‘Israel will attack if you sign the deal, French MP told Fabius’
‘Israel will attack if you sign the deal, French MP told Fabius’ | The Times of Israel.
Paris legislator Meyer Habib, a friend of Netanyahu, called his FM in Geneva to warn of likely response should accord be signed, Israeli TV reports
November 10, 2013, 8:53 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the Foreign Minister of France, Laurent Fabius, at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, 25 August 2013 (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
A French member of parliament telephoned French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Geneva at the weekend to warn him that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if the P5+1 nations did not stiffen their terms on a deal with Iran, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Sunday.
“I know Bibi [Netanyahu],” the French MP, Meyer Habib, reportedly told Fabius, and predicted that the Israeli prime minister would resort to the use of force if the deal was approved in its form at the time.
France’s Fabius is widely reported to have scuppered the finalizing of the emerging deal late Saturday, leading to the halting of the negotiations with Iran, and an agreement to reconvene on November 20.
Explaining his concerns to reporters in Geneva, Fabius said Tehran was resisting demands that it suspend work on its plutonium-producing reactor at Arak and downgrade its stockpile of higher-enriched uranium.
Habib, the deputy president of the Jewish umbrella organization in France, was elected to the National Assembly in Paris in June, to represent the district of southern Europe, which includes French nationals residing in Israel.
“I have known Meyer Habib for many years and he is a good friend to me and to Israel,” Netanyahu said in French in a video of endorsement posted on YouTube in May. Standing next to Habib, Netanyahu continued in Hebrew: “He fights a lot for Israel, for public opinion, and cares intensely about the Land of Israel and Jerusalem, and he has helped me over the years deepen Israeli-French relations.”
The TV report on Sunday said Jerusalem believed that Netanyahu’s angry public criticism of the emerging deal, and his phone conversations with world leaders — including Presidents Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Francois Hollande, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron — had played a crucial role in stalling the deal, but that Israel was well aware that an agreement would be reached very soon. Netanyahu himself said Sunday that he was aware of the “strong desire” for a deal on the part of the P5+1 negotiators, and had asked the various leaders in his calls, “What’s the hurry?”
The report quoted sources in Jerusalem castigating the United States for its “radical eagerness” in seeking a deal, and saying that Washington appeared fearful of Iran.
Meyer Habib (photo credit: screen capture Meyer Habib/YouTube)
At Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Netanyahu expressed outrage that under the terms of the emerging deal, “not a single centrifuge would be dismantled, not one.”
Israel believes the imminent deal will leave Iran with uranium enrichment capabilities, and thus enable it to become a nuclear breakout state at a time of its choosing.
Secretary of State John Kerry hit back at Netanyahu on Sunday, declaring, “I’m not sure that the prime minister, who I have great respect for, knows exactly what the amount or the terms are going to be because we haven’t arrived at them all yet. That’s what we’re negotiating.”
After the talks broke up in Geneva after midnight Saturday, Kerry complained about critics who were “jumping to conclusions” about the terms of the accord on the basis of “rumors or other parcels of information that somebody pretends to know.”
Netanyahu on Friday publicly pleaded with Kerry not to rush to sign what he called a “very, very bad deal.”
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WarSclerotic 
November 11, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Of course Israel will strike – what else do you expect ? Israel waiting for the incoming iranian nukes – you must be crazy ! The US and the EU (exept France this time / the God of Israel has seen your support for Israel and will bless France for this !!) have lost common sense by thinking that they can make a crazy deal with modern Hitler&co in Teheran without Israel striking Iran ! The USA and the EU are just set to fail …………fallen, selfdestructive societies,they are, like the Roman Empire……. They fool men and think they can fool the God of Israel as well ….! NO ! The God of Israel will take down every individual ( watch out Mr Kerry / Mr Obama ) and every Nation that is fighting Israel – you better believe it !
November 11, 2013 at 11:40 PM
“The USA and the EU are just set to fail …………fallen, selfdestructive societies,they are, like the Roman Empire”
I don’t think so WG. Things may be a bit down here in the States but we still command the largest, most productive economy in the world. Only the politics stink. Much of the world will fail long before the US will fall. The ‘push back’ here against Obama and his policies is growing daily. I can assure you.
“Support for Israel in the United States is astonishing. There’s no other foreign country favored in terms of assistance; and this support is bipartisan, bicameral and largely protected by sequestration,” said Eizenstat, whose last in a series of high-level government posts was deputy Treasury secretary under Clinton.
When asked at a June 17 talk with Israeli business leaders if Washington would be willing or even able to sustain current FMF levels to Israel, Eizenstat replied, “I have no concerns that aid to Israel will be diminished. The question is rather by how much will it increase.”
That’s over 3 billion bucks a year WG. Who else is doing more for Israel besides the Israelis themselves?
You can read the entire article here:
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130617/DEFREG04/306170028/
Maybe there’s a place in heaven for us Americans afterall.