Congress Cheers Netanyahus Hatred of Iran
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that convicted al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui identified leading members of the Saudi government as financiers of the terrorist network. According to the story, Moussaoui said in a prison deposition.
Shutting Down AIPAC: Removing Israel from American Politics
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech I gave on March 1 st in Washington during the anti-AIPAC and Netanyahu visit demonstrations. Two days later Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, whom I cite below, was sitting in the House VIP .
In Israel, A Vote To Choose A Leader And An Identity
Now a grandmother of 18, her activism at times leads her into conflict with Israeli authorities.. Im not recognized by the state, she says.. Israels March 17 election is two years earlier than it should be, thanks to the collapse of Prime.
Arab Commentators Strongly Back Netanyahu on Congress.
. extent of the Iranian threat. In the piece, titled ���President Obama, Listen to Netanyahu on Iran,��� Abbas said, ���one must admit, Bibi did get it right, at least when it came to dealing with Iran.. Imagine Iran with nuclear capability and some terrorists getting a hold off a backpack with a nuclear device or dirty bomb and detonating it in the middle of Times Square in New York or any other congested area with hundreds of thousands in casualties. Do you think the American��.
US Aiming for More than Nuclear Deal in Iran | Global.
These include sanctions intended to stop Iran from:. [5] In 1995, The New York Times reported that US and Israel officials believed that Iran would have nuclear weapons by the year 2000.. The US intelligence communitys Intelligence Estimate says that Iran abandoned a nuclear weapons program in 2003.. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders continue to accuse Tehran of deceit in describing its nuclear program as peaceful.
President Obama on Iran agreement: If Iran cheats the.
���If, in fact, Prime Minister Netanyahu is looking for the most effective way to ensure that Iran doesnt get a nuclear weapon, this is the best option,��� Obama said. ��� Obama warned leaders of Congress not to stop the deal.
Obama aims for another Mideast peace push by end of term, White House.
Washingtons final decision and strategy of how to move forward will depend on the makeup of the next Israeli government. By Barak. Obama watches Netanyahu and Abbas as they shake hands at a trilateral meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New.
Viewpoints: Netanyahu Further Isolates Israel
China ��� Xinhua, April 3: Israels Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Thursday that the framework agreement announced earlier in the evening in Lausanne over Irans nuclear program is far from being real. Steinitz made the. The plan.
Jewish news briefs: March 25, 2015
Obama on Tuesday continued his recent criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the aftermath of the latters re-election, saying, ���Netanyahu, in the election run-up, stated that a Palestinian state would not occur while he was prime.
Iran: Deal A Major Success.Israel: Deal A Historic Mistake
���In the final step, the (uranium) enrichment process will be accepted and at the same time all the sanctions will be lifted,��� he said, according to a New York Times translation. Tehran seeks to have a nuclear. The nuclear deal reached between Iran and six world powersearly Sunday morning was ���a historic mistake,��� Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, excoriating the agreement and vowing to keep Tehran from getting a nuclear weapon. ���What was��.
Too Clever by Half: Netanyahu Strengthens Obamas Hand
But he will not be as formidable as he was only recently, at least in trying to achieve one of his key goals: to stop an agreement at all costs between the so-called P5+1 countries and Iran on the latters nuclear program. Its still unclear whether.
Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 04/02 Links Pt1: Glick: Annex.
These include stopping the Iranian nuclear project, support for Israels suggestion to retain settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria, and for its opposition to the recognition of a Palestinian state in the Security Council. All these.. On February 19, 2015, a full-page ad was published in the New York Times by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) opposing the invitation given to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress. It asked the��.
Optimism grows that a preliminary agreement with Iran on its.
In the past two weeks bombbombbomb op-eds have been published in The Washington Post and The New York Times from two leading neoconservatives who have long sought to take military action against Iran���Joshua Muravchik and the notorious superhawk. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently said the outline of an agreement as reported is even worse than what he thought when he gave his speech to a joint session of Congress earlier this year.
What did Netanyahu discuss with the President in the Oval.
(Reuters article) ��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he must make sure that any final nuclear deal with Iran does not leave it at the ���threshold��� of being able to. Meeting for the first time in eight months, the two leaders, who have a history of strained relations, avoided any direct verbal clash during a brief press appearance and even seemed in sync over the fight against Islamic State militants.
State Dept says Netanyahu speech is not inappropriate.
He blames Bibi speech disaster on Boehner, not Netanyahu.. Netanyahu, grappling with a fear that Obama will go wobbly on Iran, could have tried a long time ago to create a discreet, continuous, and respectful dialogue in advance of the conclusion of negotiations, in order to try to shape the... President Obama believes he is making progress in a new deal with Iran, but the current negotiations have been going on for 14 months and have been extended twice.
An annotated guide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin.
Read the full transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus address to Congress, augmented with annotations from Mondoweiss staff and contributors.. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times)... So you see, my friends, this deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade.. I am afraid that the sorrows of empire may soon include nuclear annihilation.
Top Critics Warn Iran Nuclear Deal Will Clearly Leave Less.
Olli Heinonen, the former Deputy Director-General for Safeguards at the IAEA, is convinced that Irans breakout time to a nuclear weapon under the current deal being negotiated by the P5+1 powers ���will be clearly below��� the. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that any final deal with Iran must include Israels right.. Such people said and asserted that Bibi said ���nothing new���... As it turns out, it took a tough Jewish kid from New York Citys Lower East [.
Would sunset of nuclear deal end restrictions on Iran?
���This deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade,��� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress last week. ���Thats why this deal is so bad.
News Roundup and Notes: March 20, 2015
[New York Times]. Nine people have been arrested in connection with Wednesdays terrorist attack; the death toll in the massacre has risen to 21. The national army is being deployed to Tunisias major cities in response to the attack, President Essebsi.
Obama bid to beat Bibi backfires
American liberals, presumably including those at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., just two days ago were fantasizing about a world that didnt include Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister of Israel, or at least a Bibi in a substantially weakened fashion. The.
Israel ponders a nuclear Iran | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Until his election in early 2009, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commonly used this phrase, implying that Israel should be committed to prevent the rise of a nuclear Iran, preferably with cooperation with others but, if necessary, on its own. (Since his. The difference between the anti-Israeli rhetoric in Ben-Gurions era and todays is that now, for the first time, such threats are voiced by a president of a state that is seriously pursuing a nuclear-weapons capability.
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
���Anti-Jewish sentiment is increasing globally because of the oppressive behavior of Jews in power and their crimes against humanity,��� read one letter printed in the Riverdale Press in New York that was included in the ADL audit.. the alarm over the.
US Aiming for More than Nuclear Deal in Iran | whats left
Iran is seeking an end to sanctions and recognition of its right to enrich uranium. [1] This conflicts. [5] In 1995, The New York Times reported that US and Israel officials believed that Iran would have nuclear weapons by the year 2000.. ���Its 1938 and Iran is Germany, and its racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,��� warned Israels current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in 2006.. [8] Today, he says Iran is only a few months away from developing a nuclear bomb.
ISIS now a priority at the expense of the Palestinian cause
The anticipated American-Iranian deal has an implicit Palestinian/Israeli dimension that could force Tehran to change its political discourse regarding Palestine and Israel, and alter the Iranian regional policy based on compensation - at least.
Blind to the big picture
Last update 10 March 2015 12:37 am. Critics of the Iranian deal currently being hammered out before the supposed end-July deadline ��� most prominent among them, the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu ��� say it will ultimate leave Iran free.
Iran demands Western acceptance of its nuclear program.
Irans President Hassan Rouhani takes questions from journalists during a news conference in New York September 27, 2013.. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already called the proposed deal by the West on limited sanctions relief without stopping Irans enrichment process a ���very bad deal��� for the West, but the ���deal of the century for. Iran must have the right to expand its nuclear power plants and have the right to build anywhere in the country.
Analysis of Rouhanis UN speech. Plus, why did Iranian.
Yet thus far, Rouhani does even want to shake Mr. Obamas hand, or have his picture taken with the leader of the ���Great Satan,��� much less cut a real and trustworthy deal to get rid of Irans nuclear weapons program.. Irans new president, Hassan Rouhani, preached tolerance and understanding on Tuesday, decried as a form of violence the Western sanctions imposed on his country and said nuclear weapons had no place in its future,��� reported the New York Times.
White House will leak stories hurtful to AIPAC -- Newsweek.
Another important report in Newsweek says that Netanyahu alienated a crucial constituency he needed to block an Iran deal: black Congresspeople. They disliked his upstaging of Obama, most of them boycotted his speech,��.
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Nuclear ���peace in our time���? 3. ���A Bad Deal: Iran is outwitting the West in nuclear talks��� (Times of London editorial, March 30, 2015) 4. President Obama must not complete a disastrous deal with Iran (New York Observer editorial, March 30, 2015) 5.. and has criticized the U.S. negotiating team as apologists for Iran: ���The U.S. negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Irans behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal,��� he said.
Benjamin Netanyahu Says Final Nuclear Deal Must Include Irans Recognition of.
JERUSALEM ��� Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel introduced a new demand Friday for the final phase of negotiations over Irans nuclear program, saying the completed deal must include an ���unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israels right to .
Iran Nuclear Talks Threatened by Politics at Home and Proxy War Abroad
The final deadline for a deal to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is June 30, when the interim agreement in place since 2013 expires. Harf said the March marker was intended as an ���action-forcing mechanism,��� but she declined to answer .
Obama in the Middle East: Condominium Or Equilibrium?
Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that Saleh ���appears to have played more of a role than Iran in the groups recent rise.���. The internationally recognized governments of both countries-Iraq and Yemen-asked for Washingtons assistance.