The White House National Security Council says they are being misrepresented by purported transcripts of a recent conversation between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The alleged transcript shows Obama as hostile towards Israel and seemingly sympathetic towards Hamas. In the call Obama asks that Israel unilaterally ease its military action in Gaza and tells Netanyahu that Israel is in no position to reject pro-Hamas regimes as mediators in the conflict. The conversation between the two leaders occurred in English, then was translated into Hebrew for Israeli media, and is now translated back into English. Members of the White House administration are rejecting the accuracy of Obama’s words in the phone call transcripts. According to the transcript, Obama told Netanyahu that he “demand that Israel agree to an immediate, unilateral ceasefire” and halt all military action in Gaza, because he believes that if Israeli ends its rocket fire, so will Hamas, describing it as “quiet in return for quiet.” Netanyahu responded that Hamas has broken all previous ceasefires, and that the terrorist organization is solely dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and it will not end the rocket fire if Israel does so first.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:17:10 +0000
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