More Israeli Concerns Over Changing U.S. Policy
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Israel is concerned about remarks White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (above) made during a closed-door meeting Sunday with 300 major donors of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington.
While expressing unwavering U.S. support for Israel, Israeli media reported that Emanuel also said confronting Iran depends on making progress in negotiations seeking to create a Palestinian state.
(AP Photo/Uriel Sinai, Pool)
Netanyahu is especially concerned about Mr. Obama's plans to negotiate with Iran. Israeli officials say the talks will allow Iran to buy time while moving closer to nuclear capability. Netanyahu will urge the President to put a time limit on the talks while tightening economic sanctions on Iran.
Netanyahu has also said "Israel will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons — with all the implications." In other words, Israel would consider a unilateral, preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities as a last resort.
The Israeli public at large is also skeptical about U.S. talks with Iran. A poll by Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv shows that, while 60 percent of Israelis have a favorable opinion of President Obama, only 32 percent approve of his policy regarding Israel.
"What the public is saying is that... we don't know much about Obama and don't trust him," said Professor Eytan Gilboa, who conducted the poll.
This is in sharp contrast to the attitude of American Jews. Tracking polls conducted through Mr. Obama's first 100 days in office show that 79 percent of U.S. Jews approve of Mr. Obama's performance.
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See all 41 CommentsPosted by abpld
Some are merely idiots.
Posted by abpld
Lackeys for Near Eastern dictatorships feel too much self-esteem these days. It must be a grand delusion -- it seems to bring a kind of joy -- maybe it takes the blogger's mind off-of their own problems. Maybe they identify with the underdog because their life-choices renders them the underdog.
However that may be, identifying 1.5 billion Muslims, or the 109 million people who surround Israel, or the OPEC nations as the underdogs in the Israeli equation is an attempt not to think.
Golda Mier
There is far more than just politics going on in the middle east. Westerners seeking to wrap all of the problems in the middle east in political solutions will never come close, and all the blame throwing by liberals and conservitives won't come any closer either.
Your love of the racist, xenophobic Near East is no laughing matter. It merely comes disguised with a veneer of polite conversation. The Palestinians made common-cause with the Nazis during WW2 -- the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who had declared there was no Palestine, merely subdivisions of Greater Syria -- recruited Muslims to kill Jews in Europe.
If you prefer, laugh all the way to Nuremberg.
The moderate PA is headed by a former spokesman for the PLF terrorists who killed Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchair. My "weak argument" states there is double-standard: (1) what you'll accept from the Palestinians, and (2) what you'll demand from the Israelis.
Given that the Palestinians sided with the Nazis during WW2, I applaud your forgiving nature. The Israelis are too busy not-being-killed to agree with me.
Britain our WW2 ally had spies in America. Tell us what your point is exactly. We'll wait as you contact the home office for instructions.
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saddamm killed thousands od Kurds, used WMD to accomplished it, invaded Kuwait for their land and oil and while they were there, committed war crime and atrocies.
So then why people like you have so much trouble with the U,S, taken out saddam hussein? How many more people he needs to kill before you think he should be remove? Posted by ReallyMeanIt
I didn't actually post those previous comments. So there may be "people like me", but they aren't me.
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saddamm killed thousands od Kurds, used WMD to accomplished it, invaded Kuwait for their land and oil and while they were there, committed war crime and atrocies.
So then why people like you have so much trouble with the U,S, taken out saddam hussein? How many more people he needs to kill before you think he should be remove?
Feels safe yet?
The Arabs do not want Iran to rule over them as they will if they are allowed to gain nukes, Iran is not Arab, the Arabs do not want Iran to rule them.
The Arabs would not be opposed to Isreal getting rid of Irans nukes, even though it goes against their ideology the Arabs would be gratefull if Isreal did Iran.
Ahamadinajab has BHO practicaly eating out of his hand because BHO just wants to talk, the longer the talk goes on the closer Iran gets to having nukes, the longer the talks go on the less the rest of the world thinks of the US, because the rest of the world doesn't want to see Iran get nukes either.
Iran having nukes will give Iran unprecedented power in the Middle east over all the oil and a stranglehold over nearly all the economys in the world. Maybe this means very little to the liberals since they want to CHANGE everything to an instant alternative power use in the US, no transitition to make sure all goes smoothly. That would be to easy, lets just do it all at once, YES WE CAN, it'll only cost a few trillion to get started, but hey, the presses are rolling, don't stop them now.
Thats the attitude the rest of the world see's going on in the US government at present, the other thing the Arabs see in the BHO administration is the softness of BHO himself toward Hamas and Hesbullah, cronies of Iran. Remember all the talk BHO had about the cronieism in the US gov't? Maybe inwardly he likes cronies.
At present, Iran can have nukes in less than six months, doesn't give anyone a whole lot of time to act does it.
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