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Obama commends Egyptian president for trying to “de-escalate” Gaza conflict
“President Obama called Egyptian President Morsi today to discuss the situation in Gaza,” the White House said in a statement. “The President commended Egypt’s efforts to de-escalate the situation and expressed his hope that these efforts would be successful.”
Morsi called for an end to violence in Gaza on Friday, and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil visited Gaza and pledged, “Egypt will not hesitate to intensify its efforts and make sacrifices to stop this aggression and achieve a lasting truce,” according to multiple news reports.
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Orwell ain’t seen nuthin’.
davidk on November 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Huh? Does he not know that Israel started getting hit by rockets from EGYPT last night?
Smart Power = Intel Fail
Resist We Much on November 17, 2012 at 3:36 PM
LOL
Mark1971 on November 17, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Partners in Peace!
claudius on November 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Bwahahahahahahahaha!! We live in Bizarro world.
The Rogue Tomato on November 17, 2012 at 3:38 PM
O might want to reconcider attending those intel briefs in A.M.
filetandrelease on November 17, 2012 at 3:38 PM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-rockets-fired-egypt-hit-israel_663502.html
davidk on November 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Obama, as bad as we only weeks ago would joke he’d be, and people would say, oh, stop it with the hyperbole. Obama is such a friend of Israel! There’s no daylight between the US and Israel! Yeah? Enough daylight to accommodate missiles from Gaza and Egypt as being a response to “aggression” per Morsi.
Paul-Cincy on November 17, 2012 at 3:42 PM
One brother called another, to hold off destroying Israel, just yet.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2012 at 3:42 PM
“Surreal,” a word which will be so frequently (and justifiably) used over the next four years as to be rendered completely devoid of any meaning whatsoever.
steebo77 on November 17, 2012 at 3:48 PM
So, we knew that this is what Obama’s voters were voting for — did they?
Count to 10 on November 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Maybe those Egyptian rockets happened at 0300 DC time.
BallisticBob on November 17, 2012 at 3:50 PM
He’s calling for a stop to Israeli responding to missile attacks not that Hamas stop firing rockets at Israel.
Blake on November 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM
It’s so cute when muslims do the ‘terrorist fist-bump’ thing.
Pork-Chop on November 17, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Thanks for saving me the trouble.
gh on November 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM
However, so far Obama has been well-behaved on this one.
gh on November 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Breaking news…
Train crash in Egypt kills 49 children.
Latest conspiracy theory will, undoubtedly, be “Israel did it.”
Resist We Much on November 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM
I Pray for Israel!!!
lisa fox on November 17, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Yea, and probably a similar amount of people died in Syria by the hands of Syrian gov’t forces and rebel groups (whoever they may be). And Iran probably expanded their nuclear weapons program by a brazillian more centrifuges…
As for Mursi, he’s in a difficult spot because he is a desciple of the Muslim Bretheren so for him even to keep diplomatic relations with Israel at peace time is at a huge political cost, and he has to demonstrate that he’s harsher on Israel than Mubarak. But that stunt of sending in his PM to Gaza in the middle of Hamas’s bombing campaign of Israel, that’s just disgusting.
AlexB on November 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM
cripe
ALL HAIL DEAR LEADER
cmsinaz on November 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Nobel Committee, please pick up the courtesy phone.
ConservativeLA on November 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM
…if you believe White House reports about what little Bammie said to Morsi. I don’t.
They might not be speaking arab to each other, but they agree on more than little Bammie does with Netanyahu.
slickwillie2001 on November 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM
LOL.
Our foreign ‘policy’.
That is all.
CorporatePiggy on November 17, 2012 at 6:22 PM