U.S. sends warships near Israel in case evacuation needed
By Barbara Starr
Three U.S. Navy amphibious warships are returning to the eastern Mediterranean to remain on standby in the event they are needed to assist Americans leaving Israel in the coming days, according to two U.S. officials.
The officials stressed an evacuation remains an extremely remote possibility and the Obama administration is not currently planning for one. Americans who wish to leave the region now are able to do so using commercial airlines.
But the decision to send the ships even if the event is such a remote contingency underscores the growing concern about where the Israel-Gaza conflict could be headed.
"This is due diligence. It is better to be prepared should there be a need," one official said Monday. Both officials said the ships would be used only for assisting Americans and not for any combat role.
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The most immediate impact will be on the ships' crews and the estimated 2,500 Marines on board. They had been scheduled to return to Norfolk, Virginia, just after Thanksgiving; their homecoming will now be delayed several days depending on events, the officials said.
The ships involved are the USS Iwo Jima, the USS New York and the USS Gunston Hall. At the end of last week the ships were west of Gibraltar, before the decision was made to turn them around and send them back to the eastern Mediterranean, where they will remain for now.
The U.S. military also maintains three to four ships off the coast of Israel that are capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. That deployment has stretch for some months in the face of a potential ballistic threat from Iran.
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ISRAEL IS THE HOME OF THE JEWS.THE WORLD AGREED TO LET THE JEWS HAVE A JEWISH STATE-RES.181. 11.29.1947
THE ARABS WERE AGAINST AND STARTED A BLOODY WAR.THE LOST.THE WAR WAR WAS LOST BECAUSE THE ARABS FACED 600.000 ISRAELIS AND THE FLAMES OF AUSCHWITZ UN THEIR EYES.6.000.000 JOINT THE ISRAELIS AND THE WORLD WAS SILENCE LIKE IN 1939-1945.
The real enemies of America are Israel and the corrupt politicians who support that terrorist country.
Thank you Obama and Clinton for the Arab Spring. Now Obama is happy that the Jews are getting it. He warned them this would happen, how come he knew? He knew what he did in the Middle East would hurt Israel. He's getting his rocks off now and soon will have Rice as Secy of State, just to prove how power crazy he is. And Clinton loves the enemy the Muslim Brotherhood also. This is what we have running our country now, running America and Israel into the ground. Real sickies, these democrats. I say get rid of Hamas and why worry about anyone in Gaza? The citizens and Hamas want all Israelis to die. Why are the Israelis always making excuses for them that they are being careful - wipe them off the earth! Why should the Israelis have to suffer all the time from the Palestinians? Hamas doesn't want peace or a nice state for its people. They don't even build shelters for the protect them from the missiles. THEY DON'T WANT A STATE, THEY JUST WANT TO MURDER THE JEWS. When are people going to wise up. Isn't it obvious, are people that dumb?
Are people that dumb? Are you for real? Israel is occupying land owned by Palestine and they are not giving it back anytime soon. You have Ireland and England only this is in the Gaza Strip area. The Irish who do not have the wealth of Britain are doing terrorist acts to bring attention to their cause. I am not condoning terrorism but how does one fight against tyranny of a superior aggressor? How badly do you have to have it in the world where your children are blowing themselves up to bring awareness to their cause?
! I wonder because its Jews killing Muslims with modern military equipment is this so much less of a crime then when Momar Kadafi did it? Or for that matter what Bashar al-Assad is doing in Syria?
Your comment wipe them off the face of the Earth? Wow, you and Hitler would get along swell.
wow you are just evil
they say history repeats itself and now the zionist are nazis and the muslims are the jews in the holocaust
hey lizzy, 50 million people died in WWII 23 million were Russian......why do we never hear a peep about the other 44 million? i'm not an anti-Semite, but I am sick of hearing of how hard the JEWS have it. The Brits, in their endless wisdom replanted them initially in a STOLEN ship, smack dab in the middle of 350,000,000 arabs. The JEWS have 200 nuke sea and land based missiles, nuclear technology STOLEN from the united states. I don't wish them bad will, but it's time for us to let them fend for themselves. I hope Barack and Susan cut all military aid, and repeal America's promises to assist if they get their asses in a bind. They are not an ally. Allies give and receive.....they give us nothing but a headache.
Not a word of what you said is true.
Thus says The Lord God: I will defend My people, Israel, and take vengeance upon My enemies. For My own name’s sake will I do it, and for My servant David’s sake shall it be done... And thereafter shall My witnesses be sent into battle...
For behold, I have only just begun to speak! Says The Lord of Hosts. I have only just begun to reveal the power of The Lord! I have only just begun to reveal My anger! Yet if it were not for the sake of a remnant among those yet to be called, and for the sake of My name in Israel, that it may be glorified, I would have destroyed the enemies of Israel already, blotting them from the face of the whole earth. Thus I have withheld My hand, and have not yet taken vengeance upon My enemies. Yet I shall not withhold My hand for much longer, neither shall My wrath tarry.
For I shall surely stretch out My hand and strike the nations, and the slaughter shall be very great! Many ten thousands shall fall in one day!... A great destruction, even of all their devices! For The Lord God shall come out against them mightily!... Very dreadful in battle! With a terrible destruction shall I be glorified in My strength, and the slaughter shall be great!... A slaughter which has never been seen in Israel, slaughter of such a kind, causing ALL in the earth to tremble!
And those who hear of it, even their ears will tingle, with their hearts skipping a beat within their chests. Then they will know, I AM THE LORD, when I have magnified Myself in the land of Israel, when I have shaken the mountains of Israel, with My presence!... Yea, in the hearts of many shall My name be hallowed, on that day.
THE LORD GOD of Heaven and earth is speaking to THIS modern generation...
THE TIME HAS COME!... History has an end...
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There is no God, Allah, Budda, santa Claus or Tooth Fairy.
Its is all BS!
The only heaven and hell mankind will ever see, is what we make for each other, on this Earth.
Let us just pray for those MEU-24 marines and sailors that have been sent back to assist in the removal of Americans from Israel . Those men and women had hopes to be home for a belated Thanksgiving and a merry Christmas.
Let's us hope, and pray, that they do come home, unharmed, as soon as possible.
This issue between Israel and its neighbors has gone on, far too long.
The last thing that this world needs is a major eruption in the mid-east.
It could become the holocaust that destroys the world.
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These Ships have enough conventional firepower to level ALL of Gaza, so that Israeli's can Bulldoze ALL Animalstinians into the sea. USE THEM! We're tired of hearing about this uber-liberal rocket problem!!
OBAMA's NEW US NAVY WHITE FLEET WILL HELP JEWS LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND
Obama will order all US ships be painted white and fly white flags so Palistinian raiders in rubber boats will not sink US Ships. The new White US Navy will help Jews leave Israel in a new EXODUS. Jews will sail the Earth's oceans for 40 years looking for a new Homeland and will not find one.
You are late for your Klan meeting.
Israel needs no help, what they need is for everyone to stop holding Israel back ,and let them finish the job.
Amen!
My father was apart of the USS Stark which was blown up during the Persian Gulf war.My father was one of the five people who survived the missile. My prayers are for the people on the ship, their protection, because we ended up going back to the gulf in the 90's it won't ever end. I just pray for their safety. I think its forgotten that people's lives are at stake...but they don't care I guess...http://youtu.be/V4jEsdWRsNA
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I hated one thing though. When I was little he used to touch me in a certain place. I used to tell him to stop but one day I realized it was fun. So now I like being touched by men.
Given Ambassador Stevens past situation, exactly which Americans might be in need of safe departure or evacuation by US military personnel and hardware ?
We're sending ships in case of evacuation? What? I mean, that's prudent I suppose. But where are the ships in case of escalation against our Ally? How about parking a couple Nimitz Class Carriers off Israels coast and sending a note. Give us hollar if you need anything. CC Egypt.
That's it, muslims vs the world, let's get it on and over with, we'll woop the hell out of them and that punk mohamud
And Obama said ships were outdated....
Hope Israel doesn't bomb these "warships" like she did the Liberty. They attacked the Liberty all day even thought it was flying the American flag. The Liberty was an intelligence ship and Time Magazine reported at the time that it intercepted messages to the effect that Israel was executing Egyptian POW's.
WW3 is coming SOON.Tensions ARE STEADY RISING IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BAD
ECONOMY, CLIMATE CHANGE... HOW CAN ANYONE HAVE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE RIGHT NOW?
Except for your inclusion of the fraudulent climate change issue, I have to agree with everything else you said.
Jesus Christ
WE are waiting for the man with the answer to peace.
This collection of comments is getting way off the subject. This is not about differences in religion, or who did what to whom and when. The basic problem in the Middle East for the past 64 years + is the Arab/Islamic peoples intolerance for any state or country to exist there which is not of the Islamic faith. Israel was created by the United Nations after WWII based on principles agreed to by the League of Nations and treaties dating back into the 1920s. Modern Israel sits on land that nobody wanted for hundreds of years prior to 1947/48 much of it was swamp/desert and uninhabitable. The Jews lived there along with Arabs prior to the creation of the State of Israel, but Arabs attacked Jews in several areas during the British Mandate, and the UN decided to make it two lands: one for Jews and one for Arabs. The Jews agreed, the Arabs rejected the plan, then 5 Arab armies attacked the Jews and tried to drive them into the sea. They lost. Israel was born. Almost all the land either belonged to Jews or was purchased by them. This idea that "Jews stole this land" is a complete lie. Jews developed the land, and now others want it. A complete and comprehensive peace treaty could still be worked out today if the Arabs/Islamists gave up the idea of wiping out Israel. Intolerance is the BIG ISSUE. The words of Golda Meir still are true, "when the Arabs decide they love their children more than they hate us, peace will come" . I just wish they would give that a try instead of strapping bombs to them and sending them to die by killing Israelis and other Westerners.
Amen.
The problem is the Balfour Declaration.
Your Bible claims the entire "holy" land is mostly Muslim presence? That's not what Almighty God's word says; you must be reading the captions under pictures written by opportunists. Jerusalem and the land of the Nation of Israel belong to the Jews as per the promises God made to Abraham, Moses an Joshua. Deuteronomy 7:1-2, "When your Almighty God at last brings you into the land to which you are going so as to take possession of it, He must also clear away populous nations from before you.......SEVEN nations more populous and mighty than you are. And your Almighty God will certainly abandon them to you and you must defeat them. You must conclude no covenant with them nor show them any favor." This is the promise of Almighty God that came to be true in 1948-49. Those nations were Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. Check into the actual history, Tony, and then ask yourself who belongs in that land.
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The world is all ways in flux an changing, at times for the good an times for the bad only time will determond the out come. An whos to say I'm right or you are right, picking a side is the choices we make.
Hate to say it, but, you dont go down the block and kick the kid that is meaner than you in the shin constantly, (Hamas, extremists) and not expect to get your butt kicked, lucky for the people on the palastinian side, the UN keeps the defender in check, because if they didnt there wouldnt be much left.
Get a clue; Israel is the occupier and land thief. If the Israelis don't want missiles shoved up their butts, they should not steal Palestinian land and should not murder Palestinians.
Not to help Israel, but to evacuate and run should Obama feel the need to do so.
I just have to wonder how many taxpayer dollars are going to be used to relocate even more Hamas terrorists to the US under the guise of them being refugees.
The real terrorists you should be worrying about are the Zionists and their supporters.
You could say the same about the Native American tragedy in our country. The problem is that it is history and there is not much anyone can do about that now. Leaders on both sides need to grow up and stop the killing of innocent people and the finger pointing.
I wonder if anyone realizes that building code in parts of Israel require the inclusion of bomb shelters. Schools, hospitals, houses, etc. Does anyone know why that is?
Once again i do not have a problem with religion, but why do we have to continue to hear that EVERYBODY's god has the answer? Come down and fix everything! NOW! what is the wait?
What interest is this of the U.S. military, and why are we getting involved at all? If U.S. citizens are over there of their own volition, then they need to get out the same way they got in. If these two nations want to destroy themselves, so be it but the U.S. should not be involved either way.
I suppose liberals think this is Bush's fault too?
It is
Thanks to Bush's leadership and example of how to get into another worthless war that America has no business in...
You're absolutely right. We absolutely should've allowed Saddam Hussein to continue funding terrorists and when some of them happened to blow up a truck bomb containing a couple barrels of that 55 TONS OF YELLOW CAKE URANIUM or 2 tons of enriched uranium that was removed from Iraq, thereby turning a major US city into a radioactively contaminated waste land , that would've been Bush's fault too I bet. CNN did a story on how the Iraqi Uranium was moved to northern Canada for safe keeping.
They probably will.....You already know..Bush gets blamed for EVERYTHING.......It doesn't stop....Denial is a horrible thing
Palestine should have been properly defended against the illegal European immigration back in the late 30's and 40's. Then there never would have been a Middle East Crisis. My bible from back then shows the entire Holy Land as "Palestine", with the population majority as Muslim, with Christians second and Jewish as poor third minority. Most of the IDF troops busy fighting never had any Israeli-born grandparents, or great grandparents.
You could say the same about the Native American tragedy in our country. The problem is that it is history and there is not much anyone can do about that now. Leaders on both sides need to grow up and stop the killing of innocent people and the finger pointing.
i dont know what bible you are reading but the land was given to the twelve tribes of israel and because they were disobedient to God they were driven out of the land in 70 ad and had not seen there land in over 2000 after world war 2 the land was given back to them. prophecy through the bible fortold thousand of years earlier that israel would return back to there land
I'm Christian, but I believe if God wants the Israelites to have that land, he'll step in to guarantee it. The Bible teaches that He made the walls of Jericho fall, he made countries and leaders fall away in the path of the Jews as they took over the "promised land." He made the stone of David fly straight to kill Goliath. He made manna fall from heaven to keep his people alive as promised. Let him step in and figure this out – we really should believe in Him and stay out of His way.
Um yea but no, Palestine was the only country in the world accepting Jews during the Holocaust, then Hitler teamed up with some like minded Arabs who started a propaganda war in Palestine and started a whole new confilct which still wages today. and your map was probably drawn after the crusades, which drastically changed the region. not to mention that most writings and maps from that time were destroyed by the Roman Cathlic church so they could push their own agenda and image onto their lemmings. and remember that three religions were born in this area at about the same time period so its all he said she said BS. any evidence of exactly what happened during this time period was either destroyed or is sitting in a Vatican Vault. s o while you say their grandparents are not Israli or Palestinian you need to look further much further try 6-10 maybe even 20 generations deeper.
Until after WWII Palestine wasn't a country as much as a British protectorate. Look up the Balfour resolution.
It absolutely cracks me up to continue to hear the muslim extermists say " we kill other countries people because they kill ours and will continue to until they are all gone or dead" Hell they dont need us killing their own people, they do it everyday, suicide bombers kill their own people everyday, we dont need to go to war with these countries, they will do themselves in without our help. all the name of some "god" who doesnt show their self. EVER.????????????
You know i get so tired of people fighting over their "god". If someones god was actually REAL, why doesnt he / she come down and finish the job? Dont tell me to have faith or believe in this one or that one. PROVE it, not through a book, or anything else, PROVE IT!. All religions believe theirs is the one, the muslims just go a little further to quell those who choose to question it.
That is because God has a plan for everyone and everything. If there was peace and everyone is relaxed and living a happy life then how would you know who is good and who is bad? We are all being in tested in every decision and every situation we are placed in. Israel decided that projectile rockets that have killed a few hundred over the past ten years are enough to fire a few hundred rockets in a matter of days, killing entire families including innocent civilians, women and children. Not to mention that all this started because they put Gaza under siege, limited supplies, food and building materials and want them to stay silent. They expect that because they are the 'chosen' people that they have the right to kill innocent civilians, destroy lives. God is just and there will come a day when justice will be served.
The first thing I have to say is I am disgusted by the bigoted comments I am reading on this blog. Some of you need to spend less time on line and more time learning grammar and spelling! Second, there will never be peace in the Middle East – never was and never will be. The U.S. and our government need to get its priorities straight. When everyone in the U.S. has jobs, has food on the table and a roof over their heads, when all our Veterans who fought for this country have the health care they need; when all our citizens have access to healthcare and our children are able to get a good education, then and only then, should we be handing our our tax dollars to other countries. From where I am standing, we have a long road ahead of us and all of the above will not happen in my life time. I am more concerned about this country and its citizens. I wish our government was.
dealing with the middleeast is like dealing with two unrudley married neighbors that keep kicking the crap out of each other. eventually we need to just say to hell with them let them kill each other.get our troops out become 100 %energy independent.give israel the option to move the whole state to wisconsin.
It would be absolutely fine with me if every Muslim that existed anywhere in the world – Men, Women, Boys or Girls suddenly dropped dead.....the world would be a much better place without those pigs breathing.
Wow, live in the Arkansas backwoods much?
People like you make me feel like there is no hope for the human race. You are one sad individual
Bomb the Muslim pigs who occupy Gaza.
They should have the USS Iwo Jima's designation in the caption. The USS Iwo Jima LPH was decommissioned in 1993. Is that the LHD?
Abandon Israel; it is a failed experiment. Offer all Israelis permanent residence in the US. Maybe give them the southern portion of Arizona (or ALL of it), and part of California. Maybe have a New Israel beside New Mexico.
Turn the land now known as Israel into a UN Religious Park, for all religions. NO weapons allowed, except by UN troops.
Then, if Iran doesn't abandon its Nukes, we should destroy their nuclear facilities, at whatever civilian loss.
Peace on Earth.
The IWO JIMA was launched in Feb 2000, and her maiden voyage on 23 June 2001. I do not think that is the same ship you are talking about.
If Israel isn't worth defending then what is? I say this not as a Jew but as a Christian.
Even if the Muslims get the whole thing and drive all the Jews “into the sea”, the Muslims will just turn to the next thing that offends them and destroy that. If you don’t get the idea that they cannot tolerate anyone that is not a Muslim you are asleep. Israel is the ‘litmus’ test. We are next.
well put Charley!!
Palestine should have been properly defended against the illegal European immigration back in the late 30's and 40's. Then there never would have been a Middle East Crisis. My bible from back then shows the entire Holy Land as "Palestine", with the population majority as Muslim, with Christians second and Jewish as poor third minority. Most of the IDF troops busy fighting don't have any Israeli-born grandparents.
First off their are 2 categories of muslims. Second they believe in the exact same God as you and me they even believe in Jesus being a profit. However The violent muslims are technically not acting how their profit nor the Qur'an mandates that they respect other religions and culture. At its roots the religion of Islam is a peaceful religion it has just been corrupted, misinterpret and use to the benefit of some middle easter countries. My point being not all muslims are horrible people in similar to how not all of us Americans are cowboys as typically stereotyped in other countries
Good idea, because the middle east was so peaceful before 1948.
Give me a break, Muslims have been at war with each other and with everybody else for over 1400 years.
Ok.
I see alot of confusion in this blog.
For anyone not paying attention it's like this:
-One side of this conflict intentionally fires missles into civilian neighborhoods, hoping to harm women and children.
-The other side responds to this by targetting missles towards the perpetrators (hoping not to harm civilians),, but since the perpetrators, barbarically operate from civilan areas, innocent casualties are inevitable.
Not hard to pick out the bad guys......is it.
It's none of our business! STAY OUT!!!
Then we SHOULD have stayed out from the beginning by NOT giving them billions of dollars in the FIRST PLACE .. MORON.
Maybe we should just leave Americans to be killed. Anyone rember Benghazi
How about you go there first...
Were you this concerned when the 60 or so Americans were killed in the 16 embassy attacks during the Bush years, or the 3000 that died in the twin towers under Bush's watch? Or the 4500 Americans who died in Iraq? Your a prejudice is showing...
And how many were ambassadors?
you mean the 9-11-01 attacks? The first year of the Bush Administration? At least bush didn't blame the previous administration like someone who still does it in his second term.
The Benghazi attack was on the anniversary of 9/11. 9/11 was out of the blue. Isn’t that a little special? Do we need to send Obama a Hallmark card to get the message across?
How about we dredge up the embassies that were attacked in the Clinton years too –dipsh1t.
So tired of all the Jew propaganda. They are parasites that move from host to host killing the host in the process. Satan's chosen people for sure.
lol maybe you should kill yourself
You Sir, are an idiot.
You are giving him too much credit and respect
So tired of idiots such as yourself, Israel is the only glimmering hope of civilization that we have.
only awhite person would say that, isreal has forsaken the god of abraham and arekilling their brothers cain murdering abel...
BOB - YOU must BE an agent for iran hummus or one of those other islams - either that or you are a terrorist yourself - such hate comes from you people
Hmmmm?
1. Knock out the Egyptian air force – 1 day
2. Evacuate Americans – 2 weeks
3. Observe Iran comedy – 2 months
4. Syria ?
Glad we have such a budget surplus that we can throw our money away on things like this.
of course it needs to be done. why must prople be such short sighted idiots is beyond me. yes lets just walk away and let the entire middle east melt down.
after 2,000 years they have not managed to do anything meaningful yet why shoudl we get involved now...leave them too it.
Not our problem.
You mean helping our people (U.S. citizens) escape a possibly dangerous situation? I don't think I would call that a waste of money
Why should my tax dollars be used to get someone out that went there voluntarly???? These two groups will NEVER get along; waste of time sending Clinton over. No offense to her, but it is a waste of time. Why we always feel like we can fix everything is beyond me.
Because they are still our citizens, our people. It's not like they went over because of some death wish. For all we know, they may have gone there to visit family or, if they are Jewish, see some religious sites that mean a lot to them. We can't just leave them there. We have to try and make some effort to help them if they need it.
All this sounds inciteful, but like the fiscal trouble of the usa, nobody has any real answers to the middle east conflict which will go on for ever. Iran is steadily working on a solution and once they get their missles tipped with nukes, they will try to end the conflict once a for all. Not much anyone can do now.
What were the chariots not available?
Fighting over dirt in the name of imaginary diety is nukinfutz crazy.
Religion causes more problems that it solves.
This isn't about religion so much as it's about Israel's right to exist! Say what you will about how mean and nasty Israel is being, but the truth is that if Hamas and the Palestinians would stop shooting at Israel, they have been left alone! This year alone Israel had had close to 1,000 rockets fired at it from the Gaza strip. We wouldn't tolerate that sort of thing, so why should they?
Let's just nuke 'em all and let god sort them out. Problem solved.
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Oh wow will wonders ever cease !!! ...Here come the Americans....late and excessive as usual. 🙂
What? A couple of ships in place to evacuate civilians is excessive? Should we send a rowboat instead?
OK first off it is not late. Do you think aircraft carriers fly or something? Second off. It does not take an aircraft carrier to evacuate civilians.
It's an amphibious assault ship, not an Aircraft Carrier.
USS Iwo Jima – A Mini Aircraft Carrier which carries 6-8 Harrier Jump Jets, 20 Odd Helicopters 10 of them Cobra light attack helicopters and 700 Marines.
USS New York – Landing Craft , capacity 700 fully armed Marines.
USS Gunston Hall – Another Landing Craft capable of landing two companies of Marines with other support elements.
Why certainly Dr. Brian... this tiny group of Nursing Ships and its band of harmless nuns are only good enough to Invade a fifth of Gaza's Territory and hold onto it for 48-72 Hrs. Just Enough time for the US 5th Fleet to get there. O.O
What are you saying??? Maybe we should just send a canoe.
Where do you live Gaza?
Love it. If we had sent a small force and something happened and they were overrun then you would be complaining that we didn't send a larger force.
We know which side Americans are on but the question remains, which side is Obama on?
Why do you israelis have to divide us to empty our pockets. We have fed you in the past and are willing to feed you in future. All president is asking is that you guys should act like humans
"act like humans" ? they are acting like humans dumb dumb.
You're an idiot...............Just like Bush Jr. and Sarah Palin and all the clowns before them..
Larry5, Obama has been very clear that he supports Israel. He always has. He specifically stated that Israel is well within their right to defend themselves. Are you referring to the false claim that he and Netanyahu were in New York at the same time and he declined to meet him? The fact check proved that while Obama was there on Monday and Tuesday, Netanyahu did not plan to arrive until Thursday, two days after Obama left NYC. Because of the conflict in their schedules (Netanyahu was only in the US for two days), they had a phone conference instead. Both men are adamant that they are close friends, and it was some media outlet in Israel that blew this thing into what it has been viewed as.
Now, as far as Israel, they have the right to defend themselves, but they are not the good guys here. No one is. Both sides have good and bad people, and they fight because they hate each other, always have, always will. Thousands of civilians have been killed on both sides. Why do we think everything is like the movies, with a good and bad guy? Both Israelis and Palestinians are native to that land, and BOTH have a right to exist.
Israel has the right to defend herself and kill as many morons like you Christians as they possibly can
You are one screwed up Jew.
Born Christian, time to go back to your son of god.
I hate all of you.
A Bigoted response like this is the reason for the perpetuated hate of this world and you should be ashamed...
If you are really "Tired of the lies" then covert back to Judiasm because your Mr. son of god was Jew
Irregardless of peoples religion I try tolerance unlike your hate filled message!
"Irregardless" is not a word. Clearly shows that you are low life immigrant calling himself American or you are a Southern RedNeck
ZionGoldenLion – of course Jesus was a Jew, you tool, the religion that started as his following could not have existed before he did. Moron. And I'm an atheist who really, really, hates standing up for Christianity in any way.
how stupid are you?! the are FIGHTING A ISLAMIC NATION! THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY ISLAMIC NATIONS! AND MOST IMPORTANT THEY ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION!!!! WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY KILL CHRISTAINS WHEN THEY ARE THEY MINORITY IN THE AREA!!! get your facts straight and get a freakin education for heaven sake.
Islamic Jihad deputy chief Ziyad Nahala said on Sunday in an interview with Egyptian television that all of the organization's weapons came from Iran.
“I want to note that all our weapons are from Iran. The rockets fired into Israel until now have a range of 70 to 80 kilometers," he said, according to a report on Channel 10 News.
Isn't it amazing that the poor 'Jordanian' ex-patriots we are now calling 'Palestinians' can somehow smuggle in rockets but not food and supplies. In fact, if they were not smuggling in weapons, there would be no need for the embargo anyway. We need to remember that they were firing rockets at Israel KNOWING that eventually Israel would have to retaliate. Therefore, they place the rockets in places that will receive the most collateral civilian casualties. They KNOW they cannot win a direct conflict, so they are hoping to gander support from the rest of the world by indirectly killing their own people. AND by giving them that support, some in the USA are also indirectly responsible for the civilians deaths as well.
How are any from the reasonable world to supposedly "Discuss Diplomacy" with this sick backwards Radical Islamic loving made up country that drags people through streets. You can in no way negotiate with terrorists and a barbaric population. This is a world disease and the world needs a fast cure. Just sick...
Do know why we are supporting F....ked u..p people like you.....time to ask you guys to pay us back our money and precision weapons
Since the Hamas seems intent on targeting civilian populations, maybe Israel should take a Dresden approach to Gaza City.
STOP SENDING OUR TAX PAYERS DOLLARS TO THIS TERRORIST NATION ISRAEL
Hamas is indeed a criminal organization that uses civilians and human shields. Palestinioans would be better off is they could rid themselves of Hamas but, since Hamas has no regard for civilan deaths, this might be difficult.
Israel is right in defending itself...
OBAMA , STOP SENDING OUR TAX PAYERS DOLLARS TO THIS TERRORIST NATION ISRAEL, STOP NOW.
They couldn't just send airplane tickets and a Memo attached...it would read something like this (in my mind)
Dear Citizens of the United States of America, come home soon.
Sincerely yours, Barry and his crew.
"This is due diligence. It is better to be prepared should there be a need," one official said Monday. Both officials said the ships would be used only for assisting Americans and not for any combat role.
That's funny; they didn't seem to have that approach in Benghazi...
Apples and oranges, anyone?
Instead a war ship, the U.S. should be sending a fleet of "life ships" to house and maintain Palestinian refugees temporarily until the fighting stops. Protect life from insane violence.
Like father, like son helping AIM with the slave ships through the middle passage. Never seen any of them sleep outside the master's house on the streets.
How about we build a ship with a giant, flashing neon sign that says "if you stop launching rockets into Israel, they won't shoot back."
The Palestinians in Gaza overwhelmingly support terrorists, they deserve absolutely no sympathy when the terrorists they worship get them into trouble.
1. Israel starves out Gaza because they hate other religious peoples of their land
2. Gaza, starved and dying, retaliates with rockets.
3. Israel calls this "terrorism" to respond to harsh punishement such as starvation
4. israel bombs and kills innocent civilians they call "justified collateral"
5. israel wants to kill them all while Palestinians plead for peace and resolution
Israel kicked out the natives of the land, starved them, and expected them to accept a societal death penalty without repercussion. Id shoot a rocket at you too if thats how my people were being treated!
So who is the terrorist again? #SupportGaza
Really? That's the best you could do to justify your support for the blood thirsty Palestinian psychopaths that want to slaughter an entire country because they belong to a different religion?
Question is have you ever been at war, let alone held a weapon, no violence is good tactics, a presence is enough to make anyone back down.
I support Israel but I don't understand why American Jews which overwhelmingly support Israel vote Democrat...the party that supports Israel least. It also disturbs me that American Jews will do all they can not to fight for America but expect other Americans to fight the conflicts that we get into because of our support of Israel. I know more American Jews that have enlisted in the IDF than in the US Military.
yes for the most part they have zero loyalty to america beyond what it can give them in terms of personal gain. this is who they are and have always been–nationless duplicitous aggressive nomadic swindlers
Because American Jews do not believe in Jesus and they do not want republicans pushing their "christian moral values" into their daily life.
Sure they support Israel, but the Jews are more worried about these "moral issues" that the conservatives like to impose on the rest of the country.
At some point Israel is going to have to take a stand bring this conflict to an end and flex it's muscle.
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
Just get it done.
Would also send a message to Iran
I think you're right! I hate to admit it, but when this latest conflict was reported last week, my first thought was "not again"! Everyone realizes that even if both sides agree to a ceasefire, yet again, tensions will continue to mount and the violence will resume.
For evacuation or for Syria. This one was too easy to spot.
Reading too many conspiracy theories. Its Israel.
Obviously this tirade of posts has little to do with the historical and current conflict, but has more to do with anonymous bigotry from both sides. However, it is comforting knowing that those who are participating in the tirade are behind computer screens as opposed to being out in the public sector. Continue doing us the favor of remaining behind your screens and posting your well developed, intelligent and much enlightening posts.
Who do you consider to be bigots, white folks again when they are not causing the problems the Arabs and Muslims are! Have you consider that you are the Bigot. I suppose when we critic Chinese China that we are the bigots and not the communists!
By firing rockets on Jerusalem did hamas accepted it as Jewish city? Nahhh...their IQ is to limited to even remotely think logically about what they are doing.
that would be half of the population of Isreali Jews, will just drop them off in Manahhtan where they came from..
Don't really understand or know ant thing about history? The Israelites did not come from Manhattan. Those were American Indians. The territory the Israelites are now protecting from terrorists was and always will be their home, given to them by God.
US Navy goes to the conflict zone. They are very afraid that the Palestinian Navy and Air Force can invade Israel. Already Palestinian Tanks Division "Rommel 1" , almost 450 tanks, Russian made are at the border of Israel. The world fears the worst. Netanjahu said the Jerusalem Post had committed suicide. The world is crying.
To read the trash talk on CNN site is revolting. Although, not surprising. CNN International is nothing more than an arm of Hamas/Hezbollah. CNN is so biased against Israel it is pathetic. Wolfie Blitzah is a puppet with Soros hand so far up his posterior hes wincing. I hope Israel wipes out Gaza once and for all, what the hell, they get blamed anyway so make good use of it. Then go get little Haman in Iran and knock them back to 1875. So be it.
"There will be peace when Arabs start loving their babies more then they hate the Jews"
Golda Meir.
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti – Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion
"This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades."
– Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary-general of the Arab League in 1947, just prior to the first Arab invasion of Israel.
Let's not pretend we all don't know where the real evil is here.
Im out here on one of the ships and we want to go hoooomee!!
BS! AS someone that has deployed overseas several times I highly doubt any sailor or Marine would be dumb enough to post that on a comment board since your not even supposed to tell your family that info but ok thanks for playing.
You can tell them you're on a ship just not where the ship will be in the future. Clearly you weren't in charge of anything when you were at sea.
If you had half a brain, you would know that the units involved have already made an official press release regarding the mission and their location. Also, "I'm on one of the ships and we want to come home" does not give any information about the whereabouts of those involved. It gives no information whatsoever except that our Sailors and Marines want to come home. This is NOT an OPSEC violation. You are just acting like a jerk. And a stupid one at that.
We want you home! Hang in there!
HITLER IS SURLEY MISSED
which part do you miss, the killing of English, Spanish, Polish, etc? You pick friends well.
You and Adolf were/are both trolls .
HITLER KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND IT WAS THE RIGHT THING
Ray=nitwit. If he knew what he was doing, he should have gotten rid of YOU!
WE NEED ANOTHER HITLER, HITLER WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING. , HOW RIGHT WAS HE/ I KNOW VERY
Ray i think you stupid and i wish your kid's will marry to jew and then your grandchildren will be jewish. jews survived Hitler they will survive hamas and all that human killing mashins to.
peace&love
arabs mean look all over the world Siria, Afganistan, Pakistan, Egipt, they are mean and they are killing them self for pride.
time to kick all jews "Proud Jew" " Jewish Mother" and others of their faith out of USA. We have fought wars to save them but they all really deserve to die. America is for American. I don't want American talking about saving these pathetic people.
These are transparent trolls.
Bostontola. I know you from another forum. You are low life troll yourself who is blaming everybody else. Get some life.
I agree we need to cleanup America and get rid of all lobby groups. Any Jew supporting Israel should be sent back to Gaza or whatever to enjoy the cozy life there. We want only American living here in great USA
You are not American.
Kelley, you seem like a level headed sort.
Lol@America is American. What is American exactly?
Eat your heart out...Immigrants are those who make this country and Jews along with Asians are leading the pack
Those "pathetic people" run our government, the media, Hollywood and professional sports.
You're free to leave, or do something about it. Take another bite of your donut.
Obviously you can't do it for your country...somebody has to. By the way stop using Google, a Jew runs it, and stop listening to Elvis, he was partially Jewish, oh and the guy who "discovered" America was most likely Jewish to, yep Columbus.
to all the morons out there condemning the Israeli's, you need to go back and read your history books. These are the only people that have supported us and they have earned there way in there country. They were persecuted in every country they have ever been in. Do you not remember or believe in the Holocaust? I wish as an American, we had more allies like them. The Arabs sell out in an instant. They don't even like each other.
you know if all the jews will leave America so America is going to be very poor and full of stupid people like you.
p.s- if you dont like jews you should stop using facebook, stop seeing Seinfeld, Sheldon Gary Adelson -He is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation you have to tell him to leave America I wish he lived in Israel....Michael Bloomberg ohhh they are so many... i think you are smarter now?!
Those warships will just as easily attack any ground forces Israel sends into Gaza or Egypt .
Mr.Hussein in the white house , will not permit the brotherhood to fail ..will use US force to stop such an occurrence.
Speaking for myself..I trust nobody who won't eat bacon .(shrug)
Really? Still with the "our prez is a muslim" crap? Most of us know how wrong you are now, and you will too in a week or so.
Ahmed , Hussein , Obama , Hussein , Mohamed ...all good American Names .....
Post a picture or a link to a picture of Mr Hussein eating pork and then planting a big wet kiss on the nose of the white house dog . (shrug)
WAITER !!!! MORE CRISPY BACON !!!!
Calm down Buford.
I guess this will be how it goes on CNN's message boards: someone makes an accurate observation about the ongoing illegal criminal rothschild-zionist warmonger despot khazar-ashkenazi regime causing problems worldwide since 1948 and 3 or 4 paid establishment trolls respond with idiotic baseless indefensible non-sequiters or totally fabricated stories in an attempt to drown out legitimate anti-israeli (not "anti-semetic"–these criminals are actually descended from the southern russian/eastern europe karzar region mostly except for the sephardims from turkey..none are actual semites..they've just needed to cloak themselves in that myth to try to convince ppl they have a legitimate claim to that rich fertile region look it up) sentiment.
You are right .. One good one would be to link it to Iran and how the president said wipe out ..blah blah.. this from people who have held 3 generations locked in slave camps ..
wow .... them theres big words youse use .
Yeah, you should probably get used to the fact that people on this sight aren't going to agree with your support for terrorism and violence which is all the "Palestinians" value.
How classic Obama. We announce we are sending warships as soon as it looks like there will be a cease fire agreement.
How classic repug – blast Obama period
Read the article buddy. They may be warships, but they're being deployed for evacuation purposes.
Old story friend. This was in the news last Friday.
How classic Republican/tea bagger...Obama can do nothing right. Your side lost and it's about time you got over it.
I wish I liked women, but I can't change that.
For all of you without enough common sense to figure it out on your own; Proud Jew, Jewish Mother, and Proud Israeli are all the same person with the same IP address. Talk about someone whose life is so lonely, sad and pathetic, and whose views are so idiotic that they decided to create multiple accounts on a news site to spew their silly garbage. It’s kind of funny, but sad that oxygen is being wasted by this person with a meaningless life.
Another clueless American attaching Israel. We have been watching your back for a while.
Yes, you're watching your host America bleed, just like all your other hosts (Germany, Imperial Russia, the former Great Britain, etc. etc.). Once you've built Fortress Zion, full of nukes and other peoples' gold & wealth, you won't need anyone else. I'll hand it to you, you're doing a pretty good job so far. Just keep Congress and the Senate in your pockets.
OH who cares you been doing that for decades anyway, get over it move on.
Mike I know you from other forum. You are Nazi who know how to attach Jews
Mike you are retard. Stop attacking and diverting the topic of discussion
Calling someone with a true and valid observation a "retard" doesn't divert the topic of discussion at all. Another genius.
Proud Jew and Really both make the same spelling mistake on 'attack'. I think Mike's onto something.
You have a funny name. Sounds very Jewish. Is that true?
Hey Protestant! Watch your mouth! Jesus said to Peter "Upon this rock I shall build my Church". Protestantism came to the fore because the King of England wanted to divorce his third or fourth wife and the Pope told him no.
Debbie you have no right to attack me. You are pathetic and let me give you a dose of history. Jews are God chosen people not Christian. We were given the Holyland thousands of years back. You take your sorry religion and go somewhere else.
Your messiah arrived roughly 2000 years ago but you never realized it.
The beauty of all of this is NO ONE has to "leave this country" because of their race, religion or creed. Get a grip. If you don't like this country or the people in int, do not take its money or benefits. Proud Jew needs to learn some history and learn to be a better person.
You're both idiots for believing in a God who would have you kill others.
Jewish Mom: It's obvious to me that you folks are the Chosen People because you got all those great Rabbis and we Christians only got one. (But ooh boy, He's a good one!) Here's hoping we can all calm down, get along and get on with the main assignment: Tikkun Olam, yes? Mazel tov and be well!