Reacting to Gaza.

[Ponce]

Reacting to Gaza [Updated]
President Obama's meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu tomorrow, Netanyahu has, the AP reports, been canceled by the Israeli side, after Netanyahu endorsed Israeli commandos' operation to turn back a flotilla from Gaza, in which 10 activists were killed.

PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erakat called it a "war crime" in a statement this morning, while Israeli officials say the activists were associated with extremists and tried to fight the soldiers.

Obama's choice now will be to react as he did to the last incredibly ill-timed news — the settlement construction during the Biden visit — and criticize the Israeli action, a move which might upend his recent charm offensive with Jewish groups; or he can, even by remaining silent, tacitly endorse it, and disappoint Arab allies who see the friction with Israel as a sign of progress.

UPDATE: The cancellation gives Obama more space for vagueness.

There's not really much of a middle course for the White House, which at present says it "regrets" the loss of life and is studying the incident.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Reacting_to_Gaza.html

[Libertarian_Guard]

It seems odd to say the least, that the Israeli side would cancel the meeting?

This is B.S. - - I'm not buying it, more likely this is a face saving maneuver for Obama. But the zionists that wish to keep Obama close can't say that!

[SHTF2010]

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there's been a sharp increase in anti-semitism today

i wonder why ?

http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/articles/com_foxman-abe_110708.jpg

[DMac]

Wtf is up with the white house expressing "regret"?

People regret things they contribute or take part in - how does one regret something in which he or she was not involved?

More weak bs from our inept and (obviously/admittidly) occupied government.

I can't say I'm the least bit surprised that Israel attacked the ships, but damn, i sure do hope karma comes back to bite Israel for their gross arrogance and insatiable bloodlust.

[Libertarian_Guard]

Wtf is up with the white house expressing "regret"?





Obama's zionist handlers (Rahm Emanuel?) won't let him say anything more.

[PatColo]

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[center]there's been a sharp increase in anti-semitism today



Khazar "Israelis" to authentic Palestinian Semites in Occupied Palestine:



NO HUMANITARIAN AID FOR YOU! :taunt:
http://mondoweiss.net/images/2010/05/settlers.jpg
Picture of the Week: Shalom from East Jerusalem (http://ww3zionism.blogspot.com/2010/05/picture-of-week-shalom-from-east.html)

[Libertarian_Guard]

How frigging dumb we are, not respecting others as humans, and getting dragged into their endless squabbles.

[Ponce]

PatColo? good picture.......they look like dogs ready to eat her up.

[PatColo]

PatColo? good picture.......they look like dogs ready to eat her up.




Photographer: Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images, from the Wall Street Journal's "pictures of the week" for the past week (http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/05/14/pictures-of-the-week-may-9-%E2%80%93-may-14/). Reports the Journal: "FACING A CROWD: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argued with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Wednesday." Remember that these evictions are underwritten by the Israeli gov't.

Peter Beinart in the NY Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/?pagination=false): "In the American Jewish establishment today, the language of liberal Zionism—with its idioms of human rights, equal citizenship, and territorial compromise—has been drained of meaning."

Why? Because the territorialist-nationalists have won, and from Deir Yassin to Al-Atatra (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf) to Sheikh Jarrah, they have uprooted and humiliated Palestinian women. (h/t Annie)


327 reader comments at THE SOURCE (http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/the-case-for-zionism.html), worthwhile browsing.


http://mondoweiss.net/images/2010/05/settlers.jpg

[Horn]

Damn, Neo-Nazis.