Israel instructs Obama not to have dialogue with Iran

Israel cautions against Obama dialogue with Iran

Thu Nov 6, 2008 5:24am EST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said Thursday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's stated readiness to talk to Iran could be seen in the Middle East as a sign of weakness in efforts to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

"We live in a neighborhood in which sometimes dialogue -- in a situation where you have brought sanctions, and you then shift to dialogue -- is liable to be interpreted as weakness," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said, asked on Israel Radio about policy change toward Tehran in an Obama administration.

Her remarks sounded the first note of dissonance with Obama by a senior member of the Israeli government since the Democrat's sweeping victory over Republican candidate John McCain in the U.S. presidential election Tuesday.

Asked if she supported any U.S. dialogue with Iran, Livni replied: "The answer is no."

Livni, leading the centrist Kadima party into Israel's February 10 parliamentary election, also said "the bottom line" was that the United States, under Obama, "is also not willing to accept a nuclear Iran."

Obama has said he would harden sanctions on Iran but has also held out the possibility of direct talks with U.S. adversaries to resolve problems, including the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

The West believes Iran's nuclear enrichment program is aimed at building atomic weapons, an allegation the Islamic Republic denies.

Israel, believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, has said Iran's nuclear program is a threat to its existence and that it was keeping all options on the table to stop it.

(Writing by Jeffrey Heller, editing by Philippa Fletcher)

Submitted by awakenedgoyim on Thu, 2008-11-06 11:07

Read this story in an online site with a high sounding name like World Tribune and the story they've planted about Obama's aide, one Robert Malley, meeting with Syria, then read the next story about Malley.

Obama promised U.S. reconciliation with Syria

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

WASHINGTON — Presidential-elect Barack Obama has pledged to improve U.S. relations with Syria and Egypt.
Aides said Obama had sent senior foreign policy adviser Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria to outline the Democratic candidate's policy on the Middle East.

Malley, the aides said, met both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar Assad to explain Obama's platform. The aides said Obama signaled to Mubarak that the United States would maintain military and civilian aid and sell advanced F-16 aircraft to Cairo. Egypt has not ordered F-16s in nearly a decade.
Obama, himself, was also said to have met Arab leaders who arrived in the United States over the last three months. The aides said the leaders included Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

"Obama's message is that he strongly supports a Palestinian state," the aide said.

Obama aides said they would coordinate with the outgoing Bush administration. They said the presidential-elect supports an intensive final drive by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to conclude arrangements for a Palestinian state in the West Bank in 2009.

"Obama would prefer an engaged administration to use the next two months to work out any details that could be implemented next year when he enters office," the aide said.

Analysts said Obama would probably confront a Middle East crisis soon after entering office in January 2009. They said the most imminent crisis would be that of Iraq as well as the confrontation between Hamas and the PA.

[On Nov. 5, Hamas fired more than 35 Kassam-class missiles from the Gaza Strip into Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military operation the previous day. At least three people in the Israeli city of Ashkelon were injured.]

"The next U.S. president will face unprecedented challenges and dangers in the Middle East, with few good options and precious little time to waste," Michael Eisenstadt, senior fellow at the Washington Institute, said. "If the next president is to succeed in advancing American interests, he will need to engage the Middle East to an unprecedented degree, avert or deter the wars that can be avoided, and skillfully manage the one or more wars that are almost certain to occur on his watch."

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ss_mideast0676_11_05...

What aide, WT, or is that info Top Secret?

And how could Malley meet with Syria since he got FIRED from the Obama campaign back in May?

May 10, 2008
Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The Times that he had been in regular contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza and is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think-tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.

Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly: “Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future.” The rapid departure of Mr Malley followed 48 hours of heated clashes between John McCain, the Republican nominee-elect, and Mr Obama over Middle East policy.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections...

BTW, the World Tribune likes to sing the praises of right wing Neocon mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh.

Greg Bacon | Thu, 2008-11-06 15:26

They always say that the only thing the Arabs / Muslims understand is violence. They seem to live by their little racist anecdote.

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ZION'S NAZI ALLIES

Stern Gang | Thu, 2008-11-06 16:13

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RowanBerkeley | Thu, 2008-11-06 16:21

Tzipi Livni is only a centrist in name. Her entire family have been some of the most rabid Zionists to land in Palestine. She was nourished in the bosom of the Likud. There has never been a center in Israel, nor a real left for that matter. Besides, the left and right pendulum does not oscillate in the same manner in Israel as it does here in the United States. Left and Right in Israel is measured between a Zionist stance on biblical Israel and a Zionist position of defined borders of an Israel that adheres to some of the legal definitions of borders and one that does not contravene the legal convention, which forbids annexation of lands amassed through war--filtered through a paradigm of security. That is the left would still steal more land than those stolen in 1948 however, they would annex less land than the right, or now dubbed center, in a final Israeli map.

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"You shall have no pity on them until we shall have destroyed their so-called Arab culture, on the ruins of which we shall build our own civilization." –Menachem Begin

ZION'S NAZI ALLIES

Stern Gang | Thu, 2008-11-06 18:27

Zionist position of defined borders of an Israel that adheres to some of the legal definitions of borders and one that does not contravene the legal conventions

Thought that Israel was the only country in the world w/o any defined borders, at least not the type you see on a map.

That type of border won't be drawn until their fantasy of an "Eretz Israel" is completed.

Greg Bacon | Thu, 2008-11-06 18:42

That type of border won't be drawn until their fantasy of an "Eretz Israel" is completed.

The borders of ersatz eretz israhell are already drawn. A nice white stripe between the blue of the Nile and that of the Euphrates.

Sullivan | Thu, 2008-11-06 19:22

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