it pursued in its first term.
Andron
November 15th, 2012 at 1:11 am
Of course Isreal's LAPDOG the USA will support them in killing Arabs. They kill everyone all over the world to force their brand of "democracy" whilst even Americans in the USA do NOT enjoy FREEDOM OF SPEACH OR ANY OTHE ITEMS GUARANTEED TO THEM IN THEIR OWN CONSTITUTION.
Yonatan
November 15th, 2012 at 1:37 am
Obama's excuse of having to keep quiet on Israel in order to win a second term is now revealed for the sham it was. He fully and willfully supports them, even though Netanyahu made him look a fool in the Senate and Congress.
Donna
November 15th, 2012 at 4:40 am
And people continue to vote for these pieces of garbage (the Obamas and Romneys).
Ziotrash..
John Watson
November 15th, 2012 at 4:55 am
For sure, the US will support Israel; after all, the US State was also built on stolen land, just like the Nazi State of Israel.
Rich
November 15th, 2012 at 5:18 am
Obama is and always will be a moral coward.
curmudgeonvt
November 15th, 2012 at 6:08 am
Well, there doesn't seem to be any indication that they're planning on changing…After all, they've been able to get away with their support of Israel without any International backlash…so why change?
mr correct
November 15th, 2012 at 8:42 am
and israel should annex alaska as well, and that should solve a big problem in the middle east.
SS Ulrich
November 15th, 2012 at 8:57 am
Obama had been a sham from the start – it must have been him that Heinrich Heine was thinking of when he wrote: "I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, politics, yea, the devil I call'd and he came, to devour my soul, and the whole of humanity".
SS Ulrich
November 15th, 2012 at 8:57 am
Barack's devotion to Greater Israel is undisputed. As a candidate, Barack Hossein Obama condemned the Mumbai bombings in India yet remained silent while Israel massacred the Gazans only to reward them with a shipment of arms which arrived on March 22, 2009. The elderly in Gaza were still lying in their pool of blood yet one of his first acts as president was to give $1 billion of the $87 billion stimulus money to the Jewish nursing homes and social services agencies. This was at the height of the recession/depression and housing crisis – crisis which continues to this day. He also promised them an undivided Jersualem as capital.
Robert Emmet
November 15th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
well he is the peace prize recepient in a sick world that would allow him to receive it in the first place. BTW there will be more 9/11's in the US. Their relentless militarism and support of violence against the defenseless warrants it.
david
November 15th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Israel should annex New York to bring all jews together and create a "jewish state". It has more jews than occupied Palestine.
sharman
November 15th, 2012 at 3:53 pm
ver much true.
Nahal
November 15th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Obama is not a leader. He is a weak leader manipulated by the zionist lobby wgere put him at the WH in the first place. According to many, he is a timid man and very conservative who resort to use weapons of mass and kill-list to wipe off the indegenous population for the 'new world order' where will achieve to impliment because people of the region are FED UP WITH HIM AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM. He is a war criminal.
It is shameful to see the occupier of the WH supported Israel massacare of Palestinian in 2008, so in 2012. He is thinking only to satisfy his superiors so he can maintains the interest of himself and his family, like others before him. The Clinton family did the same. They came with an old wolkswagen and end up with more than $200 millions by doing the 'right' things, basically protecting the interest of apartheid entity.
Obama is following the same footsteps by supporting Israel genocide against Palestinian children saying "Israel has a right to defend itself." so in 2012. This is the same line that Israel's servants tell guliblle Americans who never question these stooges.
Eileen Kuch
November 15th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Well said.
Eileen Kuch
November 15th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
I did not vote for either Obama or Romney, since both are moral cowards. Israhell is the most dangerous country on Earth; every time we turn around, its psychotic leadership either threatens or launches an attack on its adversaries. Once again, the suffering people of Gaza is under attack; and, civilians are the target. You think they'lll use illegal weapons such as white phosphorus and cluster bombs as they did back in 2008? You betcha.
Furthermore, there won't be a peep from Obama, Congress, or the media,