Posted on 05/12/2021 7:20:23 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The U.S. State Department, as Israel and Palestine continued to engage in the heaviest fighting since their 50-day war in 2014, declared that it “stands by” the “right” to self-defense of both bitter enemies despite the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas sparking the escalating conflict by firing hundreds of rockets.
Asked whether the Biden administration condemns the pledge by Prime Minister Ben Netanyahu to escalate the current Israeli strikes against Palestine, Ned Price, a State spokesperson, told reporters:
We stand by Israel’s right to defend itself. We also stand by the principle that Palestinians deserve the right to live in safety and security. I’m not here to adjudicate military operations, to say what is proportional precisely, what is not.
But the United States certainly stands by the principal … that any loss of civilian life is deeply limitable whether that is a Palestinian life or an Israeli life. That is why we’ve continued to call … for calm, continue to call on all sides to de-escalate and to exercise restraint in their actions.
The conflict has resulted in fatalities on both sides, including women and children.
Hamas terrorists, backed by the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group, launched hundreds of rockets into Israel, particularly areas near the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, in the late hours of Monday and wee hours of Tuesday, according to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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Uh-huh. And where is John Kerry?
Death to Islam.
See? Two can play.
That statement is about as weak as our illegitimate President.
Yesterday I read/heard the White House response to the current rocket attacks. Something along the lines of ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’ and then this little tidbit, which I think is a ‘tell’ on what they really think: “Jerusalem must be a place of co-existence”.
Geez...talk about playing both ends in the middle.
When you try to please everyone, you please no one.
Our foreign policy is being run by the pratfall comedy team of Winken, Blicken, Biden, and Nod.
Stumblebums, fools, liars, and traitors.
G.K. Chesterton: “We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern.”
“We stand by Israel’s right to defend itself. We also stand by the principle that Palestinians deserve the right to live in safety and security.”
We stand by Poland’s right to defend itself. We also stand by the principle that Germans deserve the right to live in safety and security.
If that means we’re going to stay out of it the fine.
Gee, that's nice of Biden to say that Israel has the right to defend herself after he gave the terrorists $200 million and shortly thereafter they started a rain of rockets on Israel.
“Geez...talk about playing both ends in the middle.”
Or to put it another way, talking out of both sides of his ass.
Some 1200 rockets launched from Gaza.
I’m watching i24 news on TV, the reporter just asked a women in Ashkelon how it felt to be bombarded with so many rockets, and the siren went off and the woman had to jump up and leave.
“Palestinians deserve the right to live in safety and security. “
So you are for getting rid of Hamas from Ghaza? Or are you just a pontificating bore who regurgitates talking points and doesn’t mean a word of it?
“That is why we’ve continued to call … for calm, continue to call on all sides to de-escalate and to exercise restraint in their actions.”
Here’s my call for calm. “Sooooooeeee! Here, pigapigpigpig pig.”
Oh, no. That’s not it. Damn! This is what I get for not paying attention in diplomat school.
Here it is. “Now hoooooold on thar, Babalooooey! I’ll do the thinin’ ‘round here, and dooooooon’t you for forget it.”
Works in every situation. Everyone just shuts up because I called for calm.
Or being the slice of meat in a “sandwich”.
Correction. There is not a country called “Palestine.” The U.S. government statements in this coup administration is complicit in falsifying facts.
They have to have a supply line. The rockets either came in by sea, the Sinai, or the Negev. Block the supply line, and that’s the end of this foolishness and the bloodshed.
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