OpEdNews - Diary: BREAKING NEWS: THE QUESTION: DID OBAMA OK ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA?

This is the question of the day. Did Obama personally OK the murderous fascist assault on Gaza? Noam Chomsky is now apparently on record as saying, YES, he did. If this is true, then do we have yet another war criminal for a president, and should we begin to condemn him as such? Should Obama bear some responsibility, along with Bush, for one of the more disgusting crimes against humanity in recent memory? Check out the following article and make up your minds.

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Chomsky: Obama OKed Israel's Gaza war

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:30:24 GMT

Renowned US intellectual Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama did not comment on Israel's war on Gaza, as it was part of the "premeditated" plan.

We have been informed by an Israeli source that the recent invasion of the Gaza Strip was completely premeditated, Chomsky said in an interview with the French Al-Ahram daily.

The plan was to deliver the maximum blow to Gaza before the new US president took office, so that he could put these matters behind him added the famous intellectual, referring to Obama's pledge to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

According to Chomsky, while Israel was pounding the Gaza Strip -- during which over 1300 Palestinians were killed --, Obama excused his silence by saying that "There's only one president at a time."

This, however, did not prevent the then president-elect from commenting on other leading issues of US domestic and foreign policy, Chomsky argued.

The recognized political analyst also criticized Obama for repeating the notion that defending Israel is a US priority. He predicted that during the Obama presidency US will hold the same policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.