Obama’s strategic silence on Gaza

Posted on January 7, 2009 by iPouya

From an email a friend sent me:

BBC: “Visiting the Israeli town of Sderot in July, he [Obama] suggested
that he too would respond if rockets were being fired at his house.”

Well, did he visit Gaza? Did you, Mr Obama? Would you too then
perhaps respond, to being starved, utterly dehumanized, deprived of
the most basic food and health supplies; reduced to an existence more
bleak and pitiful than life-sentence in prison? Would you respond,
just maybe, to being humiliated on a daily basis, restricted in all
your daily movement, subject to devastating helicopter and tank/troop
incursions in which schools, hospitals, mosques, basic infrastructure
(electricity, water, etc.) were regularly the main prey of missiles
armed with state-of-art targeting systems? When over 1000 Palestinian
children vs. 123 Israeli children have been killed since this conflict
began (that’s a 10 to 1 ratio), and despite these statistics the world
persists in its blatantly racist painting of you as the inhuman
aggressor; tell me, how would you respond, Mr Obama??

You might just go build yourself a make-shift Qassam rocket.
Unsophisticated, completely ineffective, barely able to pierce through
a well-built roof, you figure at least with this rocket, you’re
affirming your one human right of which neither the occupier, nor the
entire world, can never can ever rob you – your right to resist!

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14 Responses to Obama’s strategic silence on Gaza

  6. :) says:
    January 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    “Famously, when the Israeli ambassador came to ask for the suppression of the UN’s report on the incident because it would “open deep wounds in Israel” Boutros Ghali retorted that they could not match the wounds inflicted on the Lebanese who were shelled.”

    Its a lovely state, isnt it?

  10. Kaveh says:
    January 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Israel’s power projection in its Operation Cast Lead may succeed against the much weaker Hamas, given the colossal power of the world’s fifth-most powerful army, yet it is far from clear that in the face of stiff Hamas resistance, and indeed the collective resistance of the Gaza population against the invading army, Israel will accomplish its stated objective of “total and unambiguous victory”.

    Rather, the result will likely be yet another under-achievement, invoking the memories of the 33-day “asymmetrical warfare” with Hezbollah in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

    For sure, compared to Hezbollah, the locked-in Hamas is disadvantaged by the absence of a foreign outlet to replenish its arms, yet the 15,000 to 20,000-strong Hamas army and the tens of thousands of its sympathizers nevertheless pose a formidable foe for the Israeli war planners that may exceed their estimations of Hamas’ resilience.

    A watered-down objective of simply “weakening Hamas” may be in the works, given the perils of a long occupation that is bound to exact heavy losses on Israeli forces, and, in turn, this will complicate Israel’s power projection ability in the larger Middle East.

    Sensing this, US officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who, much like the 2006 Israel-Lebanese war would prefer to wait until Israel finishes the job, can now be seen favoring a ceasefire, given Israel’s apparent incapability to destroy Hamas and carry the war to the “bitter end”.

    For the moment, given the outpouring of mass Arab support for Hamas, the US-Israeli goal of bifurcating the Middle East into allies and enemies of Iran is in tatters and, in fact, the moderate and pro-Arab states would find it harder than in the past to ignore the priority of Israel’s threat to the Arab world and to simply focus on fellow Muslims in Iran.

    Rice has repeatedly talked about a “new alignment in the Middle East”, but after the bloody Israeli campaign in Gaza, it may be the opposite of what she and her Israeli friends had wished for.

  11. fds says:
    January 8, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Things are slowly, slowly changing in terms of how they are being reported. There are voices that are critical of the Israeli Nazi state that are slowly, albeit in much lower ratio to pro-Zionist voices, that are being heard. It is slow, but when Nazis act like Nazis, eventually they are exposed.
    Arash chera peydat nemishe? Mitarsi tarsoo? awww bacheh kooni boro khune melate felestinro bokhor shayad halet behtar she.

  12. jakarta says:
    January 9, 2009 at 12:36 am

    Obama is not a real black man…he’s the white person’s black man, there to make us feel better about ourselves. He’s about as black as tyra banks and carlton from fresh prince. Just cuz he has dark skin and his middle name is “hussein” does not make him a progressive voice for change…he is a prude politician who knows what he has to do to be in power and that means supporting israel. He;s got Rahm Emanuel and Hilary Clinton on his staff…when it comes to the Middle East I expect absolutely NO CHANGE.

  13. sdf says:
    January 9, 2009 at 1:17 am

    pouya joon, adabo tarbiateh doosdato hal kon baradar!!! vaghean ke bayad khaily bayad eftekhar koni be in adabo tarbiat!

  14. fds says:
    January 9, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    Akhe mage che juri mishe ye ensan mesle pouya ba ye tikeye an mesle to baradar bashe Arash?? Yek zare ba mantegh fekr kon, barat khube nejad parast.

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