Obama made statement, written and verbal, on the attack in the synagogue.
“At this sensitive moment in Jerusalem,” the president said, “it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and seek a path forward towards peace.”
After releasing the written statement to the press, Obama also spoke on the attack, saying, “obviously, we condemn [it] in the strongest terms.”
“This is a tragedy for both nations, Israel and the United States,” Obama said “Too many Israelis have died. Too many Palestinians have died.“
Jerusalem risks entering a “”spiral from which it is very difficult to emerge,” he added, noting patterns of violence he has witnessed across the Middle East as president. “The majority of Palestinians and Israelis overwhelmingly want peace.”
In an interview on CNN, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor condemned the attack, warning against incitement and calls for days of rage across the territories.
“If you look at today, basically, ordinary Israelis cannot find a sanctuary in a synagogue,” Prosor said. “I have to tell the American people, and everyone else, Israel is on the front line in countering terrorism. “
“If you’re not with us today,” he said, “you’ll find terrorism on your doorstep tomorrow.”
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Just unbelievable how Obama broadens it out to deaths on both sides. Someone remind him the last time they performed an attack like this it was their opening salvo to their war. They supplied their own impetus to start it.
Where does Obama get off speaking for them (as everyone) wanting peace? He cannot make a simple statement of sympathy for Israelis and our own Americans killed. That’s disturbing.
He was emotionless and passionless when he said we condemn these attacks — and he read that. Then a moral equivalence? Prosor hit the right message.
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