Ongoing peace talks in Cairo are stalling primarily on Israel’s reluctance to agree to anything resembling an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, but President Obama insists something will eventually have to be done.
At a press conference that centered on touting his support for the Israeli war, President Obama said there needed to be some recognition that “Gaza cannot sustain itself permanently closed off from the world.”
Obama didn’t call for an immediate end to the blockade, which is what the Palestinians are pushing for at the talks, but rather said there needed to be “some prospects for the opening of Gaza so that they do not feel walled off.”
That’s an awfully vague call, but is still the closest a US official has come to rejecting the long-standing Israeli blockade yet, and could add some momentum to ending the humanitarian disaster that blockade has wrought.
Nor it shouldn't, and will not hold for ever, the question is what USG is going to do about it, will USG start helping Israel not being prosecuted by ICC for war crimes and act against humanity, or will it be so that USG keep pouring weapon into the hands of Netanyahu and other Israeli alike to continue killing children, mothers and fathers, destroying their homes and hospitals, again, another manipulative politics by USG.
Well if Obama didn’t call for an immediate end to the blockade, then he is just reading from his TelePrompTer.
Then why don't you do something to make it happen? First, get up off your knees.
One thing for sure, Mr. Obama, the Blockade of Gaza will continue until the end of your term of office, or until AIPAC runs out of money.
As the US funds billions to Israel and Israel funds directly to AIPAC, the US is in fact indirectly funding AIPAC so that they can give money to US senators and House of Reps!
If Obama wanted the blockade ended, he could do it with a simple call to Treasury telling them to "sit on the checks for awhile."
“Gaza cannot sustain itself permanently closed off from the world.” Stating Israel's objectives as though it was something new. This is the whole point of the seige; to put the Palestinians in Gaza on a diet and thus the Israelis thought the Palestinians would capitulate and roll over and play dead ie accept permanent occupation/annexation (termed as "peace" in Israel and the US) and the theft of their natural resources – natural gas, water, agricultural land.
The blockade will continue exactly as long as the US allows Israel to do it. The Israelis will never stop on their own, and nobody else can make them.
and in the future if the Russian , Chinese ,or who ever else wishes to do the same than what will the Americans have to say. Why is it OK for Israel to occupy Palestine but not for Russia to occupy Krim.Why is OK to arm Libiyan & Syrian rebels & not Ukranian ones ?.
Just more empty rhetoric to make Obama seem balanced. The zionists in the U.S. have him by the short hairs. Look who groomed him from the very beginning as a state senator; the Pritzkers and Crowns (Krinsky), both uber-zionists. Obama appointed Penny Pritzker as head of the Dept. of Commerce. She is anti-union and one of the biggest frausters in the 2008 banking crisis with her ownership of the Superior Bank.
Obama can and should immediately stop all military assistance by declaring that Israel is in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended by the Symington Amendment of1976 and the Glenn Amendment of 1977 which prohibit US military assistance to countries that acquire or transfer nuclear reprocessing technology outside of international nonproliferation regimes.
That’s why Israel uses nuclear ambiguity. It means U.S. presidents can pretend the Symington and Glenn amendments prohibiting foreign aid to nuclear states outside the NNPT are not applicable to Israel.
It is clear that he is a puppet of the zionists who helped put him into office.
Gaza could end the block aid themselves Just stop firing rockets into Israerl and stop sending terrorists into Israel and Egypt