President Barack Obama has been consulting by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza nears expiration.
Obama foreign policy aide Ben Rhodes says that Obama talked to Netanyahu Wednesday from his vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard of the Massachusetts coast.
Palestinian negotiators are mulling over an Egyptian proposal to end the month-long Israel-Hamas war. Since a temporary truce went into effect Sunday, Israel has halted military operations in the coastal territory and Gaza terrorists have stopped firing rockets. It expires at midnight.
The cease-fire was meant to give the parties time to negotiate a more sustainable truce and a roadmap for the coastal territory.
Rhodes says the White House will provide a fuller readout of the Netanyahu call later in the day.
(AP)
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Did Netanyahu ask Obama how his bombing of Iraq is going & if he is “practising restraint”?
WHAT A JOKE OBAMA IS.
The readout is quite pareve:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/13/readout-president-s-call-prime-minister-netanyahu-israel
“how his bombing of Iraq”
You seriously think that nothing should be done about ISIS????
Charliehall,
Of course something should be done about ISIS; I believe computerbubby’s point was Obama’s double standard (to wit, it’s OK for Obama to bomb ISIS but Netanyahu shouldn’t bomb Hamas).