Posted on 07/21/2014 5:59:56 PM PDT by SJackson
Secy of State John Kerry is on his way to the region to begin efforts to force another 'cease fire' down Israel's throat before the threat from Hamas is ended.
Israel’s ‘strongest supporter’ is already wavering. Doubts about the wisdom of continuing Operation Protective Edge are being expressed from the White House as soon as the IDF struck a decisive blow in a Gaza neighborhood where Hamas terrorists stored some of their most deadly missiles. The ordnance was, of course, stashed under civilian buildings — a mosque, a hospital, a children’s playround, and more.
For three days the IDF dropped flyers, called homes and sent SMS text messages warning residents to leave the area so they would not be harmed when the attack began. Hamas pressured its people not to. Some had the sense to flee the area, and others chose to remain as human shields. The brutal, bloody firefight in Seijaiya cost a lot of lives on both sides and panicked leaders around the world — including officials in the White House.
In his second call to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu since Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama expressed “serious concern about the growing number of casualties” in Gaza.
Israel’s prime minister was also notified during the call that Obama was sending Secretary of State John Kerry back to the region. Kerry was boarding a plane to head for Cairo, where he would pressure Israel and Hamas to negotiate another cease fire.
According to a statement issued by the White House, the move was aimed at helping ‘protect civilians in both Gaza and Israel.’ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, has called on Israel to “exercise maximum restraint and do far more to protect civilians” without specifying exactly how the IDF should accomplish that task. He also called on Hamas to end its rocket fire from Gaza.
The IDF drops flyers warning civilians in every target neighborhood prior to an attack, calls homes and sends SMS text messages asking residents to leave the area hours and sometimes days before carrying out operations – all of which puts its own forces in danger and of course alerts the enemy to its plans. Not one armed force of any other nation in the world does the same.
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I haven't heard you utter so much as a grunt about them.
Maybe they can give Lurch some puzzles to work on once he arrives. Keep him busy with something harmless.
Hello? (echo)
He’d prefer lobster.
Kerry sold out So. Vietnam, betrayed his fellow servicemen, tried to aid the Marxist dictatorship in Nicaragua, and betrayed the search for our VN POWS/MIAS, so why is selling out a few Jews any big deal to him?
From: MadMax, one of the researchers for “Unfit for Command”.
We know Kerry very well. He’s a poisonous snake in human form. In other words, a Democrat POS.
Because the allegiance of the RAT bastard Jewish liberals in this country is to their liberal, left-wing, socialist Marxist ideology, which by the way is also anti-Christian, anti-Israel & pro-Hamas. 78% of the Jews in this country voted for 0dumb0 and the democRAT party, and would do so again in a heart beat. They are Jewish in name only, their real allegiance is to their socialist overlords and radical left wing ideology.
There are no innocent philistines
Israel would be wise to drive them all out and turn the area into a free fire zone
100% correct!
Just put a rich widow in front of that maniac, problem solved
The headline writer confuses Obama with the USA.
No kidding, huh?
He and Kerry are true 1960’s peacenik throwbacks.
A statement would be showing Jon Cary the door. And tell him to not come back.
How about the christians being run out of Mosul or slaughtered in Nigeria and Sudan, Mr President?
I haven’t heard you utter so much as a grunt about them.
And some people thing Muzlims just hate the Jews because they want Israel. No, they hate other Muzzies if they are not of the same Clan, but mainly they hate non Muzlims like Christians and anyone else who doesn’t knuckle under and become a convert to Islam.
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