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Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?
Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with their acolytes and toadies that it seems that the President of the USA is currently unable to get any even halfway accurate information about the true situation in the Middle East.Consider this statement
that "Deputy National Security Adviser" (actually, a jumped-up speechwriter) Ben Rhodes made to reporters in Phonm Penh today: "the reason there is a conflict in Gaza is because of the rocket fire that’s been launched at Israeli civilians indiscriminately for many months now. And any solution to this challenge has to include an end to that rocket fire." That was it. Nothing about the many steps Israel has taken in the past ten days deliberately to escalate the tensions with Gaza (the killing of Ahmed Jabari, etc). Nothing about Israel's maintenance of a crippling siege around Gaza for the past seven years. Nothing about Israel's maintenance of a military occupation regime over and around Gaza for 45 years now... No, the only reason there's a conflict in Gaza is "because of the rocket fire that’s been launched at Israeli civilians indiscriminately for many months now."
And thus, the only step that Mr. Rhodes and his boss the president see as necessary in order to end the conflict is that Hamas should cease its launching of rockets. Nothing about Israel taking any steps whatsoever to halt its massive, sustained use of lethal violence against Gaza.
Mind-boggling. And outrageous.
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