Posted on 05/19/2004 4:49:24 PM PDT by yonif
The White House early Thursday rebuked Israel over its military actions in the Gaza Strip, saying they do not "serve the purposes of peace and security."
"While we believe that Israel has the right to act to defend itself and its citizens, we do not see that its operations in Gaza in the last few days serve the purposes of peace and security," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in a written statement.
"They have worsened the humanitarian situation and resulted in confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians, and have not, we believe, enhanced Israel's security," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Ping.
From Haaretz:
Israeli UN envoy says Rafah is `on the verge of becoming a missile base aimed at Israel`s cities and civilians`
I think Powell and Bush are playing good cop/bad cop when it comes to Israel and pacifying arabs.
Yep. So when the Arabs do another homicide bombing the Bush administration can say that see, they tried to support the peace plan but those damn Islamists keep mucking up.
The WH has its own problems in Iraq without trying to tell Israel how to handle their situation.
"They have worsened the humanitarian situation and resulted in confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians, and have not, we believe, enhanced Israel's security," he added.
Whether they enhanced Israel's security would be up to Israel to decide, not us.
Go IDF!
IDF must be getting thoroughly sick of this tack by now......
Before I make a post to this thread, what is FR policy regarding the Bush ME policy? Do posts that attack Bush supporters get deleted?
Thanks in advance.
This is a pro Bush test post. I'm about to respond to this poster as an ex Navy, Veteran of the VietNam War, Bush supporter.
Yo, Hymie, go F#2$ yourself. The Bush admin said today that shooting rockets into innocents civilians isn't the right the to do. Israel makes big mistakes. And so do we. Guess President Bush has figured out his mistakes.
I congratulate you. Usually then one hit wonders get their attacks dogs involved; you haven't done that, yet
I'd personally give medals to the soldiers doing the work!
I would agree where it not for the fact that US tax dollars are under writing Jewish camps by the sea.
I don't relish us taking on the role of France, when it comes to Israel. This is a national disgrace. We can take out our terrorist enemies, but Israel should play assinine word games with theirs? God, how low we have sunk as a nation today.
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