Obama-Clinton State Department rewarding Hamas rocket fire
QUESTION:
Toria, I don’t understand. Two weeks ago, you said it would be a bad
idea for Erdogan to go to Gaza. You were not particularly enthusiastic
about the Emir of Qatar going to Gaza. And now all of a sudden, it’s a
wonderful thing that the Egyptian Prime Minister went there?
MS. NULAND: Matt, we have a different situation, obviously.
QUESTION: Okay.
MS. NULAND:
We are in the process of trying to de-escalate a very, very dangerous
situation between Gaza and Israel. So the purpose was completely
different in this case, and can be helpful, we think.
QUESTION: It can be helpful because they’re talking to Hamas.
MS. NULAND: Because they’re talking to Hamas, they’re talking about the danger of this kind of situation.
QUESTION:
So the way that Hamas gets a stamp of U.S. legitimacy in terms of being
an interlocutor is to fire lots of rockets into Southern Israel, and
then you’re okay with people going to talk to them?
MS. NULAND: We have a –
we have an extremely dangerous and volatile situation. We have a
dangerous situation inside Gaza, we have a dangerous situation inside
Israel. It is not a matter of legitimating violence. This is a matter of
supporting diplomacy to get this to end, which is a different thing
than what the visits were intended to do before this.
What could go wrong?
Labels: American diplomacy, Hamas rockets, US State Department
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:19 PM
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