Obama’s Israel visit is on – to sweeten pill of nuclear Iran
Obama’s Israel visit is on – to sweeten pill of nuclear Iran
DEBKAfile Special Report March 9, 2013, 7:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Barack Obama Israel Iran nuclear negotiations
“We’re coming” to Israel
“We’re coming” to Israel
President Barack Obama will visit Israel later this month, the 20th, even if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fails to put together a governing coalition beforehand. “We’re going,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a briefing for reporters Friday, March 9. In answer to a question, he said, “The formation of the Israeli government is the responsibility of Prime Minister Netanyahu and other senior officials of the Israeli government…”
Secretary of state John Kerry thought otherwise when he skipped a visit to Israel as not worthwhile until a government is in place. (Netanyahu’s deadline for forming a government has been extended to March16.)
debkafile reports from its Washington sources that President Obama’s calculations for making the trip are a lot more complicated than Kerry’s. According to some Israeli circles, none of them are good news for their country.
He arrives less than a month after the last Six-Power (US, Russia, UK, France, China and Germany) nuclear discussions with Iran ended in Kazakhstan. After those talks, US and Western media trumpeted “an unusual sense of optimism” or more cautiously allowed “a faint and perhaps fleeting light at the end of one of the world’s most durable tunnels.”
Western sources predicted on the strength of these assessments that the follow-up to Kazakhstan in April, shortly after Obama’s talks in Jerusalem, would be devoted to “cementing that progress,” which translated into rewarding putative nuclear concessions by Iran with the easing of economic sanctions.
However, according to debkafile’s military and intelligence sources, this diplomatic fluff, while representing elation in Washington, London, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, caused serious disenchantment in Jerusalem, which viewed it as a smokescreen for concessions to, and not by, Iran.
They have found that the “fleeting light” appearing at the end of the Iranian nuclear tunnel obscures three dangerous US concessions to Tehran:
1. President Obama has given in to the Fordo uranium enrichment plant continuing to operate instead of shutting down, as demanded by Israel – even though its function is to turn out 20 percent pure (near-weapons grade) uranium;
2. He has even consented to the Iranians continuing to manufacture uranium to that level;
3. Washington has dropped its insistence on Iran sending out of the country its stocks of 3.5-5 percent enriched uranium.
With these gains, the Iranian negotiators must have been laughing all the way home from their talks with the six big powers on 26-27 of February and crowing over what one Israeli official called “Tehran’s huge success and Israel’s total defeat.”
Conscious of how these concessions to the Islamic Republic are received in Jerusalem, it is no wonder that President Obama brushed off the invitation to address the Israeli Knesset, where lawmakers would likely put him on the spot. He has chosen instead to deliver a speech at Jerusalem’s Convention Center, so as to deliver his message straight to the Israeli public.
By going over the heads of Israel’s government and parliament to face a less informed audience, he believes he can get away with sweet-talking his surrender to a nuclear Iran.
Former military intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin stepped in with a timely comment last week when he said that an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would be no more than a one-night operation.
So when Air Force One lands in Israel March 20 and Israeli dignitaries push forward to greet the US president, a small group of anonymous Air Force pilots will be watching from a distance, waiting for the order to fly out and carry out their mission in a single night.
After Jerusalem, President Obama continues to the Palestinian Authority and then Jordan
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WarSclerotic 
March 9, 2013 at 8:49 PM
I have to say that this is one of debkas less credible reports as i am sure now they dont really have any decent contacts in the USA administration,all mine are telling me that Iran wont be getting off the hook,and the moment of no more talk is close
March 10, 2013 at 6:25 PM
And who exactly are your “contacts” telling you this?
Any shot that the US would be of any assistance at all to Israel evaporated last November when the worst president in American history was reelected.
And as soon as Israel does act you can be sure our Muslim president will be the first to the microphones to condemn them.
March 9, 2013 at 9:08 PM
Israel will never permit a nuclear Iran. The Obama administration is ignorant. It does not understand that Israel does not have a choice. In contrast to Obama, Netanyahu has been briefed by Bernard Lewis, http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/02/crucial-piece-of-puzzle.html he quoted Bernard Lewis in his speech to the UN General Assembly http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/at-un-general-assembly-netanyahu-quotes.html , and he understand the stakes involved. Obama does not.
Why are Bernard Lewis’s views on MAD ignored?
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/why-are-bernard-lewiss-views-on-mad.html
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March 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM
the Obama admin is far from ignorant,obama may be on the fence to some extent but people in his administration are far from it and determined to stop Iran,and as you all know i am against obama and most his policy’s,but i have friends in the administration and they say there serious,lets just see what he does and judge him on that,i am truly starting to believe that a lot of the hatred towards obama is racism,something we should understand here..
March 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM
Racism? What nonsense! How do you justify Obama’s support for the most virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American Muslim Brotherhood? This policy is just insane. It would be equivalent to FDR supporting Mussolini, Franco and Hitler in the 1930s.
March 11, 2013 at 12:14 PM
You’ve got to be a racist to despise a man with well documented ties to communists, antisemites and with sympathy for Islam and a record of disregard for the constitution and of appeasing Americas enemies?
I could give you:many more reasons and details but race is none of them.
There may be some guys in the administration who are determined to stop Iran but at the end of the day they are not the ones who decide. The final decisions comes from the president.
With regards to his record concerning Iran we will see.
I’m not optimistic about obavez sincirety in preventing a nuclear Iran.
March 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM
Reblogged this on danmillerinpanama and commented:
Be of good cheer! Eat your yummy arugula! President Obama has already told us that he (perhaps uniquely) knows what is best for Israel. In view of his demonstrated prescience and competence in all areas of foreign and domestic policy, we should give the matter no further thought.
Might I trouble you to pass the bacon-wrapped Kosher shrimp?
March 9, 2013 at 10:36 PM
The Munich Agreement
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/101-the-munich-agreement
October 5, 1938
All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. She has suffered in every respect by her association with the Western democracies and with the League of Nations, of which she has always been an obedient servant.
I venture to think that in future the Czechoslovak State cannot be maintained as an independent entity. I think you will find that in a period of time which may be measured by years, but may be measured only by months, Czechoslovakia will be engulfed in the Nazi regime. Perhaps they may join it in despair or in revenge. At any rate, that story is over and told. But we cannot consider the abandonment and ruin of Czechoslovakia in the light only of what happened only last month. It is the most grievous consequence of what we have done and of what we have left undone in the last five years – five years of futile good intentions, five years of eager search for the line of least resistance, five years of uninterrupted retreat of British power, five years of neglect of our air defences.
Those are the features which I stand here to expose and which marked an improvident stewardship for which Great Britain and France have dearly to pay.
So far as this country is concerned the responsibility must rest with those who have had the undisputed control of our political affairs. They neither prevented Germany from rearming, nor did they rearm themselves in time. They quarrelled with Italy without saving Ethiopia. The exploited and discredited the vast institution of the League of Nations and they neglected to make alliances and combinations which might have repaired previous errors, and thus they left us in the hour of trial without adequate national defence or effective international security.
We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that. It must now be accepted that all the countries of Central and Eastern Europe will make the best terms they can with the triumphant Nazi power. The system of alliances in Central Europe upon which France has relied for her safety has been swept away, and I can see no means by which it can be reconstituted. The road down the Danube Valleyto the Black Sea, the road which leads as far as Turkey, has been opened.
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You will see, day after day, week after week, entire alienation of those regions. Many of those countries, in fear of the rise of the Nazi power, have already got politicians, Ministers, Governments, who were pro-German, but there was always an enormous popular movement in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia which looked to the Western democracies and loathed the idea of having this arbitrary rule of the totalitarian system thrust upon them, and hoped that a stand would be made. All that has gone by the board. We are talking about countries which are a long way off.
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Many people, no doubt, honestly believe that they are only giving away the interests of Czechoslovakia, whereas I fear we shall find that we have deeply compromised, and perhaps fatally endangered, the safety and even the independence of Great Britain and France. This is not merely a question of giving up the German colonies, as I am sure we shall be asked to do. Nor is it a question only of losing influence in Europe. It goes far deeper than that. You have to consider the character of the Nazi movement and the rule which it implies.
The Prime Minister desires to see cordial relations between this country and Germany. There is no difficulty at all in having cordial relations between the peoples. Our hearts go out to them. But they have no power. But never will you have friendship with the present German Government. You must have diplomatic and correct relations, but there can never be friendship between the British democracy and the Nazi power, that power which spurns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward course by a barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and perverted pleasure from persecution, and uses, as we have seen, with pitiless brutality the threat of murderous force. That power cannot ever be the trusted friend of the British democracy.