Once again we see Obama engage in a moral equivalence between Israel and the “Palestinians” that is grotesque coming in the wake of the jihad murder of three Jewish teenagers. But this is just the beginning. No matter what Israel does now, Obama will urge it to exercise “restraint,” and scale back whatever operations it undertakes. And no matter what happens during those operations, there will be an international outcry, fueled by the mainstream media, against Israel’s “disproportionate” response to the poor little jihad murderers.
“Obama condemns ‘senseless act of terror’ against teens,” ITV, June 30, 2014:
“On behalf of the American people I extend my deepest and heartfelt condolences to the families of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel – who held Israeli and American citizenship,” Mr Obama said in a statement.
“As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth.”
Israel’s president Benjamin Netanyahu earlier vowed to make Hamas – the group he holds responsible for the deaths – pay, but Mr Obama urged both Israel and the Palestinian Authority sides to work together and to “refrain from steps that could further destabilise the situation”.
On behalf of the American people I extend my deepest and heartfelt condolences to the families of Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel – who held Israeli and American citizenship. As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth. From the outset, I have offered our full support to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to find the perpetrators of this crime and bring them to justice, and I encourage Israel and the Palestinian Authority to continue working together in that effort. I also urge all parties to refrain from steps that could further destabilize the situation. As the Israeli people deal with this tragedy, they have the full support and friendship of the United States.
el-cid says
This could be interpreted to mean that Israel and the PA should work together to rid the West Bank of Hamas, and move any that aren’t killed in “combat” into that vile enclave of Islamic Tyranny called Gaza.
Abbas will win both ways–after he can claim that the Israelis engaged in collective punishment and other war crimes, AND, he will get rid of his real enemy, Hamas.
livingengine says
Unfortunately, I think I can say with 100% certainty Obama will not stand up to the premiere cause célèbre of the Muslim world – Hamas. He is not going to do anything like that.
Tom W Harris says
Why would he stand up to them? He’s on their side.
ben t says
Why oh why do Jewish-Americans vote for this empty suit air head, Obama, in such overwhelming numbers? At last count, 75-80%! I have attended dozens of Tea Party meetings here in Florida, and held a minor office at one time. NEVER,NEVER did I hear one solitary anti-semitic remark yet Jewish-American orgs continue to demonize us as The Enemy! The dolt that heads the Dems is the quintessential opponent of Israel.
el-cid says
I am Jewish, and I get it. God bless you.
John C. Barile says
Grotesque is right. “Steps that can further destabilize the situation”–like, say, the vigorous pursuit of justice for the victims and their families, the apprehension of their murderers, and destruction of the terror apparatus that aided the killers.
Stanley says
I would call kidnapping three young guys and …..leading to their brutal murder just a tad likely to de stabilize the situation. Wouldn’t most reasonable civilized people?
It’s a sad state of affairs when anybody comes out with such rubbish, never mind a president of the USA.
When will this man realize that there is no reasoning with ‘Palestinians’.
To turn the other cheek as Obama is suggesting will be considered a form of weakness in the mindset of the Muslims and will only encourage them.
I hope Israel snubs his verbal dihorae and retaliates on a huge scale.
Nachum says
Oh yeah, I know, Palestinians should fire dozens of rockets into Israel on the day the bodies are found. Yeah, that’s some restraint.
Could have been hundreds.
IQ al Rassooli says
Barack Hussein Obama was and still is a CLOSETED Muslim who can be trusted as much as any Muslim (ZERO trust)
He wants restraint by Israelis who have been targeted for death and destruction for the last 66 years by the very Arabs & Muslims that the USA under different administrations poured and obviously wasted hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars ( I am not even counting the thousands of precious American lives wasted on these bastards). Billions that should have been used for needy Americans.
The media condemns Israel for alleged ‘collective punishment’ ignoring the FACT that millions of Israelis have been suffering collective punishment for 66 years by their neighbours
Israelis should IGNORE the obvious crocodile tears and asinine platitudes from the US & European leaders who are otherwise regularly anti Israel and pummel Hamas and ALL those they believe are involved in these murders into the ground and to HELL with so called ‘world opinion’
Which world? 1,500,000,000 Muslims?
The Chinese who have been eradicating Tibetans in and from their own lands?
Russians in Chechnya & Ukraine?
Destitute hundreds of millions in Africa and Latin America?
Where is this ‘world opinion when Christians are being EXTERMINATED all over the Arab & Muslim world?
Where is ‘world opinion’ regarding Boko Haram & Darfur?
The anti Jewish Europeans who demonize Israel and Israelis do so to absolve themselves from the holocaust that could not have happened without the full participation of Europeans with the Nazis. They maliciously accuse Israelis of treating the Arabs inhumanely thus pointing the finger that the Jews are NOT better than us.
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Jaladhi says
>”Where is this ‘world opinion when Christians are being EXTERMINATED all over the Arab & Muslim world?”<
My question is where is US when Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and others are being killed and raped in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Bangladesh,Nigeria, and other Islamic paradises(aka hell) This is a daily happening in these countries and what is US doing – not even a peep from our messiah!! And now he is telling Israelis to restrain – what a hypocrite!!
CorHolio says
IMO Bibi should make an ultimatum to the PA and Hamas in the West Bank, that they have some period of time to bring these perpetrators to justice (and hand them over to Israel for a trial), or the IDF will have to take matters into its own hands.
Because you know this murder was simply an impetus to restart another intifada. They did not kidnap and demand another 7 million (or however many of their “valued” Palestinian brothers) for one Israeli, they just killed them and left them to be found in a shallow grave.
They (Hamas) knows that the Israelis can’t let this go unpunished, and so while the PA and Hamas make a big show of “investigating this heinous crime by some individuals acting alone”, they will then play the victim card when Israel starts pummeling targets. And the West will eat it up like usual.
But if Netanyahu gives them a reasonable time (say two weeks) to make an arrest (which of course they will not do), then he can start pounding targets with a lot more international support on his side. The targets aren’t going anywhere.
Jaladhi says
Israelis should avenge the murder of these three innocent teens. Muslims only understand the language of force and nothing else. Any compromise is a sign of weakness. Unless Muslims get a tit for tat treatment and more they won’t stop killing Israelis.
richard Sherman says
Churchill was so prescient when he declared: “Islam in a man is as dangerous as rabies in a dog. Every Friday Muslims are told to emulate the sociopath MUHAMMAD who PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS…So that is what they do; they have no other skill..
OBAMA REVERES THE SAME SOCIOPATH..
A MUSLIM WHO does not want to.kill Jews is an apostate and will be killed by observant Muslims.
Angemon says
“As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing.”
That’s because they don’t look like Trayvon Martin…
“The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth.”
“Strongest possible terms”? By now that’s what, a stern warning?
“From the outset, I have offered our full support to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to find the perpetrators”
Support to the Palestinian Authority? So Obama wants to give them the weapons they’ll use to kill the next israeli and/or american?
cherish freedom says
This response made me think and made my skin crawl. I wish I had more to say. Thank you for your thoughts. Please continue to comment.
dumbledoresarmy says
Advice to all my fellow jihadwatchers in our various countries.
Each of us, today, should take five minutes to find out – if we do not already know – the address of the Israeli embassy in our country.
Send an email. Then follow it up with a condolence card, signed and stamped. Express condolences (and if non-Jewish, identify as non-Jewish); state that we too grieve for three young Jewish men who were murdered by Jew-hating jihadis. And state that we fully support each and every action that Israel undertakes in response. Say to Israel: Do whatever you have to do to defend yourselves against the genocidal jihad; **we will understand**.
If every Israeli embassy in every western country finds itself inundated, both electronically and physically, by a wave of Love Mail of this kind, they will be able to tell their home government that, no matter what the current lot of gutless western heads of state may say, there are a *lot* of Australians, Canadians, Americans, Brits, etc, who are **on Israel’s side**.
And if, in the days to come, Israel takes action, and the British or American or Canadian or Australian government, whatever, starts squawking about disproportionate response, oh the plight of the pooooor persecuted palestinians, etc and so forth, and hauls the Israeli diplomatic rep in to be shouted at , it might make *some* difference if the Israeli rep can haul up a bunch of huge sacks full of mail and dump it on the table – every bit of it mail from US, or Canadian, or Aussie, or British *citizens*, 99 percent of it from people identifying as Gentiles, and every single card and letter expressing wholehearted support and telling Israel, essentially, “Hammer the bl**dy jewhating jihadi b*st*rds into the ground. Do whatever you have to.”
Angemon says
Excellent suggestion DDA!
mortimer says
NO MORAL EQUIVALENCE EXISTS between a country that gives free medical treatment to its most merciless enemies and a posse of SAVAGES who murder children with knives in their beds and murder unarmed, noncombatant teenagers IN COLD BLOOD.
The fact that OBUMMER cannot see the difference is disturbing in someone who has the presidency and disturbing in those who voted for this moral midget!
Richard Sherman says
Please do not insult moral midgets!
George Reisman says
The value of 1 Israeli has been established at 1027 Palestinians based on the ransom for the release of Gilad Shalit. Therefor at least 3081 Palestinian lives should be paid for the murder of the 3 Israeli schoolboys.
Jay Boo says
Obama said:
“On behalf of the American people I extend my deepest and heartfelt condolences to the families of … ”
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Didn’t he say the same thing or something similar about the victims at the American Embassy in Benghazi just before he made an grovel apology to Islam.
SonOfDavid says
Hating extremists so much has Clearly made the author one. Now that the Israelis have bombed residential areas with no proof that this wasn’t just an act two individuals, and received the revenge they asked their god for at the 3 teens funerals, in the form last nights random killing of a Palestinian teenager, it is time you drop the BIAS statements about moral superiority because the Israelis are just as bloodthirsty and prejudice towards the palestinians. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ASKED FOR CALM BECAUSE HE IS WISE, EDUCATED, QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT AND INFORMED BEYOND HIS BIAS ENEMIES COMPREHENSION. Get Your Head Out Of Your Ass.
dumbledoresarmy says
You (whom I have never seen posting here before), squeal – “the Israelis are just as bloodthirsty and prejudice towards the palestinians”.
Nonsense. Absolute bl**dy nonsense.
The Jews do not believe that killing a Muslim will get them an express ticket to Paradise. But the Muslims *do*. ‘I have killed my Jew, I shall go to Paradise” – thus quoth the Mohammedan who murdered Sebastien Selam, in Paris, a few years ago.
Jews don’t sneak into a Mohammedan house and slit a baby’s throat in her cot. Jews don’t fire point blank at the belly of a nine-months-pregnant woman, after – execution-style – butchering her four little girls in front of her, which is what the local Mohammedans did to Tali Hatuel.
And Jews don’t go blowing themselves up in the middle of crowds of Muslim kids, like a Muslim did, for example, in the Sbarro pizzeria. Jews don’t hand round sweets and let off fireworks when a Muslim gets killed.
The Jews are defending their postage-stamp-sized homeland – the only piece of dirt on the whole planet that they have ever called home – against genocidal Jew-hating Jihad waged by Mohammedans.
The Mohammedan Mob, on the other hand, doesn’t just want eretz Israel, it wants **the whole wide world**, which Mohammedans believe mohammedans and only Mohammedans have the right to own and rule, and when they rule they intend to STAMP DOWN HARD on the faces of **all** us dirty unbelievers. Israel is just a sort of hors d’oeuvre or aperitif; when they’ve eaten up Israel the Mohammedans intend to eat up the rest of us, too – “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”…. (and the Mohammedans are busy killing or driving out the Sunday people, in large chunks of the Middle EAst).