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Clueless in Gaza
The Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2014 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 08/02/2014 5:35:08 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic

John Kerry is upset by heavy criticism from Israelis — left, right and center — of his recent cease-fire diplomacy. But that’s only half the story. More significant is the consternation of America’s Arab partners, starting with the president of the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas was stunned that Kerry would fly off to Paris to negotiate with Hamas allies Qatar and Turkey in talks that excluded the PA and Egypt.

The talks also undermined Egypt’s cease-fire proposal, which Israel had accepted and Hamas rejected (and would have prevented the vast majority of the casualties on both sides). “Kerry tried through his latest plan to destroy the Egyptian bid,” charged a senior Palestinian official quoted in the Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat — a peace plan that the PA itself had supported.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: gazaceasefire; israel; israelgroundop; johnkerry; krauthammer; obamaadministration; secstatekerry
I think this is a good article by Dr. Krauthammer exposing John Kerry's fecklessness in trying to negotiate peace between the Israelis and Hamas. However, I don't think Krauthammer is tough enough on Kerry and the rest of the Obama Administration. The pro-terrorist despots in the Obama Administration want to see Israel wiped off the face of the earth. This fits well with the narrative that Obama has furthered since before he was president. He wants to see Islam flourish and Islam's biggest threats, principally the United States and Israel, emasculated, if not completely annihilated. I truly wonder when Americans will wake up and realize that Obama is and always has been a Muslim? As I've stated before: Those who are not pro-Israel are pro-terrorist./rwa
1 posted on 08/02/2014 5:35:08 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
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To: right-wing agnostic

Whoever thought that this empty suit, who could only be elected in the armpit of America, would have the skill to negotiate peace in this nest of scorpions is to blame for this blunder. That would be the equally feckless president who appointed him. They have actually brought the Arabs and Jews together in agreeing that they are clueless.


2 posted on 08/02/2014 5:43:13 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: right-wing agnostic
He wants to see Islam flourish and Islam's biggest threats, principally the United States and Israel, emasculated, if not completely annihilated

Yes, the Obungler wants to see that, but I don't think John F'n Kerry is clueless. He knows exactly what he is doing. Instead of being clueless, he is just plain EVIL, with a capital E. Also, he is a real POS.

3 posted on 08/02/2014 5:56:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: right-wing agnostic
Dr. K along with everybody else in Washington is suffering from normalcy bias. They cannot get their heads around what is truly happening, and what kind of people are running the country.

Kerry is, at best, a Jew hating, America hating, egotistical, know it all extreme left wing ideologue. His boss is a moslem, (Jew hating goes without saying) America hating, ideological communist. Accept these facts and their actions become completely explainable.

4 posted on 08/02/2014 6:02:48 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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My read on this whole Obama-Kerry “diplomatic” interference into Israel’s attempt to rid the neighborhood of the cockroach-infested vermin, Hamas, is that as usual, it is all about themselves looking good. They always see any situation as about “Me, Myself and I”.

And it doesn’t help that they are both anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-Islamic terrorists, now does it? How did this country get ourselves into this mess with these radical traitors running the government?

I am glad to see Netanyahu tell Obama and Kerry today, to “never second guess me about Hamas again.” In other words, butt out and let a real leader take charge and finish the job. Is there any way we could figure out how to get Bibi as U.S. president? He is as good as I’ve seen on the world stage lately.


5 posted on 08/02/2014 6:27:16 AM PDT by HotHunt
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"Kerry legitimized Hamas’s war criminality. Which makes his advocacy of Hamas’s terms not just a strategic blunder — enhancing a U.S.-designated terrorist group just when a wall-to-wall Arab front wants to see it gone — but a moral disgrace."
6 posted on 08/02/2014 6:34:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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"And it doesn’t help that they are both anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-Islamic terrorists, now does it? How did this country get ourselves into this mess with these radical traitors running the government?"

How much time have you got to discuss that last point? I spend a lot of time every day listening to Rush and Beck and I still can't fully explain it.

7 posted on 08/02/2014 7:05:00 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> “Kerry tried through his latest plan to destroy the Egyptian bid,” charged a senior Palestinian official quoted in the Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat — a peace plan that the PA itself had supported.

I’ve been unfair in calling Lurch incompetent. Like Zero, Lurch merely pursues anti-American policies, and does so with a great deal of effort. Like Zero, Holder, Power, Jarrett, Plugs, and so many others in the illegitimate Kenyan’s regime, Lurch is an enemy of the United States of America.


8 posted on 08/02/2014 7:42:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Go back to your Tin god and tell him I said F.O. Image and video hosting by TinyPic (Priceless)
9 posted on 08/02/2014 8:09:45 AM PDT by MtnMan101
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Our country had some powerful help getting into this mess.

1) 99% of our political left places on the LEFT side of the Bell Curve. They’re easy for Satan to lead.

2)Islam is the religion of Satan: check out their prayer stance...butts to heaven and heads to hell. That should be a good sign of their loyalty.

3) Our political left favors Islam.


10 posted on 08/02/2014 8:44:05 AM PDT by abclily
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Peace is a good thing, but that is not a choice available to Israel at this time. The available alternatives are (1) Hamas terrorists murder Jewish women and children in Israel and without opposition, or (2) Hamas terrorists fight Israeli soldiers in Gaza and die at a ratio of 20:1. Of the two options permitted by the terrorists, I prefer option (2).


11 posted on 08/02/2014 9:11:53 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

It was meant more as a rhetorical question than anything else. My opinion generally is that the left put a wolf in sheep’s clothing, put some lipstick on their pig and sent him to charm school to fool the no information, celebrity-oriented voters and shoved him to the front of the line, as if it was his turn. Being half black and half white attracted a lot of clue-challenged voters.

But the bigger questions is, how is that we have allowed this guy and his communist, traitor buddies to run roughshod over the government like they have no responsibility except to their own radical ideology, Constitution be damned. Where is the press? Where is the opposition party? Where are the people to step forward to keep these thugs in check?


12 posted on 08/02/2014 9:22:16 AM PDT by HotHunt
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