The utter crap we’re fed
Gaza complicates Obama’s policy in Mideast
The deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in Israel’s deadliest-ever air assault on Hamas further complicate President-elect Barack Obama’s challenge to achieve a Middle East peace – something that eluded both the Bush and Clinton administrations.
The Bush administration has blamed the renewed violence on the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, saying it broke a cease-fire by firing rockets and mortars deep into Israeli territory. The Arab world, however, has reacted with rage to the aggressive Israeli counterattacks, which have left at least 290 Palestinians dead and more than 600 wounded.
It’s unclear whether Obama will be as supportive of Israel as President George W. Bush has been.</em>
Of course he will be, he already went and knelt before AIPAC, groveling and sniveling about “our” Israel situation.
I personally don’t have a “situation” with Israel, other than I find it repugnant that my money is taken from me, converted into cluster bombs and whatnot, and dropped on families in Gaza. Other than that, I have no issue with Israel.
In a perfect world, Obama sits down in the Oval Office, first day, and terminates all aid to Israel. Both sides are going to fight to the last man standing, nothing we can do will lessen that by a day, so why enrage the rest of the region by paying for it? As I said, thats in a perfect world. Unfortunately, the world we live in is mighty fucked up- in large part to this very easily remedied (at least for the US) issue.
Obama should read this, and move on to other matters.