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Champ Willing To Negotiate Cease-Fire Between Israelis And Hamas
2014-07-11
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is telling Israel's leader that the United States is willing to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
They're doomed...
Obama spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, as Israel was intensifying an bombardment of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to thwart rocket fire targeting Israel. The White House says Obama condemned the rockets and said Israel has the right to self-defense. But Obama also urged both sides not to escalate the crisis and to restore calm.
Q: how exactly does one 'restore calm' when someone is shooting rockets at you?
A: with a flight of F-15s...
Obama also relayed concerns about a Palestinian-American teenager who was detained and apparently beaten by Israeli authorities. Obama says Israel has worked to resolve that situation.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  He can't keep the peace here, what makes him think he could do it there?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-07-11 19:58  

#13  Why not send in Jawn Kerry. He's not doing anything effective.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-07-11 15:52  

#12  Hamas launches a rocket barrage and then the IDF kicks their a$$. Then Hamas plays the "negotiate" card to hamstring Israel. There is nothing like victory to settle life and death disputes like this one.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-07-11 14:59  

#11  Who cares? Nobody pays attention to him anymore. Yawn
Posted by: Spot   2014-07-11 14:29  

#10  I can think of two words the Israelis are thinking...
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-07-11 13:22  

#9  Just look overs here, not at the mess on the border... And the fawning leftist press obeys
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-07-11 12:51  

#8  So Hamas is going to worry about a red-line and Israel is going to worry about anything the empty suit will do?

The laughing stock of the middle east couldn't negotiate a rug purchase is the Tangier Suq. Maybe he should call either Putin or Hollande? They have more credibility in the ME right now.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-07-11 11:36  

#7  If he really wanted to help he'd offer Netanyahu some B-52s.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-07-11 11:17  

#6  Won't happen - it'd cut into his vacation time at Martha's Vineyard.
Posted by: Raj   2014-07-11 10:44  

#5  Why does a macaque buggering a football immediately come to mind.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-11 08:48  

#4  Slow Joe Biden has more credibility.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-07-11 08:11  

#3  I would have loved to have heard Netanyahu's comments after the call from Champ.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-11 08:01  

#2  Translation: "Back to your kennels evil Zionists!".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-07-11 04:42  

#1  Is our former Moslem, I was for it before I was against Allah Bammer Prez really going to have a lot of cred with either side in the Gaza knockup?

But then, He IS the Messiah, after all, the smartest man in the room. Netanyahu is SO ready to trust Obama...and Hamas, they trust everyone, Especially an apostate American who has converted to Christianity ala Jeremy Wright, was it? PROFOUND religious Values, deep theology. Everybody on Earth admires Obama, yeah? I mean, he got a Nobel, after all. Deep...deep..something.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646   2014-07-11 04:04  

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