Obama doesn’t seem to have made any reference to Hamas’s practice of staging operations from civilian areas in order to provoke retaliatory fire that would hurt civilians and could thus be used for propaganda purposes. He doesn’t appear to have mentioned the Hamas avowals that they use human shields. No, Obama subscribes to the mainstream media fiction that Israel takes insufficient care (at best) to minimize civilian casualties.
“Obama Raises Concerns On Growing Casualties In Call With Netanyahu,” by Mollie Reilly, Huffington Post, July 20, 2014 (thanks to S):
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday about Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the White House said in a statement.
According to the White House, Obama raised concerns about the number of casualties in recent days. As the New York Times reported, Sunday marked the deadliest day in the conflict so far, with 87 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers killed.
“The President discussed Israel’s ongoing military operation, reiterated the United States’ condemnation of attacks by Hamas against Israel, and reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself,” the White House said. “The President also raised serious concern about the growing number of casualties, including increasing Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza and the loss of Israeli soldiers.”
The president also said Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to Cairo, Egypt in order “to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the November 2012 ceasefire agreement.”
During the call, Netanyahu thanked Obama for his support.
Sunday’s call was the second between the two leaders in three days. During a Friday call, Obama urged Netanyahu to minimize civilian deaths.
“We’ve indicated although we support military efforts by the Israelis to make sure that rockets are not being fired into their territory, we also have said that our understanding is the current military ground operations are designed to deal with the tunnels,” Obama told reporters Friday. “And we are hopeful that Israel will continue to approach this process in a way that minimizes civilian casualties.”
Earlier Sunday, Kerry, apparently unaware that he was being recorded prior to an interview with Fox News, candidly expressed his exasperation with the growing number of casualties.
“It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation. It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Kerry said to an off-camera aide. “We’ve got to get over there … I think, John, we ought to go tonight. I think it’s crazy to be sitting around.”
duh_swami says
I would expect Rasulullah Obama to be concerned about rising Mahoundian casualties, he is Rasool, after all.
jihad3tracker says
Yes, as duh_swami writes — Obama is emotionally on the side of Islam.
That religion soaked his early years, and he does not have the strength of character to escape it.
duh_swami says
I’m not so sure he wants to escape it. No one has ever asked him if he believes Allah is God, and Mahound his messenger. I bet he would stand on his head, not to answer it.
jihad3tracker says
Hello again — and to all the others participating in this comment thread.
I did not include the ACTIVE side of BHO in my remark about emotion because Old Man Me was very tired.
Here is the best proof I have even seen on his true mindset — absolutely flabbergasting.
Watch and pass on to as many friends & family as possible — and don’t forget to send the link to every elected person you can on all levels of responsibility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9mZCRX2mg
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Paul says
Actually, if he were ONLY emotionally on the side of Islam, things would be brighter. He is not only emotionally on its side, he is politically and militarily on its side as well. The MB got $1.5B of aid in weapons and goodies. Anti MB forces got a cold shoulder. He intervenes in Libya to remove a secular (but admittedly antidemocratic and thuggish) dictator and in the process replace him with elements of triumphalist Islamists. Sorry — it’s not just Rasulullah Obama’s emotions that are in play here. It’s acts and deeds.
We should have known this man was unsuited to be POTUS when he reportedly said that the Muslim call to prayer was the most beautiful sound in the world. While some religious songs / chants might be considered for this honor, NO Muslim sound of any type should ever be considered for it.
Jan Fourowls says
@ Paul:
Yes, yes and yes! Plus unsecured southern U.S. borders, no No-Fly List, MB cronyism right here in the good ole USA with POTUS and insiders, and there’s more.
As the U.S. entry points for jihadist boots on the ground are expanded to wide open, the force levels of U.S. Army, Air Force and Marines are being cut to low numbers (Navy likely to follow), with the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle, GCV, at the end of its road. http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140102/NEWS/301020012/24-issues-will-shape-Army-2014. (Imagine how handy a GCV would be for safely moving a squad of friendly soldiers to fight well-equipped jihadists/drug cartel gang members in TX, AZ or CA. Not that our enemy will be limited to the border states. And what a difference it will make to have neither the friendly soldiers nor the GCVs available for deployment in the U.S. when the homeland’s bases have been emptied of personnel under budget cutbacks so that IS/MS-13 guys can move into the barracks and the BOQs.)
Does it look to anybody else like we’re being left under-defended deliberately in the U.S. homeland while drug cartel gangs like MS-13 from south of the border are free to join forces with Islamic jihadists (IS, etc.) on choosing how “best” to use torture, terror and hyper-violence to take us over? Americans know what it’s like in Mosul and in San Salvador don’t they? Probably not. Something else on my list to discuss with friends, family, church members and acquaintances.
Thank God for google which confirms it as not being hysteria or “phobia” to be concerned. (Although there’s a lot of wading through taqiyya there.)
The beat [ing up of the U.S. people] goes on.
Jay Boo says
ISN’T IT SO STRANGE?
It’s another hot summer night in Washington DC and the Muslim Brotherhood at the back gate singing Islam is peace.
See Hamas silently creeping in the dark.
Isn’t it strange that no matter where they prowl and stalk,
the White house dog never seems to growl and bark.
Jay Boo says
Sunny and Bo
need to be trained to detect friend from foe
http://www.whitehouse.gov/meet-sunny
Kepha says
@barbara:
Here’s an interesting article, which I think speaks directly to why some churches in NY are becoming anti-Semitic:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/ten_reasons_i_am_no_longer_a_leftist.html
I don’t think that writing to a Congressman is going to do any good about some church’s preaching. The free exercise clause and free speech clause allow some church in NY to identify the JOOOOOOOOOOOZ as the evil oppressors of the poor, upright, kinsmen-of-Jesus [supposedly] Palestinians just as they allow Uncle Kepha to say that homosexuality is a sin, that there is no salvation outside of Jesus Christ, and that Islam is a lie.
If you dislike what you hear in your church, go find another one. It’s that simple. Better still, dust off your Bible, study it carefully, and go point out to the offending preacher that it doesn’t see the Jews as bigger sinners than any of the rest of us.
Paul says
Please list / name and shame these churches. We deserve to know which shepherds are misleading their flocks! As with Bishop McManus’s evil deeds, naming and shaming is a very effective and low-cost way to deal with this. It has the added benefit of NOT involving civil authorities in matters that (unless there is evidence of a crime’s being committed) they have no constitutional or legal right to interfere.
Also, why are you asking your Congressman to intervene in a religious matter, unless you know that the accused church has broken a law? In that case, a talk with the Federal, state or local prosecutor is in order.
As to taking legal action against this church, what exactly is your legal theory? What crime have they committed (if you believe it’s a breach of criminal law) or what tort or civil misdeed have they committed?
RobiMac says
Netanyahu should seriously tell Obama where to go.
Jan Fourowls says
Obama also conveniently fails to mention in the press (although he of course knows) that when Israel by humanitarian grace announced its intention to Gaza residents (so they could evacuate) long before IDF troops entered, not only did the Gaza soldier-citizens not evacuate but Hamas planted anti-tank mines which killed IDF soldiers including two brave American-born young Israelis, Max Steinberg (from CA) and Nissim Sean Carmeli (from TX) who had gone to fight for the Jewish homeland.
Our oligarchic U.S. leadership has sold out the American people as well as the Israelis. Obama shares taqiyya abilities with Hamas and other Islamists in that their acts and omissions are skilled, by analogy to the theme about a deceitful murdering terrorist in the film The Green Mile, in using people’s love against them. Kindhearted Westerners are thus duped into not appreciating the real danger of the Obama sellout or the terrorist threat because it presents itself (as in Gaza) as claiming to care about people, while duping Westerners to advance evil’s longer range aims of violent conquest.
Americans who seemingly learned nothing by 9/11 terrorism on U.S. soil ought to get a clue from the propaganda and terrorism of Hamas (abuser of its own people as human shields to boost “civilian” kill stats and play the victim card) — before there are terrorist boots on the ground in the U.S. now that the Obama administration has rendered southern U.S. borders insecure from entry and sabotaged the anti-terrorism No-Fly List.
We’ve been following the rapidly growing wealth and military progression of the “IS” as Caliphate whose Caliph (leader) is Sunni (the denomination which accounts for around 90% of the world’s approximately 1.6 billion Muslims), right? IS could be a far greater risk to the life, liberty and security of the “free world” including the U.S., UK and Israel than anything Hamas is putting Israel through right now.
I hope and pray my fellow U.S. citizens start paying attention, while doing everything I can informationally to help them face it in the circles I travel. But there’s no point in “speaking the truth to power” because the pro-Islam lame-duck Oligarch Obama and his administration already know. If we can figure it out, Obama and company knows.
Three things most people (not regular JWers) don’t know about Islam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w
This simple video (made for UK residents but applicable for Westerners) might be of interest to your friends, family and acquaintances who have no idea yet what we’re up against.
If the link doesn’t work, apologies in advance. Lately links in MSM commenting I’ve done supporting Israel ( e.g., to the Hamas listing on the U.S. State Department’s foreign terrorist list) are broken with “unavailable pages” within minutes, although the websites are still up when I check.
duh_swami says
In essence, Rasool Obama is a stealth jihadist, and the WH is a kind of mosque from which he launches various kinds of attacks on the American people.
el-cid says
Barbara,
Speak out in your church. Don’t let the church be taken over by hate mongers.
Mirren10 says
Does Israel really need the approval of the likes of obama, camoron, et al ?
What have they ever done for Israel, that Bibi needs to placate them ?
Israel should look at the suicidal rules of engagement that obama, and the rest of NATO force upon their *own* troops, and conclude that these creatures have *no* solid ground from which to tell the Israelis how to conduct a war, which is about the very *existence* of Israel.
I so wish that Israel would just tell all these wicked fools, “You have forgotten how to defend your own. *We* have not. So take all your hypocritical, cowardly handwringing, and shove it up your backside. We, the Israeli people, know what we must do, to protect our people, and our homeland. Screw you.”
And then wipe out the whole bloody nest.
Am Yisrael Chai !
dumbledoresarmy says
Good post.
The one thing that all of us here are able to do is this: 1/ write to the Israeli diplomatic rep in our respective countries, and say – “I (citizen X of country X; and btw not Jewish) totally support your right of self-defence against Jihad. Do whatever you have to do”,
and then
2/ write to our *own* government people – esp foreign minister and PM or President – and state that as far as we are concerned, we totally support Israel’s self-defence against genocidal Jihad by the Hamas Jew-haters, and that we want to see our particular country, our government, just leaving Israel alone and letting them get on with hammering Hamas into the ground. Or words to that effect.
That’s what I did, earlier this week. I wrote to the Israeli ambassador in Australia with a message of support.
Then I wrote to our foreign affairs minister (who is fairly pro-Israel), and to our PM and told them, basically, to leave the Israelis alone and let them get on with flattening Jihad Armed Camp Gaza, using whatever means they see fit. And so far our (Aussie) pm seems to be holding fairly steady re Israel’s right to self-defence.
Now, if anyone holds a pro-Israel rally in my hometown, I’ll go along.
But it’s the letters that matter.
Because if the Israeli ambassador in, say, Canada or Australia gets *more* – heaps more – Love Mail than Hate Mail, and all the Love Mail comes from locals saying things that boil down to something like – “Kick Hamas azz! We know they’re evil b*st*rds and we know what you have to do to defend yourself”, then that gives them a bit more confidence when they’re representing their homeland to the local *government*.
And if that *government*, as it might be the Australian or the Canadian or the NZ or the UK even, gets a lot *more* intelligent pro-Israel mail (especially from hordes of people who identify as non-Jews), than they get letters from the Muslims and Useful Idiots and homegrown non-Muslim antisemites, then that might give them the idea that there are more votes in supporting Israel, than in *not* supporting Israel.
Islofob IS-1 says
Each “Ceasefire” has lead to the next battle. Right after the last “Ceasefire”, rockets were again launched against Israel within days .
Declare war, and give all the followers of islam a countdown of safe passage out of Gaza. All must leave. To the West Bank, Egypt, anywhere, but Gaza must become a flat, walled in, parking lot.
Any other course, any withdraw by Israel, and the tunnels will be rebuilt, the Rockets will be restocked, and will fly again.
Hamas has presented this opening, one can hope for Israel to take it.
Israel take note, you are having your people killed, it must be the last time from Gaza’s followers of islam..
May God protect Israel, and all who support her.
Prinz Eugen says
Obviously there are only two locales suitable for the likes of any totalitarian moslem enabler and supporter — for the living, there is GITMO. For the rest, hell!