[Peace-discuss] Excellent summary

[C. G. Estabrook]

The article makes clear whose responsibility is greatest. None of this would be possible without President Obama's "unstinting backing":

"It is near-impossible to believe that Netanyahu decided to revive Israel’s policy of extra-judicial executions of Hamas leaders – and bystanders – without at least consulting the White House. Israel clearly also held off from beginning its escalation until after the US elections, restricting itself, as it did in [2008-9], to the 'downtime' in US politics between the elections and the presidential inauguration.

"That was designed to avoid overly embarrassing the US president. A fair assumption must be that Barack Obama approved Israel’s operation in advance. Certainly he has provided unstinting backing since..."


On Nov 18, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>      Good article, sad... but no mention that Israel's not-so-hidden motive seems to be that yet more settlements are about to be built on yet more appropriated land... 
>      Here's my favorite sentence from the article:
> "But the electoral fortunes of Ehud Barak, sometimes described as Netanyahu’s political Siamese twin and a military mentor to Netanyahu from their commando days together, have been looking grim indeed." 
> 
> --- On Sun, 11/18/12, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Excellent summary
> To: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Sunday, November 18, 2012, 8:56 AM
> 
> http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/why-gaza-must-suffer-again-the-four-guilty-parties-behind-israels-attack.html
>  
> Also, it should be remembered that Israel’s belligerence towards Gaza, and the easing of domestic pressure on Israel to negotiate with Hamas or reach a ceasefire, has largely been made possible because Obama forced US taxpayers to massively subsidise Israel’s rocket interception system, Iron Dome, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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