• Obama cautions Israel that “The world is watching.” Apparently the world was not watching while Hamas terrorists roamed Israeli streets, killing about 1400 men, women, children, and even babies at random. But somehow now the world is watching to be sure the Israeli response is not “disproportionate.”
• “Obama seems to think that there is some force in the admonition that the world is watching; but history plentifully demonstrates that when the world is watching, all the world does is watch.” − Leon Wieseltier