Abrams: People Living Under Strife Not Comforted by Obama’s Attacks on GOP

‘If I were an Israeli under Hamas fire or for that matter a Ukrainian under Russian shelling, it seemed to me I would not take much comfort from the president’s attack on House Republicans’

Abrams: I Wouldn’t be Encouraged by Obama’s Attacks on Republicans If I Lived in Israel or Ukraine (Washington Free Beacon)

Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Elliott Abrams said he would not be encouraged by President Obama’s seemingly stronger focus on House Republicans Friday than in the dangerous situations in Ukraine and Israel if he lived in either of those countries.

Abrams, who served as Deputy National Security Adviser under President George W. Bush, said on Fox News that Obama’s rather dispassionate attitude about world crises versus his stern rhetoric against Republicans didn’t come off well.

“If I were an Israeli under Hamas fire or for that matter a Ukrainian under Russian shelling, it seemed to me I would not take much comfort from the president’s attack on House Republicans,” Abrams said. “There wasn’t a lot of energy in the way he delivered his remarks, but he did, I think, move closer than the administration has been to the Israeli point of view. and one of the things this kidnapping did today was absolutely unite Israelis, left, right and center, with the view that the tunnels have got to be closed down, exploded, before this war comes to an end. That’s now a really unanimous view in Israel.”

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