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BUT I THINK MORE OF HIM: The president-elect’s silence on the Gaza crisis is undermining his reputa…
Instapundit — ... BUT I THINK MORE OF HIM: The president-elect’s silence on the Gaza crisis is undermining his reputation in the Middle East. People want him to condemn Israel — well, some people do — but he hasn’t. And Israel’s just playing by ...

Qui tacet consentit
Once Upon a Time... — Witness the Lightbringer, the Harbinger of Hope and Change, the Man of Peace, and His Wondrous and Mighty Works: Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations. Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following ...

Obama *still* not interfering with Israel.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... People like Simon Tisdall of the Guardian, who probably speaks for all those Leftists out there who contributed time and money in the hope that America’s Israel policy would change. I want to point out a specific sentence: ...

Europe - The More It Changes, The More It Stay the Same Old Swastika Suckers
Daily Pundit — Simon Tisdall: Barack Obama’s silence on Gaza is damaging his reputation | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Barack Obama’s chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don’t wait for Washington inaugurations. Hell, yes. Obama is letting down people like this ...

Heil Hamas!
Jules Crittenden — ... : Yeah, but Israel’s no Russia, Algeria or Burma. This one’s fun. Simon Tisdall at the UK Guardian : Obama’s silence is undermining his reputation in the Middle East. It’s kind of a why-they’ll-hate-us-next argument. Taking that a step further, ...

Obama's Silence on Gaza
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — Some people are getting a bit ticked at Obama on his silence at the Gaza situation. I, for one, think he is doing the right thing. He isn't President yet. His time to say and act will come. But not everyone in the world is happy, and they do make a good point in that Obama has commented on other things: ...

Testing His Mettle
JustOneMinute — ... , Obama seems to be facing his first foreign policy crisis, this one generated by Hamas. OK, there is the little detail that he is not actually President yet, but the Arab and world audiences that felt such solidarity with him last November may not be fully up to speed on the subtleties of the transition of power in this country. So here we are - when that phone rings at 3 AM, Obama won't even answer it. Who knew? Posted by Tom Maguire on January 05, 2009 | ...

Hugh Hewitt: The Most Important Story By Far
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... war with Israel. The stakes are thus huge, though apparently only little understood by most of the networks. The coverage of the battle against Hamas is startlingly void of any characterization of Hamas, as though Hamas was a state actor and not a terrorist group. Israel's battle against Hamas is exactly the battle America wages against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, except that Hamas' outrages against Israel are more recent in time, and continue to this day. The left -- see Simon Tisdale's column in ...

Hugh Hewitt: The Most Important Story By Far
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... war with Israel. The stakes are thus huge, though apparently only little understood by most of the networks. The coverage of the battle against Hamas is startlingly void of any characterization of Hamas, as though Hamas was a state actor and not a terrorist group. Israel's battle against Hamas is exactly the battle America wages against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, except that Hamas' outrages against Israel are more recent in time, and continue to this day. The left -- see Simon Tisdall's column in ...

Will Media Report Anger Over Obama's Silence Concerning Gaza?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — President-elect Barack Obama has been curiously silent about the recent flare up in the Gaza Strip. This apparently is causing some anger internationally from folks that bought into his campaign promises of change and hope. Will Obama-loving media care, or continue to focus on his chiseled pecs?  Such was indirectly asked in a marvelous column published Sunday in Britain's Guardian (emphasis added throughout): Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, ...

Moonbats disappointed: Obama won't back terrorists
Israel Matzav — ... unexpected events. “On a campaign, you control what you talk about and when you talk about it,” Ms. Kumar said. “When you begin governing, you have to respond to what happens in the world.” Maybe Obama's been bitten by reality? We can only hope and pray. But given that Harry Reid and Dick Durbin (now, there's a shocker) have come out in favor of Israel, what makes the Times think that anyone will listen to Obama if he opposes Israel on this? At Al-Guardian, they're also upset that Obama isn't backing Hamas . To maintain the hardline US posture of placing the blame for all ...

The Gaza War Continues
Comments from Left Field — ... Red Crescent Society (PRCS) station, the team there tells me of their injuries. Half, they say, of emergency medics and drivers in Gaza have been injured by Israel while trying to perform the duties. One shows me a scar from a gunshot wound to his arm. Another tells of being twice injured: once, shot in the stomach, another time, also shot in the arm. The bullet holes in their ambulances speak for themselves. The U.S. and Israel: Tisdall: Obama is losing a battle he doesn’t know he’s in (The ...

What’s Obama to Do?
The Mahablog — Simon Tisdall writes at The Guardian that Barack Obama is making a big mistake by not being more assertive about Gaza. Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject. But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim ...

Israelis and Arabs In Agreement On Gaza!
Flopping Aces — Arabs Israelis British American “Progressives” and more British Democratic Party Arabs, Israelis, British, Americans…it seems like everyone wants President-elect Obama to speak out on the fighting in Gaza like he did when he spoke out about the terrorist attacks in India, the American economy, etc. The “there’s only one President at a time” line doesn’t work since he’s already broken that precedent by commenting on other things. I’m not sure why people want him ...

It's not a 'peace process,' it's a war
Israel Matzav — ... were doing them more harm than good and that they would gain more from negotiating than from fighting. Further negotiations will make sense only when Hamas' leadership—currently emboldened by a combination of popular indignation and Iranian support—finally arrives at the same conclusion as its secular counterparts, and a new generation of Israelis is again convinced to believe them. Until then, there is no point in bemoaning the passivity of the Bush administration , the silence of Barack Obama , the powerlessness of Arab leaders , or the weakness of ...

Obama Breaks Silence on Gaza
Weekly Standard Blog — Obama had been taking plenty of criticism for not speaking out on Gaza, mostly from the left flank of his party and the world, which wishes him to signal the "change" he promised by condemning Israel. The Guardian bemoaned his silence this week, and noted the negative response of some Arab media: But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing ...

Obama's Silence on Gaza
Tammy Bruce — ... But the odd fact remains that Obama somehow managed to ride to victory with support from both Jews and Jew-haters. At the moment, neither side is pleased with him. This analysis in The Guardian may speak for many in Europe: ...