While the rest of the world stands aghast at the soaring civilian toll of Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer thinks the hundreds of dead civilians, many children, were proof of Israel’s remarkable mercy.
“The truth is that the Israeli Defense Forces should be given the Nobel Peace Prize,” Dermer insisted, “a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting with unimaginable restraint.” This speech was delivered less than 24 hours after Israel bombed a Gaza hospital.
“Israeli soldiers are dying so that innocent Palestinians can live,” Dermer claimed, going on to contrast Israel’s attacks on densely populated residential neighborhoods in Gaza to deadliest British carpet bombings of German cities during World War 2, which is apparently the standard by which he believes all wars are to be waged.
Lest you think this was an unusual outburst for Dermer, his speech also included a whole section calling Iran “the Great Evil” and another accusing human rights groups of “aiding Hamas” for complaining about all those dead children.
Dermer was appointed Israeli Ambassador to the US last year, replacing outgoing Michael Oren. His appointment was controversial because he had openly campaigned for Mitt Romney in 2012 and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to distance himself from Obama in the lead-up to that election.
He was also controversial because of his history as an outspoken opponent of the two-state solution, which he dubbed “childish,” at a time when Israel was desperately trying to convince the US they were serious about peace. In the midst of an endlessly escalating war, his bellicosity is less out of place, though still remarkably undiplomatic.
And dermer and bibi and the rest of them deserve the same fate as the convicted during the Nurnberg trials.
Yes!
Other Nobel Peace Prize winners have been responsible for more deaths. He may have a point.
If anyone needs to be convinced that Obama is in the pocket of the zionists consider that Obama invited Dermer to the annual White House Iftar dinner, the meal when Muslims break fast during Ramadan. And at the dinner Obama insulted the Muslims by stating that Israel had the right to defend itself.
Dermer tweeted, "@WhiteHouse for iftar dinner. Appreciate strong statement there by President Obama about Israel's right to defend itself."
I’m sure that Obama will be getting a lot of funding for his presidential library for that bit of groveling to the Lobby.
I blame the idiot muslims who stayed for Iftar when they saw this freak go in. Obama should have been left standing alone with his instructor.
The IDF should probably not be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, If Israel chose to, they could have sterilize the entire Gaza strip within a day or so.
The could have carpet bombed Gaza from a safe distance until the very last palestinian.
Since they are unwilling to do so, they send ground troops and pay the price.
Dangerous talk.
So true. But logically challenged people need scapegoats to feel good about themselves, hence the constant Israel bashing on here.
Wow! The current round of Israeli war crimes sure is bringing out some classy people.
Don'tforget Victoria N?uland
Dermer's words are not simply the result of stupidity or arrogance– they are coldly calculated to keep the smoldering embers of anti-Semitism, alive, . . . the anti-Semitism Israel needs to strike fear in the world's Jewish community and keep it in line.
Hardly. When was Israel formed? Anti-semitism has existed long before that. You might not agree with what he's saying but he is saying the truth.
Novel defense – "Your honor, my client showed restraint by only killing half of the children in the day care — he could have killed them all".
What the NAZlS said about their victima……………………….!!! Surprise, surprise………….
Too stunning for words…
They gove Barack Hussein Obama the Nobel peace prize, look what he did to Middle East. But then again, Neo and old fascism is up for grab by any inhuman, dictatorial, Islamic savagery, Saudis and Qatari social political system and apartheid regimes there is and Nobel peace prize has become a jok among these people.
I know a few men who need to be restrained, and dropped into a rubber room. I think the world needs to rise to a white hot anger over this outrage. What would it take, if not this insanity ?