Sean McCormack, the spokesperson for the State Department, says that Condi Rice and the US Government support the language, goals, and objectives of the latest UN Security Council Resolution that calls for an immediate cease fire in the Gaza Strip. He says that Condi Rice is responsible for negotiating the language. Yet, he is completely incapable of explaining why the United States abstained from voting for the resolution. The press mocked him relentlessly for the inconsistency. If only the world would limit itself to mocking us, rather than taking reprisals. If only.
The world holds us responsible for the ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians, and no one is convinced that this about stopping rocket fire. It is about decimating the government of the Gaza Strip and trying to undo the results of an ill-advised election that provided results the US and Israel found impossible to accept. Killing people for that reason is not acceptable, especially when the elections only occurred at the insistence of the president of the United States.
