Ed Morrissey reports that the US is so far standing with Israel:
"With the UN Security Council writing a statement expected to be harshly condemning towards Israel, Netanyahu and Obama conferred three times by phone over the last 24 hours.
Jake Tapper reports that the US has decided to defend Israel — and got a watered-down, non-committal statement in front of the UNSC instead...."
It's very important for the US to stand with Israel because this "flotilla" was an outrage and insult to our intelligence.
Israel is under siege. It is targeted by missiles and suicide bombers.
Therefore, Israel has every right to defend itself.
Pres BO must tell the world that the US will stand with Israel, specially when we know that the "Majority of people on flotilla have jihadist links"
P.S. Mona Charen has a few facts for the anti-Israeli lobby to consider:
"Fact: Israel imposed a blockade of Gaza to prevent weapons from reaching the radical Islamic regime there that continues to make war on Israeli civilians.
Egypt too has blockaded the strip, hoping to choke off weapons to Hamas, which it views as a threat.Fact: Humanitarian relief is delivered to Gaza from Israel on a daily basis.
During the first three months of this year, 94,500 tons of supplies were transferred to Gaza from Israel, including 48,000 tons of food products; 40,000 tons of wheat; 2,760 tons of rice; 1,987 tons of clothes and footwear; and 553 tons of milk powder and baby food for the strip’s 1.5 million inhabitants.
Representatives of international aid groups and the United Nations move freely to and from the Gaza Strip.
Fact: Upon learning of the intentions of the Gaza flotilla, the Israeli government asked the organizers to deliver their humanitarian aid first to an Israeli port where it would be inspected (for weapons) before being forwarded to Gaza.
The organizers refused. “There are two possible happy endings,” a Muslim activist on board explained, “either we will reach Gaza or we will achieve martyrdom.”
