# Obama should pressure Israel to remove some West Bank Settlements **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-should-pressure-israel-to-remove-some-west-bank-settlements/480554 "2009-01-09T17:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-should-pressure-israel-to-remove-some-west-bank-settlements/480554/22 "2009-01-09T23:05:21Z")
Should you be finished attacking that particular source, I can give you as many as you’d like so you may stay up all night defending the honor of Mighty Israel. No need to remind you to attack the source, be it author or nation, and ‘forget’ the content – you’re obviously quite adept at it. So…let’s go with President Carter next: [An Unnecessary War](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010702645_pf.html) > [@](#): > > After 12 days of “combat,” the Israeli Defense Forces reported that more than 1,000 targets were shelled or bombed. During that time, Israel rejected international efforts to obtain a cease-fire, with full support from Washington. Seventeen mosques, the American International School, many private homes and much of the basic infrastructure of the small but heavily populated area have been destroyed. This includes the systems that provide water, electricity and sanitation. Heavy civilian casualties are being reported by courageous medical volunteers from many nations, as the fortunate ones operate on the wounded by light from diesel-powered generators. And then a few headlines from around the globe in just the past few hours: [UN calls for truce after reports of Israeli massacre](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/un-calls-for-truce-and-full-israeli-withdrawal/2009/01/09/1231004287015.html) [US and European action can stop the Gaza massacre](http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/01/09/ken-livingstone-us-and-european-action-can-stop-the-gaza-massacre/) [Whither international morality?](http://pakobserver.net/200901/10/Articles03.asp) [Israel’s war: an eye for a tooth](http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090110-182509/Israels-war-an-eye-for-a-tooth) [Doctors at the border](http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090110/FOREIGN/125505182/1040/NATIONAL) [Tel Aviv has violated all international laws](http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10273884.html) [Holocaust in Gaza](http://www.centralchronicle.com/20090110/1001304.htm) [People urged to join Palestinian protest](http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0109/1231454443368.html) [Gaza protests to continue](http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2450864,00.html) [Even the Greeks and Turks unite over this.](http://www.thelondondailynews.com/even-greeks-turks-unite-this-p-2130.html) [Inside Gaza: It can only get worse](http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/world/autocodes/international-affairs/inside-gaza-it-can-only-get-worse-$1259206.htm) Wrong, no doubt, every one of them, for as we have been admonished time and time again by **Mr Finn** , Israel can’t simply do any wrong. Anxiously awaiting his rebuttal in order to forward same to the journalists, editors and protesters in those articles. Surely after reading what **Mr Finn** has to say they’ll realize the error of their ways and meekly surrender their own subconscious anti-Semitism in order to further the indiscriminate punishmen Israel is dishing out…and _cheer_ them on as opposed to protest. Because, well, that’s how it should be. Amen. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-should-pressure-israel-to-remove-some-west-bank-settlements/480554)._