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The Israeli Iran and Obama Dilemma



















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January 23, 2015

Obama Deceit and Vindictive Contempt Erupts Even Further

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One has to wonder if there actually is no limit to the perfidy, dishonesty and betrayal by the White House in their double-dealings with Israel and particularly with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. It is no secret that President Barack Hussein Obama reserves a special visceral hatred towards Israel and most of her leadership. This has come to the fore repeatedly and has now boiled over with what borders on treasonous misrepresentation and direct meddling in just the past week. There was the insistence by Martin Indyk who demanded that since Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was invited by the leadership in the United States Congress to address them and share with them his reservations and any pertinent information which he may think the Congress should include in their deliberations pertaining to the Iranian nuclear program and the possibility and wisdom for applying additional sanctions at this time that the Congress must also invite Labor Party leader Yitzhak Herzog to address them in an attempt to be fair considering that Israel is heading for elections on March 15th. Mr. Indyk did not also believe that any other of the party leaders be invited including even Tzipi Livni who would be sharing the Prime Minister position should the combined Labor Party with her Hatnua Party nor did they suggest the somewhat of an outside but viable candidate for the position from the Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett. The singling out of the Labor Party leader and placing him on an even level of importance to the current Prime Minister reeked of partisan politicking and interference with the Israeli elections. It would have been the equivalence of the Knesset having invited Mitt Romney to address them along with requesting President Obama to have addressed them on a sensitive and vitally important issue months ahead of the 2012 elections. Israel had immediately extended an invitation to President Obama before the 2012 elections upon being informed that candidate Romney was planning on visiting Israel, an invitation the President chose to decline and then spokespersons from the Democrat Party then claimed that the visit by Romney was an Israeli attempt to sway the Jewish vote away from President Obama and that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had endorsed Romney which the Prime Minister had gone to extreme lengths to assure the media that he did not favor one candidate over the other and was ready and willing to work with either candidate when the elections were over. But all of this pales when compared to the latest revelations which are on a par with some of the other select betrayals by the White House over the last six years.


Over the last couple of days a source from the White House released information claiming that the head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo had during a private briefing with a select group of United States Senators at their request disclosed his disagreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu and that he was opposed to the Congress passing additional sanctions on Iran as such a move would disturb any possibility for diplomacy to work. The high level leaked news story was reported by Bloomberg News which stated that Mossad officials advised US senators who were visiting Israel recently to hold off on further Iran sanctions, saying that they would hamper, not help, efforts to persuade Iran to give up or allow full international supervision of its nuclear program. This was a rather alarming report which was claiming that the Prime Minister and the Mossad were at odds over support for the intention of Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican Senator Mark Kirk to impose stricter sanctions on Iran if a nuclear deal is not reached by March, a timetable that has already been extended for a second time this one past the reset November deadline from the original June deadline, a postponement which put off any agreement until after the midterm elections. The top level Mossad briefing was given during a meeting with Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with fellow Republican Senators Lindsay Graham, John Barrasso, and John McCain, and Democratic Senators Joe Donnelly and Tim Kaine. Senator John Barrasso was the person quoted by Bloomberg News as stating that they “met with a number of government officials from many different parts of the government. There’s not a uniform view there.” The quote did not claim as to where the dissenting opinions were given to the Senators and definitely did not present such as coming from Mossad Head Tamir Pardo. Still, a statement from the White House was quoted claiming that Mossad Head Tamir Pardo was the source of the dissenting opinion from the known position against much of the seeming weakness demonstrated by the White House in their negotiations with Iran and their seeming inability to force concessions from the Iranians as well as an eager willingness to alleviate much of the sanctions pressures from further pressing Iran just as the stronger sanctions were beginning to show some real progress.


The reactions from both the Prime Minister’s Office, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steintz, senior government source and from the Mossad all disputing the fraudulent claims from the White House and expressing disdain and feelings of injury and the breaking of trust and decency by these fraudulent mischaracterizations expressed by the Americans. A senior source expressed vehemently the distrust which these misrepresentations had caused stating, “The fraudulent claims against the Mossad Head were raised by the Americans yesterday, despite a message that had been transmitted to them on Tuesday by Intelligence Minister [Yuval] Steintz.” He relayed how the minutes had been gone over numerous times in order to positively discern whether there might have been anything stated which may have led to a misunderstanding and no such possible statements had been recorded in the minutes. The senior source went further protesting that any such comments were released about a private and secure conversation stating, “Leaking the Mossad Head’s statements, even if they had not been falsified, is a serious breach of all the rules. Friends do not behave like this. Information from a secret meeting must not leak out.”


A spokesperson Mossad added officially, “The Head of Mossad did not say that he opposes additional sanctions on Iran.” This was in response to the United States White House claims that Mossad officials advised United States Senators visiting Israel to hold off on further Iran sanctions claiming that such sanctions could hamper rather than help the United States efforts to persuade Iran into giving up their nuclear weapons program while pressing for Iran to permit the full implementation of international supervision over the entirety of their nuclear program. The agency further claimed, “The Head of Mossad did not say that he opposes additional sanctions on Iran.” Furthermore, the Mossad released an official statement which read, “Mossad Head Tamir Pardo met on January 19, 2015, with a delegation of United States Senators. The meeting was held at the request of the senators and with the Prime Minister’s approval. At the meeting, the Head of Mossad stressed the extraordinary effectiveness of the sanctions that have been placed on Iran for several years in bringing Iran to the negotiating table. The Head of Mossad noted that in negotiating with Iran, a policy of ‘carrots and sticks’ must be adopted, and there are not enough ‘sticks’ nowadays.” The Mossad concluded stating that Mossad Head Tamir Pardo “said specifically that the agreement that is being formed with Iran is bad and could lead to a regional arms race.” The Head of the Mossad could not be in any greater agreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the claims of and differences were erroneous and an attempt to place distrust in both the Mossad and the Prime Minister for reasons which only the White House is aware. Whether their intent was to muddy the waters before Congress by implying that the Israelis were divided on the issue of sanctions on Iran or that the Prime Minister was demanding actions not supported by the intelligence agency and against the information gathered and presented him or whether this was an attempt to bolster the campaign of the opposition by presenting the Prime Minister as being unreasonable and over the top and being out of step with all information and especially of causing difficulties between Israel and the United States, the actual reason will remain unknown but hopefully the record stands corrected.


What makes this attempt to paint Prime Minister Netanyahu as out of step with the rest of the universe and not just the White House and President Obama by implying that the briefing given visiting United States Senators by the Mossad was contradictive of the position represented by the Prime Minister was bad enough if it was the only perfidy and treachery coming from the White House which has compromised Israeli positions over Iran at every turn over the past six years. The one instance which sticks out as potentially the most significant betrayal by President Obama and the White House goes back to a report in Foreign Policy on Line on March 28, 2012 which detailed the rumored agreement between Israel and Azerbaijan whereby Israel would have obtained the right to use four abandoned, Soviet-era airfields should the Israelis need such for refueling or for emergency landing should the Israelis strike the Iranian nuclear sites. The initial prospect of Israel and Azerbaijan having reached some amount of agreement on the use of airfields for an Iranian attack was first made public in December of 2006, when retired Israeli Brigadier General Oded Tira angrily denounced the George W. Bush administration for their lack of action on curbing the Iranian nuclear program. The availability of rights to use these airfields is of vital importance for Israel as they would provide an alternative such that the Israeli F-15 and F-16 attack aircraft would not have to perform mid-air refueling at some point in their flight likely both just before entering Iranian airspace and soon after departing after their potential need to burn fuel in order to avoid or engage Iranian forces from wither ground fire or air combat during their strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The making even the slightest chance of such an agreement exploded the Muslim world such that after the report of the potential agreement Azerbaijan was forced to deny any dealings with the Israelis and definitely were not permitting any use of their airfields, airspace or any other Azerbaijani facilities or assets for any reason, let alone an Israeli strike on neighboring Iran. The leaking of the cementing of this deal ended that possibility for Israel to militarily target the Iranian nuclear facilities. A similar leak killed an agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia which terminated another avenue with which Israel could have potentially struck the Iranian nuclear sites thus setting Iran back hopefully decades if not longer.


These betrayals by the White House under President Obama almost appear as if they have been working with Iran to give them the needed funding and cover from Israeli interference or attack in order to guarantee that Iran realize their aim of attaining nuclear weapons capability and potentially be given the time to build up a sizeable arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons. In a USA Today article on February 28, 2013 the theory that the latest nuclear bomb test carried out by North Korea was not a weapon of indigenous production but was rather an Iranian device tested by North Korea in order to prevent affirming the Western World, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni nations as well as European nations worst nightmare of an Iranian bomb. Unlike the previous nuclear devices tested by North Korea, this was not a plutonium bomb such as the previous two North Korean tests but rather an enriched uranium device similar to what the Iranians have been working towards. The reason Iran might desire testing their device in North Korea boils down to two main reasons, first so as to not affirm beyond and plausible deniability that they have mastered the production of a nuclear device and secondly that they do not as of yet have a test facility within their borders while North Korea has a fully functioning test facility and both nations have cooperated before on rocket and missile technology and likely also their nuclear weapons expertise. The additional fact that there was a full complement of Iranian nuclear physicists and engineers present at this nuclear weapons test makes the case for the origin of the device as having been Iran. Such would mean that President Obama’s lifting of nearly half of the sanctions on Iran was a direct response to their already having developed nuclear weapons and now sanctions were useless in the mind of President Obama. Having failed to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear bomb production capability, President Obama felt that it was no longer necessary to continue the strict sanctions on Iran. Should this be an actually honest assessment which is completely valid, then the lessening of the sanctions was the exact opposite to what was necessary as the loosening of the sanctions gave the Iranians the immediate funding to now produce a few hundred of such bombs. Perhaps this was part of the reasoning behind the last two extensions of the final date for reaching an agreement as President Obama is granting Iran all the time they need to produce sufficient nuclear arms to utilize in whatever manner benefits Iran the most. Even considering such an eventuality should send cold shivers up the spine of even the most hardy and strong of those amongst us as I know it does me.


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April 27, 2014

Please Look and Choose a Real and Urgent Problem

There is a reason that Mahmoud Abbas travels all over the world demanding that the world must rescue the Palestinians from imminent doom. It is because the reality is that those very same Palestinians are living lives of ease compared to most of their brethren in the rest of the Arab world. They have a higher average annual income, better healthcare, greater amount of peace, higher levels of education and a better general ease of life in virtually every measurable way than exists throughout the rest of the Middle East and North Africa. Look around the rest of the Arab World and decide for yourself if this is true. Here is a short list for comparison’s sake, Syria is experiencing the ravages of a horrific civil war, Egypt is in political turmoil with the Muslim Brotherhood in a violent standoff with the military government, Libya is experiencing inter-tribal wars, Iraq is racked with Sunni-Shia violence, Turkey is in the midst of a governmental breakdown over a corruption scandal, the two Sudanese nations are at war with each other, Yemen is experiencing a three way civil war, Somalia has not had normal governance for over two decades, and on and on it goes. Abbas has his work cut out trying to make the Palestinian’s lives appear desperate but he has one thing working for him, he gets to blame Israel and that simply invites many of the world’s greatest haters the invitation they so desperately desire, an invitation to hate the Jewish nation of Israel, so they flood to his aid with apparent glee and great vigor.


Do not get this wrong, Israel has her friends, some in the most unlikely of places. The short list includes but is not limited to; Evangelical Christians in the United States, the nations of Azerbaijan, Canada and India, most of Eastern Europe’s former Soviet Nations, a number of Central African States as well as various Pacific Island Nations. The largest troublesome nations are those which officially claim to be friendly with Israel but on the other hand give generous amounts of funding and political cover to NGO’s which claim to be dedicated to assisting and aiding the Palestinians but whose efforts are applied more generously towards the vilification and destruction of Israel often through the means of violent demonstrations including attacks on IDF bases, patrols and checkpoints, the necessary efforts by Israel to prevent terrorism and make the area safer for all residents. The number of NGOs which claim to be pro-peace and to supporting Israel by furthering the two state solution often are no more than a front for aiding terrorists and violent demonstrations which tie up Israeli security forces from performing their primary duties dealing with the general security of residents in areas under which include both Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and those Palestinians living within Area C and sharing responsibility for those in Area B. What are often omitted from the news which reaches the majority of the peoples of the world are the terror attacks which are prevented or fail to cause serious injuries or other casualties. Hardly a week ever goes by that there are not at least three and as many as ten to twenty rockets fired originating in Gaza towards southern Israeli communities. These rocket attacks are largely ignored by the Western press as they claim that these attacks have become so common that they no longer rate as news demanding coverage. Try telling the children in Sderot who have learned to always keep in mind that they play close enough to shelters such that they can reach them within fifteen seconds when the Code Red alarms sound signaling incoming rocket or mortar attacks. To them life is spent with the constant fearful knowledge that at any moment they may need to literally run for their lives even if it is not important enough to report it in the Western press.


The one thing that is guaranteed is that whenever the world responds to the protestations of Abbas speaking of the great desire for peace and the need to provide the Palestinians with their own national homeland, the news will carry every word he speaks without any examination of the validity or lack thereof of his assertions. Then once there are peace negotiations, most often with the United States as the mediating power, the press is very careful to measure out any blame for difficulties in equal measure on Israel as they lay onto the Palestinians. Should there exist blame which can be laid at the feet of the Israelis, or simply claims of such from the Palestinians, those will be carefully placed solely on the Israelis. Wordings are often also misleading. Many of the Palestinian claims against Israel are reported as Israel not meeting their obligations, a wording often utilized by Abbas and company, while the Palestinian refusals are reported as differences between the parties and more negotiable than the presumed Israeli obligations. The item about the coverage of the Israeli Palestinian peace process is how it can consume almost the entirety of the international news coverage despite any other pressing story. One might believe, if visiting Earth for the first time, that the entire planet was at peace and in complete cooperation with the sole exception being the Israelis and the Palestinians. The Israeli Palestinian peace process dominated the news during the entirety of the Rwandan Genocidal wars, the genocide in the south of the Sudan at best received equal coverage for a while but was being completely eclipsed during its initial stages, actually pushed the coverage of Syria’s civil war catastrophe off the front pages and has most recently eclipsed the coverage of Russia and Vlad the Invader’s escapades in the Ukraine with a few days of coverage breaking through for the annexing of the Crimea.


What is remarkable is that the only times when peace rules over the small strip of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, which is currently under the control of the Israelis, is when the entire world finds someplace else to give their undivided attentions. But we can be assured that eventually the frequency of the terror episodes will return in greater numbers just as soon as Abbas sets out on his next world attention demanding tour. Then the donations begin to pour in to the Palestinian’s coffers which subsidizes the terrorists and while the world is watching the terror increases as the world has been convinced to believe that the terrorism is the result of Israeli oppression and not simply a form of attack used to murder Israelis. This belief is so completely imbedded in the Western psyche that the Western media and politicians speak of there being two completely unrelated forms of terrorism, those acts of terror which occur in the rest of the world which are criminal acts which must be weeded out and its perpetrators brought to justice and those acts of terror upon Israel which are understandable, have valid reason, and whose perpetrators are to be used as pawns and freed to return to killing Israelis so as to provide Abbas and his cronies political cover to enter into negotiations. Then when these very same negotiations break down, which Abbas had predicted initially when refusing to negotiate until Israel was forced to bend to his demands and give concessions as if Israel needed to prove their desire for peace and Abbas was lauded as the initiator of the process, then many in the West predict smugly that Israel will now suffer more terrorism as a result of the failed talks. United States Secretary of State Kerry actually went further when he threatened not only increased terrorism if Israel did not immediately surrender completely to the Palestinian demands, but that “there will be an increasing isolation of Israel. There will be an increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel that’s taking place on an international basis. That if we do not resolve the question of the settlements and who lives where and how and what rights they have; if we don’t end the presence of Israeli soldiers perpetually within the West Bank, then there will be an increasing feeling that if we cannot get peace with a leadership that is committed to nonviolence, you may wind up with leadership that is committed to violence.” He even went so far to actually use the words “Third Intifada” in an interview during the early parts of the negotiations. That certainly does not sound like a neutral and fair mediator, yet the Western and World press most often claim that Kerry is biased in favor of the Israelis, echoing a Palestinian claim who had accused Kerry of having only Jewish advisers approved by Israel. Is it any wonder that in Israel there are mixed feelings when the rest of the world takes a rest from dwelling on all things Israel and turns their attentions to any of the world’s other problems, many of which are far more serious and damaging than the Peace Process between Israel and the Palestinians. We have heard there might be a small problem next door in Syria and that the Ukraine, Poland and others in Eastern Europe have some pressing concerns of threats from Russian appetites fueled by Vlad the Invaders desire to reestablish Russian hegemony similar in scope to the old Soviet domination of half of Europe.


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