Posted on 02/18/2015 6:56:17 PM PST by SJackson
US State Department reported to say Israelis would ‘twist details’ to undermine negotiations
uropean officials have confirmed that the US State Department cautioned them against providing Israel with sensitive information on the current round of negotiations with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
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The account came amid vehement denials by the White House and State Department that they had stopped updating Jerusalem on the progress in the talks, even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted Monday that Israel was indeed being kept in the dark.
The report quoted an unnamed European official involved in negotiations who said he was told recently by the State Department’s Wendy Sherman, the lead American negotiator with Iran, not to disclose too much information to the Israelis because “the details could be twisted to undermine a deal.”
Another unnamed State Department official speaking on Sherman’s behalf noted that talk with Israel was encouraged, so long as it remained clear “that the negotiation should take place in the negotiating room,” a reference to the fact that Israel is not directly involved in the talks.
The comments echoed those of an Israeli official interviewed for the report who quipped that he received only “empty” briefings on the looming deal, signalling perhaps a further chill in ties between the Obama administration and the Jewish state that The New York Times compared to “posting notes to each other on a refrigerator door.”
Netanyahu has repeatedly stated that the Iranian nuclear program is an existential threat to Israel and that Tehran is intent on developing nuclear weapons to use against the Jewish state.
To that effect, Netanyahu vowed to go ahead with a speech before the US Congress on March 3 to discuss the looming nuclear deal, raising the ire of the White House, some US congressmen and his political opponents in Israel.
The report quoted another European official who said that US Secretary of State John Kerry was “fuming about [the] Israeli leaks” following a report Sunday on Channel 2 to the effect that the administration has been withholding information from Israel.
According to the TV report, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice had cut off contact with Israeli National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen, while Sherman was quoted as saying that she will no longer keep Israel informed either.
The report was hurriedly denied by both US and Israeli officials.
Kerry, who has been leading the negotiations along with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammed Javad Zarif, argued that it was in no one’s interest to negotiate in public.
Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany — known as the P5+1 — have been seeking a comprehensive accord with Iran that would prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb in return for an easing of economic sanctions.
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Israel is in a world of hurt with this punk as president.
Europe, after a 70 year hiatus, is back to Jew-hatin’.
This simply does not ring true. But the following does ring true.
...who said he was told recently by the State Department’s Wendy Sherman, the lead American negotiator with Iran, not to disclose too much information to the Israelis because “the details could be twisted by the evil, Jewish oppressors of the Palestinians and drinkers of the blood of Christian children to undermine a deal.”
Which brings up a question. Why would Israel -- the state with the most at stake -- not be fully briefed on Iran talks??
It’s obvious. There is an American President that does not believe Israel is Jewish land. He believes it is the muslims. Which means he is actively betraying, and facilitating the destruction of Israel. Obama as Antichrist doesn’t seem to fit, but he could be the false profit. Perhaps he needs to prove himself willing to satan before possession?
I seem to vaguely remember a reference that nearing/in the end times two cities in Israel will be consumed by fires brighter than the sun. Or some such verse.
I despise the Muslim-Marxist and his entire admin.
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Who needs jewish science or history? None of our Obama science will be tainted by the jewishness, Because our ideology stabs science and islam perpetuates this looking for culprits to rape.
Nuclear talks with Iran are just too nuanced for Israel to participate or be briefed on.
They are afraid that Israel would let the cat out of the bag and tell the truth.
And the executive branch is back to hatin’ da Joooz also.
No, America is - God doesn't take lightly to those who harm the apple of His eye.
> Which brings up a question. Why would Israel — the state with the most at stake — not be fully briefed on Iran talks??
For the same reason that Britain and Germany didn’t brief Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Obama &. Kompany are incapable of bring honest Period. And the whole world knows it.
I meant to say,
the whole world realies O and Company are incapable of doing anything honest or honorable.
(which is very un-good for America as our allies feel deserted and our enemies embolded, but we have about two more years to hopefully get through ....)
Can’t let the Czechs know about those negotiations in Munich either...
This claim is bogus! Where do you think the EU gets its intel? If anything, Israel is MORE in-the-know than ANY other country. Their very existence depends upon it! Obama now has to get his cronies to shame Netanyahu? I wish this speech was open to the public. I’d be HAPPY to take one of the democrat’s seats.
Contact your congresscritter and request to be his guest at the speech, willing to fill an empty RAT seat.
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