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Netanyahu rejects Obama’s offer: Ceasefire “is not even on the agenda”

Jul 11, 2014 12:42 pm By Robert Spencer

netanyahu_obamaIt has been the pattern for decades now: whenever Israel starts to defend itself, the U.S. President tries to get it to stop. But now that Israel is dealing with a fanatically and consistently anti-Israel President, more and more Israelis (and pro-Israel Americans) are realizing that Israel is on its own against the jihadi onslaught. And so this time the President’s word doesn’t carry as much weight as it did in the past.

An update on this story. “Obama speaks with Netanyahu, offering to broker ceasefire with Hamas,” by Michael Wilner, Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2014:

VIENNA — The United States is prepared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, US President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu by phone today.

In the call, Obama “reiterated the United States’ strong condemnation of continuing rocket fire into Israel by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza and reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against these attacks,” the White House said in a readout of the conversation.

But Netanyahu has ruled out a ceasefire with Hamas in the short-term. On the contrary, the Israeli leader has vowed a series of additional stages to Operation Protective Edge— his government’s response to continued rocket fire on Israeli towns and cities, after Hamas, a terrorist organization, stockpiled tens of thousands of rockets in the coastal territory over the last several years.

A ceasefire is “not even on the agenda,” Netanyahu told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, just hours before his call with the US leader.

The president also expressed concern, the press secretary’s office continued, “about the risk of further escalation and emphasized the need for all sides to do everything they can to protect the lives of civilians and restore calm.”

The two discussed the impetus for the crisis: the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was also an American citizen. They also discussed a revenge attack in East Jerusalem by extremist Israelis against an innocent Arab teenager, which compounded the crisis.

Obama “acknowledged,” the White House added, “Israel’s efforts to resolve this case.”

“I would remind you who is at fault here, and that is Hamas,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday, facing a series of accusatory questions from a Palestinian journalist for al-Quds TV in Washington….

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  1. RG says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    It may just be a blessing in disguise that Obama has not evoked the approval of Netanyahu. I mean, Israel doesn’t need any more bullies to tell it how to kowtow to the jihadis. Israel can wear her ‘big-boy’ pants! I hope she nukes the hell out of Hamas!!!

  2. John C. Barile says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Thank Heaven that our impetuously self-centered U.S. President in held in check by an informed body politic. Thank the Lord that any sane and balanced assessment of the facts can overcome Mr. Obama’s fantasy-based policy initiatives.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 1:09 pm

      Read, “fantasy-based peace initiatives.”

      • medina says

        Jul 11, 2014 at 4:32 pm

        I really do not believe Obama has any peace initiatives. His goal is to pressure Israel into a ceasefire while Hamas continues to attack.

        • John C. Barile says

          Jul 11, 2014 at 5:53 pm

          See there? That’s what Obama calls “peace!”

  3. Beagle says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    It would be cultural imperialism to deny the mujahideen their martyrdom. As they always taunt us, “(They) We love death more than you love life.” It is time to hold them to that.

    • Recon says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 7:42 pm

      Well said.

  4. zulu says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    OT

    ‘I started memorising the Koran when I was five’: Older brother of missing jihadi sisters reveals his devout religious beliefs in videos filmed before he fled to Syria to fight for ISIS

    Ahmed Halane, 21, is now banned from the UK for going to Syria to join ISIS

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688572/Older-brother-missing-jihadi-sisters-filmed-just-fled-Syria.html#ixzz37BHC5gt4
    Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

    • ET says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 8:29 pm

      “…is now banned from the UK” That’s how the non-Muslim world should punish their treacherous citizens.

  5. tim says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Netanyahu’s not looking for a photo op, Barry.

    Pres. Obama goes ahead and offers to trade all the Gitmo jihadists for a ceasefire anyways.

    Netanyahu has to be thinking…”Libya, Egypt, Syria…Afghanistan… Iraq…tens of thousands of kids…kids!…crossing the American border illegally…and this jackwagon thinks he can help us!?!”

    He just got back from Colorado, right? Put the pipe down, Barry.

    Twenty bucks Obama doesn’t even realize one of the dead teenagers was an American.

  6. mariam rove says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    The president also expressed concern, the press secretary’s office continued, “about the risk of further escalation and emphasized the need for all sides to do everything they can to protect the lives of civilians and restore calm.”…..

    The civilians Obama is referring to are the Islamists and the Jihadists who are hell bent on destroying the Jewish state. So yes no cease fire until they are all eliminated. First war then peace….m

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 2:06 pm

      So true. Only Israel is taking necessary steps to spare civilian casualties–and HAMAS is trying to inflict civilian casualties on BOTH sides.

  7. Diane Harvey says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Bibi, this time follow Nelson Muntz’s excellent advice, “Finish the job!”

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Nelson_Muntz.PNG

  8. Peter Buckley says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    The world learns…

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4398/christian-canadian-support-israel

  9. Charli Main says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    British TV news this evening running programmes ” about the human costs of Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza”.
    All the usual “poor Muslim victims ” footage of hospitals, bomb sites and hysterical women ripping their hair.
    No mention of the relentless attacks on Israel by the ” Palestinians” and the fact that Hamas site their rocket launchers in places that will insure maximum “Palestinian” casualties.
    Not one brainless BBC reporter on site has suggested” that if Hamas stopped attacking Israel, Israel won´t find it necessary to bomb Gaza.

    • Leah Schwartz says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 11:34 am

      Thank you for understanding. You can listen to the news and think everything is peaceful in Israel and only Gaza is being shelled. When it comes to the media, it is all one sided and anti-Israel. They hide under the anti-Israel stance which is anti-semitism at it’s fullest.

  10. zulu says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/its-not-occupation-its-islam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

    It’s not about physical territory. It’s about spiritual territory. It’s not about nationalism. It’s about Islamism. It’s not about the “Occupation”. It’s about Islam.

    Muslims did not begin killing Jews and Christians over foreign policy. They began persecuting and killing their Christian and Jewish neighbors because their religion told them to.

    Hamas, the terror group that murdered the three teens, is not a Palestinian nationalist organization, though it occasionally plays the part. Its charter begins with Allah and ends with Allah. Article Five of its charter states that the group extends to “wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life”. Its goal is to create an Islamic state. Everything else is secondary.

    The Hamas charter describes it as part of the worldwide “Muslim Brotherhood Movement”. Brotherhood terrorists kill Jews in Israel for the same reason that they kill Shiites in Syria or Christian Copts in Egypt.

    Article Seven of the Hamas charter concludes with the infamous Islamic Hadith which proclaims that the Muslim end times will come only when “Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”

    Aside from the obvious genocidal bigotry, this is a quote from a text that is over a thousand years old. Its author was not preaching the mass murder of Jews because of settlements in the West Bank. At the time Muslims had subjugated and ruled over the Jewish population of the Middle East. The Jews were no threat to them. The idea of a Jewish army was as ridiculous as traveling to the moon.

    The hatred that leaks out of that text has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with Islam.

    The insistence on a foreign policy explanation for Muslim anti-Semitism is as ahistorical as claiming that Hitler only hated Jews because of the Yom Kippur War. Except that at least both of these events took place in the twentieth century. Islam has been hating and persecuting Jews for over 1300 years before the rebirth of the modern State of Israel.

    There are two ways of looking at the worldwide plague of Muslim terrorism. One is to treat every Islamic conflict with Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and a dozen other religions as being due to some local political grievance of recent vintage. The other is to understand them as local expressions of a historical religious war and the continuation of the wave of conquests that made Islam into a worldwide religion.

    We can be like the six blind men feeling around the Islamic elephant and assuming that its trunk and tusks are entirely separate phenomena. Or we can open our eyes and see the elephant in the room.

    Hamas’ charter begins with the Koran’s praise for Muslims “as the best people” and damns Christians and Jews to be “smitten with abasement” for having “incurred the wrath of Allah”.

    This is not a statement of Palestinian nationalism. It’s Islamic supremacism.

    There is nothing negotiable about supremacism. Supremacism cannot be appeased. Supremacism does not want a piece of the pie. It wants the whole pie. The allies learned that the hard way with Hitler. So did the countless kingdoms that attempted to live in peace with the armies of the Mohammedan conquerors.

    If Israel had never existed, Hamas would still exist, just as the other branches of the Muslim Brotherhood exist elsewhere throughout the Middle East. Even if Zionism did not exist, the Muslim Brotherhood would persecute the Jews under its control, just like the Christians in Egypt and Syria.

    If Netanyahu, Sharon, Begin and a thousand other Israeli villains of the apologists of Islam had never been born, the followers of Mohammed would have gone on killing Jews just as they had for over a thousand years. If the blue and white had never waved over Jerusalem, if Jews had remained as downtrodden and persecuted in the lands of Islam as the Copts and the Zoroastrians, Naftali, Gilad and Eyal would still have been murdered by two killers who were raised by their mothers to usher in “the victory of Islam.”

    There is no political solution to a supremacist conflict. There is no amount of withdrawals that can make bigotry go away. If a thousand years of Jewish humiliation and persecution did not satisfy the ancestors of the murderers of those three teenagers, how will handing over part of Jerusalem do the job?

    Solutions begin with truth. The truth is that Islamic violence against Jews is not recent or exceptional. The murder of Jews by Muslims, whether in Israel or Belgium, is not any different than the Muslim butchery of Christians. Hindus, Buddhists and even minority Muslim splinter faiths. These conflicts cannot be resolved through appeasement. They can only be addressed through resistance.

    It is not the victims of a thousand year old supremacist campaign who need to appease their conquerors. It is the conquerors who must come to terms with the horrors that they have inflicted through a campaign of colonialism and ethnic cleansing and seek the forgiveness of their victims.

    There can be no peace until Muslims understand that the Mohammedan conquests were a genocidal atrocity that destroyed entire peoples and cultures. Only then can they honestly condemn ISIS for trying to repeat those atrocities. And only then will they be able to live in peace with the rest of the world.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 2:09 pm

      This is a great post, Z. You have summed it all up. Great work.

    • Beagle says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 2:16 pm

      Relentless emphasis on the Gharkad Tree Hadith is no less than solicitation of and conspiracy to commit genocide. The US aiding HAMAS is material support for genocide under the 1949 Convention.

    • but-seriously-folks says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 6:02 pm

      I have come to expect nothing more than mindless drivel when people reply to news stories on the internet. What a breath of fresh air to read a brilliantly conceived and written piece. Thank you, Zulu, whoever you are. Very nicely done.

      • Musthava RamRam says

        Jul 12, 2014 at 12:53 am

        ZULU did NOT author the piece you lot find so appealing. Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish wrote it. Daniel is in a league of his own when it comes to understanding islam and muslims and the threat to western civilization and Israel in particular, posed by Barry Soetoro the muslim currently occupying the White House.

        Daniel was born in Israel and lives in New York. He is absolutely brilliant and relentless and not least prolific. He publishes on Front Page Magazine http://www.frontpagemag.com and his own blog http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.

        Here is another excellent site with an interesting angle. http://thediplomad.blogspot.com. Blog owner, W. Lewis Amselem is a retired US Foreign Service Officer.

        • Jay Boo says

          Jul 12, 2014 at 1:26 am

          Musthava RamRam
          When you wrote “Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish wrote it” you either overlooked or neglected to mention that ZULU clearly listed the link at the top of his comment.
          You seem to be implying that ZULU is presenting this as original work by the omission of mention to the link.

          BTW “Barry Soetoro” is a great rumor.

  11. shrugger says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    NO cease fire until Hamas BEGS Israel for it. They of course, never will. Therefore NO cease fire till it’s done. PERIOD!

    • medina says

      Jul 11, 2014 at 4:39 pm

      Last time they used the media shills and lame off-shore politicians to put the pressure on Israel. Remember “proportional response?” The media, who could not find their butts with both hands in a room full of mirrors, lamented about Israel striking Paleo civilians, while never mentioning the Israeli casualties. The media needs to get over to the Gazan nursery schools and hospitals for footage on where the rockets are being launched. Fat chance.

  12. Champ says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Netanyahu rejects Obama’s offer: Ceasefire “is not even on the agenda”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Bravo, Netanyahu!! Hey it’s about time you stood up to that A-hole “nooobama” who’s the worst president (leader? nah!!) on record! Israel has every **right** to defend her borders against Hamas’ constant attacks over the years, and this current campaign to take out Hamas is loooong overdue. Again ..Bravo!!

  13. Henry says

    Jul 11, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    Bravo Mr. Netanyahu! Eradicate Hamas once and for all! I’m hoping beyond hope that the Palestinian people will cease the chance to have leaders who will care about their human rights, the sanctity of life, and turn them away from the poisonous hate and lies.

  14. Max headroom says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    Obama would have apologized to the Imperial Japanese government for their losses of some pilots and airplanes after their attack on Pearl Harbor.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 7:47 pm

      He probably has, back in his first term in office.

  15. Martina says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 3:55 am

    [Greets JW. Saw this forthright message on the net. Any reactions to it?]

    Government-Approved Illegals !

    Speaking of illegals, the government hasn’t built the border fence high enough to keep out the un-American criminals who want to take away our freedoms.
    Yes, the government hasn’t built the White House fence high enough to keep out the un-American criminals who are now inside the White House and working hard to take away the religious, social, and economic freedoms of true Americans!
    Here are two slogans that Obama would rather not think about: “Unborn babies should have the right to keep and bear arms – and legs and ears and eyes, etc.!” and “Unborn babies should have the same right to be born alive that abortionists had!”
    If Obama would Google “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right,” do you think he’d feel guilty merely walking in the hallowed halls of that House where true Americans walked?
    Is it safe to assume that Mecca Wafers are Obama’s favorite candy? And is barack-coli a vegetable or a disease?
    (For more on Obama in Washingdumb, Google “Obama Avoids Bible Verses,” “The Background Obama Can’t Cover Up,” and “WHITE HOUSE-GROWN TERRORISTS starring Obaba Black Sheep….”)

  16. Marcos says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:29 am

    Go Ob@m@, Saudi Arabia’s supporter!

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