Cantor statement on suicide bombing nails Obama
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va) issued the following statement on Wednesday's terror attack in Jerusalem: “Today’s bombing in Jerusalem is another chilling reminder of the obstacles Israel faces in its quest to live in peace with its neighbors. Israel is a true friend to the United States and a vital strategic ally in an unstable region. In the face of unremitting terror, Israel can count on the continued support of the United States as exercises its right to defend its people.And President Obama's statement - by noting the accidental killings of 'Palestinians' in Gaza on Tuesday - implied precisely the type of tit-for-tat games that Cantor says (and I agree) we must avoid. There is no moral equivalence.
“Within the past two weeks, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have launched dozens of unprovoked rocket attacks at innocent Israelis, while in the West Bank a terrorist brutally murdered a family as they slept in their home. These attacks must not be downplayed as mere episodes in a game of tit-for-tat between Israelis and Palestinians. There is absolutely no justification for deliberate and deadly attacks on innocent civilians.
“This kind of violence does not emerge in a vacuum; it is incubated through education and nurtured by popular culture. The sooner the world comes to grips with this reality, the sooner that there will be peace in the region. That’s why we must use the recent attacks to address the root cause of this violence: anti-Israel incitement in Palestinian mosques, schools and media – and the blanket refusal on the part of the Palestinians to accept Israel’s right to exist that it has created.
“The Administration has called on Israel to make sweeping concessions that I believe will endanger its security, but it doesn’t seem to demand similar from the Palestinians. That’s why I support bipartisan efforts in the House and Senate that call on the White House to put an end to anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian territories. No matter how much we desire Mideast peace, it will remain a pipe dream so long as Palestinian culture makes martyrs of terrorists who target innocents.”
Labels: Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, moral equivalence, Palestinian denial of Jewish history, Palestinian incitement, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:17 PM
2 Comments:
i am a lib, but i was disgusted by obama's use of moral equivalency
has he apologized for the deaths of civilians in libya? how about afghanistan?
his balancing act regarding israel vs the arabs is not working
I wrote the following at The Political Commentator yesterday:
"... Issuing standard Obama rhetoric after the terrorist attack in Jerusalem today, he said "The United States calls on the groups responsible to end these attacks at once, and we underscore that Israel, like all nations, has a right to self-defense."
He said later in his statement, "...We also express our deepest condolences for the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza yesterday..." Blah, blah, blah.
A boiler plate, classic, typical, empty and worthless Obama response. As you will read about below there was no mention made by the President of the more than 50 rockets and mortars lobbed into Israel from Gaza over the past week for no other reason than to kill men, women and children...."
Mike
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