Though they have provided only limited comment on the blockade since the Sunday night Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the White House today called the blockade “unsustainable” and said it must be changed.
The comments were virtually a verbatim reiteration of comments from the administration earlier in the week and similar to other comments made in the past. It is unclear, however, how much backing the statement actually has.
Though the Obama Administration has often given lip-service to policy changes it wants the Israeli government to make it has generally refused to take any concrete action to encourage such changes from Israel.
The US has provided Israel not only with diplomatic cover for the blockade for years, but provided much of the military hardware Israel has used to enforce the blockade, including the helicopters used in the attack on the Turkish aid ship.
The fact is not lost on opponents of the blockade, and in many ways it is seen as an “American blockade” as much as an Israeli one. The Obama Administration’s calls for change must inevitably be seen as disingenuous as long as they continue to give Israel the means to maintain it.
Is this Obama guy believable any more?
Obama is a pussy.
Was the idiot ever believable? I'ts easy to tell when he is lying. His purple lips are moving!
He wasn't believable in 2007 either. Its too bad so many did believe him. Please don't do that again. But also note that its not like you could believe the Republicans either, and you know the Republican policies would be even worse.
But hey, there are always other names on the ballot. Lets send back a Congress full of Independents, Libertarians and Greens in 2011. It is an election year. We the people can end this.
Is this Obama guy believable any more?
WTF is goin on…!!!! The "O" has bcum a bush/chainy CLONE…!!
"O" is a second generation CIA apparatchik. The CIA is itself the hard intel unit of the Wall Street Gang.. and always has been. Libertarian thought focusses on the very narrow issue of elected government.. when the real threat is the unelected supra-goverment of the oligarchs.. the superrich financiers.. the rentiers who Adam Smith was referring to when he proposed the idea of free trade: it was to be free of the control and interference of the rentier class.. not free of the protections of the democratic legislature. "O" is the creature of finance, as was the previous occupant of the WH.
Bush set fundraising records in 2000 and 2004 as 'finance' supported him.
Obama broke all those records in 2008 as 'finance' supported him.
Why do you say 'become' (or bcum)? You act like he wasn't this before.
Wall Street gave him millions in the last election to create a fake rock star image. Don't believe the hype. Obama hasn't changed a bit. Its just that the fake rock-star image can't hide the truth now that we really get to see what ACTIONS he takes or does not take as President.
Vote Libertarian. Vote Green. Vote anything else besides Republican or Democrat to END THIS!
Obama is not credible on Israel/Palestine. Unfortunately, he's a lot like his predecessors.
The sad fact is that a foreign power basically controls the United States. Get ready for more of the same, since both political parties here are under Israeli command.
Zionists are prepared to hold the spirit of Palestine to the floor until these plucky rebels surrender and vanish. Like Apartheid South Africa, Israel clings to a segregated dream. But Palestinian tenacity has become legendary. All the same, Israel seeks nothing less than the utter and total surrender of Israel's native gentiles. This is a race war, begun by Zionists. Ironically, secular and multi-racial America is propping the Jews in this war. This is amazing and disheartening, but it is true.
Well, will someone ask Obama why he's been working so hard to sustain it during his 18 months in office.
Obama could end this with a phone call. All he has to do is to tell Israel that its billions in US aid are gone if they continue this. Snap, its over. Since Obama won't do that, we know he's a part of the problem.
He also has to stop vetoing UN resolutions against Israel. My family is voting anything BUT Democrat or Republican. REMEMBER THE LIBERTY!!!
'must be changed'.
Okay, Obama, how about when? Why isn't now a good time? You say the blockade must be changed, but you are also willing to let it continue today and tomorrow. Why won't you act to end it today?
Only a lying American politician (from either party) could on one hand say that the blockade must be ended while at the same time supplying the helicopters that are used to transport the murderers out to the blockade.
And note how Obama doesn't take the very obvious step of saying that this blockade is wrong or illegal. He just calls it a bad tactic, in effect.
If you are an anti-war voter in the US, this should sound familiar, because this was his line towards Bush's wars in the last election. Obama criticized them and pretended to be against him. But when you listened closely he just said he didn't like Bush's strategy and tactics. We see now where that leads, as Obama has continued all of Bush's wars and started a new one in Pakistan.
This is "Slick Barrack" at work. He makes noises that sound like opposition. But when you read closely its not opposition. Its just a fake to try to say what the pollsters say he should be saying. The key is to note that he never takes the moral step of saying this is wrong. War is not wrong to Obama. Blockade is not wrong to Obama. Bombing is not wrong to Obama.
And apparently machine gunning down 70 unarmed humanitarians on the high seas isn't wrong to Obama, as his VP is running around saying "what's the big deal?"
And, don't forget that Obama's Chief of Staff, the ex-Israeli military Emmanual, was in Israel at the time that these murders were being planned.
Obama's fake opposition. If you are really opposed, don't buy it and don't vote for him or his party again.
The good news is that his pollsters are apparently saying that this isn't a good time to publicly be a friend of Israel.
Its hard to tell real American opinion in such a propaganda society. I've been out protesting along the side of the road, and no one objects. Many cars honk their horns in support and wave. Many flash peace signs towards us. But no one yells at us. No one objects. No one takes Israel's side.
So, its very interesting that Obama's pollsters seem to be telling him the same thing and appear to be telling him to distance himself from Israel in that fake and lying way in which Obama operates. Obama supports war crimes and murder, and you probably can't change that cold heart of his. But, its very interesting to see that his pollsters appear to be telling him that he has to separate himself from Israel and its crimes.
'Slick Barrack'. I like that. 🙂
Turkey should declare war on Israel – Israel's attack on a Turkish flagged ship in international waters is cut and dried, no freaking questions asked – an Act Of War.
They should then, being a NATO member, assert Article 5 of the agreement: NATO would either have to help Turkey in it's defense against Israel or publicly admit it's utter worthlessness – which would go a long way to finally dismantling this hideous relic.
As well-equipped as Israel's forces may be (by the USA) Turkey would probably dismantle them fairly quickly – barring outside (US/UK) help.
This is a Golden Opportunity for both Turkey taking it's place as the Central Hub into Central Asian waters, it''s regional influence, and once and for all ending the idiotic illusion that they will ever become part of EU – who the fuck would want to at this point, anyway!?!
Take the shot man, you're in the driver's seat, Turkey!
"Turkey should declare war on Israel"
Another wolf removes his sheep's clothing. "Antiwar", indeed!
Let us not encourage Israel to go to war…we need them to help secure our Mexican border! This administration is only interested in filling their pockets and getting re-elected.
Let's just say NO to Israeli soldiers on US soil . . .