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| March 3, 2014
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Obama asks Netanyahu unfair question about peace: ‘If not now, when?’

 

In advance of President’s meeting with Netanyahu at White House, Obama hints that the White House will be unable to protect Israel from “int’l fallout” if peace process fails and settlement construction continues.

By HERB KEINON

 

America’s ability to “manage the international fallout is going to be limited” if Israel does not strike a peace deal with the Palestinians and there is “continued aggressive settlement construction,” US President Barack Obama said in an interview published on the eve of his Monday meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

US President Barack Obama at White House – Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Washington’s inability to manage this fallout will have consequences, Obama said in the interview with Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg that appeared Sunday. Continue Reading »

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| February 27, 2014
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NYT Report: US President to Take Active Role in Mid-East Peace Talks

 

US President plans to pressure Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu & the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas into accepting U.S. framework proposal. U.S. official tells The New York Times, “Now is a very timely opportunity for him [Obama] to get involved,”.

By Daniel Siryoti, Israel Hayom Staff & News Agencies

 

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to take a more active role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, quoting Obama administration officials.

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to become more involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks – Photo: AP

Obama will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday at the White House and will push him to agree to the framework deal currently being drafted by U.S.

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| January 20, 2014
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Finally: Obama admits little chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace deal

 

In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, U.S. President Barack Obama says his Middle East initiatives — Iran, Syria & Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, have less than 50% chance of reaching final treaties.

PA: We will never recognize a Jewish Israel.<— maybe that’s one reason?

By Eli Leon, Shlomo Cesana and Efrat Forsher

 

U.S. President Barack Obama thinks that the chances of the ongoing U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiations resulting in a final peace agreement are less than 50 percent, according to an interview he gave to The New Yorker magazine.

U.S. President Barack Obama – Photo: AFP

“Obama told me that in all three of his main initiatives in the region — with Iran, with Israel and the Palestinians, with Syria — the odds of completing final treaties are less than fifty-fifty,” wrote The New Yorker editor David Remnick.

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| January 1, 2014
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Is Obama Really The Anti-Israel President ?

From the David Horowitz Freedom Center:

 

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| December 22, 2013
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Given US Caught Spying On Closest Allies, Pollard’s Continued Imprisonment ‘Absurd’

Fmr. Assistant Secretary of Defense lashes out at White House after US caught spying on allies and Obama still omits Pollard from end of year clemency list.

By Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Lawrence Korb on Saturday night said that Jonathan Pollard’s ongoing imprisonment, in light of new revelations of US spying on Israeli leaders, is “absurd” and a “moral embarrassment.”

Korb’s comments come as US President Barack Obama omitted Pollard from the 13 pardons he issued last Thursday. In addition to the 13, 6 of whom were drug dealers, Obama commuted the sentence on 8 other criminals, all of them drug dealers. Continue Reading »

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| December 20, 2013
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White House Promises Veto as Senate Promotes New Iran Sanctions

Barack Obama threatened to use his veto  against any new legislation that would impose additional sanctions on Iran.

By Elad Benari

 

The White House on Thursday threatened to use its veto power against legislation that would impose new sanctions on Iran, as senators continued to promote such legislation in defiance of President Barack Obama.

Barack Obama – AFP photo

The threat came hours after a bipartisan group of senators filed a new Iran sanctions measure, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The bill, sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), would impose tougher sanctions on Tehran if it refuses to dismantle its contested nuclear program after the end of a six-month negotiating period. Continue Reading »

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| December 16, 2013
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Susan Rice consults Israeli officials about Iran nuclear deal

Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser  met with her Israeli counterpart last week in hope of gaining support for P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.

By Reuters

 

 

President Barack Obama‘s national security adviser Susan Rice played host to a series of meetings with Israeli officials last week to try to gain their support for an interim deal with Iran aimed at containing Tehran’s nuclear program.

U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice (R) with Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power in September 2013. – Photo: Reuters

The meetings, announced in a White House statement on Sunday, arose from talks between Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month as the United States tried to persuade a skeptical Israel to support the Iran deal. Continue Reading »

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| December 13, 2013
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The Wackos in Washington

 

In regard to the Mideast, bad ideas never die, no matter how impractical, improbable or implausible.

By MARTIN SHERMAN

 

 

Enough is enough. At some stage there must be a limit to the verbal garbage – I resist the strong temptation to employ a somewhat coarser epithet – that one can be subjected to before giving vent to pent-up exasperation and outrage.
US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, December 7, 2013. Photo: Ralph Alswang/Courtesy Saban Forum

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, December 7, 2013. Photo: Ralph Alswang/Courtesy Saban Forum

A spade is still a spade.

Of late, this limit has been breached with increasing frequency – particularly when the matter of the “Palestinian issue” is broached.As
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| December 8, 2013
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Obama: West Bank Must Not turn into ‘Gaza 2’

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U.S. President Obama says at Saban Forum that there cannot be a situation where Judea & Samaria becomes a security threat, like what happened to Gaza.

By Elad Benari

 

U.S. President Barack Obama said at the Saban Forum on Saturday that there must not be another Gaza in the Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria.

Obama at Saban Forum

President Barack Obama at the Saban Forum in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.- Photo: AP

Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, as part of the “Disengagement”. This resulted in Hamas taking over the region and escalating rocket attacks at southern Israel. Continue Reading »

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| December 8, 2013
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Obama said Israel-Palestinian deal doable, but to be implemented in stages

Keeping Iran from becoming nuclear-armed is not just an Israeli interest, but that of the U.S. as well, said President Obama at the annual Saban Forum.

Kerry: peace deal with Palestinians will make Israel more secure.

By and Reuters

 

 

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, and would have to be implemented in stages.

U.S. President Barack Obama.

U.S. President Barack Obama. – Photo: Shahar Azran

Both sides will have to “stretch out of their comfort zones,” Obama said at the annual Saban Forum in Washington, D.C., adding that “we know what the outlines of a potential agreement will look like.” Continue Reading »

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| December 4, 2013
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Ex-US & Israeli Intel Chiefs: Obama Let Iran become Nuclear

 

 

Both former American and Israeli intel chiefs agree: The P5+1 Geneva agreement has allowed Iran to become a nuclear power.

By Ryan Jones

 

 

Former Israeli and American intelligence chiefs this week said the deal US President Barack Obama and other Western leaders struck with Iran last week in Geneva had essentially allowed the Islamic Republic to become a “nuclear threshold state.”

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More accurately, former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said that the West had failed for decades to adequately confront the Iranian nuclear threat, and so had finally given up and signed a bad deal.

“The fact that Iran is a nuclear threshold state does not derive from this agreement, but because the Iranians have developed capabilities for years, and no one can stop them,” Yadlin said at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Continue Reading »

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| November 28, 2013
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In Chanukah message to Jews & Israelis Obama invokes ‘Thanksgivukkah’

Like the Pilgrims, the Maccabees ‘made tremendous sacrifices so they could practice their religion in peace’ commented President Obama.

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The spirit of “Thanksgivukkah” has become so pervasive that even U.S. President Barack Obama decided to get in on the fun in a holiday message.

Hanukkah at the White House, Obama, 2010

Barack and Michelle Obama take part in the Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony, 2010. – Photo by The White House

On the evening of the lighting of the first candle of Hanukkah Wednesday night, the U.S. leader sent “warm wishes to all those celebrating Hanukkah” in a statement from the White House, and made note of the unique convergence of the American celebration with the Jewish festival. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2013
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Obama’s Agenda & the goal of the White House’s foreign policy

 

The administration’s goal is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The goal of Obama’s foreign policy is to weaken the State of Israel.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

 

It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible.

US President Barack Obama - Photo Alexei Danichev, Host Photo Agency via Getty Images

US President Barack Obama – Photo: Alexei Danichev, Host Photo Agency via Getty Images

And it isn’t surprising that the deal these overeager leaders signed with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism makes the world a much more dangerous place than it was before the agreement was concluded. Continue Reading »

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| November 18, 2013
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Sounds good: Iran agrees Arak halt, uranium freeze, tough inspections – but, bad deal

Obama plans to brief Congressional leaders on Wednesday of talks in Geneva, as Israel’s Prime Minister maintains criticism of ‘exceedingly bad’ cosmetic proposals.

 

The P5+1 proposal that will be discussed at Wednesday’s talks with Iran at Geneva includes a halt on any further construction at the Arak heavy water plant as well as a freeze on Iran’s current stockpiles of enriched uranium.

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Heavy-water production plant in the central Iranian town of Arak, .- Photo: AP

According to informed U.S. sources, the proposal also includes the imposition of an unprecedented inspection regime aimed at ensuring that Tehran keeps the commitments that it will undertake in the new nuclear deal.

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| November 9, 2013
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Obama: 75th Kristallnacht anniversary – what silence in face of hatred can bring

 

US president: We must denounce anti-Semitism & intolerance, stand up to indifference, and re-commit ourselves to combating prejudice & persecution wherever it exists.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

US President Barack Obama marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht on Friday, saying that the 1938 pogrom in which Nazis burned synagogues and murdered Jews across Germany serves as an example of what silence in the face of hatred can bring.

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark 'Kristallnacht' anniversary

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark ‘Kristallnacht’ anniversary – Photo: REUTERS

“I join millions of people in the United States and around the world in marking the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of Kristallnacht – “the Night of Broken Glass,” Obama stated. Continue Reading »

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