Reprise: Clueless in Gaza; John Kerry has legitimized Hamas’s criminality.

Charles Krauthammer

 

... "Which is what provoked the severe criticism Kerry received at home. When as respected and scrupulously independent a national security expert as David Ignatius calls Kerry’s intervention a blunder, you know this is not partisan carping from the usual suspects. This is general amazement at Kerry’s cluelessness.

 

"Kerry seems oblivious to the strategic reality that Hamas launched its rockets in the hope not of defeating Israel but of ending its intra-Arab isolation (which it brilliantly achieves in the Qatar-Turkey peace proposal). Hamas’s radicalism has alienated nearly all of its Arab neighbors. "

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"Remember the complaints that the heartless Israelis were not allowing enough imports of concrete for schools and hospitals? Well, now we know where the concrete went — into an astonishingly vast array of tunnels for infiltrating neighboring Israeli villages and killing civilians. (More than half a million tons, estimates the Israeli military.)"   Emphasis added, TW

You mean THIS concrete the heartless Israelis tried to block from getting into Gaza?

The tunnels have changed the balance of power: Israel is under siege by Hamas- not the Arabs who are under siege by Israel.

 But Kerry is carrying out the policies of his clueless boss, who continues to swagger and taunt before adoring crowds.

 

Photo below from this post by Weasel Zippers