I have to agree with Kelly and Charles, the Palestinian leadership are lieing to their people to incite terrorism in Israel.  Obama continues to side with the European countries to make Israel look bad. Again, this particular situation was started by lies put out by the Palestinian government to start this terrorism.  Jewish people were killed and the Palestinian leaders should be charged with inciting a riot and the resulting killings.   Where is this great body called the United Nations – why aren’t they speaking out instead of worrying about the USA’s guns?

KELLY: Charles Krauthammer is a Fox News contributor and author of the book, “Things that Matter.” Charles, good to see you tonight.

So, what do you make of President Obama’s response? You heard it in full ending with trying to tamp down rhetoric both sides — that may feed the violence or anger.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: I think the President’s statement is shameful and it follows on shameful statements by his secretary of state. It is the moral equivalence to the idea that somehow the Israelis leadership that Netanyahu is using inflammatory rhetoric. We all know how and why they started. This was Hamas, this was also Palestinian authority. They spread the rumor, they spread the liable, they spread the lie that as we heard, the Israeli, they’re trying to divide the al-Aqsa Mosque, they’re trying to desecrate it, they’re trying to destroy it. They’re trying to change status quo. And that is not true whatsoever.

KELLY: Uh-hm.

KRAUTHAMMER: It’s been amplified, it has not been tamped out at all by the Palestinian authority, which it should be. And they have encouraged the violence. And then, there was also a statement by the State Department spokesman, I think it was yesterday, saying that they condemn the excessive force being used. And there are reports of excessive force. What would we do if there were people running around streets of New York, stabbing people on busses? We would be using whatever force is necessary to stop them. You’ve seen some of the video where people are shot literally while holding the knife with the blood visible of the knife.

KELLY: Uh-hm.

KRAUTHAMMER: The idea that there’s some equivalence here I think is disgraceful. Israel is an ally. Israel is a democracy. It has no interest in ginning up any kind of this violence. We know who’s doing it.
Why can’t the President simply say these are acts of terror and we condemn them? They’re based on a lie and we call out the Palestinian leadership to say that it is a lie and to stop the violence.

KELLY: They won’t.

KRAUTHAMMER: It’s not hard to say. He could have done it, he did.

KELLY: You mentioned the State Department spokesman Kirby who actually came out and said, yesterday, individuals on both sides of this are — have been proven capable of and, in our view, guilty of acts of terror. So, he is clearly drawing the equivalence between both sides saying, they’re both engaging in terrorism.

KRAUTHAMMER: That in and of itself is a libel. Yes, there have been terror attacks by Jews. They are extremely infrequent. When they happen, they are immediately condemned by everyone in the Israeli parliament from the Left to all the way to Right including the government. The people are pursued, and apprehended and arrested. What happens on the Palestinian side? As we saw, they encourage, they teach their children how to stab a Jew. They spread these stories about them to gin up the violence. They make it an instrument of the state Hamas like it does openly. Mahmoud Abbas in the — do it a slightly in a slightly more sophisticated way. They’ve been using terror for 30 years. We know that. And for a spokesman for the United States to imply that there’s some equivalent in the use of terror, I think, is shocking.

KELLY: Why don’t we say what you just said? Why doesn’t President Obama make it that clear? And by the way, Ted Cruz is now calling on John Kerry to resign, to step down because of the comments he has made drawing an equivalence between both sides here.

KRAUTHAMMER: I’m not going to probe the psyche of the president, I will leave that to psychiatrists. All I can say is, he’s behavior has been the most unfriendly, unsympathetic to Israel of any president since the founding of the state in 1948.

KELLY: But everybody was point to the massive amounts of money that we give them.

KRAUTHAMMER: Every time we have an opportunity to demonstrate that, he does.

KELLY: Everyone points to the massive amounts of money we gave to Israel, the support of Iron Dome and so on, to counter that argument.

KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I mean, that’s been — the U.S. military, Israeli military has had a close relationship and support for 60 years. If you were to stop that, that would be amazing. That would be a stab in the back of Israel. That would be a way to abandon it to its fate. So, I wouldn’t expect any president, no matter how unsympathetic to create a crisis of that sort. And there would be a huge reaction in public opinion especially among Democrats. Of course, and Republicans if he tried to cut off the aid to Israel. So to say we support Iron Dome which incidentally is going to help the United States, Israel is the testing field.

If the Israelis are the ones who test out the new technology, we will use that in our encounters with terrorists, in our encounters with other forces abroad. So it isn’t like if it’s a gift, it’s something that we’re going to use. Of course it’s going to help Israel. Every issue that counts from the Iranian bomb, while we’re going at the U.S. is under Obama and gone against every segment of the Israeli political spectrum. It isn’t just the right wing or extremists —

KELLY: Right.

KRAUTHAMMER: Obama pretends, they’re all against this. All the way to the moral equivalence that we heard today.

KELLY: Charles, thank you.

KRAUTHAMMER: My pleasure.

KELLY: Well, NBC News is so far staying silent as critics accuse this reporter of a blatant display of bias on live TV.

(When this reporter in Israel was reporting, he reported that the Israeli soldier shot this unarmed Palestinian guy in the back which was not true.  The guy had a  knife which was evident on live TV.  What was so strange was the host on MSNBC called the reporter out on live TV that the guy was armed with a knife.  I have never seen that on live TV.  We have to thank Jose Balart Diaz for calling this reporter out for lieing.  He was deliberately trying to make Israel look bad and mislead the people.)

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