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Home Front: WoT
Israel, Hamas and Obama's foreign policy
2014-07-30
by Caroline Glick
The one piece you want to read today, dear Reader. Go. We'll wait.
[Jpost] ...The IDF's discovery of Hamas's Rosh Hashana plot was the last straw for any Israeli leftists still harboring fantasies about picking up our marbles and going home. Hamas's plan to use its tunnels to send hundreds of terrorists into multiple Israeli border communities simultaneously and carry out a massacre of unprecedented scope, replete with the abduction of hostages to Gaza, was the rude awakening the Left had avoided since it pushed for Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.

In other words, in their discussion Sunday night, Netanyahu and his ministers were without illusions about the gravity of the situation and the imperative of winning -- however defined.

But then the telephone rang. And Obama told Netanyahu that Israel must lose. He wants an unconditional "humanitarian" cease-fire that will lead to a permanent one.

And he wants it now.
Of course, all involved denied the conversation went anything like that. In almost exactly the same words, oddly enough. Brilliant diplomacy, guys. Smartest in the room, forsooth.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#3  Israel is fighting a two-front war; One with Hamas, one with Obama

Personally, I just lump them together as ObHamas.

Hard to understand why so many people can't believe Hamas is all about Jew-killing. It's not like the HamAsses try and keep it secret.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-07-30 16:29  

#2  Israel is fighting a two-front war; One with Hamas, one with Obama?
Just put the WH on call block. Make Kerry use the back door if he comes slithering in.....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-07-30 15:45  

#1  But then the telephone rang. And Obama told Netanyahu that Israel must lose. He wants an unconditional “humanitarian” cease-fire that will lead to a permanent one. And he wants it now.

Israel is fighting a two-front war; One with Hamas, one with Obama?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-07-30 09:27  

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