Why is Obama inserting himself in a most inappropriate and offensive way into Israel's strategic concerns by publishing an article spewing sophomoric platitudes about peace in lefty paper Haaretz the day after Israel begins campaign against Hamas terrorism? Why is he doing this? And why now after Israel has just initiated its military operation and not last week when Hamas was obviously attempting to incite violence and so now if a 'war' breaks out it will appear as if Obama considers Israel to be the aggressor? With this article what Obama is essentially saying is that if only intransigent Israel had listened to my pleas to embrace peace none of this would be happening - and this the very day after Israel begins its entirely justifiable defense operations in response to provocations from avowed terrorists! This goes beyond inappropriate behavior by him - it's utterly unacceptable - in fact it's so wrong I don't think you can call this incompetence: it seems rather a deliberate effort to back Israel into an uncomfortable corner, which is especially galling since the recent misbegotten peace effort also seemed like a disturbingly misguided effort by Obama and Kerry to back Israel into an uncomfortable corner and can with legitimacy be blamed for giving rise to this violence. The guy is an unmitigated disaster of a president - I'd love to be in a position to overhear the debate going on in Netanyahu's cabinet room right now because they must absolutely despise this man.
[yes I understand Haaretz is sponsoring some insipid 'peace' jabber fest and the Obama op-ed was aligned with that and no doubt agreed upon weeks ago - but once the three Israeli teens were kidnapped and killed and the deteriorating situation with Hamas in Gaza became obvious, and especially once it became clear Israel was preparing a major offensive in response to the provocations, Obama could easily have withdrawn the op-ed, which is what any American president who wasn't channeling the anti- Israeli chauvinism of Jimmy Carter would have done in order to avoid making it look like you were sympathetic to the extremists cause - but of course Obama didn't even object with any particular conviction to Fatah hooking up with Hamas and so I guess none of this is surprising - worst president ever]
[yes I understand Haaretz is sponsoring some insipid 'peace' jabber fest and the Obama op-ed was aligned with that and no doubt agreed upon weeks ago - but once the three Israeli teens were kidnapped and killed and the deteriorating situation with Hamas in Gaza became obvious, and especially once it became clear Israel was preparing a major offensive in response to the provocations, Obama could easily have withdrawn the op-ed, which is what any American president who wasn't channeling the anti- Israeli chauvinism of Jimmy Carter would have done in order to avoid making it look like you were sympathetic to the extremists cause - but of course Obama didn't even object with any particular conviction to Fatah hooking up with Hamas and so I guess none of this is surprising - worst president ever]
