With US officials still irked by the failure of the Israeli government to agree on a settlement freeze, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted today that it was actually President Obama who stopped the freeze and, in effect, the peace process.
Netanyahu insisted that the Israeli government were fully prepared to vote in favor of a new settlement freeze “in spite of reports to the contrary” and it was President Obama who told him to “forget the issue,” with the US president reportedly telling him it would “lead to an endless path of freeze following freeze.”
The truth behind the claims is unclear, but it did seem that Netanyahu had the votes lined up to force a three month freeze in return for billions of dollars in US promises, though there was a considerable gap between this point and the US abandonment of the freeze, and no vote ever took place.
In the meantime, the Israeli government has approved massive settlement expansions, and appears to have come to terms with the end of the peace process, though there appears to be something of a revolt brewing in the Labor Party over the government’s apparent comfort with the end of talks.
Jason,
1. Does the United States have anything to say about these comment? (Why don't you call the WH or SD for comment?)
2. We need a one-stop shopping link to follow the stories you write. If it exists already, please point us to it.
Netanyahu, its true because i said so…
I do not see why there is an issue. Have not the settlements been ruled illegal under the occupation laws? What should be pushed is for the equal treatment of the arabs so they can get into a position to vote the crazy zionist out of office. There never has been a place were they have gained control that have not suffered a disaster. Just look at the disaster the USA has become after the zionist got control of the federal government after 1910. The settlements are illegal and once they have control they should start an active campaign basic on the Israel knock down rules. None of these houses were constructed with a Palestinian building permit so they will be fair game just like the zionist have done for 60 years against the arabs.
Why should anyone doubt that this is true, that it is Obama himself who is pushing towards what amounts to a 'peace settlment' that is no more than legalized apartheid?
Once again, Israel finds an excuse to avoid peace. With the Palestinians, it is make outrageous demands ans then when those demands are rejected, throw your hands up and proclaim "we have no peace partner on the other side". So what happened this time Benjamin? Did you order Obama to release Pollard and got told "no"? Is that why "we" stopped the peace process?
Sadly – the United States condones the war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by the Nazi regime of Israel.
Personally I have never believed that any American official has ever been honest – not since Carter – as far as the Israeli-Palestinian issue is concerned. So who's telling the truth : Obama or Netanyahu ? The truth is that if Obama did not say this in words he said it more in constantly re-affirming Israel's 'special relationship' and offering more 'gifts' and basically supporting the status quo which is not a 'peace process on hold' but a gradual destruction of the people of Palestine.
bubu probably was willing to offer a one week freeze in exchange of pollard's liberation, indemnization for the decades of false imprisonment, liberation of all rabbis in prison, free fighter jets, free submarines, free warships, and all the latest weaponry, plus an assurance that no trial involving aipac in capacity of defendants ever moves forward. All of that probably a little bit too much, even for an israel puppet like Obama.
It is interesting to watch AIPAC crying about the release of their records by a former employee while they at the same time support AIPAC lobbies for the release of J. Pollard. I read yesterday one of the chosen crying about russian nuclear submarines off Israel coast but he had no problem with Israel german provided nuclear subs off the coast of Iran. There are almost no issue that you cannot find they will spin and try to make it sound like they are victims but how dare you look at our records or what we do.
Pollard has suffered enough but Vananuu an Israel citizen has been in jail longer. Pollard is a convicted traitor while Vananuu never received his day in court. One has to wonder other than pushing mud in Obama face why they would want Pollard sent to Israel. Did not the slaughter in Gaza do enough damage to the image of Israel?
Like the psychos they are, they get fixated with things. It's a control thing. It always has to go their way. A similar issue as Pollar/Vanunu is Shalit. They whining, screaming, protesting and threatening over the capture of this one killer while they hold over 11,000 Palestinians in their jail including women and children. If that's not a disconnect with reality, nothing is.
It's absolutely a control thing. They find it unacceptable do do anything in a way that is not theirs. But what absolutely drives them crazy is that one of theirs has to submit to goy justice. That's hell for them.
Israel is the textbook definition of psychopath.
Look people.., all this BS of what said who said and why or when.., is another time consuming made possible by those who don’t want to see any peace in middle east. That goes for US and EU, the people of middle east are turned apart for the US and EU militarism to occupying countries as they do with
the killing of Muslins or Christians, antagonism started when George W. Bush and his partners as Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz started the mess which is for US and EU to occupy the middle east as long as it takes, meanwhile Israel will still the Palestinians land and call it settlements.
The only language that Israel will ever understand is for US – EU to boycott the regime that’s it.
The disconnect with these characters is something that should be studied by scientist. Somewhere in that brain of theirs, they're missing a connection, a gene went array.
Notwithstanding that, I have to assume that the key to this lies on that document they forced the US to write and they made all the fuzz over. I'm willing to be that said little piece of paper stipulates that if Israel is not responsible for the break down of the talks, they get to keep all the Stealth Bombers and the billions given to them by Obama as a bribe just to agree to talk. Of course, it would have been much easier for them to blame Abbas who would have probably confessed to the whole thing in grand puppet fashion but, who knows? maybe this lie was more thrilling for the Netanyahoo character.
Genetic defect? They lack the genes that provide the rest of the world's inhabitants with a conscience, morality, decency, humanity.
I always thought it was the inbreeding thing.
This is true of many politicians.
Perhaps Obama said, "Look Bibi, we can't have this situation where every 3 months you try to extort the U.S. for a few billion dollars more in exchange for extending the freeze. And then Netanyahu said, "Oh, I see. So you really don't want a freeze! I'll just go tell that to the public."
The only language that Israel will ever understand is for US – EU to boycott the regime that’s it.
It would be illuminating to know if within the dark recesses of the American military and intelligence establishments there is not a plan for the selective decapitation of the Israeli civilian leadership; accompanied by selective assurances of support for the Israeli military– once certain conditions were met, of course. It has to have long since dawned on the more Machiavellian within the Washington beltway that we have done the same thing before, (Chile in the 1970s and Iran in the 1950s) for far less reason. At some point the irritation factor of Israeli politicians will outweigh the clout of the pro-Israel lobby and conventional wisdom will give way to a new reality in the Middle East.