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State Department rejects call for Iran deal to affirm Israel's 'right to exist' (Marie Harf)
Fox News ^ | 6 hours ago

Posted on 04/03/2015 7:12:13 PM PDT by Dave346

A State Department official dismissed a plea Friday from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Iran nuclear agreement include clear recognition of his nation's "right to exist," declaring negotiations are "only about the nuclear issue."

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, in a terse response to a question about Netanyahu's concerns, told reporters, "This is an agreement that is only about the nuclear issue" -- a comment that indicates the Obama administration is not looking to enshrine Israel's security into a final agreement.

Harf, for her part, suggested the talks are complicated enough already.

"This is an agreement that doesn't deal with any other issues, nor should it," she said.

The Israeli prime minister, though, made the call for the "right to exist" measure during brief remarks early Friday. He blasted the Iran framework deal and said his Cabinet is uniformly opposed to it. He closed his brief address by demanding that any final agreement include "a clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel's right to exist."

The statement was prompted by reported statements from a top Iranian military official, who was quoted saying "erasing Israel" off the map is "non-negotiable."

To that, Netanyahu said: "The survival of Israel is non-negotiable."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; eyewear; harf; harfalert; harfbarf; iran; iraniannukes; israel; mariearf; mariebarf; marieharf; nuclear; soskerry; terror; war; waronterror
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Words can't express how furious these idiots have made me now!
1 posted on 04/03/2015 7:12:13 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

The Iran-held American prisoners are not released, either.

The White Mosque and the “US” State Dept
(apparently a curse on the American people)
are ONLY interested in the extermination of America
and its allies.


2 posted on 04/03/2015 7:14:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Dave346

3 posted on 04/03/2015 7:14:43 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Dave346

Then it is time to put an end to diplomacy, especially the fake negotiations by Obama’s minions.


4 posted on 04/03/2015 7:14:53 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Dave346

I am with you, Dave.


5 posted on 04/03/2015 7:15:03 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Dave346
But Harf, the nuclear issue IS ALL ABOUT ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST!!! Ye wee stupid beastie!



Harf is the sound a cat makes, coughing up a hairball.
6 posted on 04/03/2015 7:15:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (I love it when we're Cruz'in together)
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To: Dave346

Go to the mall,now!
and stay there


7 posted on 04/03/2015 7:16:40 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Dave346

This clueless bitch is a menace. If the negotiations are limited to the nuclear issue, why is lifting of sanctions part of the deal?


8 posted on 04/03/2015 7:17:38 PM PDT by matt1234 (2015-2016 America's enemies sense obama's weakness and str)
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To: left that other site

I wonder how Bibi and his cabinet reacted when they saw that comment from this afternoon’s briefing!

After treating Bibi like crap for 6 years, and relentless attacks over the Congress speech and the Israeli election and the Iran deal, this comment today is the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me!


9 posted on 04/03/2015 7:18:05 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Diogenesis

What, exactly, did ‘we’ get in this deal. No hostages, no affirmation that Israel had a right to exist. No serious reduction of Iran’s nuclear program, no cessation of ‘death to America’, no cheap oil, no, no - nothing.


10 posted on 04/03/2015 7:18:14 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek; Eva

bump and ping


11 posted on 04/03/2015 7:20:16 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Dave346

I guess that means discussion of sanctions have been removed from the agreement?


12 posted on 04/03/2015 7:20:54 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Dave346

I don’t know if you are religious or not, Dave, but the Bible has some very harsh words about nations who go against the people of Israel. From genesis all the way through to the prophets, there are very dire warnings.

I fear for my country.


13 posted on 04/03/2015 7:21:41 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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This is the full question and answer from State’s website:

Question: One of the things that the prime minister said was that any final deal that’s reached in June, if that happens, needs to demand that Iran recognize Israel’s right to exist. Is that an appropriate thing to include in a deal of this sort, in the U.S.’s view?

MS. HARF: Well, this is an agreement that is only about the nuclear issue. We have purposefully kept that separate from every other issue. That issue is complicated enough to deal with on its own. No, this is an agreement that doesn’t deal with any other issues, nor should it, and that’s what we’re focused on.


14 posted on 04/03/2015 7:24:32 PM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Back in 2002, Bibi came to Congress to urge US to invade Iraq. Too bad we took his advice. The Iraq war ended up making Iran a lot stronger, by replacing Saddam (Iran’s biggest enemy) with a pro-Iran government.

Bibi isn’t infallible, I guess.


15 posted on 04/03/2015 7:27:13 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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“Only about the nuclear issue”. Well Harf the Dumb. If Iran doesn’t get to make a nuke, or have that capacity, then Israel will not have to worry about its very existence (a few nukes and goodby Israel).

Then Israel could deal with the Arabs feeling that their security is more assured and they can make more concessions to the Palestinians (if you can trust Hamas or Fatah, or both) in order to get some kind of peace agreement.

This woman is beyond dumb. A Psaki-lite bimbo.


16 posted on 04/03/2015 7:29:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: Dave346

Seems to me that the Iranian threat to obliterate Israel is VERY MUCH part of any nuclear discussion with Iran.


17 posted on 04/03/2015 7:29:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Truth29
 
 
DIPLOMACY??? There's nothing going on that would meet that definition. What they've been working on is basically a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between agreeable allies.
 
 

18 posted on 04/03/2015 7:30:20 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Dave346

Damn these clueless morons to hell.
The people of Israel LIVE!
NEVER AGAIN!


19 posted on 04/03/2015 7:30:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: WilliamIII

Iraq was in good condition when Bush left office.

Hell, it was still in good shape a couple years into Zero’s term until his pull out.

Furthermore, Bibi wasn’t even PM in 2002, and at the time the Israelis were trying to warn us that Iran was a bigger threat than Iraq!


20 posted on 04/03/2015 7:30:58 PM PDT by Dave346
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