As Hamas Attacks Israel with Rockets, the Obama Administration and Liberals Call for Israeli 'Restraint'
With hundreds of rockets raining down on Israel on a daily basis, the establishment in the United States tells Israel to show "restraint," and to work on resuming the failed peace process.
Not only did this position come from the anti-Israel editorial board of the New York Times, as could be expected, but it also came from the spokesman for the Obama administration, White House Middle East chief Philip Gordon, and finally from President Barack Obama himself. The president did his bit to urge restraint in an op-ed he wrote for Israel's left-wing daily newspaper (where else?), Haaretz.
Let us start with the widely discussed Times editorial. The first thing to notice is the false moral equivalence the editors claim exists between the killing of the three Israeli teens, including one American teenager who had dual Israeli citizenship, and the murder of the Palestinian boy by Israeli fanatics, most likely soccer toughs, supporters of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team known for their hostility to Arabs. Editorializing, the Times reported that "days of near silence" went by before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the killing of the Palestinian boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir.
That story has since been taken down because it was false. Apparently the editors did not read their own reporter's article, which had clearly stated the falsehood of the claim...Also read:
Mr. President, Where Is Your Outrage?
Moral Equivalence, Moral Idiocy
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