In what US officials say is an attempt to avoid an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, President Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, offering to broker a ceasefire with Hamas.
Officials concede the idea is still in its “infancy,” but say that the US has no specific plans for how it might conceivably stop the invasion. Indications are that the phone call centered mostly on Obama assuring Netanyahu of his support for the ongoing attacks against the strip.
Obama’s half-hearted effort is materially the only effort to broker a ceasefire, with Egypt ruling out any direct mediation, and Hamas having no real remaining allies to push for a peace deal.
It also underscores how much more difficult a truce will be to come by this time around, as the US role in Israel’s assorted Gaza wars is to usually block the UN until Israel gets sick of bombing Gaza and agrees to let Egypt handle it.
The go-to US response is just to back Israel unconditionally, and Israel’s go-to response is to say they don’t want a ceasefire, which is a recipe for continued escalation with no end in sight.
Joseph Kony would be fairer, saner broker for peace.
Obama, cutting aid to the apartheid state would be a start, but I guess that would leave you looking less of a man, or maybe you are dead scared of AIPAC.
Obozo's (half-hearted) attempt as (Peace) broker was promptly snubbed by his Zionist puppet masters. Nuttyahoo knows he can do whatever he wants. The whores and prostitutes in the US Congress and corporate media who collect AIPAC's 30 pieces of silver do as they are told.
If Obozo really (had) any balls, he (could) end this Zionist murdering scum's collective punishment of the Gaza Strip by halting the shipment of US military hardware to the rogue state. I'll have to smoke Obozo's crack pipe to believe something like that would ever happen.
As for Diane Sawyer, I lost all respect for this woman a decade ago.
This man never had any plan for anything but to rely on those he have chosen to militarize or use Neo fascism religious or otherwise to do the job which he was elected for to do, this man is a complete phony, an order tacker elected by AIPAC and Saudis and other tyrants regime doing them a favor then being able to see the reality. He is elected to expend the Saudis religious stone aged savagery with barbarians in charge that are about caliphate regime, as if 2014 is the year of these savages when they ruled the Middle East back in the years (600) of savages and barbarians. The western civilized governments, as they like to call themselves, never been interested in democracy nor created a time where the notion been active, in contrary, what they have create been apartheid and tyrants where in 2014 they openly cooperating with savages and barbarians in one hand and in the other helping and supporting Israeli apartheid while they are in bed with Neo fascism in Ukraine.