re: #219 buzzsawmonkey

You are clearly not adept at reading politician-speak. If you read this carefully, you can see that it could apply equally to Israelis supposedly sending ordnance into Gaza—for nowhere does he say, unequivocally, “I support Israel stopping Hamas from sending rockets into Israel.”

My bad, I should have included the context of the remark about Hamas

Back in July — when there was much (groundless) Democratic worry about Obama’s supposed problem with Jewish voters — the presidential candidate visited Israel. He met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres and a boy who lost a leg to a Palestinian rocket attack.

In Sderot, a city near Gaza hit by many Palestinian rockets, Obama was asked whether he would negotiate with Hamas.