Posted on 07/18/2014 2:42:53 AM PDT by markomalley
WASHINGTON US Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US strongly supports Israels right to defend itself against threats posed by the Gaza tunnels dug into Israel and urged Israel to limit its ground operation to a precision offensive against the tunnels, the State Department revealed late Thursday evening.
In a statement following a Thursday afternoon phone call between Netanyahu and Kerry as Israel launched a ground offensive into Gaza, State Department officials said that the secretary reaffirmed [the US's] strong support for Israels right to defend itself against terrorist threats emanating from tunnels into Israel and expressed our view that this should be a precise operation to target tunnels, as described in a statement from the Israeli Defense Forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Calls for Israeli restraint angered me during the Bush administration as we’ll. Condi Rice and Colin Powell used to urge restraint when Israel had been attacked, and I thought it was evidence of extreme stupidity back then too.
These were two people that should have known better. And if they didn’t Bush should have. Alas it happened over and over. Each time it angered me.
Now we have Lurch doing it. Obama has too. Just how much restraint would these people use if their neighbors were hitting their home with rockets?
They should STFU.
With 300,000 new illegal aliens (including an unknown number of ISIS and Al Qaeda Terrorists) who have crossed our border this year, we may get to find out that out soon.
Will Israel call upon the United States to exercise restraint when we get hit by a thousand bombs?
Kerry: “I demand to be relevant!”
If they don't have to 'sneak' in, why are they wearing these ?
Obama sneakers.
LOL must have been a subconscious reply cause I haven’t used the word sneak in a loooooong time! LOL
Ouch! That’s right. Good question.
Heres a running account of news reports related to these recent events with Israel and Hamas. If you want to catch up on the news accounts ... they are here ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stisraelhamas/index
Its listed from newest to oldest, so go to the bottom to start.
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