Mitchell seeks to ease tensions over settlements

Jerusalem Post ^ | 6/8/09 | HERB KEINON

[Nachum]

US Mideast envoy George Mitchell's first endeavor upon landing in Israel Monday night was to try and lower the volume in the US dispute with Israel over settlement construction. Mitchell emphatically denied he had said, as was reported Sunday in the Hebrew press, that the days of Israel lying to the US over settlements were over.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Carley]

And we should believe Mitchell because??????????

[NativeNewYorker]

I have heard Mitchell speak in NYC private/social gatherings. He is a total Dimocrat tool, not to be trusted.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"And we should believe Mitchell because??????????"

How long can they possibly keep rolling out this re-tread?

Wasn't he implicated in as conspiring with John Wilkes Boothe in the assassination of President Lincoln?

[Glenn]

And we should believe Mitchell because??????????

This is so transparently "Good Cop/Bad Cop" diplomacy.

[BilLies]

Mitchell certainly has been keeping a low profile.
I guess this administration is a one man show, who is Sec of State? With all these international trips, I've never seen his picture or him quoted. I certainly hope its not that strange white haired man who makes President Obama look like a affirmative action Jr High school teacher.

[frog in a pot]

“And we should believe Mitchell because??????????”

Because he had the foresight almost 20 years ago to warn us that “our nation needs the progressive tax rate if we want to avoid a revolution.” ?? /s

That was one of those times that one recalls years later exactly where one was when one heard that.

[DoughtyOne]

Mitchell's comments indicate what appears to be a growing sensitivity in the State Department to what it feels are inaccurate quotes by senior US officials that are heating up the atmosphere and exacerbating the tension between the US and Israel over the settlement issue. "Nobody wants an adversarial relationship right now," one official said.

I don't consider this to be even remotely connected to the truth.

1. Inaccurate quotes are not the problem Mitchel. Accurate quotes certainly are. Obama hasn't been able to shut his mouth of late, without making extremely inflammatory comments.

2. As for nobody wanting an adversarial relationship right now, I suggest you talk to 'the One'. That's either precisely what he wants, or he's an ignorant fool. And I'm not ruling out either of these at the moment.

[dervish]

Here’s my take.

While twisting Israel’s arm in an unprecedented way, Obama and co want to keep it quiet and ‘nice’ lest they tip off Congress and dimicrat Jews who will then object.

It is in Israel’s interest to have the dispute out in the open.