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2014-08-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Report: US halted weapons transfer to Israel during Gaza offensive

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-14 03:21|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 The "O" in Obama stands for 'oy vey'!

Posted by borgboy 2014-08-14 03:57|| 2014-08-14 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Next question: how much and in what way did Oblama bin bumbler help Hamas?

Posted by Airandee 2014-08-14 06:41|| 2014-08-14 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Then, Airandee, the NEXT question is how much did Zero receive in "campaign" contributions or library funding from Qatar et. al.?

Posted by AlanC 2014-08-14 07:31|| 2014-08-14 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Or as money not the reason, just an intense dislike of the 'colonialist' Israelis?

Posted by Bobby 2014-08-14 07:36|| 2014-08-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Not as, but is money not the reason...

Or I thought of another possibility - Champ wants to make Israel more self-reliant. How's that for spin?

Posted by Bobby 2014-08-14 07:43|| 2014-08-14 07:43|| Front Page Top

Ahhh nice! What Russian arms supplier could possibly step in to fill this void.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-14 08:38|| 2014-08-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 “My name is Barack ‘HUSSEIN’ Obama”

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-08-14 09:22|| 2014-08-14 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 From the Times of Israel liveblog, about the Wall Street Journal article today on the subject of the transfer halt:

The paper also reports that Washington has increased its control over arms transfers to Israel after the administration was shocked to discover in late July that the Pentagon was providing the Jewish state with ammunition for the war without the knowledge of the White House and State Department, just as officials were trying to bring about a cessation of hostilities.

Three cheers for the Pentagon who, like the majority of Americans, stand with Israel and also independent thinking.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-14 11:43|| 2014-08-14 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 This stupid move will force Israels hands. Currently their Iron Dome is fairly accurate. Suspend support of missiles and Israel will have no other option but to go directly into Gaza to stop it. Obama and his staff cant so stupid to think there will not be a ground offensive once the Iron Dome logistics is cut off. He is purposefully trying to drive Israel into a larger ground offensive to stir up Muslim action against Israel. To dismiss him as shortsighted and stupid is wrong, he knows exactly what he's doing.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-08-14 11:55|| 2014-08-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 He IS short-sighted and stupid, 49 Pan. He thinks he knows how others will react. He keeps getting "surprised", "unexpectedly". What he may end up doing is forcing Israel to resort to the nuclear option, and take out Qatar. The one thing he's SURE to do is to set back US/Israel relations for 20 years or more, and create even more havoc (which he has no ability to influence, much less control) in the Muddled East. The man is a walking disaster.

Posted by Old Patriot 2014-08-14 14:19|| 2014-08-14 14:19|| Front Page Top

#11 I think he is doing it on purpose. He wants to destroy our relationship with Israel, he wants to reduce America to a second world community. This is what he wants. If he could be the man in history to reduce America to a socialist police state, subject to the sodies ruling, I believe he would call it success. And lastly, he wants Israel to go to ground operations so the rest of Islam will rise up in support of Israels destruction. He is a disaster and dangerous to the free world.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-08-14 15:35|| 2014-08-14 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Aid and comfort to the enemy.

Posted by newc 2014-08-14 16:27|| 2014-08-14 16:27|| Front Page Top

#13 I said it before, Gazooks should be grateful for Iron Dome. If significant numbers of their missiles landed in Israeli cities there's no telling what might happen.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-14 16:28|| 2014-08-14 16:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Obysmal is like an ME dictator, he speaks one language to his tribe and another to everyone else.

He's telling his lefty nutjob base that he's willing to tip the scales for Hamas to level the killing field. The reality is that he's more focused on his putting.

Posted by regular joe 2014-08-14 16:46|| 2014-08-14 16:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Kind of wonder how this will impact donations to Democrats and the Democratic Party from the various Jewish donors and organizations that have been so heavily pro-Democrat in the past. By all accounts it is a rather substantial part of the overall percentage of the donations that Democrats receive.

Posted by Chantry 2014-08-14 18:56|| 2014-08-14 18:56|| Front Page Top

#16 Obama is the poster child of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-08-14 21:13|| 2014-08-14 21:13|| Front Page Top

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