“War To The Bitter End”
Promises Israel’s defense minister re Gaza. I thought that was what Lebanon and prior incursions in Gaza were about. via Yahoo. In any case, the IDF is making it personal, taking out Hamas symbols of power.
Gateway rounds up the news with art, and adds this through-the-looking-glass news from Mosul: Israel blamed for suicide bmob at pro-Hamas rally.
Speaking of war to the bitter end, NYT examines Obama’s foreign policy, whatever that is. So far, the good news is he’s not only stopped bashing Bush’s, he’s adopted it. I like this part:
Mr. Obama’s election has raised expectations, among allies and enemies alike, that new American policies are forthcoming, putting more pressure on him to signal more quickly what he intends to do. In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, Mr. Obama has not suggested he has any better ideas than President Bush had to resolve the existential conflict between the Israelis and Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza.
I dunno, NYT doesn’t mention it, but Bush’s divide-and-conquer bid remains the best and most promising development … since Egypt and Jordan figured out which side of the pita has the hummus on it.
For Mr. Obama, the conundrum is particularly intense since he won election in part on promises of restoring America’s image around the world. He will assume office with high expectations, particularly among Muslims around the world, that he will make an effort at dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Maybe it will take Obama to finally get the world to accept and even embrace the bold stands for freedom and democracy George Bush took in the world, including the isolation of Hamas, forcring Palestinians to face the consequences of their election, and aggressively pushing freedom as alternatives eslewhere in the Muslim world. Maybe Obama can even take it a step further, and get the greater Islamosphere to start aligning its rhetoric with reality. Choosing to fight our nation’s war to the bitter end could actually make Obama a great president.
More Gateway: most active-duty military aren’t buying it, suspect Obama’s a cut-and-runner.
But speaking of people finally coming around, Charlie Foxtrot has this important development in Code Pink tactics.
And here’s something you don’t see every day. Hot Air giving Obama props.
Topics: America, Israel, Obama, Palestinians, middle east
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:58 am Comments (8) on Monday, December 29, 2008
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December 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
No doubt there are Code Pink veins popping wholesale as we speak.
Buwahahahahahaha!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Israel is a crime against humanity. They’ve imposed a blockade on Gaza for months — No Food, No Medicine, No Gas (what little gets in is $30/gal) — just starve and kill the people. Either the Palestinians accept or they get attacked for resisting their oppression. Israel is the foremost terror state…. and we defend them in their theft and murder, but only because the US population is deceived. We send them our tax dollars and Madoff’s billions too. We are complicit in their crimes against humanity. AIPAC and their media heavyweights own our government and our sports-obsessed electorate has no idea what’s going on.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
2ctruth is a crime against humanity. He counsels the murder of innocent Israelis by un-guided rockets. He ignores four year old Israeli girls being beaten to death at the butt of an AK-47 and revels in cowards using mentally deficient women as bomb carriers.
2ctruth is a real piece of work for sure. He should stay in Gaza where he belongs.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Israel is a crime against humanity. They shoot at Palestinian children, bulldoze their homes (ever heard of Rachel Corrie?), force them to live in shanty refugee camps, cut off food supplies (Gaza blockade), bulldoze their hundred years old olive trees, cut off fuel supplies (gas at $30/gal)), divert water supplies — yes, 30% of Palestinian children are malnourished, thanks to Israel. Before Israel, indigenous Jews (3%), Muslims (72%), and Christians (25%) lived side-by-side in the region peacefully — yes, 30% of Palestinians are Christian (your zionist owned media won’t tell you that). Then the European jews came in and riled things up, shooting at people and running them out of their homes and villages. There was no holy war before Israel started evicting people and stealing from them. There would be no holy war if the Israelis stopped their inhumane oppression of the Palestinians.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Mike H —
Why don’t you volunteer your home and backyard to the Israelis? They can move in with you and the world’s problems would be solved! You and your neighbors can share your water, food, and fuel with them…. but then, uh oh… the Israeli’s might not want to share…. better take cover Mike!!!!!!!!
December 29th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
“ever heard of Rachel Corrie?”
Sure.
She was the terrorist auxilliary, American flag burning, traitor “martyred” by an American made bulldozer, now commonly referred to as Ste. Rachel the Pancake.
She’s way famous.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
November 2008 was not a “liberal revolution” so watch Obama adopt more of the the “failed” Bush policy when it comes to the middle east and gain the increasing ire of people like 2ctruth. Obama is not a stupid politician so he knows the election was about a disgruntled electorate not willing to install a career senator as POTUS. McCain’s biggest goof was participating in the bail-out scheme. He looked and sounded like a D.C hack. Obama has already disappointed large swatches of the leftian mob browsing Kos, and independents are beginning to wonder just what they might have voted into the Oval Office with the all the typical Chicago shenanigans gaining attention outside of Illinois. With these issues hanging over him before he even starts adjusting the Oval Office desk chair to the shape of his butt, he can’t allow wholesale war to erupt in the middle east under his watch anymore than he can allow Detroit to fizzle out like the bad fart it is. He owes Bush a huge debt of gratitude on both counts. From his transition process to date it appears he understands that.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Fuggheads like 2ctruth are perfectly capable of listing, in gruesome detail, the restrictions “Palestinians”, particularly Gazans, live under, but they never, never bother to mention why those restrictions exist. That’s because 2ctruth, like his fellows, is an anti-Semitic bigot whose answer to “why” is “because they’re Jews”.
Until the last twenty years, Arabs living outside the boundaries of Israel had substantial freedom of movement. They could hold jobs in Israel and cross the border both ways with little or no trouble. Israel provided water and electrical power, subsidized food and fuel imports, and hosted international aid efforts for Gazans and people on the West Bank, as well as maintaining infrastructure.
The Arabs used those freedoms to gain opportunity to kill Jews. The Jews declined to be killed so easily. Israel responded with greater and greater restrictions; the Arabs responded to that by going to ever greater lengths to kill Jews. Finally Israel erected the wall and stopped all movement across it. That left the Gazans with no way to kill Jews except by rocket attack, so the whole of Gaza was turned into a rocket-launch platform, and any aid provided to Gaza goes to buy more rockets to kill Jews. Despite 2ctruth, Israel does not “embargo” food or fuel to Gaza. It simply does not transship them through its territory. There are port facilities in Gaza where such things could be brought in — whoops, no, there aren’t; when the Israelis withdrew, the Gazans smashed them.
Gazans, and “Palestinians” in general, have available to them a cheap, guaranteed 100% effective defense against Israeli aggression, and it is well within their technical and logistical capacity: Stop killing Jews. It’s that simple. Unfortunately for Hamas, Gazans, and 2ctruth and his allies, killing Jews is the point, so the effective defense is unavailable to them.
Regards,
Ric