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As part of the American effort to coax steps from Arab states, perhaps prodding Morocco taking a leadership role, US President Barack Obama sent a letter to Morocco's King Muhammad VI this past weekend saying he hoped Morocco would "be a leader in bridging gaps between Israel and the Arab world."
According to the letter, which the Moroccans made public, Obama reiterated that Israel had to "stop settlements, dismantle outposts, and remove roadblocks," while saying the Palestinians needed to continue "to build up their security forces to confront terrorism, ending incitement, and reforming their institutions to build a Palestinian state."
While the issue of settlements was a key part of the meeting between Mitchell and Barak, both sides said other issues, including those alluded to in Obama's letter, played a role in the conversation.
The US would like to reach a point where all sides were ready to announce that they would be taking major steps on these and related issues together.
"Our expectation is that everyone is in this together and that they have to take steps together," the State Department official said.
He indicated that one potential format for a such an announcement would be an international conference, though a more low-key form of dissemination, such as press reports or diplomatic cables, could also suffice.
However, the idea of an international conference to launch a renewed and reinvigorated diplomatic process, which has been bandied about for months, has not been grasped too enthusiastically by Israel because of a lack of clarity as to what the content of such a conference would be. |
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On Monday, TV and press reports played up what they called one of the biggest purchases in Israeli history: the sale by Bnei Brak start-up SafeSky Software of a third stake in a patent for a patch to prevent heart attacks to British company MSI.
A day later, the supposed deal appeared to have unraveled when it emerged that one of the partners in the company, Arik Klein, who has served prison time for fraud, forged e-mail correspondence in which he pretended to represent MSI in the purchase.
The plot thickened when it was discovered that Haggai Hadas, the former Mossad official recently appointed to head negotiations for captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, is a director of SafeSky, and that its CEO is Gabi Picker, a childhood friend of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. |
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The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement on Tuesday saying that Hadas's "private affairs, including his business activity, are his personal responsibility and are carried out with his knowledge alone, and are entirely unrelated to his public role."
Hadas, Picker and SafeSky founder Amos Buchnik continued to insist on Tuesday that the transaction had indeed been concluded.
"There is a deal," Buchnik told Army Radio. "We don't have to answer to anybody." |
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By: paerina
8/07/2009
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Volitile is right although somewhat of an understatement Inbound.
What's really worrying is the impossibility of testing these horrendous weaponry.
Not sure what to make of just how far up Iran is in the nuclear race... There has to be some clandestine activity of sorts in the background with Russia.. Maybe Pakistan as rumor has it.
America and Israel would have had some kind of symbiotic partnership in this area. Can't really say. Without Presidential knowledge of course.
It's still odd the purssy footing stance the USA has in relation to Israel. Not as bad as before but still evident in some instances. |
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By: inbound39
8/07/2009
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Israel had won agreement from the United States for the continued construction of 2,500 housing units in settlements in the West Bank, despite U.S. calls for a freeze, according to the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the United States and Israel have been trying to find common ground on the sensitive settlement issue, but he had no comment on the front-page report of a deal.
A U.S. embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv also had no immediate comment.
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The report followed a briefing by Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his talks in London on Monday with U.S. envoy George Mitchell on ending a rift with Washington over its demand for a settlement freeze.
I cannot see the Arabs accepting the above in any way shape or form....I suspect the Peace Process is at end.With what the Arabs have said previously we likely have a war in the Middle East to look forward to. Israel wiill be content now. I hope they like the Arab response when it surely comes. |
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By: inbound39
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| Did U.S. okay Israel construction of 2,500 settlement homes? |
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"Yedioth Ahronoth quoted unidentified cabinet ministers, who attended Barak's briefing, as saying reports a U.S.-Israeli agreement on settlement had been sealed were wishful thinking on the part of the defense chief."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098716.html |
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By: jamisonjohn@rocketmail.com
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Iraqi parliament members on Wednesday warned Israel that using using its country's airspace to attack Iran would be considered an attack against Iraq.
"Any penetration of Iraqi airspace by an Israeli national would be considered an attack against Iraq," Hassan al-Sanid, a member of Iraq's parliamentary committee on security and defense, said in remarks carried in the Baghdad daily al-Sabbah.
Saudi Arabia earlier this week vigorously denied rumors that it had struck a deal with the Israelis to allow use of the kingdom's airspace for such a strike.
So much for blobs hysterical rants |
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By: inbound39
8/07/2009
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| I tell you what JJ...I wish these people like Obama would make an assertive move on this Peace stuff and quit letting Israel hold the process up. |
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Two representatives of the Peace Now organization and members of an Israeli television crew were attacked last week by a settler who objected to their presence in the West Bank as they documented construction in the settlements.
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The footage, originally broadcast on Channel 2 Television and posted online by Peace Now, shows a security guard at the Dolev settlement snatching and destroying the TV crew's camera equipment and later attacking the activists' car with rocks. |
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By: mar_ja@xtra.co.nz
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| morena inbound :) |
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| Howdy doo Mar mi kola! |
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| LOL :) howdy doody, was he not a wooden puppet or something :)??? |
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The United Nations demanded Wednesday that Israel implement a five-year-old ruling of its International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that deemed most of the West Bank separation fence illegal.
The fence severely restricts the movement of tens of thousands of Palestinians, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told a news conference in Jerusalem, marking the fifth anniversary of the ICJ advisory opinion.
Some 85 per cent of it was built inside the West Bank, and not on the Green Line.
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Some 35,000 Palestinians are trapped in the closed area between the fence and the Green Line, some 10,000 of whom need special permanent resident permits to enter the West Bank.
Palestinians wishing to enter the closed area for family, economic, health or educational reasons need visitor permits, which are difficult to obtain from the Israeli government, OCHA said.
"Life of people in the West Bank and in the closed area is reduced to a piece of paper," Michael Baily, of the British NGO Oxfam, told the news conference, referring to the permits.
He urged the international community to pressure Israel toward implementing the ICJ advisory opinion. |
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A State Department spokesman on Wednesday night denied the media reports on the 2,500 housing units.
Israeli officials said that Obama was continuing pushing hard on the settlement issue because of a feeling he needed some breakthrough here to be able to go to the Arab world and build coalitions to help the US deal with mounting problems in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.
Once agreement is reached on the settlement issue, and the US gets some gestures from the Arab world, the next step would possibly be an event - likely an international conference - where a "to do" list would be presented regarding what needed to be done to move the diplomatic process forward.
This "to do" list, according to one well-placed source, was shaping up as a revamped edition of the road map, with sequential phases and a stronger regional component, meaning that the Arab states would be asked to become involved in the normalization of ties in the early stages, rather than at the end, of the process. |
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Netanyahu's policy planning director Ron Dermer vowed at the press conference that no compromises would be made on Israel's insistence that a Palestinian state be demilitarized. He promised that the prime minister would never utter the words "Palestinian state" without the word "demilitarized" preceding them.
When asked why Netanyahu waited to say those words in an address at Bar-Ilan University rather than already uttering them in Washington, Dermer said that Netanyahu purposely did so in order to emphasize his conditions for a Palestinian state before committing himself to establishing it.
Channel 2 reported Wednesday night that the prime minister had told his father, 100-year-old historian Benzion Netanyahu, that he purposely set the conditions knowing that the Palestinians would never agree to them.
"He doesn't support [a Palestinian state]," the father said in a phone interview. "He set conditions that they won't ever accept. That's what he told me. He set the conditions and they won't accept even one of them."
Netanyahu's office responded by accusing Channel 2 of "maliciously tricking a 100-year-old man."
Kadima released a statement saying that the interview proved that Netanyahu did not endorse a Palestinian state in good faith. |
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By: its_muzz_again
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Jesus H. Christ.
Is there no start to your genius?
A never ending tirade about the unfairness of the Israelis actually having a sovereign state.
And a rag-tag bunch of bloody towel heads who snivel that it's unfair.
inbound, who posts press releases that nobody else in the world reads. Because they don't give a rats rrss. Get a job inbound. Or are your anti-semitic views precluding the possibility of work.
paerina. Possibly the thickest person in the world. Has no grasp of the English language, pseudo intellectual with not enough intelligence to carry even that off. Basic lessons paerina :
"your" is possesive. "You're" or "you are" is what you should be saying, but you're too bloody stupid and ill-educated to even realise that. Basic grammar. You don't have it. Go back to school, finish your 3rd form year and try again. You should be charged for the air that you breathe.
jj. Well, the resident commie. Still pssed off that Russia and China have demonstrated that communism - in practice - is merely another form of dictatorship. Or he would be pssed off, if he had the intellectual capacity to understand what actually happens in the world.
And that bloody w0g fella. The one who wants to bomb all the Christians. Pssoff back to Iran or Iraq or wherever you came from, you snivelling little towel head. The world has more than enough idiot w0gs like you. Get a new career. Become a suicide bomber. |
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By: inbound39
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| Muzz....take it easy before you blow a valve....you are free to grant us the power to disturb you so much...but consider this....All that is posted here comes from Israeli news sources. I work part time as an A&D Counsellor and therefore choose my hours. What I do with my time is my business. I don't care or even worry about what you do or don't do. That's your business. You are free to do as you please as long as you cause no harm to yourself or anyone else. That is the only lifwe rules buddy. You go right ahead though and rent us space in your head free of charge. If you want to allow us to disturb you so much...so be it...your choice! |
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By: its_muzz_again
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Counsellor. It all becomes very clear now. Another mumbo jumbo expert.
God save us from counsellors, advisors and experts.
And true, you do "disturb" me. I worry about, and lament, the money and time we have spent educating the likes of you, jj, paerina and the w0g. All to no effect. You are all incredibly stupid. |
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By: lamancha@xtra.co.nz
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Nuke 'em all.
Give it back to the camels. |
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By: inbound39
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| Worry away Muzz be my guest....cause yourself as much disturbance as you like. You only harm yourself...not me...or JJ or Paerina. So m,aybe your education was wasted given you seem happy to rescind your personal power to us! |
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| Anyone thinking differently or in conflict with MuzzAlmighty is considered stupid.....that makes perfect sense. I must say though I never recieved notification that MuzzAlmighty had been deemed Worlds most Intelligent person and that his ideas were entirely and divinely correct. Excuse me if I don't recognise your status your highness! |
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A senior European Union official rules out any compromise with Israel over the issue of settlements, unless reached in the framework of a final-status agreement with the Palestinians.
Robert Rydberg, head of the Middle East desk in the Swedish Foreign Ministry, stressed on Monday it was inconceivable for the international community to legitimize natural growth of the settler population, since all settlements beyond the Green Line were illegal.
Rydberg, whose country holds the EU presidency, said the only conceivable compromise would come with Israeli and Palestinian agreement on borders in an all-encompassing final-status agreement between the two parties.
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Speaking at a conference in Munich, Rydberg slammed the settlements as creating a new reality on the ground in the occupied territories and spawning obstacles, and he said that roadblocks were intended mainly to protect the settlements rather than Israel proper within the Green Line.
Rydberg said Israel's settlement policy did not build credibility among the Palestinian leadership and that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wanted to reach an agreement with Israel. He said the ideology that guides most settlers is based on utter denial of the rights of Palestinians in the occupied territories. |
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Rydberg, who also serves as deputy director general of the Swedish Foreign Ministry and is a former ambassador to Israel, noted that the United States was interested in the EU's playing an active role in the peace process, and that the U.S. meticulously coordinates its positions with the EU and other members of the Quartet.
He noted with satisfaction the latest statements by Hamas on Israel. He said that although Hamas was approaching the Quartet's demands, it still must live up to all of the Quartet's conditions before the latter would engage with the Islamic group.
He also said the EU was trying to "close gaps" with Arab countries like Syria and Libya, in a bid to engage them in the efforts to make progress in resolving the Middle East conflict.
Rydberg said the situation in Iran was likely to influence the Israeli-Arab conflict, but also that progress in the peace process was as likely to influence players affiliated with Iran in the region, such as Syria, as well as the positions of organization like Hamas and Hezbollah.
He said the Middle East will be given much attention during the Swedish presidency of the EU, as his government, like others in Europe, has political, security and economic interests in the region. |
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| Funny isn't it MuzzAlmighty....you proceed to lecture people about English grammar and correct pronunciations in a commentary that you fill out with offensive racist comments which only serve to prove yourself to be an intellectual cripple! |
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