Yesterday, Barack Obama spoke briefly regarding his belief that Israel had every right “to defend itself” against rocket attacks. The president did not mention the terrorist organization Hamas in his statements, instead only focusing on the rockets and not the people responsible for firing those rockets into Israel. It now appears the motivation for Barack Obama’s words was a quickly devised effort to get in front of the events now taking place today – namely Israel’s military invasion into Palestine in an effort to deal a debilitating blow to Hamas directly. President Obama’s seeming, albeit briefly spoken, support of Israel was in fact the result of the administration’s fear of looking impotent regarding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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