Five days into an unrelenting Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, US President Barack Obama has reiterated his unconditional support for the attack, saying he is “fully supportive” of Israel’s decision and adding that Israel has a “right to defend its borders.”
At the same time, Obama expressed some concern for the threatened Israeli ground invasion of the strip. Not that he was concerned that it would dramatically increase the civilian death toll, mind you, but that “if Israeli troops are in Gaza, they’re much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded.”
And while Obama expressed concern that an “escalation” of the war might mean a further delay of peace talks, with the talks already stalled for well over a year and with Israeli officials repeatedly ruling out returning that is likely a very minor concern. Obama did reiterate that he would be fine with the invasion, however, only saying it was “preferable” for Israel to win without doing so.
Israel has continued to send more troops to the Gaza border for an eventual attack, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is prepared to “significantly expand” the war, while reiterating that no matter how aggressive Israel’s attack gets it is “purely defensive” in nature.
To the people of Middle East, the recent atrocity taking place in Gaza showing the true face of the west, after all it is the western militarism supporting and supplying all that arms that are used in Gaza killing civilian-Palestinians.
One of the western policies toward nationals in Middle East always been the politics of manipulation that has divided nations all over the world which the west has managed to implement new divisions and demand a social economic combined with a political demands, such matter is Syria, before that was Libya and before that was Yugoslavian war where such division created the Balkan countries where many of these new formed countries are divided among europeans counties using the manpower, the strategical importance and if there are any natural resources. Such politics have another advantage which is demolishing the country production capabilities replacing it with Germans or french or English invested by the US or IMF and other economic institutions. The manipulative politics by barack Hussein Obama and his gang of Neo liberals fascism in Europe is no different then George W. Bush and his gang of Neo militarism-fascism. Hence the difference is in what is called "democrat" or "democracy" and for Bush regime presenting the far right militarized formation of fascism within the Republican Party.
USA and Europe foreign policy toward nations in Middle East or central Asian country are same cooperating and in that regard both continent have shown their real face in recent Israeli government attacking civilians in Gaza…., and by the west supporting those who have managed to divide the Syrian nationals from a unity to a war thorn country. In terms of being divided USA is a divided country itself which the federal government thinks that such model is desirable for rest of the world and acting upon such thinking, yet such model is only possible when people are divided and for federal government political dictation, collecting taxes for the federal government which mostly used to upgrade its militarized system…, as Europe militarism regimes consist of NATO yet all that business in "divisions" is about being the empire of the world as European union desire is to be the emperor of Europe.., yet many of United States of american stats doesn't agree and want to become independent demanding to be separated from some, if not all of their obligations toward USA federal government.
Obama is a true opportunist. To get elected, he played the Mr Hopey-Changey role. He now plays the Hitler Look-a-like role urging the Israelis on as they slaughter the Gazans.
Obama is a true psycho. Children dying are no problem to him as long as they aren't his.
Our world is heading towards disaster. Surely others can see this.
President Obama is being misled or he is misleading and twisting the truth when he talks about the
Conflict between Israel and Hammas.
(D) is for Liar
Who wants to keep $upporting Israel indefinitely ? Even if they found 20 billion in platinum under their feet, they would still want a handout from the U. S. A. Please, someone, pull them off the teat !
An amazing side note to all this is that Obama has been accused by so many concerned Americans/Zionists of secretly being a Muslim and desiring to "throw Israel under the bus". If only it was true.
Zionist trolls are constantly accusing even their most subordinate allies (such as our acting President) of disloyalty or anti-Semitism. Do they actually believe this or is it just another tactic to keep the pressure on to maintain maximum influence? Indeed, the Zions largely control Washington, Obama, the mainstream press. Even so, their complaints never cease.
Our liberal, black, Nobel Peace laureate has won his second term and is free to rule. Guess what: he's going with Likud. Obama was the Manchurian candidate all along.
He made it rather clear during the election. I don't think he could have sucked up more to Israel during the campaign. Obama didn't exactly run on a platform of Palestinian rights. How could anyone be surprised now.
"Israel has a right to defend its borders”!? But, where are this borders? …
I hope all the Democrats that voted for Obama, and thus voted for exactly this policy, are happy with the pictures of blown up houses and dead children. Its clearly what they wanted.
Obama made it quite clear where he stood during the election. Obama and Mittens both tried to out-do themselves on who could pledge that they'd do anything for Israel. Thus, this can't be a surprise. Everyone who voted for Obama and the Democrats voted for this murder, death and destruction. Everyone who voted for Obama and the Democrats voted for and should be happy to see pictures of parents grieving over dead children. Everyone who voted for Obama and the Democrats should be happy to see bombs raining down on hospitals and schools and on any brave reporters who try to report on the death and destruction that these Democratic voters have unleashed on the world.
If you don't support the murder of children, you shouldn't have voted Democrat. I didn't.
The hypocrite in chief has become the Israeli mouthpiece.
Wow, a mass murderer is supporting mass murder. Who would have ever thought?
I guess it was someone's idea of a sick joke to give this hypocrite the nobel peace prize.
The Drone-Prize Prez has been bought by the money changers along with the rest of the Republic.
Shame!
Obama is the worst president the US has ever had. He signs off on murders, assassinations, and even arming wanna-be murderers in other countries to foment wars and chaos.
This psycho path has done far too much harm and danger in the world.
He is so morally bankrupt that he licks the spit of anyone who who throws him a bone.
I never voted for this sc-mbag and I’m very pleased that I saw it coming. But seriously the
worst is yet to come.
A survey conducted over the last couple of days shows that 3 in 5 Americans firmly subscribe to the Israeli narrative, while only 1 in 4 holds a more critical view. As long as these ratios remain true, it doesn't matter who occupies the White House, the US will continue to be in lockstep with the Israeli government regardless of what the latter chooses to do, as any attempt by the president to act against Israeli wishes is certain to invite immediate attack by the opposition party for his betrayal of 'popular will', as well as massive revolt from within his own ranks, motivated by the latter's desire to remain 'electable'.
Netanyahu can wag his finger at Obama and actively campaign against the latter, and still suffer zero consequence, because he knows the gap between those 3:5 and 1:4 ratios is unlikely to shrink anytime soon.
I am shocked at the knee-jerk responses of what I believed to be a highly educated blogger community that frequents this website. Please note Obama used his words very carefully. When he talks about Israel having a right to defend its borders, the better informed amongst us should immediately know that he is speaking in code: His real line might have read as follows: "Israel has a right to defend its borders when they are able to actually DEFINE THOSE BORDERS, which currently are not defined. The only way to have borders that are defined is via a settlement agreement with the Palestinians, hopefully via a 2-state solution".