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As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama's inauguration, the US president-elect has kept silent on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its latest deadly turn in the Gaza Strip. Obama transition officials have ventured little more than saying their boss is "monitoring" the situation in Gaza, where at least 460 people have been killed in eight days of air raids before a ground offensive began Saturday.In the same period, Gaza militant rockets have killed four Israelis and wounded several dozen people."The president-elect is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza," his national security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said in a statement after the ground assault got underway. But she offered no further comment on the violence in Gaza and used a phrase repeated often by Obama and his aides: "There is one president at a time and we intend to respect that."Senior advisor David Axelrod said Sunday that Obama is "committed" to achieving peace in the Middle East,in the only extended comments from the president-elect's team so far. "Obviously, this situation has become even more complicated in the last couple of days and weeks...But it's something that he's committed to," Axelrod told CBS television.Obama transition team officials told AFP the president-elect would not comment publicly in the coming days on the Gaza offensive, and the future president will likely keep silent on the issue until his January 20 inauguration.His muted response has already drawn the anger of some in the Middle East."The start is not good," said Khaled Meshaal, leader of the Hamas Islamist movement that has ruled Gaza since June 2007."You commented on Mumbai but you say nothing about the crime of the enemy (Israel). This policy of double standards should stop."Obama will be hard pressed to address the conflict, the worst in the region since the summer 2006 war in Lebanon and the latest addition to the growing list of foreign policy crises on his agenda....To read more go to:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=090103214058.23r7czam&show_article=1
PS:BHO=A living joke....
As in the days of Noah...
