Jan 05 2009
Obama the hypcrite
via www.smh.com.au
In July Barack Obama sought to boost his Jewish vote back in America with an emotional stump-speech in Sderot, a community in Israel which is a target for much of the Palestinian rocket-fire from Gaza.
Referring to his children Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7, the then US presidential candidate said: “If somebody is sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that - and I’d expect Israelis to do the same thing.”
This week, however, Obama had no such words of comfort for Anwar Balousha. A 40-year-old father from Gaza who describes himself as a factional agnostic, Balousha had to bury five of his daughters - Tahrir, 17, Ikram, 14, Samar, 13, Dina, 8, and Jawaher, 4 - after they were killed when their home was destroyed in an Israeli missile-strike on a nearby mosque.
