This from the Debkafile after today's first meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.
US-Israel summit shadowed by Obama's soft stand on Iranian enrichment
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Iran has consistently fooled international nuclear monitors
DEBKAfile's Washington sources report that the gap between US president Barack Obama and Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Iran was wider even than on the Palestinian issue. Overshadowing their outwardly easy conversation was the US president's growing inclination to meet Iran halfway on uranium enrichment and call off UN and American sanctions if Tehran allows international monitoring of the process.
Our intelligence sources report that Obama is seriously considering taking up the Anglo-German proposal for an international monitoring mechanism strict enough to preclude Iran's attainment of weapons-grade enriched uranium.
The president was convinced by American intelligence and nuclear experts that this can be done. He also believes that nothing will persuade Tehran to cede its right to enrichment activity on its soil.
Israeli intelligence and military experts take the opposite view. They believe the Anglo-German plan gives Iran the perfect cover for concealing its race for a nuclear bomb, a misgiving shared by the political and military establishments of the moderate Arab governments in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
It is their view that if Obama adopts this plan, Iran can be sure of arriving at a nuclear weapon capability by the end of 2010.
This dispute did not come up in the Obama-Netanyahu conversation. Both skated around the Iranian nuclear threat separately without touching on options outside diplomacy. The US president said he was in the process of "reaching out" to Iran and was confident he could persuade Tehran's rulers that a nuclear weapon was not in their best interest if they wanted to be fully accepted as part of the international community. He did not mention uranium enrichment or a military option against Iran. Neither would he accept a deadline for negotiations with Tehran, except to say that at the end of the year, "we will see where we stand."
But asked later to comment, Netanyahu said: "We will defend ourselves."
Seen from outside Washington, by Iran's neighbors, Israeli and Arab alike, President Obama has made Iran the gift of seven clear months for developing its nuclear capabilities and enrichment undisturbed.
The only thing left to the Israeli prime minister was to commend "the president's firm commitment that Iran will not attain a nuclear weapon."
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My Commentary
Ravi Zacherias said recently that: 'We see with our ears, and hear with our emotions.' We bypass logic and reason, refusing to understand anything beyond what we feel. One thing is certain with President Obama: HE FEELS DEEPLY. However, that there is no understanding or wisdom in the Iran/Israeli/Palestinian...foreign policy, is obvious. He continues to ignore the obvious fact that Iran has a reason for developing nuclear weapons, and it is not to join the World Community.
What is spewing out of the mouth of Iran's Ahmadinjad is not rhetoric. He sincerely belives he is called to initiate the firestorm that will usher in the appearance of the Islamic messiah known as the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi. He is hell bent on starting his own version of Armageddon, all at the expense of Israel and a sleepy, lethargic United States. Obama is only showing a limp-wristed hand to our self-declared mortal enemies. They will see it for what t is: WEAK!
I keep asking: When will Obama wake up to the realities of the world?" I fear the answer will come well after the the end of our world as we know it.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Jimmy Root Jr
Author: Distant Thunder
www.lightningchronicles. com
www.jimmyrootonline.com
1 comment:
Hi Jimmy! I have a few things to say, first of which is, you may want to join this online network called "DeNuke Iran", which I heard about at the OneJerusalem blog. It's http://denukeiran.ning.com/
Okay, next, the sad thing is that the best opportunity to act on the Iran issue was when Iran was internally divided over its election fraud question. That was America and Israel's best chance to bust in there and do what they needed to do. I'm speaking either militarily or by supporting Mousavi's bid in exchange for nuclear concessions. That was the optimum time for action. The American president is fatally weak however; he doesn't understand that words have their place but not EVERY place. He really believes that 'talking tough' is a substitute for action. He doesn't realize that the whole of the Middle East will catch on to that very quickly. It is pure weakness. The man is a university professor through and through--and that's not a compliment.
Lastly, I've read your writings about the destruction of Damascus prophesied to come. I think this will likely take place as soon as the enemies of Israel have a suitcase (nuclear) bomb. Israeli intelligence will locate it in Damascus and perhaps trigger it in Damascus or nuke the place themselves. I kind of think Damascus will be destroyed by the very bomb intended for Jerusalem.
Yes, Jerusalem, I say. That target would be enough to make the Israeli's do anything to protect it. But for those who might say that Muslim terrorists would never attack Jerusalem because of the Dome of the Rock, I say that the whole underlying principle of suicide bombing is hatred, which fundamentally prefers self-destruction if it can kill the object of its hatred, than life for both parties. Also, from an Islamic perspective, would not the successful destruction of Jerusalem destroy any prospect of a future Jewish state in the region and also 'disprove' the Bible? Of course, we know that this is impossible, but a radical Muslim would not know this and so might want to try. If they could succeed, not only would the Bible be discredited in the eyes of many, many people, the Muslims could point out the fact that Jerusalem is never mentioned by name in the Koran and so is not essential to Islam.
Of course, the very fact that Jerusalem is inessential to Islam SHOULD be acknowledged by Muslims to be a powerful argument in favour of the Jewish claim on the city, seeing as Jerusalem is central to the Jewish people and highly important to GOD's plans as outlined in His Word. But for some reason, Muslims feel that their claim is just as great as that of the Jews...
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