The Obama Administration wants a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. They just don’t want it enough to actually do anything that might make it happen, if it threatens longstanding support for Israel’s bloated military.
Pentagon officials, addressing the war, insisted that under no circumstances would the US halt arms shipments or even threaten to do so as an attempt to coax Israel to the negotiating table. They insisted Israel is such a long-standing ally that they have to keep arming them.
With billions of dollars in annual military aid, the US is bankrolling the Gaza War more than anyone else. In addition to the arms and cash the US has provided, the NSA is also providing substantial intelligence on places for Israel to attack.
Israel has complained about US efforts to broker a ceasefire already, and those efforts haven’t involved any serious pressure beyond public criticism of massive civilian death tolls.
US and Israel have common interests around the world, US main interest is to act as the only power in the world, Israel/Zionism wants to have the world under its control, it shouldn't be a surprise while Israel anti Arab/Zionism regime acting as fascist, USG will help out to save its only friend in Middle East.
Sanctions against Russia.No sanctions against Israel.Where is the logic ?
This opens up a new term: genocide by proxy.
And although I've always been apprehensive to use a term like genocide, in face of the term being used openly now by pro-Israel hard-liners in the media and reasoning supplied in articles like this one (Is Israel Committing a Genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza?), I do think the term can be used without much doubt at this stage. It has been used for way murkier situations by the Western powers.
There is nothing new here.
Back when another holder of the Nobel Peace Prize holder was at the forefront:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/East_…
… "So gruesome were the subsequent reports of mass slaughter, rape, and deliberate use of starvation that such bluntness fell somewhat out of fashion. The killing of several Australian journalists who had witnessed Indonesia's atrocities, the devastation in the capital city of Dili, and the stubbornness of FRETILIN's hugely outgunned rural resistance made East Timor an embarrassment rather than an advertisement for Jakarta's new order. Kissinger generally attempted to avoid any discussion of his involvement in the extirpation of the Timorese – an ongoing involvement, since he authorized back-door shipments of weapons to those doing the extirpating – and was ably seconded in this by his ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later confided in his memoir A Dangerous Place that, in relative terms, the death toll in East Timor during the initial days of the invasion was "almost the toll of casualties experienced by the Soviet Union during the Second World War." …
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Obama is nothing more than a "house slave," serving in the house of his masters. A man of color who have witness the atrocities of white South Africa, White America, and elsewhere around the world could be so irresponsible in arming a country with weapons of mass destruction to kill women and children…..well as I said he is just a privilege slave trying to please his masters.
What a crock of a government we have. If you want a cease fire stop arming the side that is doing most of the firing. Otherwise you are simply negotiating against yourself.
they need to continue the gravy train at home
Oh, Israel is such a fine, upstanding 'ally' that the greatest threat we face from foreign intelligence gathering and corporate theft is from Israel? I have been under the general impression that 'allies' have some sort of mutual protection agreement signed, sealed, and delivered- but yet, our 'ally' is not bound by such a document. Where, indeed, were the IDF forces when the US went into Iraq and Afghanistan? How many sorties has the IDF flown in support of US combat operations? Did I miss the footage of IDF troops beside ours when we went into Kuwait? Or Grenada? Or Panama? Does anyone have any records of IDF forces fighting with ours in Korea or Vietnam?
Now, I do understand that the Irgun during the WW2 years (obviously pre-Israel) was very active, spotting and passing along information on troop movements in the Palestine region- oh, wait, silly me! They were passing on troop movements and intelligence on Allied forces to the Germans.