So let me try and understand this - about 85% of Israelis support the action in Gaza and oppose ending it before military objectives are complete - and both left and right political parties plus media outlets feel the same - so support in Israel for the Gaza action is pretty god damn solid and viewed by a strong majority as absolutely necessary - and yet Obama and Kerry are insisting on telling this country, to whom the US is its most vital, most essential ally and whose support is the only thing standing between the idiocy of 'world opinion' [a phrase which should only ever be used in the pejorative] and Israel's survival, that they're wrong and must stop - which means in essence that Obama is actively legitimizing the entrenched anti-Semitic idiocy of 'world opinion' and much of the tactics and rhetoric of Islamist terror while delegitimizing the rights and fundamental security needs of Israel, one of our key allies.
Wow. What can one say? It's almost impossible to believe that this is really happening - can it be true that they do not see that by encouraging Israel's enemies and with that essentially everything in the world we should be opposed to that that amounts to guaranteeing bad outcomes? That this will not ameliorate divisions and hatreds but embolden and encourage them? Do Kerry and Obama actually think that they can force Israel into what amounts to a virtual surrender and everything is just gonna be fine, peace will fall magically from the sky and Muslim polities will leap to embrace Israel's right to exist? This is insane - I mean if they were insisting on a truce while at the same time asserting without question the need for Gaza to be demilitarize there would be something to that - I'd probably still disagree with it because it'd be hard to trust Obama et al viz demilitarizing Gaza but at least there'd be a sense to it one could get hold of, but that's not what they're doing - and what's worse they're bringing Qatar and Turkey into the talks - I mean Qatar is a key Hamas financier and Erdogan has been saying the most incendiary and outrageous things against Israel the last few weeks, he should be allowed no where near these talks - Egypt should be the only interlocutor since they're the only Muslim country whose security needs align roughly with Israel's: they both want Hamas gone. It's almost unbelievable what's going on here - calling Obama the worst president the country has ever had doesn't really capture the awfulness of this spectacle.
Wow. What can one say? It's almost impossible to believe that this is really happening - can it be true that they do not see that by encouraging Israel's enemies and with that essentially everything in the world we should be opposed to that that amounts to guaranteeing bad outcomes? That this will not ameliorate divisions and hatreds but embolden and encourage them? Do Kerry and Obama actually think that they can force Israel into what amounts to a virtual surrender and everything is just gonna be fine, peace will fall magically from the sky and Muslim polities will leap to embrace Israel's right to exist? This is insane - I mean if they were insisting on a truce while at the same time asserting without question the need for Gaza to be demilitarize there would be something to that - I'd probably still disagree with it because it'd be hard to trust Obama et al viz demilitarizing Gaza but at least there'd be a sense to it one could get hold of, but that's not what they're doing - and what's worse they're bringing Qatar and Turkey into the talks - I mean Qatar is a key Hamas financier and Erdogan has been saying the most incendiary and outrageous things against Israel the last few weeks, he should be allowed no where near these talks - Egypt should be the only interlocutor since they're the only Muslim country whose security needs align roughly with Israel's: they both want Hamas gone. It's almost unbelievable what's going on here - calling Obama the worst president the country has ever had doesn't really capture the awfulness of this spectacle.
