Posted on 06/23/2009 12:36:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
ROME (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting Thursday with the US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has been cancelled, and talks moved to next week between Mitchell and the Israeli defence minister, an Israeli official said.
"The scheduled meeting has been cancelled. In its place there will be another meeting on Monday in Washington between Defence Minister Ehud Barack and the US special envoy," an Israeli official told AFP on Tuesday.
"This delay will enable us to throw light on topical questions which are now hanging in the air and have not been resolved," he said, without elaborating.
Netanyahu had been scheduled to meet with Mitchell in Paris after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently clashed over US demands for a freeze on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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IRAN has Obama off balance.
Netanyahu is playing chess with the Obama administration. My bet is on Netanyahu.
Or Mitchell is still sorting out his legal troubles. http://tr.im/puYF
BN has got more important things to do, like looking out for his citizens....an ability that Zero severely lacks!
W and Cheney are going to see Iran through.
And Israel is supporting that effort.
At least Bibi probably has assets in Tehran. He knows in that within a week they will have a new government in Iran, or Iran will need to be attacked from the outside.
Perhaps he can clue Bambi in on his decision then.
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I’m sure Bibi is heartbroken.
Cancel any and all meetings on so-called settlements. Obama has no power to threaten anything. Harry Reid warned him that the Democrats in the Senate do NOT have his back if he takes the side of the Arabs.
While Uh-bama is playing Candyland.
I think nobama has no knowledge of protocal.
Absolutely correct. Caroline Glick devoted a column to it.
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