Obama: Israel has "right to defend itself"
U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a joint news conference with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at Thai Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
/ AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisAs Israeli airstrikes into Hamas-controlled Gaza expand from government targets into civilian areas, President Obama reiterated his support of Israel's "right to defend itself."
"[T]here is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. So we are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes," Mr. Obama said at a news conference in Bangkok during an international trip to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.
"Let's understand what the precipitating event here was that's causing the current crisis, and that was an ever-escalating number of missiles that were landing not just in Israeli territory but in areas that are populated," the president added. Hamas launched rockets into Israel leading to the current crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was ready to "significantly" expand its airstrikes into Gaza and he indicated that Israel could invade Gaza with ground troops. "The soldiers are ready for any activity that could take place," he said at the weekly cabinet meeting.
Israel's "Iron Dome" rocket-defense system has intercepted 250 Gaza-launched rockets aimed for Tel Aviv, the Israeli government said.
Israeli officials have arrived in Egypt for talks about a cease-fire, and Palestinian officials had already been in Cairo for discussions.
In Bangkok, Mr. Obama said long-term peace is unlikely unless Hamas agrees to cease firing rockets into Israel.
"[T]hose who champion the cause of the Palestinians should recognize that if we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza, then the likelihood of us getting back on any sort of peace track that leads to a two-state solution is, is going to be pushed off way into the future," Mr. Obama said. "So if we're serious about wanting to resolve this situation and create a genuine peace process, it starts with no more missiles being fired in Israel's territory and that then gives us the space to try to deal with these longstanding conflicts that exist."
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He didn't have to! He was the Son of God! He could have called ten thousand angels to take Him down and save Him but He didn't! He loved me so much that He willingly gave His life for me and for you!
THAT'S why I love Israel!
This is not a new war, just a new phase of a very old war.
Although Islam started off as peacefully, it became very violent when Jews, Christians & Mohammad's own tribe refused to believe that Mohammad was a prophet. For what holy prophet comes with a bloody sword?
Muhammad set the example for antisemitism. The oldest extant biography of Muhammad, by Ibn Ishaq is replete with the Prophet's evident hatred of Jews. Most people don't realize that Mecca and Yathrib (Medina) were Jewish and Christian enclaves.
Mohammad had individual Jews assassinated if he felt they had somehow insulted or disobeyed him. When Muhammad gave the command "Kill any Jew that falls into your power," an increasing number of attacks were made upon members of the three large Jewish tribes that dominated the area.
The Sirah, written in the 7th Century, records that "Our attack upon God's enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in Medina who did not fear for his life."
In 627 AD, Mohammad personally oversaw the extermination of the Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza, He built a trench and then cut off the heads of 600-800 Jewish Tribesmen, and then he and his men raped the women and children and sold them off as slaves.
Mohammad then used the land and wealth from the Jewish tribe to fund more to attacks on Jewish and Christian tribes in Mecca and Medina. Just like the technique used by the Nazi's in WW2 to fund their war with the wealth from the Jews that they killed.
Nothing has really changed since then. We have been dealing with Muslim factionalism for 1400 years now.
Islam is not the Religion of Peace. It is a cult of Death and Terror.
Islam's two gods, Allah and Mohammad are the embodiment of the deepest and darkest evil in this world.
If you're launching rockets, don't launch them amongst the civilian population unless you want civilians to get killed when you get bombed.
Pretty simple to understand really.
..... Acting on God's instructions, the Jews "annihilated everyone who lived in" Makkedah. At Libnah, they again "left no survivors." At Lachish, "they put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah." At Eglon, "they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish." At Hebron, "they annihilated it and all who lived there." Again at Debir, "they annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors." "Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded." (Joshua, Chapter 10.)
Sounds like Genocide to me and the pot calling the kettle black! I'M NOT IGNORANT, NOR AM I A FOOL, I KNOW ISRAEL'S HISTORY! THEY WROTE THE BOOK ON TERRORISM !!!
I have a theological education. Most of the spurious books you refer to were written in the second century ad. Thats over 100 years after Christs birth. The remaining 2 or 3 that could have been written during Christs life were so filled with heresies and outright lies that they could not in all reality be included.
All of these books were not in widespread use but in selective off the wall groups that taught falsely. It is the Devil that has made them survive in only partial form.
II Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
I'll expose the missing 17 Books mentioned but not found in ANY VERSION of the Bible.
Religion ... the savior and downfall of humanity ... they knew what they were talking about when they called it ..... THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD!
Here are some things from the Bible before science figured it out:
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml
The Bible is Gods word. The Holy Ghost put into the minds of the writers the very words they were to use.
But belief that it is Gods word is a fruit of faith. Those on the road to damnation have no faith and will not believe it.
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
No God, Know Peace.
That will be useful information come November 29th. On that day if the Palestinians are granted non member state status in the UN they will have access to the international court at the Hague. War crimes trials should follow very shortly afterwards.
I wonder how many politicians will voice approval of a state ran by convicted war criminals?