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Amid Gaza Chaos, Obama Sends Clinton to MidEast to Meet with Israeli, Palestinian & Egyptian Leaders

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world’s top diplomats on Tuesday, with President Barack Obama dispatching his secretary of state to the region on an emergency mission and the U.N. chief appealing from Cairo for an immediate cease-fire.

Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have staked tough, hard-to-bridge positions, and the gaps keep alive the threat of an Israeli ground invasion. On Tuesday, grieving Gazans were burying militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover.

Obama Sends Clinton to Middle East to Meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian Leaders

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) listens as US President Barack Obama (C) speaks during a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (not pictured) on the sidelines of the East Asian Summit at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on November 20, 2012. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

From Egypt, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said he came to the region because of the “alarming situation.”

“This must stop, immediate steps are needed to avoid further escalation, including a ground operation,” Ban said. “Both sides must hold fire immediately … Further escalation of the situation could put the entire region at risk.”

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to depart for the Mideast on Tuesday from Cambodia, where she had accompanied Obama on a visit. Clinton is to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank and Egyptian leaders in Cairo, according to U.S. and Palestinian officials.

The U.S. considers Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide and other attacks, to be a terror group and does not meet with its officials. The Obama administration blames Hamas for the latest eruption of violence and says Israel has the right to defend itself. At the same time, it has warned against a ground invasion, saying it could send casualties spiraling.

By Tuesday, civilians accounted for 54 of the 113 Palestinians killed since Israel began an air onslaught that has so far included nearly 1,500 strikes. Some 840 people have been wounded, including 225 children, Gaza health officials said.

Obama Sends Clinton to Middle East to Meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian Leaders

Israeli soldiers prepare their weapons in a deployment area as the conflict between Palestine and Gaza enters its seventh day on November 20, 2012 on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants and Israel are continuing talks aimed at a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 100 with three Israelis also having been killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. Credit: Getty Images

Three Israeli civilians have also been killed and dozens wounded since the fighting began last week, the numbers possibly kept down by a rocket-defense system that Israel developed with U.S. funding. More than 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel this week, the military said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was exploring a diplomatic solution, but wouldn’t balk at a broader military operation.

“I prefer a diplomatic solution,” Netanyahu said in a statement after meeting with Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, who is also in the region trying to advance peace efforts. “But if the fire continues, we will be forced to take broader measures and will not hesitate to do so.”

Earlier in the day, Westerwelle said a truce must be urgently pursued, “but of course, there is one precondition for everything else, and this is a stop of the missile attacks against Israel.”

Turkey’s foreign minister and a delegation of Arab League foreign ministers were to arrive in Gaza later Tuesday on a separate truce mission.

The conflict erupted last week, when a resurgence in rocket fire from Gaza set off the Israeli offensive, launched with the assassination of the Hamas military chief and followed by hundreds of airstrikes on militants’ underground rocket launchers and weapons’ stores.

The onslaught turned deadlier over the weekend, as airstrikes began targeting the homes of suspected Hamas activists, leading to a spike in civilian casualties. Israel sent warnings in some cases, witnesses said, but in other instances missiles hit suddenly, burying residents under the rubble of their homes.

Hamas is deeply rooted in densely populated Gaza, and the movement’s activists live in the midst of ordinary Gazans. Israel says militants are using civilians as human shields, both for their own safety and to launch rocket strikes from residential neighborhoods.

In one case, a senior member of the military wing of Islamic Jihad rented a small apartment in a 15-story high-rise of offices and news outlets. The militant, Ramez Harb, was killed Monday in a rocket strike that badly damaged several floors in the building.

One of the journalists working in the building said he and others were furious that Harb had apparently used the building as a hiding place and put others at risk. The journalist spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared repercussions from Gaza militants if he criticized their actions.

Obama Sends Clinton to Middle East to Meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian Leaders

Israeli soldiers work on a tank at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. On Tuesday, grieving Gazans were burying militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover. Credit: AP

Early Tuesday, Israeli aircraft targeted another Hamas symbol of power, battering the headquarters of the bank senior Hamas officials set up to sidestep international sanctions on the militant group’s rule. After Hamas violently overran Gaza in June 2007, foreign lenders stopped doing business with the militant-led Gaza government, afraid of running afoul of international terror financing laws.

The inside of the bank, which was set up by leading Hamas members and describes itself as a private enterprise, was destroyed. Abuilding supply business in the basement was damaged.

Owner Suleiman Tawil, 31, grimly surveyed the damage to his store and six company cars. “I’m not involved in politics,” he said. “I’m a businessman. But the more the Israelis pressure us, the more we will support Hamas.”

Fuad Hijazi and two of his toddler sons were killed Monday evening when missiles struck their one-story shack in northern Gaza, leaving a crater about two to three meters (seven to 10 feet) deep in the densely populated neighborhood. Residents said the father was not a militant.

On Tuesday morning, the boys’ bodies lay next to each other on a rack in the local morgue, wrapped tightly in white burial shrouds. Their father lay in a rack below.

“We want to tell the world which is supporting the state of Israel, what this state is doing,” said neighbor Rushdie Nasser. “They are supporting a state that kills children … We want to send a message to the U.N. and the West: Enough of supporting the Zionists, who are killing children.”

As part of global efforts to end the Gaza fighting, U.N. chief arrived in Cairo on Monday and was to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Tuesday. In Cairo, Ban said he would also travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. With tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers dispatched to the Gaza border, awaiting a possible order to invade, his mission was all the more urgent.

Egypt, the traditional mediator between Israel and the Arab world, has been at the center of recent diplomatic efforts involving the U.S., Turkey, Qatar and other nations.

On Monday, Egyptian intelligence officials met separately in Cairo with an Israeli envoy and with Khaled Mashaal, the top Hamas leader in exile, to try to bridge the considerable differences.

Israel demands an end to rocket fire from Gaza and a halt to weapons smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under the border with Egypt. It also wants international guarantees that Hamas will not rearm or use Egypt’s Sinai region, which abuts both Gaza and southern Israel, to attack Israelis.

Obama Sends Clinton to Middle East to Meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian Leaders

A Palestinian woman walks past a house destroyed during an Israeli airstrike, on November 20, 2012. Israeli leaders discussed an Egyptian plan for a truce with Gaza’s ruling Hamas, reports said, before a mission by the UN chief to Jerusalem and as the toll from Israeli raids on Gaza rose over 100. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Hamas wants Israel to halt all attacks on Gaza and lift tight restrictions on trade and movement in and out of the territory that have been in place since Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007. Israel has rejected such demands in the past.

Mashaal told reporters Monday that Hamas would only agree to a cease-fire if its demands are met. “We don’t accept Israeli conditions because it is the aggressor,” he said. “We want a cease-fire along with meeting our demands.”

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel prefers to end this round of violence through diplomacy but insists the outcome would guarantee Israel long-term quiet along its border with Gaza.

“The declared purpose of this operation was to make rockets stop, once and for all, or at least for a very long time,” he said Tuesday, without specifying a timeframe. “All instruments have their limitations. But if the diplomatic path proves itself unuseful, then the only path that will be left is the military. But we hope to explore the diplomatic path to its full extent.”

Successive Israeli governments, meanwhile, have struggled to come up with an effective policy toward Hamas, which is deeply rooted in Gaza, a densely populated territory of 1.6 million.

Neither Israel’s economic blockade of the territory nor bruising military strikes have cowed Gaza’s Islamists, weakened their grip on the Palestinian strip their ability to fire rockets at the Jewish state.

An Israeli ground invasion would risk Israeli troop losses, and it could send the number of Palestinian civilian casualties ballooning – a toll Israel could be reluctant to risk just four years after its last invasion drew allegations of war crimes.

Still, with Israeli elections just two months away, polls show Israeli public sentiment has lined up staunchly behind the offensive Netanyahu’s government has launched.

Israel and Gaza’s militants have a long history of fighting, but the dynamics have changed radically since they last warred four years ago. Though their hardware is no match for the Israeli military, militants have upgraded their capabilities with weapons smuggled in from Iran and Libya, Israeli officials claim.

Only a few years ago, tens of thousands of Israelis were within rocket range. Today those numbers have swollen to 3.5 million, as the militants’ improved weapons allowed the unprecedented targeting of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem this week.

Hamas, a branch of the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood, is also negotiating from a stronger position than four years ago, when Israel launched a three-week war on the militants in Gaza. At that time, Hamas was internationally isolated; now, the Muslim Brotherhood is in power in Egypt and Tunisia, and Hamas is also getting political support from Qatar and Turkey.

At home, too, the military offensive has shored up Hamas at a time when it was riven by internal divisions over its direction and the new Egyptian government’s refusal to lift the blockade it imposed along with Israel after Hamas seized the territory in 2007.

This newfound backing contrasts radically with the loss of stature the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has endured as Palestinians lose faith in his ability to bring them a state through negotiations with Israel.

 

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Comments (85)

  • Tri-ox
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:00am

    STATE DEPARTMENT COVER-UP of U.S. Consul General’s participation in an islamic conference on the banning of ‘Defamation of islam’ in America – OIC Scrubs website …

    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/18/state-dept-official-to-attend-oic-meeting-today-on-banning-defamation-of-islam/

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  • noslave
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:53am

    good move obama??it was all hillarys fault?(bengazi?)unfortunatly she was killed in israil rocket bombing??obama can now take sides against isreil,keeping the muslems love? bill splort clinton can now roam like the dog?,there will be lots of memorials,medals etc. even a fed holiday?while hillary gets a makeover and slithers off to a country they already bought with missing stimilus money for their retirement??

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:16am

      No Joke Noslave, little hitler may be planning her demise since she is scheduled to testify about lybia in december.

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    • Questionman
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 6:27pm

      As to comparing Hitler to Obama, that is absolutely ridiculous and just ruins whatever credibility you never have had you racist!

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  • counselor9
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:41am

    With Hillary in the Middle East, things just got uglier.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:51am

      Lol…

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    • bobdog19006
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:28am

      Yeah, that’s right, Obama. Send another woman to represent the United States. They really love American women telling them what they “must do”. I’m sure they’ll give her all the respect they think she deserves.

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    • Zipit
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:29am

      In more ways than one, Counselor!!!

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    • carnivour
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:34pm

      ha!

      I’m kinda hoping they keep her.

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    • formidable_foe
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:56pm

      Now we don’t have to worry about a thing. She will fix it all. Thousands of years of fighting is no match for Hillary. Hope no one releases another video while she’s there and she winds up dead.

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  • Uechi
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:36am

    Hillary is being sent to tell Israel to stop and negotiate or the US will cut off jet parts to you.This is what Ollie North says and I believe it. This was done before under Caspar Weinberger. If Obama throws Israel under the bus he better hold up in the White House. Danger, Will Robinson, danger.

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:50am

      I seen North’s interview last night and he did seem very convinced that the US would hold jet parts hostage. We who believe the Bible knows how this will end. May God have Mercy.

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    • rugin
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 10:32am

      How come no one else is mentioning this? Not The Blaze or Fox this morning

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    • Trigus
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:28pm

      The Media is now a State Run Media. They are no under full control of the White House. The White House decides what you need and need not to know.

      Stop looking to the US Media for news. Start looking at other world media outlets that report the real news. It may shock you what is really going on in the world.

      US can threaten to hold F-16 and Apache Parts from Israel, but Israel is holding the Ace of Spades: Samson Option.

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    • josettchili
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:54pm

      Again, he will go to Asia or any place else,but not ISRAEL, i’m guessing that after there is a peace treaty in the middle east he will go to claim victory? SEEMS to me he has a hard time standing on the HOLY LAND (ever wonder why)?

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  • llotus
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:15am

    Does that explain the war ships being sent to the region? They got hillarys back? Lotus.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:36am

      Those ships are to very likely only evacuate Americans if it comes to that.

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    • Zipit
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:37am

      I for one, am so glad thet she is there! Everything will now be fine! “OUR CROPS ARE SAVED”

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  • alias.stone
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:13am

    In truth, Obama would love nothing more than to see Israel give up and surrender!

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  • Susie
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:09am

    Now let’s see – according to Bible prophecy the anti-christ makes a pact with Israel to protect her and as she lowers her guard and relies on his word he betrays her and hands her over to her enemies.
    Has anyone noticed how strange Hillary is looking these days – one day she looks like death warmed over and by the next morning almost fresh as a daisy.
    Mommy, mommy are there really vampires ?

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    • Hickory
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:15am

      Would someone please put some lipstick on that pig? Ughhhhh!

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  • Angel_light
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:02am

    “We don’t accept Israeli conditions because it is the aggressor,” – what a lie. Israel attacked b/c Hamas attacked them first. and children wouldn’t be getting killed if your cowards weren’t hiding behind them!

    and what the H*ll is obama sending clinton over there for?? He’s the biggest coward of them all! I think imsteph is right: obama will probably burn for walking onto holy ground; not that clinton is any better.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:59am

    Obama to Netanyahu: “Stand down”.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:33am

      GONZO, That is the gist of it. Oliver North just pointed out in his interview a moment ago, that 0bama will simply refuse resupply missiles for the their Iron Dome, plus repair and maintenance parts for the American made aircraft, vehicles, and equipment. Never in public of course, but that is the message that Hillary is about to deliver. When the Israelis do Stand Down, 0bama will take a bow while claiming that Nobel Peace Prize works after all.

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    • Pantloadian
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 11:50am

      Keep guessing. It’s all you have left.

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  • Michael
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:55am

    The band-aid mentality of the west will not smooth everything over this time. The arab terrorists in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria will never cease the persuit of killing Israelis, Jews, and Christians. Lifting the blockade will only allow the arabs squatting in Gaza to smuggle in more weapons with which to kill Israelis, Jews, and Christians. Arabs moved to Israel adter the Jews got there because they didn’ t want Jews living in a country next door to them. That land belongs to Israel and the Jews, not those squatting arab terrorists. It is Israel that is under occupation!

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  • Hickory
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:53am

    Sending the Clinton Whore into this is like having Ronald McDonald to referee a boxing match. It’s all show and nothing more. Obama supports the Muslims…………. not Israel and not us.

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    • montanalablover
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:18am

      Of course he supports the Muslims as he is one of them. What a tragedy. He’s just going to stand idly by. The clown is way in over his head but then I knew that 4 years ago. What a joke he is.

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    • Questionman
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 6:33pm

      Klasnman doggie, the other thing you know is how to be a racist bigoted ***** like all the black-hating blazers here!

      . if HE really Muslim, HE never want to SIGN CONTRACT TO HELP ISRAEL!!!! Racist!

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  • americansfightingforcommonsense
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:48am

    Obama saw her fall asleep at his last speech and decided he dump the distraction from his peace tour. Hillary will do nothing to help the Middle East, and Barack won’t step foot in Israel. I fooled this country a second time, and unless he is going for a third term, he will let Israel fall. This man is evil and wants the destruction of America as we know it. Now he wants an America where white people are second class citizens. As he said during the election,”Vote For Revenge”!

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    • Questionman
      Posted on November 21, 2012 at 6:36pm

      Thank you.

      Thank you for proving my four-year point that ALL Obama haters are racists, bigots, extremists, homophobes, and hypocrites! Your hateful essay of lies prove my point!

      Your so called “facts” are twisted from personal opinion, and are so filled with hate, that your points cannot be considered credible. In fact your articles are so caught up in hate, that although you bring up a few valid points, your hatred veers you so greatly off topic that your articles have about 10-25% truth tied to them.

      You are really despeicable and hateful to the core!

      As to comparing Hitler to Obama, that is absolutely ridiculous and just ruins whatever credibility you never have had you racist!

      Anyone who calls Obama an evil man is a disgusting, hateful monster and a disgusting excuse as a human being. That fits you all over!

      Barack Obama is NOT an evil man, and has NO evil intent to destroy America. It is known you be a fear-mongering lie created by fear-mongering racists and bigots like you you can’t stand that black people are in the White House

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  • Michael
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:42am

    I am shocked that this propaganda piece made it onto The Blaze. Israel has been the recipient of these attacks for so long now the west and the world at large are desensitized to the crimes and atrocities being perpetrated against her. The west is blind in thinking their band-aid gamesmentality is going to smooth things over this time. I am the dog in the corner you have poked with a stick for far too long. No more arab games and shitstickery. The hamas are demanding terms to the cease fire? the fire that hamas themselves started and have kept stoking? Hamas only wants the blockade lifted so that they can smuggle in more weapons and continue to shitstick Israel. I have seen this re-run enough now. And then there is always the chorus of arab league nations wailing their crocadile tears bemoaning and denegrating Israel and Jews all while every damn day they watch other arabs blow each other up in suicide homicide fashion. Then they make celebreties of out of the suicide murderers (misidentified as martyrs) and they teach their children to grow up to do the same. Islam is a death cult. In Gaza, Judea, and Samaria the invader squatting arabs have been brainwashing children from the womb upwards to kill Jews and Christians, it’s their version of Sesame Street on which they teach todlers to don suicide vests and make molatav cocktails. I am done with this sick perpetuation of appeasing these tyrrants. MAINTAIN THE BLOCKADE

    Israeli and Jewery existence while they turn abli

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:31am

    Hey, anything to prevent old Hillary from testifying about her role in the Benghazi cover-up, Right?

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  • smash44
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:29am

    Clinton on her way to the Mideast. You mean The Savior of the Entire World. That Clinton? You mean Wonder Woman? Of course the minute she touches down everybody will throw their weapons down, forget about all the rockets and throw roses at her feet. Thousands of years of war, death, fighting, turmoil, strife and religious fanaticism will all be forgotten when the Queen of Spades waves her Magic Wand. Go Ugly Troll, go. We’re saved all because of this disgusting, pandering, lying pathetic excuse for a woman. How lucky is the World?

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:11am

    The uber Nobel Peace Prize winner sends a WOMAN to mediate with 2 Muslim nations? That is going to work sooooo well!

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  • imsteph
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:10am

    So I am betting that he will burst into flames if he sets foot on Israeli soil…can’t touch holy ground?

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:08am

    How many times have we heard from the government that “Israel has the right to defend itself”? Think about it a moment. They have the right to defend themselves, and that is it. 0bama has only reached out to Muslim leaders at this time. Hillary is headed to Israel at this time to scold and castigate Netenyahu. She will not be there to offer them support much less help mediate a peace. As the story before this one, those Navy ships are going there to only assist if or when Americans have to be evacuated. Nobody in our government has said anything about Turkey’s Prime Minister accusing Israel of being a terrorist state. Our diplomats are pursuing a quiet diplomacy as that one female quoted yesterday. I wish that I could remember the reporter’s name at the moment, but he tore her up over this very subject. I’ll have to look up his name and do some background research on him. Israel is on it’s own and quietly at the moment.

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:07am

    Obama sends Clinton as a gift to Hamas. Hopefully on a one way ticket.
    will she take “the video”
    Obama & Clinton are not problem solvers. Just problems

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  • MarieC
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:06am

    Smells fishy to me……

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  • seek.the.truth
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:03am

    Obama would have gone but he has more important things to do. Golf? Photo op? Late-night talk shows?

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    • mcbruce
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 9:53am

      Hussein the islomic plant is sending the muslim brotherhood rep and her secretary the muslim sisterhood plant whitch she fully supports the muslim brotherhood . Its funny that ha mas starts sending missiles over to israel after the islomic trojan horse gets put back into the islamic white house.

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  • oblique
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:55am

    Why send that useless piece of trash? Wonder if she’ll take another $70k and make an ad? Unless … There is a more cunning plan… maybe it’s all being deliberately set up to fail. If this administration was serious about negotiating peace within this current conflict, Obama himself would be directly involved instead of stirring up things in Asia. What in the heck is he doing meddling in stuff for which the US should be neutral ????

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    • lel2007
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:19am

      If read speculation by Dr. Evans, below is excerpt -
      In Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslim population, all of whom are illegal immigrants, has been getting a taste of their own medicine, as decades of fighting between them and native ethnic Buddhists has escalated over the past six months. Around 80 Muslims are known dead and as many as 110,000 are homeless. About 200 more are presumed dead at this point as they were attempting to traverse the Bay of Bengal to escape their persecution in Myanmar, only to be lost at sea.
      Unlike illegal immigrants in the US, the Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for generations without ever having been granted citizenship or any of the other rights of Burmese citizens. Perhaps the president wants to discuss the ever-so-successful way the United States handles illegal immigrants here by granting them just about everything they need to live comfortably at the expense of the American taxpayers.
      See http://articles.jerusalemprayerteam.org/obama-to-visit-myanmar-not-israel-why/

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  • critterbait
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:33am

    He will fail , but then along will come OBAMA to save the day …

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  • truthsurfer
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:27am

    It seems to me that the more clueless Clinton travels the worse things get. Nobody takes her or obama seriously. The biggest problem is while the kenyan is talking out both sides of his ass all of the terrorist groups and nations are arming up and planning for massive devostation because they know the kenyan is supporting them. While Bush was in office we knew who our firends and enemies were now nobody knows anything. When was the last time one of our allies leaders came to Washington? I believe they are simply waiting for the kenyan to be out of power to have normal relations with the US again. I just hope by then its not too late.

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    • Shamrock241
      Posted on November 20, 2012 at 7:57am

      I disagree if he wares his laundry rapped around his head and is named mohammed, aknod etc.. and was appointed to odumbos administration than i know this is my enemy.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 20, 2012 at 6:18am

    Welcome to the next portion of Middle East lunacy for the Obama admin.

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