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Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict

As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama’s inauguration, the US president-elect has kept silent on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its latest deadly turn in the Gaza Strip.
   Obama transition officials have ventured little more than saying their boss is ‘monitoring’ the situation in Gaza, where at least 460 people have been killed in eight days of air raids before a ground offensive began Saturday.
   In the same period, Gaza militant rockets have killed four Israelis and wounded several dozen people.
   ‘The president-elect is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza,’ his national security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said in a statement after the ground assault got underway.
   But she offered no further comment on the violence in Gaza and used a phrase repeated often by Obama and his aides: ‘There is one president at a time and we intend to respect that.’
   Senior advisor David Axelrod said Sunday that Obama is ‘committed’ to achieving peace in the Middle East, in the only extended comments from the president-elect’s team so far.

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