Bush Understands "Israel’s" Wish to Defend Itself!

Days before he leaves office, US President George W. Bush insists on violating all rules and ignoring all norms...

On Monday, Bush sought once again to "justify" the crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist entity in the Gaza strip that claimed the lives of more than 570 people and injured over 2700 others.

Bush said he understood ‘Israel's' wish to defend itself, adding any Gaza ceasefire must ensure Hamas resistants can no longer fire rockets on Israel. "I understand ‘Israel's' desire to protect itself and that the situation now taking place in Gaza was caused by Hamas," Bush claimed.

However, this time he does not object a ceasefire as course of action in Gaza indicates Israel in in deep quagmire. Bush is trying to exploit European diplomacy to impose a conditional truce on Hamas resistance movement.

"All of us of course would like to see, you know, violence stop," Bush went on to claim, but he added that he refuses any agreement "that does not prevent the crisis from happening again."

"I know people are saying: let's have a ceasefire. (Those are) noble ambitions. But any ceasefire must have the conditions in it so that Hamas does not use Gaza as a place from which to launch rockets," the US President claimed.

US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack outlined three main elements of the arrangement America would like to see implemented as members of the international community issued louder calls for an immediate end to hostilities.

"We're doing a lot of work on these three elements," McCormack said, adding that the goal is to establish a halt to the violence that would meet Rice's standard of being durable and sustainable.

In addition to halting the rocket fire from Gaza, the proposed ceasefire would include an arrangement for reopening crossing points, McCormack said.

The third element, which he mentioned only in general terms, would entail addressing the issue of tunnels into Gaza from Egypt through which Hamas has smuggled a variety of materials, including arms.

The Gaza crisis prompted Rice to cancel a long-planned trip to China this week. Rice has been making a stream of phone calls to allies in the Mideast and Europe in hopes of fostering a ceasefire in Gaza, but McCormack said Monday that she has no current plans to visit the Mideast as part of that effort.

Right now, the United States has been helping train and equip the Egyptian security forces that are monitoring the tunnels, a program started in the wake of Congressional conditioning of some US aid to Egypt on stepped up efforts to monitor the tunnels.