Vice President Joe Biden offered the White House's strongest defense yet of Israeli's actions off the coast of Gaza this week in an interview with Charlie Rose airing tonight on PBS.Yeah, Israeli commandos killed some folks on a boat and there's more boats coming. What's the big deal? Not like anyone's going to get hurt because we've asked Israel nicely not to do so.
"I think Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest. I put all this back on two things: one, Hamas, and, two, Israel's need to be more generous relative to the Palestinian people who are in trouble in Gaza," Biden said, according to a transcript of the interview, in which he went on to discuss Hamas's control of Gaza:
"[The Israelis have] said, 'Here you go. You're in the Mediterranean. This ship — if you divert slightly north you can unload it and we'll get the stuff into Gaza.' So what's the big deal here? What's the big deal of insisting it go straight to Gaza? Well, it's legitimate for Israel to say, 'I don't know what's on that ship. These guys are dropping eight — 3,000 rockets on my people,'" Biden said.
What could possibly go wrong?
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So you see nothing wrong with the fact that Israel gave these "activists" alternative routes to still accomplish their goal and they chose not to. Then when Israel did what they said they would do which is board and inspect the ship, you're shocked! Clearly political bias has not clouded your judgment at all
Of course not.
It's only wrong if Israel does it.
You really need to watch your Israel hate, Zandar. It would be a shame if you were accused of being anti-Semitic.
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