Israel “has a right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets,” President Barack Obama said Friday.
Yet at a press conference with visiting South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Obama also struck an evenhanded tone on the violence in Israel, calling on both the Israelis and Palestinians “to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding.” Obama’s comments come amid widespread Israeli criticism of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for inciting violence.
Obama said that “all people in Israel and the West Bank” should “recognize that this kind of random violence is not going to result in anything other than more hardship or insecurity.”
“I don’t think we can wait for all the issues that exist between Israelis and Palestinians to be settled in order for us to try and tamp down on violence right now,” he said.
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Why do Jews and Israelis get so aggravated over this evenhanded “both sides” rhetoric? For the same reason we Americans would’ve been outraged if the U.N. had asked “both sides” – the U.S. and Al Qaeda (with their Taliban protectors) – to exercise restraint after 9/11.
Obama is an Idiot and those who voted for him are bigger Idiots!
To comment#2 the commish.
You are %100 right. But, unfortunately you know what is going to happen. The dumb stupid low information voters will overwhelmingly vote for Hillary., We are doomed.