The balmy notion that Israel officially has struck a cease-fire deal, now in effect, with the terrorists who are Hamas is tragically laughable.
It is worth one Confederate dollar, the cumulative value of the integrity of Hamas’s leadership.
Imagine a prison warden reaching an equivalency deal with his hundred bloodthirstiest inmates.
At noon today, 21 Israelis were injured in a Hamas-planted bomb explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv. Hamas, and the disgusting people of Gaza who elected them, were jubilant.
The Zoo Erupts
Digest the instant, wicked reaction of the Gaza animals, according to Reuters:
“Hamas blesses the attack in Tel Aviv and sees it as a natural response to the Israeli massacres,” spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters.
“Palestinian factions will resort to all means in order to protect our Palestinian civilians in the absence of a world effort to stop the Israeli aggression,” he said.
Sweet cakes were handed out in celebration at Gaza’s main hospital in response to news of the bombing, Reuters reported.
At the bottom of this pile of wrecked Jewish bodies reposes the cunning President of the United States.
Once again, Swish Obama has managed to deftly slap in the face Israel and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, whom he detests, and make a clean getaway.
As you know after four years, Mr. Obama hates governing. It baffles him. However, he loves to play presidential visitor to the rest of the world, to be the First Guest.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
He is winging around Asia this week on still another remarkably insignificant tourist-style vacation while crises burn at home. Any flimsy excuse to avoid being caught in the White House.
Out of public view so he cannot be seen or held accountable, Mr. Obama has been mumbling, in muffled tones, that Israel has a right to defend itself. He says it while summoning the phoniness of a first wife being forced to insincerely admit her successor is prettier and smarter.
Mr. Obama is too busy bowing to natives on his shrewdly timed vacation to be bothered or risk blame.
Strategically, he dispatches Secretary of State Clinton – who desperately needs redemption after blowing Benghazi – to Israel to shut down the war, pointedly to save face for Hamas and, as a bonus, burnish the president’s rep as a peacemaker. If things go wrong, Hillary and her stringy floor-length hair would be faulted, and the President would escape untouched.
I like the way Paul Mirengoff over at powerlineblog.com described the Obama stunt this afternoon:
Israel is constrained by the presence of Hillary Clinton, and that, of course, was President Obama’s purpose in planting her in Israel. Obama went ballistic on Prime Minister Netanyahu when, while Joe Biden was in Israel, the government said it would built some housing units in Jerusalem. Imagine the reaction if Israel launches an invasion while Hillary is present.
The whole spectacle is farcical. A pretend friend of Israel sends his envoy to constrain Israel’s ability to defend itself, on the pretense of negotiating a pretend long-term cease fire through the good offices of an Egyptian government that doesn’t even pretend to be other than Israel’s enemy. Meanwhile, Hamas, which isn’t pretending, continues to kill Israelis.
