State Dep’t Won’t Call Kunduz Hospital Strike ‘Disgraceful – the Term it Used When an Israeli

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Matt Lee asks, video at link.

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/state-de...ar-gaza-school

State Department spokesman Mark Toner demurred when asked Monday whether the administration would describe a deadly U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan as “disgraceful” – the term it used when an Israeli missile landed near a U.N.-run school in Gaza during last year’s offensive against Hamas.

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This looks like double standard. This is not going to improve image of America's first "secret muslim" President's administration in the eyes of our closest democratic ally in the world.

Netanyahu Brother-in-Law Calls Obama Anti-Semite - CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyah...nti-semite/CBS News
AP. Hagi Ben-Artzi, the brother in law of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is claiming that " there is an anti-Semitic president in America," the Hill reports.
"As a politician, who ran for presidency, he had to hide it, but from time to time, it bursts out from inside," Ben-Artzi said.










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This may help explain things at least partially:

Does Susan Rice Think Benjamin Netanyahu Is a Racist?

An excerpt from a book by Dennis Ross, scheduled to hit stores next week, sure makes it seem like she does.
Ron Kampeas Oct 10, 2015 5:34 AM

Ross, in a passage excerpted from the book Thursday in Politico, says that Susan Rice, the U.S. national security adviser, was so furious with Netanyahu’s angry reaction to news of an acceleration in Iran nuclear talks in November 2013 that she told Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s then-director, that Netanyahu did everything but “use the ‘N-word’ in describing the president.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.679688