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Obama administration silence on the Jerusalem bombing is pathetic

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  March 23rd, 2011 at 11:57 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Earlier today a bomb exploded on a crowded public bus outside the Jerusalem convention center, injuring more than 40 people. As Jennifer Rubin reports via Hareetz, this is the worst terrorist attack in the city in seven years, and given recent terrorist aggression against Israel out of Gaza, particularly disturbing.

The Obama administration response to this atrocity is stunning silence. Rubin also reports that no one has bothered to make contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The most recent messages on the State Department home page address World Water Day and Ending Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

Gene Simmons is doing a better job of standing with Israel these days than the United States is. It is just pathetic.

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  • johnt

    The man cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, Give him a break, would you want to dance with Michelle?

  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    Why?

    • msctex

      What must the man do — or more aptly, not do — to finally stop eliciting surprised reactions from Conservatives? It is as if he is making an effort, but so many of us still seem to expect more from the man.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    Then a UN statement condemning Israel for its human rights atrocities against Palestinians will lead to the CiC ordering the US military to start bombing Israel as part of a human-rights-enforcing coalition of the willing.

    What happens after that would be interesting, in the way “interesting” is used in that old chinese proverb.

    • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

      Richard Falk, the UN’s special rapporteur in charge of smearing Israel, has been making noises that could lead to calls for UN-led military action against Israel.

      Richard Falk, the U.N.?s ?special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,? said in a report delivered to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that Israeli policies amount to ?ethnic cleansing? and ?crimes against humanity.?

      Falk?s use of the terms was significant, as they are two of four specified criteria in ?responsibility to protect,? the doctrine calling for international humanitarian intervention when diplomacy fails.

      Although he did not use the phrase ?responsibility to protect? in his report, Falk is a keen advocate of the concept, and has argued that no situation in the world is more applicable for intervention under the doctrine than that of the Gaza Strip.

      Source http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/if-un-has-responsibility-protect-libyans

  • Marcus_Traianus

    Don’t you know Mr. Obama is very busy in Libya supporting the tentacles from the same organizations that probably RIPthis bombing? Why, it would be unthinkable to state this bombing is an outrage now. What would the LFIG and AQIM rebels think?

    Better yet, what would the American people think about the hundreds of millions we are spending in Libya on these people who have no leader, no stated principles and ultimately don’t give a fig about democracy?

    I am sure Obama will send flowers. Eventually.

    MTRIP.

    • Academic Elephant

      An iPod with his speeches on it to comfort the nation in its time of mourning.

      • Marcus_Traianus

        I also bet it was wrapped in paper with repetitive patters of Picasso’s Guernica.

        • Finrod

          “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant (excepting Alice)”

          • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

            http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26fob-q4-t.html

          • LibertarianHawk

            …although one that is pretty much irrelevant to Arlo Guthrie or the OP:

            Liberal talk show host/unfunny comedienne Stephanie Miller is the daughter of Barry Goldwater’s runningmate in 1964 (Rep. Bill Miller of New York).

          • Marcus_Traianus

            Notwithstanding my original sarcastic intent.

          • Finrod

            Some of my favorites, Tom Scholz, Roger Waters, and Tom Lehrer (in their respective primes, anyways) all came out strongly for Obama.

          • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

            Arlo Guthrie, LL Cool J, Ted Nugent, 50 Cent, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, The Ramones, Kid Rock, Wayne Newton, and a whole heckuva lot of country singers certainly takes eclectic taste to appreciate…

            No Death Cab For Cutie, Fountains of Wayne, most classic rockers, etc, etc. Plus, Mozart, Bach, etc would be totally off-limits, because there’s no way to get behind men who propped up monarchs!

            (I just mentioned the Arlo Guthrie thing because I think it’s cool and a bit funny.)

          • aesthete

            Not sure if their inclusion makes the list more or less eclectic…

          • Marcus_Traianus

            All the songwriters who have made anti-American statements, supported anti-American causes or incoherently ranted against conservative causes are no longer in my collection. Truth be told, they made really great 5.56 fodder.

  • libertyatstake

    Marcus_Traianus has it right.

    d(^_^)b
    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

  • jdtruth

    If we defend anyone there, it should be Israel.
    I heard a caller call in the other night to say “Why should the U.S.defend Israel?”
    I find many reasons why! For one very apparent reason, they are virtually the one democractic nation in the en…tire area, not to mention that God says in the Bible, “Whoever defends Israel I will defend. Whoever curses Israel, I will curse.

  • http://redmeatconservative.blogspot.com/ dhorowitz3

    Well, Obama believes that Jerusalem belongs to Hamas and Fatah so he can’t really condemn the attack. After all, they are merely fighting for their lost territory.

  • Tbone

    Democrats really don’t like them and really don’t like Israel?

    That is what is pathetic.

    • rightwingmom52

      When will they realize that Christians are their biggest supporters? It would be nice if that support was reciprocal a little more often.

    • blownawayin5

      …I’m surprised he doesn’t go out on Pennslyvania Ave. and pass out candy.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • vamoose

    “This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations,” Obama told reporters

    And just what was he referring to?
    “President Barack Obama led world powers on Tuesday in criticising Israel’s decision to build 1,300 settler homes in east Jerusalem, warning it risks wrecking an already fragile peace process with the Palestinians.”

    Somehow to Obama the culture of life is a hinderance to peace, while the culture of death has no bearing in the matter.

  • traversecityconservative

    make a statement. But that’s a sadly low expectation of our president. Accurate, but sad.

  • uselogic

    …but let one wack-job in Florida burn a Quran and US ambassadors are falling all over themselves to apologize and condemn. I’d say that speaks volumes about this administration’s priorities.

  • smitch61

    schooled on Marx, a pure leftist, apologist for America, and he is against Israel building homes in their own country, and the flotilla was Israels fault Of course he is silent, it’s what he believes, it’s who he is.

    He sat in that church for 20 years with the rest of the Jew haters.

  • rickbull

    since he is a native Israeli, but as much of our dirty work as Israel has done in the Middle East, no American President should ever dis Israel. They are the ONLY ally that we have ALWAYS been able to count on.

    I have made the comment many times that the U.S. is the U.N.’s pit bull, and in the same way, Israel is the U.S.’s pit bull in the Middle East.

    Israel needs to be able to count on US as much as we have been able to count on them.

  • spainishirish

    To be frank, the only thing Obama could do re Israel these days that would shock me is start a war with the country. And even that isn’t as unlikely as I would like it to be.

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