‘Mideast peace process poses a strategic threat to Iran’
‘Mideast peace process poses a strategic threat to Iran’ – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman: Cancellation of Iran FM’s visit to Cairo is proof of the importance of the peace process.
By Barak Ravid and The Associated Press
Minister of Minority Affairs Professor Avishay Braverman said Saturday that the recently relaunched peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians posed “a strategic threat to Iran.”
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Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman |
| Photo by: David Bachar |
Speaking at the Shabbat Tarbut event in Haifa, the minister said that “the cancellation of a visit by the Iranian foreign minister to Egypt and the historical events that have occurred in Tehran since the start of peace talks are proof that progress in the talks will lead to an alliance between Israel and the moderate Arab states versus the axis of evil of Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah.”
Braverman was referring to Egypt’s cancellation Friday of a meeting that was to include Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki over remarks he had made earlier, accusing of Arab leaders of betrayal for cooperating with the U.S.-sponsored peace talks.
Mottaki was quoted in the Iranian media on Tuesday as saying that the Arab leaders meeting in Washington in order to launch the renewal of peace talks with Israel are traitors to their respective peoples. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II both attended the official launch of the direct talks in Washington.
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, also criticized the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. In a speech he gave on Friday in honor of pro-Palestinian “Jerusalem Day,” Nasrallah said that “these negotiations were born and have died.”
Nasrallah added, “Palestine from the river to the sea is the property of the Palestinian people, the Arabs and the Muslims, and no person has the right to give any of it away, not a grain of sand or a drop of water.”
Nasrallah blessed the Hamas for the attacks it carried out this past week and said, “This is the message, and this is the way to liberate Jerusalem and Palestine. Hamas and other resistance fighters of their kind should hear voices of support from the entire Arab and Muslim world.”
Sources close to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that by the end of the first round of talks between Israel and the PA in Washington, the mood of the Palestinian delegation had turned around 180 degrees.
The London-based newspaper Al-Hayat announced Saturday morning that the Palestinian delegation had expressed satisfaction with the Americans’ intention to include all of the core issues in the peace agreement that is supposed to be finalized before the end of 2011.
Arab League chief Amr Moussa also expressed cautious optimism on Friday that the current round of talks between Israel and the Palestinians will be the final round. According to Moussa, participating in an economic conference in Italy, the Arab world is read for comprehensive peace with Israel in exchange for withdrawal to the 1967 borders, including in East Jerusalem.
WarSclerotic 
September 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM
The real problem is the coming war in Lebanon. Eygpt, Jordan and Israel will act to destroy Hizballah.
Lebanon has already been told by envoys from Eygpt and Jordan that Hizbollah is the problem. They have been told to deal with this internal treachery. Syria has been told that their meddling is finished in Lebabon. In order to guarantee future security in the region it is Lebabon not the Palestinians that must be secured first.
Eygpt leads in this matter because they know if the terrorists continue to run Lebanon then the strong economy that every one needs from Lebabon will not happen.
If you keep attacking Israel everyone knows the boat for all of them will sink in an irradiated glow.
Mubarak is not afraid of Assad and he knows the Russians will support him over Syria.
It is true that even the Russians are concerned about their weaponry in Hizbollah’s hands. Russia does not mind making a billion dollars on the Iranian reactor which they will have to cement over in a few weeks Chernobly style. Their bill is paid and up to date. Already there are plans for more reactors after the new government is installed in Iran but these are 10 years off till operational and hopefully will be bombed so they can make some more to be bombed after the bills are paid.
Lebanon knows something is up in Eygpt because of the many training flights with air to air refuellers.
They are hoping for the surrender of Hizbollah into the regular forces of Lebanon. Nassrallah was shocked by the ultimatum to save face or be declared war on by the moderate arab countries.
Astoundingly this transition from terrorist oragnization to the control of the regular Lebanese army has already met with acceptance by many of Hizbollahs leaders. The Israeli’s were not told of the Jordan, Eygpt ultimatum. This is arab business and the arabs are finally going to act like an arab union and Hizbollah is relegated to the dust bin of bad ideas.
Lebanon has been promised that when they have demobilized Hizbollah into the regular armed forces then they will be the major banking center of a new Jordan, Eygpt, Lebabon techno, monetary union.
Turkey has thrown their full support behind this.
Washington was stunned that they were snubbed and their influence is not needed in the middle east. he Russians were the only outsiders briefed and they see the rehabilitaion of Lebanon as good for their business.
All this is going on quietly behind the scenes. The clock is ticking on Hizbollah and the schedule will be followed.
Syria will hide in a corner.
Iran will not be able to stand the pressure of 100% isolation from it’s neighbours
September 4, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I cannot account for anything Iran says as being any more than propaganda. For they are being propped up by the Russian Federation that is currently failing in all its military and Intelligence Operations and Iran nows it may well be on its own.